One year ago Google launched My Account, a service designed as a hub for all your Google-related activity. To celebrate turning one, My Account has received an update that lets iOS and Android users locate their lost phone. Google Phone Home? Now you can type "Find my phone" into Search, and Google will aim to […]
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Snapchat continues its status as the new superstar of social. The four year-old platform has just leapfogged 10 year-old Twitter for daily users. Snappy time According to Bloomberg, Snapchat now has 150 million daily users, compared to 140 million tweeters. There were 110 million daily Snapchat users back in December. Snapchat's star shows no sign
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While 2016 initially looked like the year of emojis, it may well end up being the year 360-degree video took hold. After a bit of hesitation, Twitter is finally joining the party. Roll on Twitter now supports the newish format, across both desktop and mobile. The announcement comes at the start of the NBA finals, with
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In a reminder that Facebook is useful for more than Likes and advertising revenue, the platform has just updated its Safety Check feature. Safety House During the Paris attacks last November, Safety Check allowed users to let friends know they were OK. Now Facebook is extending the reach of Safety Check, allowing the feature to
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Want to know how mobile-friendly and fast your website is? Google's now got a tool for that. Speed demon Google's new testing tool is easy to use – simply whack in your URL and Google will measure your website's mobile friendliness and loading speed, based on a scale of one to 100. It does this
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Google has just released an update for its iOS app geared for speedier load-times and quicker keyboard shortcuts. Less is more Google’s iOS app now supports fast-loading Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), meaning news items will load instantly. Google Local Search also gets a boost. You can now see the busiest hours for local places and businesses
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If a carrot doesn't work, sometimes the stick suffices. That's the approach Facebook seems to be taking with its latest move: withdrawing messaging support from the mobile web to push users onto Messenger. Get the message? Facebook mobile web users are now being greeted with the glib message: "Your conversations are moving to Messenger". For
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The one big way to lock eyeballs on to ads is continuing to grow. US studies have found social video is on the minds of many marketers, with ad spend likely to grow over the next 12 months as consumers flock to an increasing number of online services. The Next Generation YouTube's dominance in the
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Should there be a phone number in emails? With the proliferation of smartphones in Australia, you'd be forgiven in thinking the humble phone call simply takes a back seat to "smarter" functions like web-browsing, instant messaging and social media. Despite all of this, there is strong evidence indicating that consumers still want to be able
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Facebook is ace for a great many things. But defamation is not one of them, as Norfolk Island resident Kim Edward recently discovered. Face Palm Longtime island resident Ms Edward was recently caught up in a discussion about maintenance of a local bridge. During a Facebook discussion Ms Edward alleged that at a public meeting
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