The opportunity to expand this ecosystem was a tremendous and exciting one to tackle. So I dove head first into solving a new way for Sprout Social to support our Agency customers and six months later, with the help of dozens of amazing people and agencies, “I” became “we” and the agency partner program is officially launching. This post isn’t about what the agency program is, but how we built it and why it’s a priority for Sprout....

Smart parents needn’t worry anymore about in-app purchases in iOS games, they only need to update to iOS 4.3. You’ve probably heard about horror stories involving kids draining their parent’s bank accounts unintentionally because they were lured into buying stuff inside games without even realizing it. Smurf Villiage is #7 ranked in gross earnings in the App Store and has been seen as one of the biggest offenders. Deciding enough is enough, Apple has moved to fix this oversight with iOS 4....

Have you ever wondered how much data you should get with your carrier? Do you barely use your data plan but pay for a huge one anyways? Or do you go over data each month with your data plan and have no idea why? New in the iOS 7 Settings application is the ability to track cellular data usage per each app you have installed on your device. In iOS 6, it shows you how much data you use, but it did not define or described what made up that number....

Update: 82% as of May 13. More than 7 months after its official release, iOS 8 has now passed 80% adoption as a version of Apple’s latest mobile operating system is running on 81% of active devices, according to Apple’s App Store Distribution data. The new data puts iOS 8 up two points since this time two weeks ago. The remaining devices include 17% running a version of iOS 7, which is where the upgrades came from, while 2% of devices measured have iOS 6 or earlier....

Our big news is that Plann now officially supports auto posting for business accounts. Yep, you better believe we pulled out the champagne and confetti for this one, big time! Now, what does this mean for you, exactly? Well, it means you’ll no longer have to manually post your Instagram grid posts when you get a notification. All you have to do is schedule, set and forget your socials, and they’ll automatically be published!...

Here we are sharing the first ported Android Pie 9.0 GSI for Zenfone Max Pro M1 (X00TD) based on Android Pie 9.0. GSI is also known as a Generic System image. We already shared the complete list of devices supported for the Android Pie 9.0 Generic System Image (GSI). This guide will help you to install the Android Pie 9.0 GSI on Zenfone Max Pro M1 (X00TD). Before we move into the upgradation process, let’s talk about the specs....

Intel today released a couple tidbits to cast more light on Thunderbolt I/O and give folks some perspective concerning its road map. This is my next details some of the features which are outlined in greater detail over at the brand new Thunderbolt web site, which mostly covers branding and various technicalities. For example, we now have it in writing that all Thunderbolt-branded products are to interoperate across all vendors. Per official information, the maximum allowed length of electrical Thunderbolt cables is three meters....

It is a set of programming interface which allow a programmer to coordinate activities among various program processes which can run concurrently in an operating system. This allows a specific program to handle many user requests at the same time. In this Operating System Tutorial, you will learn: What is Inter Process Communication? Approaches for Inter-Process Communication Why IPC? Terms Used in IPC What is Like FIFOS and Unlike FIFOS...

Goldman Sachs, Apple’s partner for the Apple Card launching later this year, has warned investors to avoid tech stocks which become subject to antitrust lawsuits. Apple currently faces two antitrust suits, one from customers, another from developers – with a separate antitrust investigation underway in Europe and the prospect of another in the US … Business Insider saw an investment note issued by the bank. Both the US antitrust lawsuits facing Apple relate to its App Store policies....

Multitasking dramatically got redesigned with iOS 7. With iOS 8, Multitasking added a shortcut to the people who are most important to you. In this how to, I will discuss customizing the people that appear at the top, using multitasking to contact your important people, as well as disabling it. By default, the app switcher is designed to display pictures of your contacts in your address book. Chances are most users do not have pictures assigned to their contacts....

