Facebook over the weekend announced the launch of the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), for which it is teaming up with partners from telecommunications industry to create an open source platform for hardware as well as software to build and deploy telecom network infrastructure. The social giant revealed that Intel and Nokia have “pledged to contribute an initial suite of reference ... Read More »
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Viber App Update for iOS Brings 3D Touch and More
After Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and few other applications, Viber has finally started rolling out an update to iOS users with 3D Touch functionality. The feature along with some others comes as part of the v5.8 update. The Viber app for iOS v5.8 would now let iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus users use 3D Touch functionality on the app to ... Read More »
Facebook Moments App Gets Video Sharing, Improved Uploading, and More
Facebook’s standalone Moments app for privately sharing images with friends and family has now received support for video sharing. The new feature is now available to users on iOS as well as Android devices. The compay also announced that in a few weeks, the Moments app will allow users to include videos in slideshows. Apart from the update, Facebook also ... Read More »
Facebook Messenger’s Latest Update Shows ‘Bots and Businesses’
Facebook’s standalone instant messaging app has been rumoured to receive a new chat bot feature which allows users to have conversations with company’s automated representatives. A new update to the Messenger shows a new heading added in the app – “Bots and Businesses” – seen when searching or as contacts when creating a new message. Engadget spotted the feature first ... Read More »
Facebook Expands Free Internet Efforts, Unveils Terragraph and Project Aries
After taking to the air with drones to provide Internet to remote spots, Facebook on Wednesday unveiled new land-based systems to provide connectivity to people in urban settings. “We are really going at this problem from every possible angle,” Facebook co-founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg said of efforts by the social network to make Internet connectivity more widely available around ... Read More »
2016 ICC World Twenty20: Twitter Unveils Trump Cards, New Emojis, and More
The International Cricket Council (ICC) and social networking site Twitter are all set to introduce a range of new interactive experiences for the ICC World Twenty20 in India. Twitter Trump Cards (#WorldT20Heroes), #AskCaptain and some new Twitter emojis are part of the new initiatives, ICC has innovated with Twitter for cricket fans to get a Trump Card of their favourite ... Read More »
Serious academic research and high teaching quality is our winning proposition: Ilian Mihov
Ilian Mihov. New Delhi: In January, when the Financial Times released its annual Global MBA Rankings, a business school with a one-year MBA programme made it to the top of the list. INSEAD, with campuses in Fontainebleau (near Paris), Singapore and Abu Dhabi topped the 2016 rankings, dislodging the previous year’s leader Harvard Business School. In a phone interview, INSEAD ... Read More »
Mirror’s Edge Catalyst Dev Answers Questions on Multiplayer, Parkour, and Gadgets
Mirror’s Edge Catalyst releases in May, and one of its developers took to Twitter to answer some questions. The answers covered the upcoming game’s multiplayer, parkour, and gadgets, among other things. Design director Erik Odeldahl took over the EA UK Twitter account this morning. When asked about the multiplayer, he said there is “a new social play element” that will ... Read More »
Apping It Up With Dashboards and Gadgets
The Java Zone is brought to you in partnership with JetBrains. Learn more about Kotlin, a new programming language designed by JetBrains to solve problems that software developers face every day. In this series of posts I am covering some of the many ways you can benefit from XpoLog and especially on how to get the most valuable information about your ... Read More »
Pope to Join Bieber and Co. on Instagram
Pope Francis will make his Instagram debut on Saturday, joining the likes of Justin Bieber and Cristiano Ronaldo on the image-sharing forum under the handle Franciscus, the Vatican confirmed Wednesday. The date for the pontiff’s debut on the celebrity-dominated social medium was chosen by the 79-year-old himself as it marks the third anniversary of his inauguration as the leader of ... Read More »