Jan 31
Twitter appears to be down, meaning that our 140-character micro-conversations have come to a sudden halt. What to do! Where to turn! More »
Jan 30
Welcome to Wednesday evening everyone. Today was RIM’s big day, as it rebranded itself as BlackBerry and launched the latest version of its mobile OS, BlackBerry 10. We were there at the launch event to take it all in and get some hands-on time with the new handsets the company has introduced, and you can catch all of the news from the show in our BlackBerry 10 event wrap-up. Be sure to read through the hands-on posts, because it seems that BlackBerry is doing some interesting things with its new phone.
Of course, there were plenty of other headlines to cover throughout the day, with Dropbox announcing a new feature called Documents Preview. Speaking of Dropbox, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer had some not-so-nice things to say about the service today. Zynga’s chief game designer has left the company after four years, while Twitter has improved photo and video viewing in its website interface. Nintendo slashed its Wii U sales predictions today, and the white Nexus 4 took some time to pose for the camera once again.
A trio of Galaxy Tab user agent profile worked their way into the spotlight today, and Toyota has recalled 1.1 million vehicles. Rovio was spotted teasing its new “Escape from Hoth” update to Angry Birds Star Wars, and Netflix is planning at least five new shows a year to compete with HBO. A giant asteroid will be zooming past the Earth on February 15, while Apple has secured a trademark for the layout and design of its stores.
Qualcomm shared quarterly earnings today, as did Facebook, Electronic Arts, and Lenovo. IBM’s Watson will soon be heading off to his first university, while a new trailer for INJUSTICE: Gods Among Us dropped today. Foursquare delivered a bunch of different Best of Foursquare lists today, while Ticketmaster has announced that it will be ditching CAPTCHA. Finally tonight, Cory Gunther spends some quality time with 2014 KIA Forte, Chris Burns delivers his review of the Acer Iconia W510, and Chris Davies asks if RIM even realizes what went wrong with its business. That does it for tonight’s Evening Wrap-Up, we hope you enjoy the rest of your night folks!
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: January 30, 2013 is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Jan 30
Today, Twitter has launched some new enhancements to how it handles photos and videos on the service’s web interface. Namely, they have made it easier to view either form of media on profile pages and in search results. When users click on a photo from these two places, a larger version will pop up. With videos, Twitter has expanded its list of services whose media show up in media galleries, and instead of just photos, videos now show up on the gallery.
Furthermore, individual tweet pages now include replies to replies, meaning that you can now see replies to tweets that are replies to the initial tweet (if that makes sense). Either way, you’ll now be able to see the entire conversation and replies will be nested, similar to some comment systems on websites like Disqus.
Twitter gives us a few examples of this, including a tweet from Late Night host Jimmy Fallon, and a tweet from New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. You can scroll down to view replies to the tweets, and you can also see replies to those initial replies as well. We’re not seeing the changes as of now, but the new features should be rolling out fairly soon.
For videos, media galleries now come with support for a number of video sites, including YouTube, Vimeo, and Twitter’s latest Vine service. So, instead of just photos showing up in your media gallery, you’ll also be able to view videos as well, right in line with the rest of your photos.
Twitter improves photo and video viewing in web interface is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Jan 30
Twitter wants tweets to be far more than words and links, and now they’re packing bigger and better media. Photos and video just got a very nice upgrade. More »
Jan 30
It looks like you can soon expect some changes to the way photos and videos are handled on Twitter. The company announced today that it’s begun rolling out a new feature that will let you view a larger version of a photo without going to a separate page (as pictured above), as well as another addition that will see videos from Vine, YouTube, Vimeo and others added to media galleries. It’s also slightly tweaked the conversation view to display more replies. We’re not seeing those new options ourselves just yet, but it sounds like they should be available to everyone shortly.
Source: Twitter
Jan 29
Welcome to Tuesday evening everyone. Today a purported case for the iPad 5 surfaced, and it has more than a little in common with the rear case for the iPad mini. We saw a leaked image of a white Nexus 4, while we also heard that Google is planning a Nexus 4 and 7 refresh for the spring that includes white devices. Speaking of the Nexus 4, the sought after device became available on the Google Play Store once again today, after weeks of being sold out.
Amazon delivered its Q4 2012 results today, posting a net loss of $39 million for the year. Just the same, Gameloft’s Q4 2012 saw record sales, so the company is looking pretty good going into 2013. The EFF clarified the new laws against jailbreaking today, and this week retailers gained the ability to charge you for credit card purchases. XMBC 12 is now available with support for Android and Raspberry Pi, while Google is donating 15,000 of the inexpensive computers to UK students.
The HTC HD2 has been hacked to run Windows RT, while Electronic Arts announced that SimCity will be coming to Mac this spring. We learned of some rather strange-sounding fixes to the iPhone 5′s “greyed Wi-Fi” issue, and Samsung has announced that it will buy medical imaging company NeuroLogica. After a bit of a situation involving adult videos on Vine, Twitter has remedied the problem, while YouTube is said to be considering paid content in 2013.
