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Twitter rolls out photo uploads for mobile sites on Android 4.0, 4.1, and iOS 6

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Over the past month, Twitter has been making news for its new "Developer Rules of the Road," which greatly limit what third parties can do with its API and make independent clients like Tweetbot less feasible. Fortunately, it's also doing some work to advance its own posting options. As spotted by Sociable, Twitter's Sung Hu Kim tweeted a picture and noted that it had been uploaded through...

Silk browser on Kindle Fire HD adds faster page loads, Trending Now list

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Amid all the excitement about its new Kindle Fire HD devices yesterday, one thing Amazon failed to mention is the new version of its Silk browser installed on the tablets. There are a number of meaningful improvements in the update, like better support for HTML5 web standards and an improved UI, but the biggest difference is speed — "at least a 30 percent reduction in page load latency," according to the company.

Silk is a so-called "split" browser, using Amazon’s servers to compress and...


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Amazon to Apple: the game starts now

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The key moment in Jeff Bezos's keynote announcing Amazon's new Paperwhite Kindle and Kindle Fire models came before he introduced any of the new hardware. "People don't want gadgets any more," Bezos declared, explaining why the Kindle Fire had succeeded where other gadgety Android tablets had failed. "They want services that improve over time. They want services that improve every day, every week, and every month." This statement of purpose...

Samsung Galaxy Reverb available September 19th for $249.99 on Virgin Mobile

Samsung Galaxy Reverb

Virgin Mobile will begin offering the Samsung Galaxy Reverb on its Prepaid network from next week. The Galaxy Reverb is a mid-range device that runs Android 4.0 with a healthy sprinkling of Samsung's TouchWiz skin on top. It features a 4-inch WVGA display, 1.4GHz single-core processor, 768MB of RAM, and a five-megapixel rear-facing camera. It has a measly 4GB of internal storage, but you can add more storage via microSD. The Samsung Galaxy...