Weather apps are selling our location data to the highest bidder

By Shaheryar Ehsan ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The City of Los Angeles has sued The Weather Channel for covertly mining user location data and selling them to third-party advertisers which include IBM…

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Twitter is sweeping fake accounts and people are losing followers

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

If you have seen a sudden drop in your Twitter followers it’s not probably because someone unfollowed you, it’s because Twitter started crackdown against fake…

Microsoft to give more parental control to monitor apps and device usage

By Aqsa Khunshan ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Microsoft has announced a number of new features that will allow parents to monitor the apps their kids are using and how much time they…

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Apple starts removing apps that share your location with third parties

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Apple has reportedly started cracking down against apps that share users’ location to third parties without their explicit consent. According to 9to5mac, Apple has already…

What’s all the fuss about Google’s new game: Emoji Scavenger Hunt

By Mohammad Jamal ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Google has a new game to play with you! Hell yeah! I mean it. After bringing Where’s Waldo to Google Maps last month, Google is…

France to build its own encrypted messenger due to surveillance risk

By Aqsa Khunshan ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The digital ministry of France said on Monday, that the French government is developing its own encrypted messenger service to avoid the risk that foreign…

Apple App Store has more revenue while Google Play Store has more downloads, survey

By Mohammad Jamal ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The year 2018 started with the strongest quarter, the app economy has ever seen, shattering the previous records set in Q4 2017 for both consumers…

Apple iPhone users will now have to rely on fewer apps of App Store

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

We know that the number of spammy apps is quite larger in Google Play Store, yet the Play Store is seeing a significant increase in…

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Twitter delays its plans to remove third-party apps like Tweetbots

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Chill out guys, Talon, Tweetbot, and Tweetings are staying for now. The people behind third-party Twitter clients Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Talon, and Tweetings are warning users…

Apple App Store cites a huge decline in total number of apps

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

We know that the number of spammy apps is quite larger in Google Play Store, yet the Play Store is seeing a significant increase in…

Peshawar police launch a mobile app to automatically identify crime location

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) police following its aim to maximize the security and safety of citizens of Peshawar has launched a mobile app that will ensure…

Blackberry files lawsuit against Facebook, WhatsApp over messaging patent

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Blackberry has filed a lawsuit against Facebook, alleging that the social network and its subsidiaries WhatsApp and Instagram infringe on BlackBerry’s messaging app patents. Blackberry…

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Snapchat copies Instagram for the first time, introduces new GIF stickers

By Nimra Puri ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Snapchat has recently released some new features to its app after a major redesign that company introduced earlier this month, Snapchat’s is now presenting GIF…

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