Online journal trendingbytes.com shares the latest digital, web and user insights, as well as social media news, with Communicate Levant.
Meet Instagram’s five new filters
Hey selfie-obsessed Instagramers, you’ve been stuck on X-PRO II for a while haven’t you? You probably haven’t heard this before but you will soon get acquainted with the newest filters of the most popular photo-sharing app, which has just reached 300 million users worldwide. Read more…
Google teams up with French space agency
Google is always working on fun projects and one of them is to give Internet to the whole world… using balloons! Guess who kicks ass at balloons? France. The country’s space research agency, the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), has been tinkering with balloons since the ’60s and seemed like a decent candidate for experimentation. Read more…
The city of Portland is suing Uber three days after launching
Yay! Uber made its way to Beirut. And everyone finds its service awesome, but the city of Portland doesn’t seem to agree… The company launched before finalizing the discussions regarding their policy and its compliance to the City and State laws. “Beyond that, though, is the issue of fairness,” says Portland’s transportation director Leah Treat. Read more…
Centcom faces cyberjihad
“American soldiers, we are coming, watch your back.” That’s not the plot of the latest Hollywood blockbuster. This message was featured yesterday on Centcom’s Twitter feed. The tweet was posted after a group of hackers claiming to be affiliated with ISIS took over US Central Command’s Twitter and YouTube accounts. Read more…
Will the UK block WhatsApp and SnapChat in the future?
Have messaging applications become a danger for national security? That’s what the recent statement of the UK’s Prime Minister suggests in the aftermath of the Paris shootings. If re-elected, David Cameron plans to apply a new surveillance plan, which includes the ban of apps like WhatsApp and SnapChat. Read more…
#JeSuisCharlie
Just two weeks ago, two men armed with Kalashnikovs raided the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and killed 12 people. The criminals barged in on the weekly editorial meeting and shot the editor-in-chief and other acclaimed cartoonists, then fled. Read more…
Monster is suing Beats
With all that hacking and the array of new products continuously being announced, we have to admit we missed a good old lawsuit. And once again, one of Apple’s latest acquisitions is in the cross hairs: Beats. Read more…
Nokia’s sub-$30 phone is critical
Do you know that flaw in Open SSL that gave hackers easy access to your personal info and passwords? You may remember it better under the name “Heartbleed Bug” and even though it was patched, there may be other breaches. Google will have none of that! That’s why the company is launching Project Zero. Read more…
Instagram followers take a purge
If you hear Kim Kardashian crying from miles away, it’s mostly because her butt has suddenly lost 1.3 million followers. Instagram has kept its promise to delete all inactive, fake and spam accounts. Some popular Instagrammers have lost hundreds of thousands of followers while some celebrities have seen millions of them vanish. Read more…
Kodak to launch their first Smartphone in 2015
Do you remember old photos before the Smartphones era? Those were the days when Kodak was king. Ever since, it has struggled to stay in the market. Lately, Kodak made a comeback, teaming up with Bullit Group to release a new range of Android Smartphones. Read more…
