Three months after it launched on Android, SoundCloud’s Pulse app for artists has arrived on iOS. As with the Android version, the app allows easy access to a notifications feed, the ability to reply to comments, listening stats and details of all tracks currently available on th … | Continue reading
InboxVudu, a service from Parakweet that promised to clean up your inbox by bundling up your most important emails into one daily digest that’s easy to work your way through, is closing. The theory behind the service was that a single email containing a sort of ‘to-do’ list of em … | Continue reading
Your fitness upgrade awaits. The new Nike+ FuelBand SE Fitness Tracker is the smart, simple and fun way to get more active in your life. Combining stylish looks with comprehensive fitness tracking and real-time feedback the Nike+ Fuelband SE, it’s the total fitness companion – an … | Continue reading
When I sign up for email newsletters I always have the best intentions to actually read them. However, it rarely works out that way and now I have several newsletters arriving daily that I’m sure are interesting but I never ever read. In a bid to solve that issue, My Blend for iO … | Continue reading
BuzzFeed is launching a dedicated video app today to get its visitors easier access to its videos and to help encourage binge watching. Jonah Peretti, BuzzFeed’s founder, announced the new app at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It’s available for both iOS and Android today an … | Continue reading
Have we got this whole encryption debate wrong? Bill Gates seems to think so. Despite Apple gathering support from Twitter, Facebook, Google and even Microsoft via its membership of the Reform Government Surveillance group, Gates, like the FBI, says he does not believe this is ab … | Continue reading
David Bowie was revolutionizing pop culture before social media was even a thought and now, even after his death, his influence is continuing. A new Instgram mini-series inspired by the music of Bowie’s final album ‘Blackstar’ will kick off February 25 at 8PM (ET) on the photo-sh … | Continue reading
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, Oppo showed how far it’s come in mobile battery tech. The company demoed a prototype device with 2,500mAh power that charged fully in just 15 minutes. That’s crazy fast by any standard. On stage, the device equipped with Oppo’s new Sup … | Continue reading
It’s been a while since I paid any serious attention to Samsung devices, but at MWC the company caught my eye. The S7, which was announced on Sunday at the company’s Unpacked event doesn’t look all that different from last year, but it’s making me jealous. Samsung’s embrace of bu … | Continue reading
What do you call people who are stretching the limits of their imaginations to engineer a new future? At The Next Web, we went with imagineers. We want to offer our favourite entrepreneurs and pioneers a platform to share the visions and insights that will shape our future. This … | Continue reading
Last week, we reported that American Airlines filed suit against Gogo, its in-flight Wi-Fi provider, over subpar internet speeds. In the filing, American claimed to have found a better provider, ViaSat, and wanted to nullify its existing agreement with Gogo unless it could match … | Continue reading
At MWC today, Mark Zuckerberg formally spoke out in favor of Apple’s continued battle against the FBI. His company, Facebook, issued a statement in support of Apple last week. As reported by Re/code, Zuckerberg said: We’re sympathetic with Apple on this one. We believe in encrypt … | Continue reading
Facebook is practically king at reminding you when your friends are celebrating their birthdays, pushing you to say hi and wish them well. Today, the company will now encourage you to leave a video — with the ‘Birthday Video Cam.’ When you access your Facebook via mobile (iOS onl … | Continue reading
Skype is announcing that on March 24, its Qik video messaging service will be shuttered. But dry your tears, the company was also quick to point out that most of the app’s features were already integrated into the core functionality of Skype. You may remember Qik as a standalone … | Continue reading
If you’re bored at work (or lucky enough not to be working), maybe it’s time to head to the hack.summit developers conference. You don’t even have to leave your seat. The conference is a virtual one (not VR), meaning you can ‘attend’ online. There’s still a fee to join-in, but al … | Continue reading
The latest instalment of Star Wars has already started filming in Pinewood Studios in the UK and is due to relocate to Croatia next month, where it will be shooting on-location in a busy tourist area. In order to protect the secrets of Star Wars Episode VIII, studio bosses have r … | Continue reading
