Facebook is the largest and most used social media network. Still, Facebook is facing increasing competition from WhatsApp. Dutch share more conscious messages, photos and videos. Personal events they share more with a smaller, specific group via WhatsApp.
Google has launched a new search tool for its Drive storage service that allows users to find their files easier. So it is now possible to limit the search to a specific file type.
Spotify a convenient and easy way to listen to music that I do not tell you to doubt. Or the music industry is finally a favor it is still the question. But you actually use all the features of Spotify ?
Colleagues and relatives of the suspected gunman in San Bernardino, the 28-year-old Rizwan Syed Farook, have shocked and reacted in disbelief at his lethal action from Wednesday. The American, together with his wife by the authorities seen as the instigator of the massacre of fourteen people dead.
Via wifi signals may still be measured in the crowds shopping per hour, but the retention of this data is limited to 48 hours. Bluetrace, a company that sells visitors, customers can therefore not tell you how many times someone a month has passed. Moreover Bluetrace must inform shoppers beforehand, for example by stickers on shop windows. The latter had failed Bluetrace.
An app that lets travelers can raise the alarm if they are in an emergency situation, anywhere in the world. Private detective Dick Steffens is currently developing the ' Travellers app' : All important information will be shared with a control center of a security company and with at home, so as to promptly intervene when someone is in need.
More runners than ever guard Thursday Thanksgiving Parade in New York. Two weeks after the terrorist attacks in Paris with 130 people that killed 2 500 officers stand along the route of the parade, which is expected to attract 3.5 million viewers, according to US media.
Anti-piracy organization Brein has reached a settlement with two Dutch programmers who worked on a version of the illegal video streaming service Popcorn Time.
Snap Chat Monday rolled out a new feature. Story with Explorer, users of social media even more snaps that are part of exploring a particular story.
The hacker group Anonymous claims to have proof the Islamic State plans Sunday to commit attacks worldwide. The terrorist movement would be planning to commit attacks in France, Lebanon, Italy, Indonesia and the United States. International media reports said Saturday.
US intelligence had at least four militants involved in the attacks in Paris already in sight. They were included in a central database for combating terrorism. That's what US officials Thursday (local time) said.
Navigation company TomTom has launched a new app. Flashes as the application is called, lets users know when a speed camera or mobile flash in the vicinity.
France has a new national song : "Imagine" by John Lennon gives Parisians hope in dark days and appears en route to the "sound" to be of the revolt against the terror tijstert the city.
The South African Isobel Bowdery (22) managed to survive the terrorist attack during the concert of the Eagles of Death Metal in Bataclan by an hour to pretend she was dead.
Students at the University of Stellenbosch have their way : they no longer receive college in Afrikaans but in English. That the leadership of the South African university decided Friday.
Internet giant Google is slowly but surely dismantling its former Facebook rival Google+. The company now has a new type of profile page for users launched where they can look back all their information.
It promised to be a sad farewell to the 92-year-old British war veteran Tom Bryan.
The size of the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has reached another record high in 2014. This was reported Monday to the meteorological organization of the UN, WMO (World Meteorological Organization) in its annual report.
Other countries did not respond to the call of Egypt to strengthen cooperation in the fight against terrorism. That said Sameh Shoukry, the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Saturday.
Facebook has a new employee : Lior Won, CEO and founder of Roundup, a news app for Android. The company confirms this to Venture Beat, but would not say whether this means that Facebook has bought Roundup.
Facebook allows users even easier to discover or share new music with friends. The new feature " Music Stories " allows music files to Spotify, Apple and iTunes music sharing directly in the news.
Storage service Google Drive features a number of improvements. The most noticeable jump the new notifications that people have on their iPhone or Android phone as a file is shared with them. That made Google famous.
Firefox adds a new feature to the browser that allows the user more control over their privacy. Mozilla, maker of Firefox, has added to the latest update Tracking Protection. This feature allows the user when he is in Private Browsing 'anonymous' surfing the web, decide what data is shared or not shared with third parties.
A Scotsman with a striking reddish beard looked surprised when he picked up Thursday night flight from London to Galway, Ireland. Neil Douglas walked unsuspectingly into the unit when he found to his amazement his double on the seat beside him.
The data of people who have sought information and advice about their health on the website thuisarts.nl has inadvertently been collected by so-called tracking cookies and shared with others. That made Dutch College of General Practitioners (NHG), the organization behind the site on Tuesday.
Four of the eight wounded who managed to fire on the bus to escape, have sustained serious injuries. Two of them were on burns. Which shared the prefecture of the Gironde note Friday.
Thousands fluffy chicks have first taken a dip in the water. Ran onto a video of the eager ducks is massively shared on the internet.
The team behind Instagram has launched a new video app that enables users to create movies and share one second. The Boomerang app plays the video very fast forward and reverse.
Hacking and publication of private emails from CIA director John Brennan to be a "crime" with malicious intent. That the CIA announced in response to the news that disclosure site WikiLeaks has put six documents from an old account in Brennan online.
Minister Ronald Plasterk ( Interior) makes twice chances of a Big Brother Award, the prize for the biggest privacy violator. The minister was nominated for the Big Brother Audience Award. As the experts have now joined, says organizer Bits of Freedom.
