If you have a car and a matching auto insurance policy, you’ve probably been offered the opportunity to lower your rate using telematics. Using a smartphone app or a separate device that plugs into your vehicle’s ODB-II port, these programs monitor your driving habits for several weeks at a time. …
Read More »1 Billion Downloads
Getting data from one place to another is easy when you’ve got reliable internet connectivity, but that’s not the case everywhere. That’s why an Android app called SHAREit has more than a billion downloads. Unfortunately, Trend Micro says the app is also a security nightmare that could allow intruders …
Read More »Dog Domestication
New research led by the University of Helsinki suggests that dog domestication needs to be understood in terms of competition over resources in the particularly severe environment that prevailed in northern Eurasia during the latter part of the Last Ice Age (29,000 to 14,000 years ago). Humans feeding leftover lean …
Read More »Life360 Launches Bubbles
Helicopter parenting turned into surveillance with the debut of family-tracking apps like Life360. While the app can alleviate parental fears when setting younger kids loose in the neighborhood, Life360’s teenage users have hated the app’s location-tracking features so much that avoiding and dissing the app quickly became a TikTok meme. …
Read More »Bing now sharing backstory of its home page photo & gallery of past pictures
Bing is adding more to its home page, now offering the backstory for the image of the day and a gallery of past featured pictures. Since it was rolled out yesterday, users can scroll down on the home page to see a brief summary of the featured image of the …
Read More »Sharing is caring: Click share and post-holiday shopping success
Click share is a key way to gauge the success of your Shopping campaigns. The metric shows you the percentage of total possible clicks you are receiving with your Shopping ads. If you aren’t reviewing this metric on a regular basis, 2017 is officially the time to start the habit. …
Read More »AMD’s new Crimson ReLive Edition offers more tools for game sharing
AMD’s big graphics software update this year is called Crimson ReLive, and comes in both Pro and standard formats. The annual huge improvement dump adds a lot of oomph under the hood for Radeon graphics hardware, including performance increases of over 8 percent in terms of specific title gaming performance on the …
Read More »Google opens up its new product for business file sharing “Team Drives” to early adopters
Google is opening up applications to businesses interested in testing its new file-sharing product called Team Drives. Announced earlier this fall, the focus of Team Drives is to offer companies an easier way to share files across their organization, along with more granular access controls over the content those shared folders …
Read More »Facebook rolls out a lightweight web version of its photo-sharing service, Moments
When Facebook originally launched its photo-sharing service Moments, the idea was to offer friends and family a better way to send each other photos without having to post them more publicly on the social network itself. The mobile app has since become a moderate success, ranking #171 Overall on the iTunes …
Read More »Telstra introduces “no lock-in” mobile plans, data sharing plans coming soon
Telstra has announced some new changes to their mobile plans – with the addition of no-contract plans (following Optus’ move) with the same value as their contract plans, and the introduction of data sharing plans so you can share your data cap with multiple devices. The “No Lock-In Plans” will start …
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