Hootsuite Makes Major Improvements
Just when you thought Hootsuite was the best social media management interface on the planet, it goes and gets even better. Hootsuite5 takes full advantage of HTML5, bringing you visually appealing themes along with improvements under the hood. The new interface offers more space for actual tweets, one of the biggest issues I always had with it. They’ve integrated Google Analytics so you can easily monitor your social media campaigns. Integrated GeoSearch shows you localized conversations. Drag & Drop upload, new (or old style) retweets, and InstaLoad (more responsive interface) are also included. Last, but not least, Facebook integration has been enhanced so that you can include thumbnails in your posts.
Apple Tells Customers They’re Doing It Wrong
When the photos of the iPhone 4 were released, people wondered what the bands were around the phone’s outer edge were for. Once the phone was released and we learned it was the antennae, many thought this was an awesome step in engineering and design. Now that people have the phone in hand, it seems they’re having serious reception issues caused by those same hands. Holding the phone a certain way, apparently the way everyone likes to hold their phone, interferes with the antennae and messes up your reception. Apple’s response? Don’t hold it that way. (via engadget)
Windows 7: The Fastest Selling Operating System in History
You can make any argument you would like against Microsoft, but it won’t change the fact that they now hold the title for the fastest selling operating system in history. 150 million copies of Windows 7 have been sold since October 2009. They are moving 7 copies of Windows 7 every second. That is a lot of Windows and it looks like the Vista backlash is long gone and forgotten.
Google Can Remote Wipe Your Android Phone
For some reason, Android security lead disclosed in a blog post that Google had removed a specific application from the Android Market. Not only that, but the application was also remotely wiped from phones that already had it installed. You read that right, Google has a kill switch on your apps. All of them. This might be scary except for the fact that it’s fully disclosed in the Android Market TOS. The feature is there so that malicious applications can be nuked. As a side note for those wondering why there was such an uproar over a similar feature in the App Store, Apple didn’t disclose the feature up front and still didn’t acknowledge it for several days after it was stumbled on by a developer.