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Slack introduces dropdown message menus for third-party apps
Slack Technologies Inc. has added a new feature called message menus to its messaging app that allows users to add dropdown menus into the middle of Slack conversations. The new message menus are available in over a dozen third-party Slack apps, including Front, OpsGenie and Lever. Slack, which announced in January that it has more ...
Dropbox launches offline mode for Paper and scanning feature for Android users
Dropbox Inc. has announced updates for its collaboration tool, Paper and introduces its scanning feature for the Dropbox Android app. Dropbox Paper was introduced earlier this year following a six-month beta. The collaboration tool, which competes with the likes of Google Docs, allows users to collaborate on shared documents. The latest update introduces an offline ...
Facebook announces Group Payments in Messenger for Android and desktop
Facebook Inc. introduced person-to-person payments in its Messenger app two years ago, and now the company is extending the feature to allow for Group Payments on desktop and in the Android app. With the introduction of Group Payments, Facebook Messenger users in the U.S. will be able to request or pay multiple people in a ...
Exploring Apache Flink for business at Flink Forward 2017
What makes Apache Flink better than Hadoop, or even Apache Spark for big data processing? This is the main question to be addressed at this year’s Flink Forward event, currently underway in San Francisco, California. The two-day show is the inaugural North American edition of Flink Forward, focusing on all things Apache Flink, an open-source stream processing framework for ...
Clips hits the App Store: Here’s an in-depth look at how to use Apple’s new video editing app
Apple Inc.’s Clips app, which the company announced a couple of weeks ago, is now available in the App Store. Clips is a free video-editing app that has some familiar features found in apps such as Snapchat. But it takes a few extra minutes in Clips to create a unique video with photos, live titles, ...
YouTube TV, Google’s streaming TV service, is live in five cities: Here’s how to get started
YouTube TV, Google Inc.’s TV subscription, is now available in five U.S. cities, including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago and Philadelphia, for $35 per month with a 30-day free trial. The channels that have been included in YouTube TV so far, include ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, ESPN, Fox Sports Networks, Comcast ...
Watch live: exploring the big data landscape at the DataWorks E.U. Summit 2017
Expanding its Hadoop Summit across international waters, the DataWorks E.U. Summit 2017, presented by Hortonworks Inc. and Yahoo Inc., starts today in Munich, Germany. Once described as the revolutionary technology behind big data, Hadoop now faces other innovations in data management. “Artificial intelligence will eclipse Hadoop,” according to a recent report by Forrester Research, which is anticipating ...
Apple announces major revamp for the Mac Pro – but not for this year
Breaking with its traditional veil of secrecy, Apple Inc. invited a select group of journalists to its Cupertino offices Tuesday to discuss the company’s plans for a major rethinking of its desktop Mac Pro and iMac. In addition to announcing a revamped iMac due out this year and price cuts for the Mac Pro, several ...
Watch live: As software eats the world, IT networking responds from the Open Networking Summit 2017
The Open Networking Summit 2017, presented by The Linux Foundation, starts today in Santa Clara, California, and will cover the full range of open networking across enterprise, cloud and service providers. SiliconANGLE will be at the Open Networking Summit with exclusive interviews from its live streaming studio, theCUBE. At the event, theCUBE will explore how ...
Worried about data snooping by Internet providers? Stop them with a VPN
The vote this week by the U.S. House of Representatives to repeal privacy rules limiting how Internet service providers can use customer data without their consent has spurred a lot of questions about which tools can protect their online browsing from prying eyes. The new law hasn’t come into effect yet, but it’s now a bill supported ...