One of the biggest trends in technology today are smartphones. Nielsen finds that 15% of smartphone owners in the U.S. recently acquired their handset from June to August 2013 with 61% consumers picking Android and 34% choosing iPhones. This means more people now own a smartphone and prefer to use it as their mobile handset. Data from Nielsen also reveal that young adults aged 25-34 have the ...
Read full articleJust last week, LinkedIn has introduced the University Pages, which are basically a platform for universities to post and share information, connect with potential students and their parents and maintain communication with their alumni community. As stated by Christine Allen, LinkedIn’s Director of Product Management, University Pages are “one cornerstone of our strategy to help students at ...
Read full articleTwitter makes it easier to follow “tweet conversations” as it launches an update to its Android and iPhone apps, as well as on Twitter.com. With this, Twitter shows the conversation participated by two or more persons that a user follows by grouping the tweets together on the timeline. The conversation cluster appears chronologically, in accordance to when the last tweet in that particular ...
Read full articleNow, you can have that “dream name!” At Yahoo, that is. The username that you’ve ever wanted, but is unfortunately unavailable, can now be yours as Yahoo has officially begun the distribution of recycled usernames. This is part of a project to deactivate the accounts which haven’t been used in the past year, so that the username can be made available for others. Currently, invitations to ...
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