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Tech Digest daily roundup: Verified Twitter users to lose Blue Tick from April 1st

Many verified Twitter users are set to lose their blue ticks at the beginning of next month. The social media platform has said that on 1 April it will start removing its "legacy" verified checkmarks. These cover most blue-tick accounts that are not government officials or organisations - meaning many musicians, actors, journalists, authors, among…

26 March 202320 December 2023 Chris Price News

Google moves Photos in with Drive

The slow death of Google+ continues today as the company has announced that it will now be integrating its photo uploading facilities with Google Drive. The Google Drive Blog reveals the changes - which will now see photos sensibly listed alongside other types of files, rather than ghettoised over on Google+, where nobody looks. The…

31 March 2015 James O'Malley Android, Android apps, Google, Web 2.0, Websites

Google Drive can now be voice searched on Android, and import any file on iPhone

Google has been busy at work on some important updates to Google Drive, which have the potential to make the suite of office apps even more useful. First off, for Android users Google Drive has now been even more tightly integrated with Google's mobile operating system - you can now search its files as part…

17 December 2014 James O'Malley Android, Apps, Google

Google Drive gets a makeover

Google Drive has become one of the first Google services to get the company's "Material Design" makeover. As we learned a few weeks ago at Google's IO conference, all of Google's products and services are getting a revamp in time for the next version of Android - "Android L" - in which everything from web…

15 July 201415 July 2014 James O'Malley Google

Pogoplug offering 100GB of cloud storage to UK users for just £19.99 a year

Remember Pogoplug, the company who built pink personal "cloud engines" that offered networked storage inside your house, accessible from anywhere around the world? Stateside, Pogoplug have been building a more familiar cloud storage solution, and they've now announced that they're…

4 October 2012 Gerald Lynch Tech Digest news

TECH PENTATHLON: How to work from home during the London 2012 Olympic Games

Forget the naysayers; the London 2012 Olympic Games are going to be great. Sure, it's been expensive, and some of the organisational stuff has been fluffed slightly, but it's gonna be a hell of a show, with the world's greatest…

18 July 201227 July 2021 Gerald Lynch Features, Software, Tech Digest news

Sony's Play Memories joins Google Drive, Dropbox, SkyDrive in cloud storage race

Hot on the heels of the Google Drive launch come's Sony's own cloud storage offering, Play Memories. A slightly different proposition, Play Memories is solely for the cloud-based storage of photos and videos, and doesn't support documents or other file…

25 April 2012 Gerald Lynch Software, Tech Digest news

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Tech Digest daily roundup: Verified Twitter users to lose Blue Tick from April 1st

Google moves Photos in with Drive

Google Drive can now be voice searched on Android, and import any file on iPhone

Google Drive gets a makeover

Google Drive officially revealed: 5GB storage, Google Docs and apps support