WhatsApp’s ‘change number’ feature now includes an option to automatically notify your contacts …
Just like moving house, changing your phone number can be a laborious and stressful undertaking. You have to let everyone know and update a bunch of accounts with the correct information. And there's always at least one thing you forget about, frustratingly. An update to WhatsApp's 'change number' … Read More
Privacy at risk! New app allows Android users to track WhatsApp activities of their contacts
n app named 'ChatW' is using WhatsApp's online or offline status feature to tell how often the user checked their WhatsApp. Besides keeping a track on your surfing habits on WhatsApp, the ChatW can also be used to do the same with your friends in your contact list. According to …
Mobile Menace Monday: Fake WhatsApp can steal info from your phone
Here I was on the official website to download Watts Plus Plus WhatsApp—that unusual name could very well be an awkward Google translate, by the way. Among numerous ads (a developer needs to make some ad revenue after all) was text explaining this developer's WhatsApp version. Below is the … Read …
DJ Black Coffee faces Twitter backlash over Israel show
DJ Black Coffee faces Twitter backlash over Israel show. "I'm coming [to Israel] to perform … A man is silhouetted against a video screen with a Twitter and a Facebook logo. (photo credit: DADO … Aviv on Saturday night. But many of his Twitter fans were not pleased that he …
Apple-affiliated Twitter account says ‘cool new Apple products are coming’
It's a funny way to tease a job listing. If you work for Apple, you'll get to work on stuff that hasn't come out yet, obviously. Apple is in charge of WebKit— software that forms the backbone of browsers including Safari and Google Chrome for iOS. Although lots of companies …
Twitter is freaking out over this video of a little boy yodeling in the middle of Walmart
If you've been on the internet at all this past weekend, you've seen Twitter freaking out over the video of a little boy yodeling in the middle of Walmart — now known forever as “Walmart yodel boy.” Maybe you decided you didn't have time to pay attention to the internet's …
Facebook’s Zuckerberg fires back at Apple’s Tim Cook
Facebook's chief executive has defended his leadership following criticism from his counterpart at Apple. Mark Zuckerberg said it was "extremely glib" to suggest that because the public did not pay to use Facebook that it did not care about them. Last week, Apple's Tim Cook said it was an "invasion …
Mark Zuckerberg just laid out Facebook’s role in reported ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Myanmar
Mark Zuckerberg laid out Facebook's role in the ethnic cleansing of Myanmar's Rohingya in an interview published on Monday with Vox. Zuckerberg said that both Buddhists and the Rohingya were being incited towards violence in messages sent on the website. He added that the social media network … Read More
Remember when Apple’s Steve Jobs tweaked Mark Zuckerberg about ‘onerous’ Facebook? I do!
Facebook had noodled for years on doing its own social music offering, but its efforts had largely gone nowhere. And, as I wrote then, “Facebook was nowhere on Ping, either. Currently, there is no linking, sharing or participation of any kind with Facebook — or Twitter or MySpace — on …
Moronic condom-snorting challenge takes over social media
Condoms might make for safer sex — but they're at the center of the riskiest new social media challenge. The viral video craze — dubbed “The Condom Challenge” — is striking fear into parents as teenagers record themselves dangerously snorting the rubbers and pulling them through their throats. Read More