Is there any way we can make this a better experience for our users and your users?
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In its new privacy policy, Google says that, for logged in users, it can now collect and store quite a bit of information about you including your search queries, logs of your calls and your location (for mobile users).
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And best of all, you do not have to register unless you want to participate in the lego community and upload your creations for other users to see.
Facebook has added the functionality for users to tag your brand within uploaded images.
Nine months ago, Pwned List was created to answer a simple question for users: Is your account among the millions whose credentials have been spilled onto the web?
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This means you can show off your Instagram photo feed or share recently watched titles on Netflix -- a brand-new amenity for US users -- while hiding your latest tracks on Spotify, if you're so inclined.
The site offers information about medical conditions and drugs, a self-assessment questionnaire to gauge, for example, your risk of diabetes, and a bulletin board for users to swap medical experiences.
This gets to the third important lesson for startups: be generous to your users.
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Taking a page from Etta James, Opera Mini 7 is "a thrill to press your cheek to" for Android users.
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This new feature will help you reach beyond your followers and users with similar interests, and target the most relevant audience for your campaign.
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The Yahoo help post offers options for disgruntled users, including how to download your content and access it through another client and how to delete your account.
Canon has created two exciting solutions to unlock your images, "My Image Garden"3 software and the "Print Your Days" Facebook4 application, for users to get the most out of their images and empower the sharing experience.
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As a developer Android 2.3 Gingerbread is still the largest % of the market therefore when you develop for android your developing mainly for operating system that is 2 years old where as the majority of iOS users are now running iOS6 something that was just released a couple of weeks ago with many new features.
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But whatever you do for users must also do something to help your business.
Browser performance will make your application seem slower for the majority of Mac users, making it extra important to optimize back-end application performance.
The spokesperson noted that the Facebook log-in page is always encrypted, preventing someone from stealing your password, and also offered up a general warning for Web users.
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For example, if your application will be downloaded by more than 500 end users (employees or customers) it must go through a stringent approval process and be only offered through the official iTunes store.
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Use Apps to Target Your Reach: Apps themselves are wonderful vehicles for targeting highly specific kinds of users.
No matter what your digital sharing needs are the ZOTAC StreamBox and RAIDbox are perfect for users of all savviness.
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Anyone, anywhere in the world who is running the application can make or receive a call, and users can dial out to your old, antiquated phone network for just two cents a minute.
So we knew that having a devoted social network to conveniently follow all of your causes in one place was a key feature that users were looking for.
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Add to that the increased use of unsecured public Wi-Fi spots that now are dominated by unsecured smart device users and you might as well have a plane skywrite your message for all the world to read.
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While giving all of this information to a social networking site might enhance your ability to connect with other users, it also puts very important information out for potential thieves to use.
But for one-off searches, Facebook is your weird-number-mystery-solving friend, unless users decide to seek out that second privacy setting.
With social media sites increasingly becoming the gatekeepers for images from special occasions and events, Canon developed the "Print Your Days" Facebook application where users can print one single photo or combine a maximum of five images into one collage from their Facebook photo albums.
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While being able to schedule DVR recordings from your mobile device is nice, an update currently being pushed to some Comcast DVRs is adding the ability for users to check exactly what shows are stored there from an app or web browser.
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