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Twitter CEO admits platform is too complex for users

Paul Hill — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 12:34:01 +0000

Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, has claimed that a third of all new daily users are disappointed with the service because they struggle to work out what to do. He said the service needs to be easier to use. Read more...

Messenger hits a billion monthly active users, Facebook celebrates with a balloon emoji

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 07:42:01 +0000

Facebook's Messenger has reached a big milestone in any service's life: it hit a billion monthly active users. The journey started five years ago and wasn't always smooth sailing for Facebook. Read more...

Apple making major changes to the App Store, including search ads and more

Usama Jawad — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 07:22:01 +0000

Apple is making significant modifications to its App Store, including the addition of search advertisements, reduced app review times, a revamped subscription model and more. Read more...

Facebook Q1 2016: staggering growth in mobile; more ads than ever; stock hits new high

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 08:06:01 +0000

Facebook posted its earnings for the first financial quarter of 2016, and the company blew past all the analysts' expectations. It saw startling growth in mobile ad revenue and users. Read more...

WhatsApp now has a billion users

Andy Weir — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 07:06:01 +0000

Back in September, WhatsApp revealed that it had 900 million active users, and now - two weeks after dropping its annual $0.99 subscription fee - it's announced that it has over a billion users. Read more...

Edge browser keeps losing market share, despite Microsoft's efforts

Timi Cantisano — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 04:52:01 +0000

Microsoft's Edge browser is a world of difference from the previous iteration of Internet Explorer. Despite improvements, the browser is still losing users to the competition. Read more...

Windows 10 Mobile 10586.29 update gets pulled due to installation issues

Usama Jawad — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:10:01 +0000

With hundreds of users reporting problems while installing Windows 10 Mobile build 10586.29 on their Lumia 950 and 950 XL handsets, Microsoft has temporarily pulled the update as it works on a fix. Read more...

Study finds Google 'harms' consumers with its skewed search results

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 10:48:02 +0000

A study found that consumers preferred "unskewed" search results based on relevance instead of the ones Google displays, which promote its own services. The same study found Google was harming users. Read more...

Tablet users expected to climb to 1 billion in 2015, a third of them in China

Adrian Potoroaca — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 19:26:01 +0000

The number of tablet users is still growing at a great speed, but not for long, due to abundance in developed markets, as well as competition from other mobile devices like phablets and hybrids. Read more...

Avast forums forced offline by weekend hack attack, 400,000 users affected

James Walker — Tue, 27 May 2014 11:45:54 +0000

Security company Avast Software has announced that details of 400,000 forum users, including passwords in hashed form, have been stolen in an attack on the company over the past weekend. Read more...

Netflix launches profiles to separate user ratings on same account

Anthony Tosie — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 12:39:59 +0000

Netflix launched a new profiles feature Monday, allowing subscribers to separate an account into different users that will feature their own ratings and recommendations for content. Read more...

Roku celebrates 5 million users and 8 billion video streams

Max Slater-Robins — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:56:28 +0000

Roku, the Internet-connected video streaming set top box, have announced a major milestone: 5 million users, who have brought in over 8 billion video streams, or 1,600 streams per user. Read more...

Like? Facebook now has over a billion active users

Andy Weir — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:24:21 +0000

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirms that the social network now has over 1bn active users each month. To mark the occasion, the company released a video, telling us that "chairs are like Facebook". Read more...

Pinterest's hype bubble bursts, as overall users decline

Paul Ferson — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:40:35 +0000

After usage slowed slightly in March, Pinterest has begun to lose users during April. The decline in users is large, as a third-party monitor observes. Read more...

A closer look at Facebook and its users

Andy Weir — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:21:02 +0000

Facebook revealed this week that it now has 845m active users. As it nudges ever closer to the billion-user milestone, a new study reveals interesting findings about the social network and its users. Read more...

Twitter has 100 million active users

John Callaham — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:40:01 +0000

The CEO of Twitter has officially revealed that the social networking service has 100 million active users along with 400 million monthly visitors on the Twitter.com web site. Read more...

Hunch.com: Infographic on Mac users versus PC users

Denis Wong — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 07:58:12 +0000

Another Mac versus PC war? Probably. Except this war is not about arguing over fancy collections of bits and bytes, or even about the perceived value of one's investments into technology. It's about the users... Read more...

AT&T: Our users wanted data caps

Brad Sams — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:42:41 +0000

It was only a few days ago that AT&T instituted the data caps on their broadband connections, but speaking on the situation, AT&T's Mark Siegel proclaimed that it is what the end user had asked... Read more...

Digg users fight back, sabotage main page

Brad Sams — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:55:17 +0000

It’s fairly common to hear that most people don’t like change. The common saying is “if it ain't broken, don’t fix it”, this mannerism tries explaining that if you have something that works, don’t drastically... Read more...

Facebook is now 500 million strong

Andrew Lyle — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:44:19 +0000

Facebook announced today that is has surpassed 500 million active users worldwide on its site. That is half a billion users on a single website. The social network started in 2004 as a way for people... Read more...