If you’re a Snapchat user, then you know the serendipitous feeling of travelling somewhere or attending an event and discovering new Geofilters – overlays for your snaps that can only be shared from that specific part of the world. Now Snapchat is letting anyone pay to create On- … | Continue reading
What better place to become the next Google Fiber partner than Rocket City, a.k.a. Huntsville, Alabama, so called because of its links to the space exploration sector and its high concentration of engineers. Google is already working with 20 different areas in the US to deliver F … | Continue reading
Here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona there’s always the weird and wonderful — this year’s no different. Chinese gadget maker ZTE has a curious new device: an Android tablet attached to the back of a projector. It’s called the Spro Plus, and on the back you’ll find an 8.4-in … | Continue reading
Watson has a new set of APIs available for developers, and may be able to tell if you like them or not. The three APIs — Tone Analyzer, Emotion Analysis and Visual Recognition — are in beta, and IBM is announcing its Text-to-speech engine also has emotional capabilities, and is b … | Continue reading
IBM is trying to push businesses into a more virtual realm. A new partnership with VMWare will help businesses utilize the cloud while still using virtualization, which will help them offload workflow from on-premise data centers to the cloud. Nearly 100 percent of Fortune 500 co … | Continue reading
YouTube is searching for its next group of stars, 360 to be precise, as part of its NextUp initiative. YouTube NextUp aims to help budding vloggers up their game by offering exposure, mentorship and financial backing. Since its launch in 2011, NextUp has helped launch the careers … | Continue reading
To enable Swift for enterprise solutions, IBM is making a Swift Package Catalog and runtime available in the cloud for deployment with Bluemix. Though both are still in preview mode, IBM is hoping it s increasingly deep toolkit for Swift will make deploying apps via the could sim … | Continue reading
Jeb Bush pulled out of the Republican race Saturday night after finishing fourth in South Carolina with just 7.8 percent of the primary vote behind Trump, Rubio and Cruz and it appears George W.’s loser brother has quickly become too lame even to prank. JebBush.com was never owne … | Continue reading
You, task switcher, have a lot of things going on in your head. Look, there’s that e-mail you need to send to your manager whizzing by, just missing a collision with the conference call you need to organize for the end of the week. We’re not even going to take a look at that big … | Continue reading
Adobe Lightroom is probably the most popular image processing program for professional photographers, but now the company wants to be your camera too – if you own an Android phone anyway. Adobe Lightroom 2.0 for Android adds a full-fledged camera interface with a standard set of … | Continue reading
In a world where you’re constantly bombarded by people, social media, and endless advertisements, sometimes your only escape is the few moments you have alone driving in your car. If you want to add a little extra zen to your driving, now you can request the soothing sounds of Mo … | Continue reading
Mobile ad technology provider Marfeel wants to make Google’s AMP technology painless for publishers, so it made an out-of-the-box solution for building and maintaining mobile Web pages. With AMP, publishers are expected to keep a separate HTML page available. Those pages must als … | Continue reading
Virgin Galactic is getting back into the space race after revealing its new VSS Unity spaceship, which will soon be ferrying people beyond the earth’s atmosphere. After the failure of its predecessor, the VSS Unity will undergo rigorous testing this year before any humans are abo … | Continue reading
This post was brought to you by FlashChat.Everyone knows why company group chats are great. Here are TNW we love our Slack channels. General announcements, LOL and discussing the ever-important “Who’s making drinks this Friday?” convos. But sometimes, you want an app that allows … | Continue reading
Jide, the company behind the desktop-optimized fork of Android called Remix OS, has announced that the platform is being updated to support a whole range of old hardware, as well as bringing new features and squashing bugs. While last month’s announcement brought an alpha version … | Continue reading
While the long-term benefits of Snapchat Discover are yet to be determined, there’s no shortage of brands and publishers keen to try it out. However, Snapchat is very picky about who gets access. Slinger is an app (currently iOS only) that wants to be the ‘YouTube for vertical vi … | Continue reading
