Apple and insurance giant Aetna have teamed up on an iPhone and Apple Watch app that provides rewards, including an option to earn a free Apple Watch, to members who engage in healthy behaviors like getting regular exercise and more hours of sleep. The new app, dubbed Attain, also provides Aetna members who sign up […] Read more
The President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni recently shocked the world when he said he would introduce a tax on social media platforms. His main reason for doing so, is to deter people from going online and gossip. That news was shrugged off as just a bluff until the Daily Monitor published news that Uganda’s State […] Read more
Google’s battle against inappropriate content on its video platform rages on. YouTube removed 7.85 million videos and 1.67 million channels between July and September, according to its latest YouTube Community Guidelines enforcement report. This is the fourth such report YouTube has published, but the first that includes information about removing channels, versus just individual videos. YouTube […] Read more
Facebook bug exposed photos from up to 6.8 million users using third-party apps, the company disclosed Friday. The exposed photos include those that users never finished sharing to the site, Facebook said. The disclosure is one of several privacy breaches the company has shared over the past year. In March, reports from the New York […] Read more
FACEBOOK users in Spain can now access the Article Context button, which helps filter out ‘fake news’. When clicking on it, the icon provides a description of the source of the information found on Facebook, how old the story is and the web domain where it is held. It was launched in the USA in […] Read more
Most browsers have a way of letting you change the “User Agent” — the thing that tells a website what kind of device you’re on. So, even when you’re on a laptop or desktop, you can trick a website like Instagram into showing you the mobile site. That’s what we’re going to do. Safari On […] Read more
Facebook’s core platform netted more users, but they’re using the site less, leading to what Wieser estimates is a 20% decline in consumption per person. Facebook’s overall consumption share of the digital market dropped from 16.5% in September 2017 to 14.3% currently. However, Facebook is still the second-most popular digital platform, behind Google at 32.5%. Verizon-owned […] Read more
Whether you have an iPhone, an Android, or another type of smartphone, you probably have a lot of apps in there. Some of these apps can be really useful, and some just take up a lot of space. To make the most out of your phone, you should download several important apps. Some of these incredible apps […] Read more
Developers can create apps that can change the way that smartphones are used. The apps that they create can add new features to phones and revolutionize phones. All apps are not created equal. Some apps add nothing of value to the phone, may add features that are useless to those that download them, or even […] Read more
Here are 6 ways I see us transforming as a culture, based on the possibilities now afforded to us by connections and technology: 1. Challenging the Status Quo Before we could reach out to anyone on the planet, did we ever see anything as amazing as the projects and successes associated with challenged paradigms in […] Read more