500px is now back on the App Store after a porn problem of its own, and the ban on unlocking phones has resulted in a petition on the official White House website. New interest from the US Department of Justice will probably result in delays for the Sprint/Softbank deal, so don’t expect to close very fast. Acer is hinting at some new budget tablets to take on the likes of Google and Amazon, while we also heard that the iPad 5 will be smaller than previous iterations. NVIDIA has released a new beta driver in time for the Crysis 3 multiplayer beta, Pinterest is readying a new site design, and Hawken showed us some fancy PhysX graphics in a new trailer. Finally tonight, we have a review of the Dell XPS One 27 for you to check out, along with a first drive of the KIA Sorento and Forte. That does it for tonight’s Evening Wrap-Up, we hope you enjoy the rest of the night folks!
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: January 29, 2013 is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Jan 29
This week it’s become abundantly clear that the pornographic content issue has become a top priority for the developer teams at Vine, the Twitter-owned 6-second-video app. This app was released less than a week ago with a response that was no less than massive, both Twitter and Apple’s iTunes App Store pushing the app heavily to get the word out about its existence. Since then a significant amount of “NSFW” content has appeared in the Vine universe prompting ire from almost every direction.
Here on Tuesday the 29th of January it would appear that the Vine development team has cut out one entry into the porn problem with a rescinding of hashtags such as #porn, #nude, #sex, and #naked. Searching for these terms now results in a complete lack of results, not because none exist, but because the back end of Vine can be modified to kick out any terms they deem undesirable.
While no official comment on the situation as far as search terms has yet been issued by Vine or Twitter, we do know the results of the app having been “infected” by “Not Safe For Work” content have been dire. The first was the iTunes App Store cutting the app from it’s Editor’s Choice picks: though again, no official word on its disappearance has been made. Another result of the porn issue is the massive amount of press Vine has gotten almost immediately after its initial release.
This begs the question: should Twitter’s Vine team want to kick nudes out of the the mix, or should it simply pretend to be attempting to do so? You can still download the Vine app from the iTunes App Store for your iOS mobile device right this minute (or perhaps just for the time being) and we’ve still got no word on an Android release (or a Windows Phone release for that matter).
Make sure you keep your ear to the wire here on SlashGear for more Vine news as this epic saga continues to unfold! The timeline below should keep you up to date on all the excellence as well – and keep on recording those work safe videos with Vine, too!
Vine Porn disappears from surface of Twitter app is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Jan 29
Apple Removes Vine
Posted in: Today's Chili
It seems that the folks over at Apple has gotten the message – they have removed the Vine app from the Featured Apps section, which came along after the porn debacle. Just in case you were wondering what Vine is all about, this app allows users to be able to upload a short six second video clip online on just about anything and everything, and this has resulted in some users abusing the service by uploading uber short porn clips. This is clearly not something that Apple would put up with, and hence, they have removed Vine already from the App Store.
The folks over at Apple were not the only ones upset by the availability of adult content over at Vine, and there has been plenty of early adopters who claimed that they will no longer use the app – ever. Twitter, the owner of Vine, will definitely look into this issue and hopefully, learn from it and perhaps implement a more aggressive approach to filtering such content out in due time.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: White Google Nexus 4 May Actually Exist, HTC Announces February 19 Launch Event Possibly For The HTC M7, 
Jan 28
Twitter Vine Does Porn
Posted in: Today's ChiliYou might have heard of Twitter Vine before, and if you haven’t, let us bring you the low down in a nutshell. Basically, Twitter’s Vine functions as an app which enables you to create (and of course, share – after all, that is what modern day social networking is all about, isn’t it?) six-second videos. Launched at the end of last week, thousands of folks on Twitter began to tweet short videos in no time at all, and it goes without saying that such an app could achieve a high adoption rate due to the hardware that we carry around these days. Even the most basic featurephone would in all probability come with a camera of sorts, what more a full-fledged smartphone.
Technology, being a double-edged sword, has reared its ugly head again by some of the short videos showing off more than they should. I’m referring to the naughty bits of folks being exhibited for all to see, in short, pornography. Vine claims that users are able to report such content, and the offending video (to certain quarters) will carry a warning message beforehand. Both Twitter and Vine claimed that they will only remove the video should it violate the guidelines laud out beforehand.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Mid-range Samsung Galaxy Express Announced, 8 Samsung Devices Rumored For MWC 2013 Unveiling, 
Jan 28
Twitter’s new Vine video app was a huge hit when it first released a few of days ago. We even took it for a spin and liked it quite a bit. However, it’s been experiencing a “porn problem” of sorts, and has now gotten a bad rap thanks to its more promiscuous users. As a result, it appears that Apple has removed Vine from its Editor’s Choice category in the iTunes app store.
According to Business Insider, Vine had a featured spot in the iTunes App Store as late as this morning, so the change must have occurred just recently. It’s unclear whether or not the app will get pulled, but it remains for now. Last week, popular photo-sharing app 500px was removed from the App Store over nude photos.
According to Apple’s own developer guidelines, apps “that contain user generated content that is frequently pornographic” are not allowed in the iTunes App Store, so it may just be a matter of time before the app gets pulled for good, unless Twitter takes charge and enforces some guidelines against pornographic content.
However, it looks likes the social media service is, in fact, cracking down on inappropriate content. Certain hashtag searches within the Vine app, such as #porn, #sex, and other risque searches are blocked, but workarounds are easily accessible still, like #pornvine. Then again, it may only be a matter of time until the workarounds are blocked, so if you need to get your six seconds of pleasure, better now than later, folks.
[via Business Insider]
Vine disappears from “Editor’s Choice” in iTunes is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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