Vidme is shutting down, and it’s all the fault of Google and Facebook. The popular online video platform will go offline on December 15th, 2017, at which point all videos will be “permanently deleted from the Vidme servers”. And with that, Google and Facebook’s stranglehold tightens. A Brief History of Vidme Vidme was launched in […]
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Google is killing Instant Search, which rendered search results in realtime as you typed. The problem, according to Google, is we all now do most of our searching on smartphones, and Instant Search makes no sense on smartphones. So killing the feature is the only sensible option. Google introduced Instant Search in 2010, with then-vice […]
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Ed Sheeran, the British singer-songwriter with a striking mop of ginger hair, has quit Twitter. And it’s all the fault of mean people being mean. Or at least that’s what he inferred in an interview with a British tabloid newspaper. Which just shows bullying can affect anyone and everyone. I have been on Twitter for […]
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In the 1980s, IBM started placing “remote terminals” in the homes of some of its employees. By 2009, 40 percent of the company’s 386,000 employees no longer needed to turn up to an office each day. Forward to 2017, and IBM is traveling back in time. Thousands of employees are being told they have to […]
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YouTube is killing annotations in favor of End Screens and Cards. There are several reasons for making this change, but the main one seems to be that everyone hates annotations. Or, as YouTube rather more diplomatically put it, “viewers generally don’t love annotations”. Annotations, for those not familiar, are those boxes that pop up randomly […]
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If you still own an original iPhone then it’s now nothing more than a technological relic. And/or a funky looking paperweight. This is because AT&T has shut down its 2G network, rendering the original iPhone less than useless. And it was, let’s face it, already pretty useless. On January 9th, 2007, Steve Jobs unveiled the […]
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