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Google Drive desktop app adds in-app file sharing, catches up to 2010′s Dropbox

Posted by Gsurface on May 7, 2013 No comments

Sure, you could see and manage your Google Drive files from within the comfort of your PC / Mac file management system, but you couldn’t publicly share them with friends — until now. Google Drive files are now sharable via right click directly on your desktop, meaning the Drive desktop app now has one more feature that Dropbox already had several years ago. We hope you’ll forgive our lack of enthusiasm for Google’s catchup effort, but it’s hard to get all jazzed up about functionality that should’ve probably been there at launch. Anyway, if you’re not seeing the new feature pop up on your dashboard yet, Google says it’s “rolling out over the next few days.” Hold tight!

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Social Commerce / Photo Sharing Network Lockerz Launching Ador, A New Fashion Site

Posted by Gsurface on May 1, 2013 No comments

Looks like Lockerz, the social commerce and photo sharing service, may be moving on to yet another chapter in its life. After laying off 30% of its Seattle HQ staff, closing down its San Diego office, and shutting down its Plixi photo sharing API earlier this year, the company is now launching a new fashion site, Ador. A tipster tells us that Lockerz is shutting down altogether and relaunching, but as of right now, the Lockerz site looks like it is still operational. We have reached out to the company to confirm what is going on.

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BYOD worries in mind, Novell and NTP bust out secure mobile file sharing

Posted by Gsurface on April 30, 2013 No comments

Novell and NTP today announced their own versions of mobile file-sharing applications, both of which take advantage of a corporation’s existing infrastructure to offer access to data behind the firewall.
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Twitter for Mac update brings Retina support, improved sharing and uploading

Posted by Gsurface on April 25, 2013 No comments

Twitter has updated its Mac app with several improvements that users can take advantage of now. The app has been updated to include support for Retina displays on the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros, and users will be greeted with improved photo sharing and uploading features, as well as support for 14 more languages. With

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Twitter for Mac update brings photo sharing improvements, Retina display support

Posted by Gsurface on April 25, 2013 No comments

Twitter’s showing off an updated version of its Mac app today, featuring a number of key fixes, including improvements to photo sharing and a slew of new languages. On the image side of things, you can now share a photo by clicking on the camera icon in the tweet composing module, or just do it the old fashioned way by dragging pictures from your desktop. Also new in this version is support for Macs with retina displays and a total of 14 new languages, including Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese and Turkish. Interested parties can download the update via the source link below.

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Nike+ FuelBand app for iOS adds friends and sharing, no small amount of bragging

Posted by Gsurface on April 23, 2013 No comments

Where’s the fun in owning an exercise tracker like the Nike+ FuelBand if you can’t lord your healthiness over others? Nike must have wondered the same thing, as it just updated the FuelBand’s iOS app to add Nike+ Friends. Wearers can now learn where their step count places them relative to their peers and share the results for all to see. Should there be any doubters, owners can attach photos, locations and mentions of nearby friends to back up their boasting. Yes, it’s an upgrade that’s primarily focused on oneupmanship, but it’s good in our book if it makes us walk just a bit further each day.

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Nintendo debuts 3DS image sharing tool in Japan, uploads your screengrabs to Twitter, Tumblr

Posted by Gsurface on April 20, 2013 No comments

Still waiting for Miiverse to show its hide on Nintendo’s 3DS? Maybe the promise of more conventional social networking will tide you over. Thanks to a new web tool, Japanese 3DS owners can now share screenshots from Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Tomodachi Collection:New Life with their Twitter and Tumblr followers. The setup is pretty simple, giving users access to a basic upload interface through the 3DS’ built-in web browser. Just pick an image, add a caption and watch your retweets roll in. Unfortunately, the tool doesn’t work with just any image — attempting to upload a shot taken with the 3DS camera gave us an error, which told us (via a rough translation) that the picture came from “incompatible software.” The tool is written entirely in Japanese, but folks with a knack for Kanji can check it out at i.nintendo.net. Looking for a compatible game? We hear there’s a bundle for that.

