Apple begins using iBeacons at all its 254 US retail stores

Apple on Friday will launch its iBeacon wireless short-range technology at all 254 retail stores the company owns across the U.S., helping customers to shop for new items, or pick up an order they've already placed...

Now, download all your Gmail and Google Calendar data

This is big news for Google users. The Internet giant has announced that you will now be able to download your data from Gmail and Google Calendar. The long overdue feature will grant you access to your data, making it easy for you to back it up, use offline or shift to another service...

The best social media service for businesses? Instagram

Marketing analytics service SumAll has released a year-end report that characterizes Instagram as the most effective social network for companies looking for subscriber growth, engagement and a sales boost. Though Instagram recently opened up for advertising, SumAll’s figures relate to unpaid and organic Instagram traffic...

Android torch app with over 50m downloads silently sent user location and device data to advertisers

An innocuous-looking torch app for Android that has been downloaded more than 50m times silently shared users' locations and device IDs with advertisers, the company has admitted.

In a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the maker of Brightest Flashlight Free admitted that the app's privacy policy "deceptively failed to disclose" that it was passing on location and device ID data to networks of advertisers...

South Africa's Nelson Mandela dies

South Africa's first black president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela has died, South Africa's president says...