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Social network Facebook has announced a tie-up with India’s Reliance Communications today to offer free data access to over 30 Websites through internet.org app. Users on the Reliance network in the provinces of Tamil Nadu, Mahararashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Kerala & Telangana will benefit.
Reports: Reuters, Huff Post, Hindu BusinessLine.
A UK-located graphic art & design software co, Serif has launched a photo editing app for the Mac. This, say some, is competition to Adobe Photoshop. Affinity Photo was released today in public beta. Serif already has an app called Affinity Designer, which is a vector art & design tool.
The move by Apple has raised a few eyebrows. Before its iOS 8.2 has even entered the market, it has gone & released the next version, iOS 8.3, to developers. Apple, on a high from its ‘more-than-expected’ Q4 results, has also released Xcode 6.3 beta to developers including Swift 1.2, a significant update to its programming language.
Online telephone service Skype has brought back URI support for the iPhone after it had 1st dropped it 8 months ago. What this means is that 3rd party developers can now link their iOS apps & also mobile Websites directly with the Skype app on an iPhone.
All of us at one time or the other have had photos which we wanted to keep private or share them Online only with a few close friends. There are scores of mobile apps out there that would the job for you. One of them, Odysee, has just been acquired by Google.
Twitter now says there was no bugs related to the iOS 8 as reported earlier.