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Rdio for iOS update brings ‘Find People’ feature, design improvements to the UI

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Music streamers on Rdio for iOS are used to getting novel features quite often — but hey, as they say, the more the merrier, right? Keeping up with that tradition, Rdio announced earlier today it’s introducing a few new tidbits to the application…


Twitter for Mac 2.2.1 brings Notification Center support, various bug fixes

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It’s certainly been a long time coming, but the latest version (2.2.1) of Twitter for Mac finally brings support for Notification Center in OS X Mountain Lion. Aside from the side-pane pings for your @replies and DMs, a number of fixes have been i…


Google now offers Top Charts and visualization tool for trending topics

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Instead of waiting until the end of the year for Google’s annual Zeitgeist, you can now find out what’s trending in any given month with a new Top Charts feature from Google Trends. Updated monthly and going back to 2004, Top Charts is built on th…


Twitter adds two-factor login verification via SMS (video)

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Twitter just boosted its security with a new two-factor login method. The new option, which was announced in the form of a YouTube video, oddly enough, allows users to require a verification code each time they log in. Once this is enabled, Twitte…


Pandora gets cozier with Facebook, makes it easier to share listening activities to Timeline

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Looks like Pandora isn’t quite done making announcements this week. Hot on the heels of the introduction of its Premieres music strategy, the streaming service is now releasing a feature perfectly fitted for Facebook users. Starting today, folks w…


Google’s conversational search goes live with latest version of Chrome

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After revealing it at I/O 2013 only days ago, Google’s new conversational voice search function is up and running on Chrome version 27. If you’ve got that version, you’ll now get a spoken response on top of a web page display when using the voice …


Google’s conversational search goes live with latest version of Chrome

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After revealing it at I/O 2013 only days ago, Google’s new conversational voice search function is up and running on Chrome 27. If you’ve got that version, you’ll now get a spoken response on top of a web page display when using the voice search f…


Researchers achieve world record in wireless data transmission, seek to provide rural broadband

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Speed. It’s a movie. It’s a drug. And it’s also something that throngs of internet users the world over cannot get enough of. Thankfully, the wizards at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics and the Karlsruhe Institute for Techn…


Amazon Cloud Drive reaches Canada

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While Amazon Cloud Drive has been on quite the world tour as of late, Canadians have had to watch as seemingly everyone else gets the storage service first. Thankfully, Canucks can now do more than just twiddle their thumbs now that Cloud Drive ha…


Spotify Charts launch globally, showcase 50 most listened to and most viral tracks weekly

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Taking a page out of Billboard’s playbook, Spotify is using its listener data to determine the most popular music in a particular country. Available on the website or as embeddable widgets, the weekly updated charts will reveal which tracks are mo…