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Strava fitness app inadvertently reveals US military installations, personnel habits

Feb 1, 2018

Global heatmaps, published by the San Francisco based social network for athletes, Strava, inadvertently revealed the locations of sensitive military installations around the globe last November, according to a...

FDA approves the first real time blood glucose level monitoring app from DexCom

Cody Gash

Jan 25, 2015

Health

The Food and Drug Administration has given the Greenlight to the first glucose-monitoring app owned by DexCom, Inc., which is to be used in mobile devices to track the health of diabetic people. The system tran...

Experiments section Space Station Research Explorer App

NASA launches Space Station Research Explorer App to bring ISS to everyone’s fingertips

Amanda

Dec 29, 2014

Innovation

Those interested in knowing more about the International Space Station (ISS) can now use the newly launched app called the Space Station Research Explorer to learn about the hundreds of experiments being carrie...

Microsoft reveals new photo sharing app, Xim

Abby Smith

Oct 9, 2014

World

Microsoft has recently unveiled its new photo-sharing app, Xim. It is currently available only on Windows and Android platform, and will soon be launched for iOS also. This app can come handy when you want to s...

Spyware app StealthGenie maker arrested by U.S. Federals

Abby Smith

Sep 30, 2014

Innovation

U.S. Authorities is pressing charges against a man who made a mobile application that can spy on its user without being detected. According to a report, the man who got arrested is, Hammad Akbar, CEO InvoCode, ...

Twitter testing e-commerce service, introduces ‘Buy’ button

Abby Smith

Sep 9, 2014

Innovation

San Francisco: The micro-blogging website, Twitter, is now taking orders on various objects for its users. In some of the recent reports, Twitter is now allowing its Tweet birds to buy a product or service righ...

Facebook main app will now not be able to send messages

Abby Smith

Aug 10, 2014

Innovation

Facebook's main app will now not be able to send messages. Facebook(NASDAQ: FB) took this step to force its users to use Facebook Messenger. Facebook messenger app requires a lot of permissions, if you are a us...

Facebook introduces ‘Save’ button

Abby Smith

Jul 22, 2014

Innovation

Facebook,( NASDAQ: FB), has now introduced a new feature called 'save button' which allows its users to save the links, locations, check-ins and anything appearing on their timeline appearing on their news feed...

Europe wants Apple to better in-app purchase protection

Platonium

Jul 18, 2014

Innovation

The European Union has made it clear that it wants Apple to make stronger in-app purchase protection, which would lessen the number of inadvertent in-app purchases being made all the time. A Friday update to...

Secret app valued at $100 million after just nine months

Platonium

Jul 14, 2014

Innovation

The anonymous-messaging app Secret has reached a value of $100 million. This makes it one of the fastest startups to reach a nine-figure valuation. Secret was founded a mere nine months ago in San Francisco,...

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