Daily Archives: March 15, 2016

Windows Phone’s Failure Gifts Microsoft A Killer Surface Phone

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Now that Windows Phone is a distant memory, Microsoft has effectively left the mass-market smartphone hardware game. That doesn’t mean we’ve seen the last smartphone from Microsoft. With no need to push sales, Microsoft can focus on technology, on capability, and on vision. The time for a Surface Phone is fast approaching.

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Instagram is going the way of Twitter, algorithm-based feed to replace chronology

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Instagram decided it needed to shake things up in order to compete with other image sharing networks. The image sharing app has decided it is going to restructure the way that users see their feeds stating that “…people miss on average 70% of their feeds… This means you often don’t see the posts you might care about the most.”

The idea is to keep users on your app as much as possible, and Instagram believes it can do it by mixing up your feed every now and again. This could be most effective when users don’t follow too many people and end up seeing the same 5 posts in the past hour…

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Zimbabwe government denies carriers’ request to regulate messaging apps

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Several years ago before the adoption of smartphones exploded like the plague, carriers in the US used to make major bucks from text messaging plans and minutes while they gave data away in unlimited bundles for Blackberries to sip on, back when the demand for high-speed data was at a minimum.

US carriers noticed the change and gradually began focusing their revenue on data plans with unlimited calls and text messages. Unfortunately for other parts of the world that are starting to adopt smartphone use more and more as the network reliability improves, messaging services are able to easily…

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