Facebook officially hits 250 million users

Kevin Weiner — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:30:32 +0000

Facebook has hit 250 million active users according to a post on the site's official blog, and a report by CNET. "For us, growing to 250 million users isn't just an impressive number; it is... Read more...

Facebook catches up to MySpace in U.S. unique visitors

Kevin Weiner — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:57:49 +0000

It looks like Facebook could soon dethrone MySpace in the number of unique visitors, because according to TechCrunch, Facebook has caught up to MySpace in terms of the number of unique visitors each site receives.... Read more...

Office Mac users at risk

Thu, 14 May 2009 22:19:06 +0000

PC security experts have criticized Microsoft this week for releasing security patches attempting to fix vulnerabilities in Windows versions of their presentation program Powerpoint, whilst announcing Mac users of Office Mac could remain at risk,... Read more...

Last.fm to start charging international users a fee

Sam Symons — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:42:50 +0000

Last.fm is a very popular service amongst music listeners, providing social networking type functions to a website that tracks the songs you listen to. You may also be aware that you can listen to any... Read more...

Microsoft continues to warn of IE8 lock-in for XP SP3 users

Sean Bradford — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:21:28 +0000

Last year when Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, Jane Maliouta announced that consumers using Windows XP SP3 would be locked-in with the IE8 if they had installed the IE8 beta prior to upgrading... Read more...

Fake sites with Obama news infect users with malware

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:29:32 +0000

Trend Micro Advanced Threats Researcher Paul Ferguson has discovered fake websites with headlines like Barack Obama has refused to be a president and links that take the user to fake Obama sites which mimick the... Read more...

iPhone MMS solution now available for UK users

Tom Warren — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:21:01 +0000

One of the highly requested features from iPhone users around the world is MMS along with copy and paste functionality. Ross McKillop and Ed Lea appear to have addressed the lack of MMS in the... Read more...

Mac users set to receive Picasa

Damien Reynolds — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:49:14 +0000

Google is planning to release a beta of the popular photo editing/viewing program Picasa on the Mac today. According to Jason Cook from Picasa the features you will be seeing in the beta... Read more...

RIAA to stop suing users, cuts them off instead

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:02:18 +0000

RIAA has reached an agreement to stop suing individuals who continue to share music illegally, but will cut your internet connection off instead. The decision was reached with ISP's to send a warning letter to... Read more...

Facebook reaches 140 million users

Damien Reynolds — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:55:01 +0000

Facebook has recently hit a milestone when they reached 140 million signed up users. The statistics are quite astounding when you look at them, over 600 thousand users are signing up a day which has... Read more...

Linux and Mac users will be "easy targets" for hackers

Tom Warren — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:35:10 +0000

Russian security expert Eugene Kaspersky, co-founder of IT security company Kaspersky Labs, has said Linux and Mac users will be "easy targets" for hackers and malware writers over the next few years. Linux and Mac... Read more...

Firefox users gain location tool

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:10:25 +0000

Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox browser, has released technology that helps websites detect the physical location of computers. The system will allow users, for instance, to find local restaurants when they travel to a... Read more...

Microsoft: Safari Flaw a Danger to Windows Users

Steven Parker — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:25:00 +0000

Microsoft warned on Friday that Apple's Safari Web browser for Windows exposes PCs to a security hole that permits potentially malicious files to be downloaded to a user's machine and run without prompting the user.... Read more...

Web users 'getting more selfish'

Mon, 26 May 2008 16:45:44 +0000

Web users are getting more ruthless and selfish when they go online, reveals research. The annual report into web habits by usability guru Jakob Nielsen shows people are becoming much less patient when they go... Read more...

Facebook agrees to add 40 safeguards for young users

Steven Parker — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:36:52 +0000

Facebook will add more than 40 safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies, attorneys general from several US states have announced. The news follows a similar announcement from MySpace after the social... Read more...

Microsoft CEO jokes about Yahoo bid, Search users

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:25:41 +0000

Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer may be experiencing a case of bidder's remorse after making an unsolicited $42.3 billion offer to buy Yahoo Inc. Speaking to a group of nearly 2,000 Microsoft enthusiasts at... Read more...

Users fight to save Windows XP

Steven Parker — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:16:11 +0000

Microsoft Corp.'s operating systems run most personal computers around the globe and are a cash cow for the world's largest software maker. But you'd never confuse a Windows user with the passionate fans of Mac... Read more...

Now all Vista users can Dream

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:10:17 +0000

Windows Vista Ultimate users are no longer the only ones who can run animated wallpaper on their desktop. Software developer Stardock has released a free preview of DeskScapes 2.0 which enables all users of Windows... Read more...

Hybrid SLI May Not Be Suitable for Business/Game Users

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:36:47 +0000

Despite of hype, Nvidia Corp.'s Hybrid SLI technology that can reduce power consumption of high-end multi-GPU systems as well as improve 3D graphics performance on entry-level computers with integrated graphics core (IGP) has several serious... Read more...

Chinese Internet Users Up to 210 Million

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:43:47 +0000

The official China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) announced yesterday that the country's online population was now at 210 million, having grown 53%, from 137 million reported at the same time last year, and was... Read more...