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The biggest social media platform in the planet is preparing to officially release the business version of itself to companies around the world. After being quietly tested for the fast few quarters, Facebook at Work is expected to be deployed in the coming months sometime next year. This was revealed by Vanessa Chan, spokesperson for Facebook, recently this week.
In an increasingly mobile world where everybody is glued to their smartphones and tablet devices surfing the Internet, browsing social media, watching videos or listening to streamed music, the need for a faster, better cellular network is as high as ever. But the truth of the matter is, building an improved cellular network often takes some time.
2015 was a particularly impressive and busy year for Apple. Indeed, the last twelve months have seen the iPhone maker take some risks in launching entirely new products or introducing new services. Before, people either think of Apple as iPhones, iPads, iPods, and Macs -- but in 2015, Apple began offering its first ever wearable device, a music streaming subscription service, an updated TV streaming box, and a new tablet device for workplace settings.
Two of the biggest mobile players in the world right now, Samsung and Apple, have finally settled on the amount of money to be paid by Samsung for damages in a patent case that has been going on for several years now. However, the legal battle rages on.
Google has just announced that it will be donating up to a million dollars to certain projects centered on special education, in collaboration with nonprofit DonorsChoose.org. This is part of the tech giant’s efforts to kickstart Android Pay, the mobile payment system that the company developed and launched in the United States in September earlier this year.
Some Android users may already be familiar with Opera Max. It is a mobile app that basically helps owners of Android powered devices to minimize their data usage across various apps and services on their handset. Well, today the creators of the app have introduced a new feature, which music lovers will no doubt be delighted to hear about.
For those not familiar with Facebook at Work, it is the version of Facebook that is designed for the work environment. Employees can use the platform to interact with colleagues, just like on a regular social network, but this time, the environment is geared for work or business. Well, Facebook at Work now has its own chat messaging platform, and it is called Work Chat.
No doubt, everybody is familiar with this scenario -- you are just about ready to go to sleep at 10-ish, but steal a quick glance at your smartphone while in bed, and then end up staying awake until 3 in the morning, still tapping those like buttons. Of course, mobile users are quick to blame their smartphones for their disrupted sleeping cycles, but it is most unfortunate that while just about everybody knows that smartphones do not help us get enough sleep, we still go on and browse our handsets in our pajamas.
Google is offering a mobile users a way in which they can still enjoy using mobile apps but without needing to download them on their mobile devices. So how does this work exactly? To illustrate, here is a scenario: If a mobile user searches for hotels with the use of Google’s mobile app on a smartphone running on the tech giant’s Android mobile operating system, he will basically be offered search results from various sources around the Internet. However, the user will also see information displayed from mobile apps such as Hotel Tonight, for instance.
With Project Astoria, Microsoft was planning to launch a new tool that would bring mobile apps originally developed for the Android environment into the company’s own Windows 10 operating system. The tool was specifically designed to urge mobile app developers to essentially make their Android apps into Windows friendly apps.
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