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Facebook Launches Open Graph Mobile, Updated iOS SDK With Improved Login And Sharing

Posted by Gsurface on April 18, 2013 No comments

Facebook today unveiled three new products at its Mobile Developer Conference in NYC that will put the company on an even faster track to becoming a mobile-first platform. The company announced Open Graph mobile, which takes Facebook’s social graphing product to the mobile platform for the first time. Facebook is also improving Login via mobile, and releasing a new Facebook SDK 3.5 for iOS. Alongside unveiling the latest initiatives toward a mobile-focused Facebook, the social network also released its latest figures for mobile, which include over 680 million mobile users and the fact that over 81 percent of iOS apps and 70 percent of top 100 grossing Android apps integrate with Facebook. In terms of Open Graph mobile, Facebook simply wants to make it easier for developers to integrate the Open Graph into their mobile apps, a feat that has proved difficult in the past. But with a new Object API, Facebook is cutting out the web server. “With the Object API, you can directly create Open Graph objects and no longer need to host webpages with Open Graph tags. This API is available for both mobile and web apps,” reads the press release. Facebook has also released an Object Browser, which is a visual interface that lets developers interact with their published object data. Alongside the Object Browser, you’ll also notice that Facebook has introduced a new object privacy model that improves sharing of user generated content within native apps. Past that, the company also released Native Share Dialog, a tool that lets users share experiences from native mobile apps without needing to log in to Facebook first. It also has built-in support for publishing Open Graph actions, so it makes sharing within developers’ apps much better “with just one line of code.” Where log-in is concerned, Facebook is launching a faster login dialog (20 percent faster, to be exact) that gives users more control over their permissions and privacy. Facebook realized a few months ago that their newest permission model on the FB platform was seeing a 5 percent increase in mobile conversions, and so they decided to bring that feature to their developers as well. Starting today, the new login dialog will automatically be applied to mobile and non-game web apps with no change required to the code. Last, but certainly not least, Facebook is launching the Facebook Technology Partners program to help developers leverage these new
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Microsoft makes Bing image search more social with one-click sharing to Pinterest

Posted by Gsurface on April 13, 2013 No comments

Companies know how important it is to make their products as friendly as can be with third-party social websites, and Microsoft, for one, has done a pretty fantastic job at making sure the team behind Bing’s doing exactly that. To wit, the Surface maker is, as of today, also starting to cater to the Pinterest crowd, announcing that it’s now allowing users of the recently redesigned site to share Bing image search findings via a simple click — assuming you’re logged in, naturally. The new sharing feature might seem like a rather minor one on paper, but for avid Pinners, it’ll certainly come in handy as they can keep their precious boards stocked up with a little less effort. And, well, you know what that means: more cats.

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Panasonic’s 16-megapixel Lumix DMC-GF6 official with wireless sharing, flip screen

Posted by Gsurface on April 9, 2013 No comments

Panasonic’s micro four-thirds Lumix DMC-GF6 is finally official after a leaky start, and the news is good for social types with high photo standards. The mirrorless cam’s standout feature is without a doubt its connectivity, letting you pair it to a smartphone or tablet via NFC, then transfer photos and video automatically over WiFi with an included app — which can also remotely control the camera. The GF6 also sports an updated 1040k-dot screen that can tilt and flip 180 degrees for self-portraits, along with a new mode dial from it’s GF5 predecessor, a welcome change for more serious shooters. Other highlights include 1080/60i full-HD AVCHD video, a 25,600 ISO range, JPEG and RAW shooting, built-in flash, a new Venus Engine image processor, 3.7 fps burst shooting, low-light autofocus and a 0.5-second start-up time. You’ll be able to grab one in black, white, brown or red, and while Panasonic hasn’t officially announced a price or arrival date, it’s expected to hit shelves in the next month or so for around £449 with a 14-42mm kit lens ($ 680). Check the PR after the break for the full dope.

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Wedding Search Engine Loverly Launches Mobile App For Searching, Snapping & Sharing Inspiration While On The Go

Posted by Gsurface on April 4, 2013 No comments

Lover.ly, a search engine for weddings, is today launching a mobile application to complement its online experience. The new app also allows brides-to-be and others planning a wedding (or just dreaming about one), to save and share the inspiration they find while on the go by snapping photos.

