Yo, today have you poked your friends with two letters? none. This week saw new releases from Facebook and Intel, fitness and health applications heating up, iOS 8 feature leaks, and more. Read on for our recap, also to get the latest reviews from our editors in your inbox, subscribe to our weekly newsletters. Getting the message This is the state of apps: $1 million in funding for an app that sends one word to your contacts. After an April Fools' Day launch, the minimal Yo application burned up the Internet this full week, earning both appreciation and derision. The week was finished by it at No. Tunes chart (though not on Android's) and with perhaps an even surer sign of success: getting hacked. News of Yo almost drowned out Facebook's Slingshot launch (iOS, Android, CNET's review) -- it's currently No. Tunes chart. The software jumped the gun last week and came out for real Tuesday. Slingshot lets you send disappearing photographs and videos to your friends. Snapchat announced a new feature this week: Our Story, which lets Snapchatters at an event share snaps to the same story. The feature debuts this weekend at the Electric Daisy Carnival, so expect a lot of bass-face selfies at the drop. Did you like "Intel inside" as a slogan? headsrutor. How do you feel about "Chat funner"? The chipmaker introduced a new messaging iphone app on Thursday called Pocket Avatars (iOS, Android), which lets you chat as an avatar, like a blowfish or a monkey. Friday on, mobile social network Path released a messaging application called Path Talk (iOS, Android). Coming to the app: the ability to message restaurants and stores. Gmail comes standard with Android phones, but Google has now released Email as a standalone application (Android). The advantage? It can be utilised by you with Yahoo Mail, Outlook, and other email not made in Mountain View. Fitter, happier, more productive How's your resting heart rate? The hearts of workout nation have been beating harder for tech in 2014, with iOS health and fitness applications spiking 62% in use in the past six months. We'll see what happens when Google Fit and Apple's Health for iOS enter the arena. TechRepublic reported this week from Health Datapalooza, where Bryan Sivak of the US Department of Health and Human Services talked about how exactly tech is helping HHS help Americans, and Susannah Fox of Pew Research talked about how precisely the Internet is a lifeline -- 8 of 10 persons surveyed go online to get health information. CiteWorld explains that while it's tempting to cast health products from Apple, Samsung, Google, and others as a battle for consumer interest, much depends on health IT. Social and antisocial media In this week's tweet beat, Bought video startup SnappyTV twitter, enabled animated GIFs in tweets (though really they're tiny videos), and brought on twitception by letting you embed a tweet within a tweet. The global world Cup has spawned a number of scam applications and fraudulent Twitter accounts. portfoliobittorrent read more. Malwarebytes has found a fake EA Sports Instagram account now, phishing for Xbox gamers' account info by promising new characters for FIFA 14 (iOS, Android). To better serve the developing world, Facebook has been testing its Android application in Africa and appears to be lightening load times and data consumption considerably. LinkedIn developed the Job Search application particularly for job seekers. Right now it's available for iPhone users in the US only. Music Good news, bad news for music on Google this full week. The good news: When you search for a song on Android, the links will now let you launch the song in whatever player you've installed -- Google Play Music, iHeart Radio, Rdio, Spotify, TuneIn Radio, or YouTube. Featured Freeware: Secunia PSI there. The bad news: Google-owned YouTube is playing rough with indie music labels, threatening to block videos if the labels don't agree to new licensing terms. The conditions apply to a forthcoming, ad-free, paid service. HeartRadio (iOS, Android) has hit two milestones: reaching 50 million registered users and launching a redesign that came to Android this week and comes to iOS next week. piratebaymuslim on this page. Apple watch Post-WWDC news continues to trickle out about iOS 8.
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