Displaying items by tag: Snapchat

Snapchat gives five reasons why its app is much safer traditional social media platforms.

Regretting your choice of Snapchat handle? Or want to update it to reflect the current you? Well, Snapchat now allows all users across iOS and Android to change their username without any impact on the friend list, Snapcode, Snap score, memories, or other features.

Social media giants Facebook and Snapchat reveal their data shows social media consumption is moving increasingly to highlighted content, and away from friends.

Snap, the company behind Snapchat, increased its share price by nearly 60% after it posted its first-ever net profit, and with daily active users and financial performance both beating analyst expectations. The company's performance demonstrates it is possible to recover from Apple's ad tracking transparency policy.

The XDA Developers team has uncovered code in the latest version of the Snapchat app which may indicate Snapchat is planning a selfie drone to help its users film themselves anywhere.

Snap is bringing a new feature to Google's new Pixel 6 and 6 Pro smartphones first, putting the Snapchat camera directly onto the lockscreen for fast & easy access, delivering some exclusive augmented reality lenses and the Live Translate feature which lets Snapchatters talk to their friends in 10 languages, translated in real time.

Not-for-profit charity Reset Australia reports that Terms and Conditions of popular apps such as TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat are too difficult for children to read and would require a university degree to understand it. The report gave one platform 2.5 out of 5 stars, and gave two apps a score of zero in terms of readability.

Australians under 25 years of age lost over $5 million to scams in 2019, with around 12,000 reports about losses by these young Aussies made to Scamwatch in 2019 - an increase of 11% over 2018.

With Google bringing Google Glass back to market for enterprise customers, risking the “Glassh*le” revival, Glass 2.0’s upgrades bring Google back as an AR player, but it’s not the only one.

OTT messaging applications, such as WhatsApp and Snapchat, will see adoption grow from 2.3 billion unique users in 2016 to 4.2 billion by 2021, a new global report predicts.

Optus hopes to capitalise on the popularity of Snapchat among Australian university students by releasing 10 custom Snapchat filters in universities across Australia during orientation week.

Prime Television has breached the privacy provisions of the Commercial TV Industry Code of Practice by using material relating to a child’s personal or private affairs in a news broadcast in March.

You may have thought it; now numbers back it up... Pokémon Go is the biggest mobile game ever as measured by daily active users.

Security firm Lookout has detected over 20,000 samples of trojanised adware masquerading as legitimate top Android apps, but only if you download them from third party stores.

Snapchat is the modern messaging service sometimes used for sexy selfies and now for tantalisingly tasty tacos designed to titillate your tastebuds.

Users of social photo sharing service Snapchat have every right to be snappy, after hackers posted some 200,000 photos online, including nude selfies.

Controversial messaging app Snapchat will be hoping its latest legal troubles disappear in a snap, with two LA-based models filing a lawsuit in the Los Angeles Superior Court alleging the startup has misused their likeness to promote the app.

Victoria is set to introduce new sexting laws in a bid to bring them up to date with modern technology, and ensure teens won't be placed on the sex offenders register.

Facebook-owned photosharing app Instagram has launched a new Snapchat-esque time-restricted image and video messaging app - but only in New Zealand, Singapore and South Africa.

Photo messaging app Snapchat is facing a potentially damaging backlash following reports the iOS iteration is susceptible to denial-of-service attacks that can freeze or crash a user's phone.