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Microsoft to Remove App Marketplace Access via Zune

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Microsoft is apparently removing its Zune PC software access for the Windows Phone App Marketplace. This means that users will not be able to use Zune to buy phone apps from the store. A spokesperson from Microsoft, Mazhar Mohammaed said, “As a general rule, we like to focus our engineering efforts where they matter most, and your taps and clicks tell us that’s our phone and web stores. So starting today we began the process of removing the Windows Phone apps option from the Zune software.”

With reference to another part of the announcement which stated that all Windows Phones are now required to use the latest Windows Phone 7.5 OS to access apps in the Marketplace, Mohammed said, “If you don’t update to Windows Phone 7.5, you’ll still be able to browse Marketplace. But you’ll get an error message if you try to install an app or game, or update one that is already on your phone.” The update to Windows Phone 7.5 OS will include features such as automatic cloud syncing on Microsoft’s SkyDrive, Facebook chat, multitasking, custom ring tones, battery saver, visual voice mail, enhanced media messaging and a new threading system. Have you updated your Windows Phone to version 7.5 yet?

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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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