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Color is the next big application for iOS and Android Platforms

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Color-the latest public photo sharing application for both Android and iOS platforms has certainly become the talking point amongst developers for its vibrant nature. One major reason that this app is drawing attention is that Color is the brainchild of Bill Nguyen. Bill is the same man who sold his music-streaming company Lala to Apple in 2009 for a whopping $80 million. Color may appear to be somewhat similar to Instagram or PicPlz but what makes it special is its proximity-based photo sharing functionality, which makes it a far more potent app altogether. It is simple to use this app as all you need to do is to click a picture or shoot a video and then upload the content to the Color app network. Until this point, it does appear a very simple application.

But here is where the trick kicks in. With Color, your picture or video content you otherwise share only with select friends or followers, gets automatically shared with any other Color users who are within 100 feet of where they were taken. This ability gives Color a different appeal which of course will have its critics, but then who really cares about them!

Via: Digitaltrends

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First Ever Automated Security Update For Mac Released, iOS To Follow?

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apple_logoApple is well known to be a company that continues to push the envelope when it comes to technological advancements and firsts. This time around, Cupertino has introduced the first ever automated security update for Mac computers in order to assist them in preventing attacks from recently identified bugs, which are also the very same bugs that that security researchers have pinpointed and warned against, as those could be the gateway for hackers to actually gain remote control of machines.

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Police Do Not Need A Warrant To Start Fake Instagram Account

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instagram-androidOver in New Jersey, District Judge William Martini has come up with a ruling that the police are not required to actually pick up a warrant before opening a fake Instagram account. This is because the bogus account could actually be used to receive pictures shared by a suspect, and some folks wonder whether this would require a search warrant to be issued beforehand. Not so, according to Judge Martini in his ruling that stated whenever Instagram users post photos on the site, they happen to be practicing “consensual sharing.”

In other words, users who put up photos on Instagram are more or less in the know that should they “follow” or “friend” others, they will also end up sharing their pictures with them. All in all, one should always be extra careful with whatever one shares with others online, as you can never quite tell how something might end up to bit you in the rear some day down the road.

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Blackberry World Hits 120,000 Apps

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blackberry-z10-settingsBoth iOS and Android number close to a million apps each on their respective app stores, which is one of the reasons why smartphone users flock to either operating system. Of course there are other factors, such as hardware, pricing, availability and so on, but it is safe to say that app availability plays a big role as well. Well Blackberry seems to think so as well as they have revealed that the Blackberry World app store currently sits at about 120,000 apps, which while still pretty small compared to iOS and Android, is a pretty huge deal considering that the platform and its accompanying devices were only launched earlier this year! Blackberry’s CEO Thorsten Heins praised the thriving ecosystem, which we guess was boosted by Blackberry’s efforts where they held events to encourage developers to submit as many apps as they can, and even offering monetary rewards on top of earnings for every app successfully submitted to Blackberry World. We can see that Blackberry is going for quantity at the moment, and we suppose there are quality apps within those 120,000, but for now it looks like as far as apps are concerned, they may very well be edging Windows Phone out of the picture!

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