Traditionally, the video creation process follows a somewhat linear set of steps: pre-production, production, and post-production. Now, a Sydney-based team of creative professionals are challenging traditional workflows with a new filmmaking app released today called Nizo. Nizo’s creators use the phrase “new wave filmmaking” to describe the app. By combining the portability and popularity of the iPhone as a video tool with a new interface for shooting, editing, and delivering, Nizo provides a unique workflow....

The judge in the highly controversial DOJ ebooks case has delivered an injunction against Apple today, GigaOM reports. The injunction prevents Apple from working in ‘most-favored-nation’ clauses into its contracts with publishers. MFN clauses have required publishers to sell their books at the lowest price on the iBookstore, but this injunction “forbids Apple from enforcing MFN clauses in any ebook publishing contracts for five years.” On the other hand, the DOJ’s proposal of giving other ebook retailers the opportunity to set up shop within iOS devices without giving 30% to Apple has been denied....

Back in February, some Instagram users started to receive notifications whenever someone took a screenshot of their Story. After experimenting with this feature for several months, Instagram has decided to cancel it altogether. As Instagram never officially announced the Story screenshot notification feature, there was no way to know who had it or how much of the community would receive notifications. But if they were a part of the beta test, users would get a push notification whenever someone screenshotted their story, and they would see every screenshotter’s username next to a camera shutter icon....

New iPad Pro According to the iOS 14 code, the upcoming iPad Pro refresh will include a new triple-lens camera array like previous supply chain reporting has suggested. This camera setup will include a time-of-flight 3D sensor, a wide-angle lens, an ultra-wide lens, and a telephoto lens. This is a major update from the current iPad Pro. Subscribe to 9to5mac on YouTube for more videos iPhone 9 iOS 14 code also includes details about the upcoming iPhone 9, again corroborating past supply chain reporting....

[Update 6/26: Instagram has officially started rolling out the new features, including the new Explore tab, video chat, and some fresh AR camera effects.] Instagram is starting to push a redesigned Explore tab to users. This change was originally announced at Facebook’s F8 event last month, but is now making its way to users. The redesigned Explore tab isn’t incredibly different on the surface. You get the same tile-based interface with curated posts based on your interests and past behaviors....

Your LinkedIn social media strategy will be a bit different than your strategies for other platforms. LinkedIn is unlike its social competitors in that it’s widely regarded as a professional social network, the largest B2B marketing platform in the world and the number one platform for lead generation. The platform presents major opportunities to identify, connect with and advertise to thought leaders, leads, potential candidates and audiences that are entirely new to your brand....

Organized Crime Groups (OCGs) are increasingly involved in the violation of IPR and darknets play a vital role in the criminal ecosystem. Intellectual property crimes pose a serious threat to the consumer health and safety. Let’s think about the health dangers associated with counterfeit food or pharmaceutical products, substandard clothing, and dangerous toys. IP crime could also affect the environment; counterfeit chemical substances often contain prohibited, polluting and toxic substances....

Last month, Facebook revealed that millions of Instagram and Facebook passwords were stored in plaintext and were accessible by engineers. Now, the company has issued an update on the situation, revealing that the situation is worse than it originally stated. As first noted by TechCrunch, Facebook today updated its blog post from March 21st about the incident. The company says that it has discovered “additional logs of Instagram passwords” that were stored in a readable format....

The translation feature is likely to be available as an individual option for each website, but users will be able to use automatic translations as well. Safari will detect the language to translate the content correctly. There’s also the possibility to switch between the original and translated text without reloading the page. But Safari is just the beginning before Apple expands this feature across the system, as we found out that the translation option is also being tested with other apps, such as the App Store....

Shortly after the iPad Pro launched in November, Apple acknowledged an issue facing some numbers of users (luckily not myself) where the tablet would become unresponsive after a period of charging. At the time, Apple said it was aware of the issue and was investigating. Three weeks later, Apple has updated its support document that details the issue with some good news. While the fix was previously to hold both the sleep/wake button and the Home button for several seconds until it restarts, Apple now says to update the software to hopefully totally fix the issue....