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Privacy group calls for changes in CISPA cyberthreat sharing bill

Posted by Gsurface on April 3, 2013 No comments

U.S. lawmakers need to make significant changes to a controversial cyberthreat information sharing bill because the legislation could be used to give federal intelligence agencies backdoor wiretapping powers, the Center for Democracy and Technology said.
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Google’s Art, Copy & Code revives ads with sharing apps, talking shoes

Posted by Gsurface on March 8, 2013 No comments

It’s hard to deny that online advertising has grown a bit stale, with most ads being some take on ye olde banners. Google obviously has a vested interest in keeping us clicking — so it’s launching its Art, Copy & Code project to liven things up. The initiative sees Google experimenting with partners to see which concepts garner the most interest. Among the early field tests is the “useful marketing” of Volkswagen’s Smileage app, which uses a Google+ Sign-In to share media from a road trip; there’s also an upcoming internet of things experiment that may involve talking shoes, among other wireless-aware objects. The full scope of Google’s advertising outreach will have to wait, although the search firm plans to show and discuss some of its plans at South by Southwest this week. Companies that haven’t been getting much attention from old-fashioned, picture-based pitches may want to give the project a closer look.

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Open Garden 2.0 Makes Sharing Your WiFi And Mobile Connections Easier And Faster

Posted by Gsurface on March 4, 2013 No comments

Open Garden, one of the finalists at TechCrunch Disrupt New York last year, just launched the newest version of its Android, Mac and Windows app that makes sharing your mobile internet connections even easier. In many ways, this 2.0 release, which the company presented at the Launch conference this morning, fulfills the promises Open Garden made when it first launched.
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NeroKwik Brings Its Cloud Photo Collection And Sharing App To The iPhone And iPad

Posted by Gsurface on February 25, 2013 No comments

NeroKwik, the cloud photo organization service from the makers of the leading disc-burning software of old, is officially debuting its iPhone and iPad app today. The iOS clients join its existing Android and online products, offering users the ability to pull in all the photos they’ve uploaded to Facebook and Google+, organize them by metadata and other criteria, and view them in ready-made presentations called “Tapestries.”
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BillPin Wants To Save Friendships By Making Social Expense Sharing Quick And Easy

Posted by Gsurface on February 21, 2013 No comments

Out of all the problems that friends run into, money is one of the stickiest. There’s nothing that can degrade a relationship in quite the same way as an argument over rent, a restaurant bill, or even who owes what for a pack of toilet paper. BillPin, a new app that launches today, wants to make it easy to split social expenses–its logo is even “keep friendships squabble free.” It is available online, and for iOS and Android devices.
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YC-Backed Pixelapse Brings GitHub-Style Sharing & Version Control To Your Design Projects

Posted by Gsurface on February 13, 2013 No comments

Sharing and keeping tabs on code is relatively simple for coders thanks to GitHub and the like, but developers aren’t the only folks who could benefit from services like that. Designers could also use a smarter way to manage their projects, and that’s exactly the sort of niche that San Francisco-based Pixelapse is aiming to fill.

The problem first really came to light when co-founder Min Ming Lo spent time working as UX design intern at Google — as it turns out, the process of keeping tabs on designs and mockups there wasn’t pretty.
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Yammer Competitor Jostle.me Raises $3.1M For Enterprise Sharing Platform Anchored By Pictures, Not Text

Posted by Gsurface on January 19, 2013 No comments

Yammer competitor Jostle.me has raised $ 3.1 million from a group of angel investors. The company has raised $ 4.6 million to date, all from private individuals. It has 52 shareholders, including most employees who work for the company and its directors.
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Source: Shutterfly To Acquire Slick Photo Sharing And Storage Startup ThisLife

Posted by Gsurface on January 3, 2013 No comments

We’ve heard a rumor that Shutterfly, the photo and personal publishing company founded in 1999, is set to acquire online photo sharing and storage startup ThisLife. We’re hearing the acquisition price is around $ 25 million.
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Foursquare To Start Using Full Names, Sharing More Of Your Data With Venues From January 28, According To New Privacy Policy

