News and Updates

LINE has reached 300 million users across the world. A little more than six months ago the tool had a 1.5 million users, and now it is on the way to unseating the leader of free messaging, WhatsApp, which now has 350 million active users

The latest update of the official Twitter client for iOS and Android has delivered a series of improvements in many different aspects. Now there are new options to customize your searches, and the “Discover” section has been been totally redesigned with a new Trends timeline to view and look up hashtags and Trending Topics.

MediaFire Desktop is the name the well-known cloud file-storing service has given to its new tool that will grant users up to 50GB of storage space. Although this figure remains far short of the capacity of Spotbros, MediaFire is a major competitor of Dropbox and its free 16GB.

Google Play Newsstand offers you the possibility of consuming all the information you access throughout the day on diverse media all together in one app. Google Play Newsstand is a comfortable and personalized reading experience that substitutes the old Currents and Play Magazines, but maintaining all the subscriptions that you may have stored in both apps.

Nullsoft will no longer distribute or provide support for its famous audio player Winamp, which has become a essential program on desktop computers around the world in the past 15 years.

Opera has released version 18 of its browser, which includes the option to move and separate tabs by dragging them with the mouse, the inclusion of custom themes, and a search engine manager, among others.

The new version of Facebook Messenger is now available for iPhone and Android with a more stylized design and a spiffy new interface with which it hopes to emulate the success of the biggest IM apps.

Sony has just launched the new official PlayStation app for Android and iOS smartphones, prompted by the impending launch of PlayStation 4. The app allows you to access the Store, chat with your firend or use your phone as a secondary screen for games.

Last Sandvine study shows that P2P download programs are wide used in Europe and it is the most-used app. This study also shows that P2P programs are not so popular in the US because there are many other alternatives to watch series and films.

Twitter has added a new feature only on Tweetdeck that allow users to create custom timelines in which they can select which messages to include. The timelines can then be shared with other users or even embedded into your personal webpage.