Credit card providers are using their time at MWC to propose all manner of weird and wonderful new payment methods for modern shoppers. MasterCard says it will roll out selfie payments across 15 countries this summer, after a trial in the US and the Netherlands last year, where u … | Continue reading
Behind the Web that you see, there are gears turning and keeping everything running. One of the most important things running behind the scenes is JavaScript, and you can learn the language with the JavaScript and jQuery Front-End Developer Bundle, on sale now! Over the course of … | Continue reading
Facebook’s Connectivity Lab is using AI to create high-resolution maps of 20 countries in order for it to understand how best it can deploy internet to the 10 percent of the world that isn’t connected. As the technical side to Facebook’s Internet.org project, Connectivity Labs mo … | Continue reading
Tim Cook sent an open letter to Apple employees today calling the government’s request for the unlocking of the San Bernadino’s shooter suspect’s iPhone a threat to the civil liberties of millions of US citizens. The letter runs the now well-publicised and likely long-running bac … | Continue reading
Something is happening between the advertising industry and the startup scene in Brazil. The past year was weird for the economy and politics in general, even more for the creative advertising industry. Agencies have suffered all months. Who did not hold up tight, has closed the … | Continue reading
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today Google has a number of Android experiments its Creative Lab team built to see how far it could push mobile devices. One that caught my eye, however, is this amazing little robot that creates line drawings of your face based on a photo t … | Continue reading
Although I still love my OnePlus One, I’ve grown tired of phones that are 5.5 inches and larger. A big screen for gaming and streaming Netflix is nice to have, but not at the expense of the ability to use your phone with one hand. That’s why I was glad to see that Sony’s all-new … | Continue reading
Despite what mom and her adorable kitten videos may believe, “going viral” is no easy feat. There’s an entire industry behind the science of promoting content on social media, and building a robust online presence takes considerable know-how and dedication. You can optimize your … | Continue reading
Hackers took control of the official website for the Linux Mint distro over the weekend, resulting in some users downloading a build of the OS that had been modified to include a backdoor that would give attackers full access to a user’s system. Announced in a blog post, the orga … | Continue reading
NASA is bringing virtual reality to space, using Microsoft’s HoloLens aboard the International Space Station (ISS). As part of a project called Sidekick, the astronauts on ISS will be using the augmented reality headsets to aid them while carrying out repairs and tasks on-board. … | Continue reading
Google has thrown down the gauntlet in front of the top player of one of the world’s hardest games to show that an AI that it’s been developing is the most advanced, human-like algorithm on the planet. Announced by Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, himself a former chess master … | Continue reading
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, Cyanogen launched a new mod platform for its Android devices that might give it a major advantage over every other device out there. Cyanogen says that a mod is more than an app, as it can deeply integrate with the phone in ways that G … | Continue reading
Amazon has increased the amount of money customers in the US need to spend in order to qualify for free shipping. Previously, customers spending more than $35 in total would be offered the option of free, albeit not expedited, shipping. Now, you’ll need to spend at least $49 to h … | Continue reading
Starting an e-commerce business is tough. Running a profitable one is even tougher. Though there’s no shortage of tips and tricks on growing e-commerce sales, most of them will prove futile if you are not familiar with the right strategies. People should not be unfamiliar with st … | Continue reading
With another weekend down and another Monday morning bearing down on us, it’s easy to pine for the free time just passed. If you spent the last two days relaxing away from a screen, however, you’ll have missed all the latest and greatest in tech news, including the unofficial sta … | Continue reading
Sony has launched two new smartphones today in the form of the Xperia X and Xperia XA at Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona today. The two new X series are the first of the ‘new-look’ Xperia brand. Both are available in a range of colors, as well as being offered in a gold v … | Continue reading