Posted by Gsurface on December 30, 2012 No comments

Foursquare — which this year passed its three-millionth check-in, added 15 million more users to its network, and in October kicked off a new chapter as a stronger competitor to Yelp with more local information and reviews — is now updating its privacy policy to keep up. It has been sending out an email to its users informing them that as of January 28, it will add in two new items that will reveal more user data than before: the use of full names and the ability for businesses to access longer data logs for individuals. And, perhaps taking a cue from all the drama around Instagram and Facebook’s recent changes to their terms of service, the location-based social information app did two other things: it picked the Saturday evening between Christmas and New Years (when we’re all still full of good cheer) to tell users about it (mine came into my inbox at 4.37AM London time, although Phandroid seems to have noticed it earlier); and it is once again pointing users to its simplified explanation of its terms — called Privacy 101 – to help explain it. Both of the changes are a signal of how Foursquare is beefing up its big data offering: more information being shared with more people — and importantly, businesses as part of Foursquare’s local-commerce dashboard play. The explanations in the email, printed in full below, are a little more nuanced: “Full names.” Foursquare says that from the end of January, users’ full names (not necessarily real names, though) will show up with each of your check-ins, available for all to see. Foursquare implies that it’s making the change to be less confusing: it’s been providing full names already, which come up when you search for your friends on the Foursquare network, but “when you click through to their profile page you don’t see their last name.” These have prompted comments from users saying this is confusing. But, important to note here that Foursquare makes a point of noting “full names” in quotes. If you don’t want your full name on the network, it notes that you can update your own settings to set whatever “full name” you want. Extended user data for businesses. Again, here Foursquare is couching the change as a move for more practical use: it says that businesses in the past were only able to view the last three hours of
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‘Leaked’ BlackBerry 10 info shows video chat and screen sharing in BBM, new task manager

Posted by Gsurface on December 27, 2012 No comments

Top dog at RIM Thorsten Heins heavily implied that video chat would be added to BBM when BlackBerry 10 showed up, and now possible confirmation of the feature has come from what are thought to be leaked presentation slides. Originating on CrackBerry’s forums, the images have been taken down on various sites, leading us to believe they’re legit and that strongly worded requests have led to their removal. Not only do they suggest BBM video chat is coming to BB10, but also the ability to screen share during these video calls. Another slide details a new task manager for the OS called “BlackBerry Remember,” which can sync with Outlook and — based on its description and what was uncovered in the gold SDK — may include Evernote integration. We’ve contacted RIM for comment and will update you with any response, but until then, take a look at the slide above and the pair hidden after the break to assess for yourself whether they’re the real deal.

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Sprint reportedly wooing Dish with spectrum sharing and MVNO possibilities

Posted by Gsurface on December 8, 2012 No comments

Spectrum is a valuable and finite resource, but it seems that Sprint has an overabundance of the stuff. In addition to the capacity needed for its namesake operation, along with its Boost and Virgin Mobile properties, the Now Network is currently leasing its capacity to Ting, FreedomPop, Republic Wireless, Voyager Mobile, Elevate and pretty much any other company that’s willing to ink a contract. Now, Bloomberg reports that Sprint’s looking to bring a biggie on board. According to the outlet’s anonymous sources, Sprint has approached Dish Network with an offer that would allow the satellite company to establish itself as a wireless provider by using the Now Network’s airwaves. Curiously, a fee-based arrangement isn’t the only topic of discussion, as it’s also said that Sprint is exploring a spectrum sharing arrangement with Dish that would put the satellite company’s unused spectrum licenses to use.

For all the potential that such an agreement could provide, talks between the companies are currently said to be in a holding pattern while the FCC completes its review of Dish’s spectrum holdings. As proof that duo aren’t completely cozy, Sprint is currently lobbying the regulatory agency to impose rules that Dish insists would reduce the viability of its spectrum. Oh, the irony.

