Opera has been working on a complete redesign of its desktop browser for a few months. Codenamed “Reborn”, the browser is now available as a stable release. All Opera users are going to receive the update automatically in the coming days. The most visible new feature is quick access to messaging apps, such as WhatsApp, [...]
80% of Instagram’s users 600 million users are outside the US, so it needed a way to provide a better experience for users with limited network connectivity or no data plan. Today at F8, Instagram announced it’s built support for using most of its features without Internet access. Much of this functionality is now available on [...]
Facebook has given its Marketplace a bit of a visual overhaul, with new colorful icons and improved search and filtering features. The Craigslist competitor, first launched in October 2016, is Facebook’s major entry point into local commerce. Today, the Marketplace sits in a dedicated tab at the bottom of Facebook’s app, where its ever-present red badge forces you [...]
Twitter has taken the wraps off a new data-optimized version of its service that it hopes will be a hit among emerging. It’s called Twitter Lite and, unlike similar ‘Lite’ apps from Facebook and others, it is browser-based — living at mobile.twitter.com. It is essentially a data-optimized version of the regular Twitter service that, the company [...]
WhatsApp is rolling out an update for iOS users which allows them to tap send on messages when there is no active data connection. WhatsApp Version 2.17.1 lets users queue messages by tapping the send button. The messages will then be sent when the user’s device establishes a data connection. The photo and video limit [...]
Here's a story for you: Instagram now has more than 600 million users, 100 million of whom joined up in just the past six months. The rapid growth comes after a year that saw the debut of the Snapchat-like "Instagram Stories" feature that allows users to share a string of photos or videos that disappear [...]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is confident virtual reality is the nex great computing platform. In a push to bring virtual reality (VR) to the masses sooner, Zuckerberg announced on Thursday at Oculus’s “Connect” conference in San Jose, Calif. that Oculus will commit an additional $250 million to fund a range of new content, such as [...]
Facebook on Wednesday brought the group calling feature to its standalone Messenger app. With the new feature, Messenger users will be able to make calls in any group conversation by just tapping on the phone icon to initiate a group call. Notably, group video calling is still not available, though most rivals offer the feature, [...]
Facebook on Wednesday demonstrated at its F8 developer conference how socializing could take place in a virtual world. Two employees some 30 miles apart -- Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer in San Francisco and Product Manager Michael Booth in Menlo Park, California -- showed how they could share the same virtual space. In that space, [...]
