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Instagram is making another move to expand its content past the viewing barriers of its iOS and Android apps. Starting today, it’s introducing photo and video website embeds to put Instagram media on any website. When you visit a photo page on your desktop browser, a new button shows up on the right under the…
Once upon a time there were two separate social networking apps that lived in harmony on our smartphones. Instagram was an app for creative photography and Vine was an app for creative video clips. If you wanted to snap a photo, you knew instantly to tap Instagram. If a moment you wanted to share required…
Instagram’s level of success continues to rise at a rapid pace despite reports claiming the opposite a few months back. The startup announced today on its blog that the app now has 100 million monthly active users, meaning 100 million people are using Instagram at least once a month and many are probably using it…
Instagram released some interesting statistics about its users and how they use the app. The photo-sharing app now has 90 million monthly active users — a pretty impressive feat for a mere app, and one that blossomed and thrived for quite some time without compatibility with Android. Those 90 million people are sharing 40 million photos…
Sparking controversy among many of its users like most major policy changes do, Instagram has updated its own with a key stipulation that is frustrating many people: Instagram (mainly Facebook, since Instagram is under Facebook ownership) has the right to license your photos to other companies for any purpose, e.g. advertising. Basically, all Instagram photos…
Carlos Reventlov, a security researcher, published on Friday a vulnerability in the Instagram app for iPhone and iPod touch. It gives hackers the ability to gain access and control users’ Instagram accounts, allowing them to potentially delete photos or change sensitive profile information. Reventlov first discovered the vulnerability in the middle of November and quickly…
It doesn’t seem like too long ago that Instagram unveiled version 2.0 of its popular photo sharing app with a redesigned UI for snapping pictures, but the team has been hard at work and almost a year after that update, version 3.0 just hit Google Play and the App Store. With it comes a new…
Image editing/uploading apps like Instagram can do miracles but there’s a point where software can’t replace the hardware. A sunny sky or reflections off of shiny surfaces including water can create overexposed blown out images, or reduced color saturation. To prevent this, professional photographers have relied on polarizing filters to clean up noisy light and…
Here’s some more security news for Android users that has probably struck a nerve or two by now: another fake app has made its way into Google Play and yes, it has malware. This time the app is trying to imitate Instagram for Android. The app was discovered by web security provider Sophos. Once downloaded,…
Jon Stewart of The Daily Show is poking fun at the latest technology news once more. This time, he’s left quite confused over why Google Glasses is beneficial and why Facebook would ever spend $1 billion on something as stupid as Instagram. First talking about Google’s Glasses technology, he initially seems enthusiastic that “the Google…