A new Android app has the Asian commmnity upset with good cause of course. There is a new app called “Make Me Asian” which alters someones pic with stereotypical “Asian” features. The Asian-American community is currently looking to get the app off of the app market calling the app racist. The creator of the app Kimbery Deiss ale created other apps with similar content ( “Make me Russian,” “Make me fat,” “Make me bald” and “Make me Irish.”) but none of those apps came under fire. The Asian American legal defense has asked Google to take down the app from the App store according to Yahoo. Yungjohnnybravo x TatWZA
Google Names It’s Top Apps of 2012
Google has put together their top apps of 2012, Google’s Tavares Ford says “These are some of the best apps available in Google Play,” Take a look after the break, do you think Google is missing any apps in their top 12 apps of 2012. Yungjohnnybravo x TatWZA
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook Takes 99% Pay Cut in 2012
It seems Apple’s CEO took a 99% pay cut in 2012 according to Bloomberg. The Apple CEO will get a compensated valued at $4.17 million no stock options. That seems very low for the CEO of one of the worlds most powerful companies in the world. The total includes $1.36 million for his salary, $2.8 million in incentives, a big drop from 2011’s salary which was $378 million which will be paid over a 10 year span. Yungjohnnybravo x TatWZA
Tech Talk Spotlight: Check Out Todays 12/26/12 Top @Viddy Videos (Dog Edition)
Here are todays top Viddy videos. Yungjohnnybravo x TatWZA
Netflix Blames Amazon For Christmas Eve Outage
Netflix is blaming for the outage they experience 2 days ago, Amazon’s service centers were down and the center didn’t see repairs until yesterday. More than likely getting the problem fixed to help people who were first time Netflix users. The outage for Netflix affected Canada, Latin America and the United States which also affected devices that enabled the use of the Netflix app. The outage affected 27 million users alone in the United States, hopefully this is Netflix last outage as they had one last which affected Foursquare. “We are investigating exactly what happened and how it could have been prevented,” Evers of Netflix said. Yungjohnnybravo x TatWZA
Tech Talk Apps: Instagram Adds New Filter
So after last weeks debacle of their new Privacy polices, Instagram confused its users on if they planned on using their pics to sell to advertisers. After it was all said and done they went back to the old polices which kind made things better. To make the dust settle a lot faster Instagram released a new filter over the weekend called “Mayfair”, which should be in the latest update of Instagram. Instagram maybe noticing the competition between themselves and the new Flickr which have an array of filters. Yungjohnnybravo x TatWZA
