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Bangalore-based Little Eye Labs is Facebook’s first Indian acquisition

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[caption id="attachment_733" align="alignnone" width="585"] Bangalore-based Little Eye Labs[/caption] Facebook's acquisition of Little Eye Labs, a Bangalore-based start-up has been rumoured for a while. The startup, which builds mobile app analysis tools for app developers and testers, announced on Wednesday that the acquisition had been completed. According to the post titled 'transition' on the website of Little Eye Labs, after the acquisition, the Little Eye Labs team will work closely with Facebook to improve their mobile development and take it to a new level. The startup also jubilantly declared: "This is Facebook's first acquisition of an Indian company, and we are happy to become part of such an incredible team." Interestingly, the entire Little Eye Labs team will move to Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, from where they can "leverage Facebook's…
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Vodafone India opens its billing and messaging APIs to third-party developers

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[caption id="attachment_730" align="alignnone" width="585"] Vodafone India opens its billing and messaging APIs[/caption] Vodafone India has launched the Vodafone Developer Platform that will allow third-party developers to tap its billing and message APIs, amongst other resources. Opening up of the billing API means that developers will be able to offer in-app purchases that can be billed to a Vodafone India customer's monthly bill or account balance for postpaid and prepaid customers respectively. Speaking about the initiative, Vivek Mathur, Chief Operating Officer, Vodafone India said, "With the growth of smartphones and mobile internet, people are increasingly showing more interest in mobile apps and content services. To strengthen the ecosystem for app developers & content service providers and partner with them, we have launched the Vodafone Developer Platform. We expect the developer community…
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Google Play Services updated, adds turn-based multiplayer, new Drive API, more

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Google has updated its Play Services to version 4.1, bringing new features and updates like turn-based multiplayer support for games, a new Google Drive API, improved battery life for users with Google Location Reporting enabled, improved location-based ads and Google+ enhancements. Users can download the update from the Google Play store. Google announced the update via its Android Developers blog and said, "Once the rollout has completed, users will be able to download the SDK using the Android SDK manager and get started with the new APIs." The new turn-based multiplayer allows developers to build asynchronous games to play with friends and auto-matched players. Further, the turn-based multiplayer feature supports up to 8 players per game. The blog post notes, "When players take turns, their turn data is uploaded to…
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UC Browser 9.5 launched; improves speeds, adds Web Application Centre and more

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[caption id="attachment_725" align="alignnone" width="585"] UC Browser 9.5 launched[/caption] UC Web, a popular mobile internet software and services provider, has released its new UC Browser 9.5 for Android OS. The new UC Browser 9.5 claims to deliver the fastest download speed of any mobile browser on the market, and adds support for more number of languages and fonts, along with a Web Application Centre, UC Homescreen Widget, and an Image Viewer feature. The new version supposedly enables the user to download 15 percent faster on 3G and Wi-Fi compared with the previous version of the UC Browser. 2G performance has been also revamped for a smoother browsing experience, according to UC Web. The Web Application Centre built into the UC Browser 9.5 allows users to easily install and run HTML5 and…
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WhatsApp update for Windows Phone 8 devices fixes broadcasting feature

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[caption id="attachment_721" align="alignnone" width="585"] WhatsApp update for Windows Phone 8[/caption]   WhatsApp, the cross-platform instant messaging service, has updated its Windows Phone 8 app offering, which some users had reported was suffering from glitches. The new WhatsApp for Windows Phone 8 build, v2.11.356, is said to fix some issues found previously with the broadcasting feature of the application. No other additional features are included in the update. The previous version of WhatsApp for the platform included some bug fixes along with the inclusion of Hindi language. However, if the update brings the ability to share music files (a feature that is still missing from the platform), remains to be seen. Last month, the popular messaging service claimed to have crossed the milestone of having more than 400 million active users.…
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Microsoft Windows 9 aka Threshold update to be released in April 2015: Report

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  Microsoft's next version of OS, Windows 9, is expected to arrive by April 2015, and is said to be a part of the Windows "Threshold" wave of updates, according to a report. Microsoft will allegedly reveal its Windows 9 OS version at the company's Build 2014 developer conference, scheduled for April this year, and release it a year later. The exact changes in the proposed OS version are not clear as of yet, but the "Metro 2.0" feature in the OS version is said to focus on enhancing Microsoft's new apps and tiles. "Maturing and fixing the "Metro" design language used by Windows will be a major focus area of Threshold," stated Paul Thurrot, a popular Microsoft blogger. "It's not clear what changes are coming, but it's safe to…
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BlackBerry CEO confirms BlackBerry Enterprise Server support for Windows Phone

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[caption id="attachment_715" align="alignnone" width="585"] BlackBerry Enterprise Server support[/caption]   John Chen, CEO of BlackBerry, has confirmed the arrival of BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) support for the Windows Phone platform. The service currently supports on Android, iOS and BlackBerry platforms. No launch date for Windows Phone was provided however. "I could put a sales team on Wall Street. I know how to do this up and down Wall Street ... we will go in and tell them why BES is the best thing for them, and go through the road map, the offerings, and all that good stuff. We're going to protect their investment in iPhone, and Android, and everywhere else, even with Windows Phones...you could be an iPhone customer, and also a BlackBerry customer. You could be an Android customer,…
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PhotoAppLink Ties iPhone Photo Apps Together, Makes Multi-App Editing Simple

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Several iPhone app developers have teamed up to launch PhotoAppLink, a new open source initiative that aims to simplify photo editing by tying multiple photo-editing apps together. As you know, there are an incredible number of photo editing apps in iTunes today, and often, each especially excels in one particular area. For example, converting photos to black and white, cropping, compositing or writing on top of photos are all features of popular standalone apps. But what about when you want to make multiple edits using multiple apps? That’s a far more complicated process. And it’s the very problem PhotoAppLink aims to solve. Currently, in order to edit your photo in multiple apps, you have to save the edited photo to the camera roll each time as you move in between…
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Validate HTML and remove forbidden tags and data

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This class might be utilized approve HTML that is XHTML agreeable and uproot tags and information that are not acknowledged. The class can parse the HTML information as a XML record and cross it to confirm if it agrees to a rundown of decides that characterize worthy tags and information. It can erase prohibited and copy tags and characteristics. The prepared record is saved in a class variable. Download Source File
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Produce HTML Forms to control Mysql records

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This class could be utilized to create HTML structures to control Mysql table records. It can take a rundown of Mysql table fields and produce HTML for structures to select, addition, redesign, erase table records. The class can additionally perform given approvals of specified fields and conjure given callback works on certain structure preparing occasions. Source Code is here
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