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Google brings Gmail app to iOS

Admire Moyo
By Admire Moyo, ITWeb news editor.
Johannesburg, 03 Nov 2011

Google brings Gmail app to iOS

Google has finally released a native Gmail app for iOS, bringing its popular e-mail service to the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, reports Mashable.

“We've combined your favourite features from the Gmail mobile Web app and iOS into one app so you can be more productive on the go,” Gmail product manager Matthew Izatt said in a blog post.

“It's designed to be fast, efficient and take full advantage of the touch-screen and notification capabilities of your device.”

Justin Bieber breaks YouTube record

On 31 October, teenage singing sensation Justin Bieber became the first person in history to achieve over two billion views on his YouTube account, according to social media analyst Famecount.com, reveals Relax News.

The figures mean Justin Bieber's YouTube channel, JustinBieberVEVO, now has more total views than any other person, including Lady Gaga, the previously undisputed queen of social media, who became the first person to achieve over a billion views on YouTube in 2010.

According to Famecount.com, in the last month alone, Justin Bieber's channel was viewed over 94 million times, and the video for his Christmas single, “Mistletoe”, has been viewed over 29 million times alone since being released on 18 October.

RIM confirms BBM Music availability

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) says its music-sharing application for its popular messaging service will be available for downloading in the US, Canada and Australia within a day, according to the Associated Press.

BBM Music allows BlackBerry users to select 50 songs from a catalogue of millions of tracks for their personal playlists. BBM users can share songs from that list with friends who use the instant messaging service.

RIM said on its blog yesterday morning that BBM Music is a social music service that will be available for downloading within 24 hours.

Any network can be breached: Kaspersky

Kaspersky Lab chief executive Eugene Kaspersky has warned that cyber threats have grown so dangerous that governments and enterprises should consider military grade security measures to keep information safe, writes V3.co.uk.

Kaspersky said at the London Conference on Cyberspace that any network can be breached if hackers have enough budget and resources.

“If they want to they will hack you. I'm afraid that, when it comes to enterprise and government security, we need to make it more secure and less flexible,” he said.

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