Twitter now lets you mute notifications from accounts that don’t follow you

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Twitter is making it easier to ignore trolls. The micro-blogging site has rolled out a new update that lets you mute notifications from people who don’t follow you. The advanced filters give you more control over your notifications.

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Twitter introduces quality filter and improves notification settings

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In a bid to offer better control on your notifications, Twitter is rolling out a new feature and bringing improvements to the current notification settings. Continue reading “Twitter introduces quality filter and improves notification settings”

Facebook improves notifications on mobile apps, makes them more personal

Facebook has revamped Notifications tab on its mobile apps in order to make them more personal. The latest update replaces the notification tab with Google Now-style cards.

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Google Glass to get improved photo sharing, world cup notifications and more

Google is updating Glass with a bunch of new features. For starters, the device is getting better photo sharing for Android users. The MyGlass app for Android will instantly upload a photo that is taken through the Glass.

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Twitter adds real-time pop-up notifications for web

Soon after giving its profiles pages a Facebook like overhaul, Twitter has now added a new feature to its website. The popular microblogging site has announced that it is rolling out pop-up notifications for users of Twitter.com.

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Nokia X Videos – Multitasking, Custom Launchers, Sideloading APKs and In Depth UI Walkthrough

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It just feels like yesterday, when almost all of us were in denial that a Nokia Android phone could exist, but Nokia has put forward its boldest bet ever, especially at a time when it has been acquired by Microsoft, a company that has been at odds with Google since forever. Anyways, the device was revealed to much excitement and curiosity at the Mobile World Congress event, and eventually arrived in India just few weeks later. We had unboxed the device and also showed you how to root it and get Google Play services and apps on it, but as you might have guessed by now, we were curious to find out more about the device over the course of our usage. So we made a few videos to showcase what we found and learnt, skip past the break to find them.

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Pebble Smartwatch app for iOS 7 update 1.3.0 now live, brings full notification center support

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A few days back, Pebble, the Kickstarter success story that makes E-ink smartwatches, revealed their new 2.0 SDK with which developers could take advantage of the new capabilities and hooks in the software. It was also announced that there will be a new update to the Pebble Smartwatch app for devices running iOS 7, which will take advantage of the notification center Bluetooth APIs that Apple introduced with the new update. Well, that Smartwatch app update Pebble promised, which carries the version number – 1.3.0, is now live on the iTunes app store.

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BlackBerry OS 10.2 with WiFi Direct, actionable notifications gets leaked

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BlackBerry’s upcoming OS 10.2 (build 10.2.0.483) just got revealed over at the CrackBerry forums where a user has posted screenshots from the upcoming update. The screenshots reveal a bunch of new features the most prominent of them being actionable notifications and WiFi Direct. Actionable notifications will allow users to pull down notifications and interact with them directly without having to jump into the application. Continue reading “BlackBerry OS 10.2 with WiFi Direct, actionable notifications gets leaked”

Windows Phone 8.1 update with notification center, additional features spotted

Jeremiah Wong,  a Reddit user, has posted a series of screenshots that are said to be from a Lumia 920 running on pre release software. The handset that was purchased via eBay is running on a software version that identifies itself as 12084.WPMAIN(wpbldlab).20130509-1407. This particular build was compiled on 5th May and has a number of additions that Windows Phone users have been clamoring for.

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