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Meet Turntable’s Piki, The First Music App To Do Social Music Sharing Right

Posted by Gsurface on December 3, 2012 No comments

Turntable today introduced Piki, a Pandora-like, human-powered radio app combined with powerful Twitter-inspired social features. With Piki, the most impressive part is that Turntable is one of the first music startups to get social right. The company has been working on the brand-new service for a year.
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Finnish police confiscate nine-year-olds Winnie the Pooh laptop for alleged file sharing

Posted by Gsurface on November 25, 2012 No comments

I know I’m not the only one that thinks record companies and other groups have gone entirely too far in trying to protect copyrights for music and other files illegally traded on the Internet. It seems that sometimes copyright holders and authorities simply go too far for minor infractions. This is exactly what happened this

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Microsoft outlines Play To for Windows 8 developers, shows media sharing just a heartbeat away

Posted by Gsurface on November 18, 2012 No comments

Play To is often an unsung advantage of Windows 8; it’s the key to spreading media throughout the home without jumping through hoops, much like Apple’s AirPlay or the more universal Miracast. Microsoft wants those quieter Windows advocates to pipe up a bit. It just posted a sweeping developer overview of Play To support that addresses the basics and dives into the nitty-gritty details. The biggest takeaway may be that programmers sometimes don’t have to do anything — unprotected music and video in common formats are usually shareable as a matter of course, and it’s only with photos or complicated conditions like playlists that a “contract” is needed to reach another screen or speaker. The document does have some warnings for developers, however, both official and otherwise. There’s a (fairly evasive) explanation as to why copy-protected media won’t work, while commenters remind us that hardware compatibility isn’t as surefire as we’d always like. Any developers who want their media apps to shine on an XPS 12, however, could still find the guide to be just what they need.

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Parents not liable for son's illegal music sharing, German court rules

Posted by Gsurface on November 16, 2012 No comments

A German couple are not liable for the filesharing activities of their 13-year old son because they told him unauthorized downloading and sharing of copyrighted material was illegal, and they were unaware the boy violated this prohibition, the German Federal Court of Justice ruled.
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SugarSync releases version 2.0 beta with new UI, drag-and-drop sharing and cross-device search

Posted by Gsurface on November 13, 2012 No comments

SugarSync’s popular cloud sharing app just got a complete web and desktop makeover. Version 2.0 beta is now available in desktop, web and Android app flavors, bringing a handful of new features to subscribers on multiple platforms. Mac and Windows users will have direct file system access to all of their cloud content, letting you transfer documents and other data without launching the app or web interface. You’ll be able to store files within individual folders, and you can hop over to the activity feed to see a list of items in the order they were added, making it easy to locate a file transferred recently.

A new search tool indexes all of your remote content, while also letting you locate files stored locally on computers and other devices. You can also drag and drop files to specific contacts or to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, without any need to copy and paste a download link. Apps will be available for Android at launch, and while BlackBerry, iOS, Symbian and Windows Phone users will need to hang tight for now, they’ll still be able to use previous versions alongside 2.0 in the meantime. As always, you’ll be able to sign up for a free 5GB account, with paid monthly plans ranging from $ 5 for 30 gigs to $ 40 for a monster 500GB plan. Grab the new version now at the source link below.

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Google’s Chrome Remote Desktop Screen Sharing Service Comes Out Of Beta, Adds Real-Time Audio For Windows

Posted by Gsurface on October 29, 2012 No comments

Google just announced that it is taking its Chrome Remote Desktop screensharing service out of beta. As the name implies, the Chrome Remote Desktop app runs in Chrome and allows you to share your desktop with others or control theirs to see presentations or, as Google notes, become the family hero by “adjusting printer settings on your mom’s computer to finding a lost file on your dad’s laptop.”
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TinyCo Launches Revenue Sharing Program For Mobile Game Developers

Posted by Gsurface on October 15, 2012 No comments

How bad is the fight to get more users in mobile apps? Tough enough that TinyCo, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed mobile gaming company, is doing a revenue share with developers that successfully drive them traffic.

The company, which has raised $ 18 million, says it will give developers a 50 percent split or more if they send them customers that ultimately end up spending inside of their games.
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