According to the latest IDC report, the global PC market will decline for the second straight year. While it forecasted slight growth for 2013 last year, the research firm was forced to reverse its original prediction due to a number of factors including slowing growth in emerging markets. For 2013, the firm expects PC shipments […]
Google has released its first update to Maps for iOS, bringing some features over from Android and the web. Users can now sync up previously-searched locations based on contact information, so if you have an address saved under Mom, searching by name will point you to the place on the map. Similarly, Google has introduced […]
Google Play is celebrating its first anniversary, and as with any happy occasion the company is bestowing gifts upon its guests. While the selection will expand throughout the week, the initial crop of offers is a little…underwhelming. Some highlights include: – Hotels.com is offering 10% off a booking – Fancy is offering $15 off a […]
Canada continues to be Facebook’s guinea pig when it comes to testing out new features for its mobile apps. Our fair country got to test out VoIP calling over Facebook Messenger for iPhone back in January, which gradually got rolled out to the United States in the following weeks, and now we get to do […]
Evernote, the popular multi-platform online note-taking service has announced this weekend that following an attack by hackers they have performed a global password reset for all 50 million account holders. Reads the company’s post: “Operations & Security team has discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the Evernote network that appears to have been a coordinated […]
Facebook will be holding an event on March 7th to show off its redesigned news feed for the web and mobile, something that has been a long time coming. The last significant design change to the Facebook news feed was in mid-2012. According to Techcrunch, the updated mobile news feed, which will likely come to […]
Dropbox now caters to over 1 billion uploads every day, according to CEO Drew Houston. The company, which is rumoured to go public sometime this year, has 100 million users over 500 million devices. Recently, OEMs like HTC and Samsung have entered into partnership with Dropbox, providing up to 50GB of free storage for two […]
LG has announced today that it will be purchasing webOS from HP, giving the operating system a new home, again. The operating system will get a third shot at life in smart TVs, says LG, who will not use it as a mobile OS. As part of the deal, LG will acquire the source code […]