Some PSN Passwords Get Reset in North America after Suspicious Activity

Some PSN Passwords Get Reset in North America after Suspicious Activity

Sony has announced that after few apprehensive activities on its PlayStation network, it has decided to reset the password on a certain number of PSN accounts in North America, following a similar measure in Europe a few weeks ago.

Sony has done improvement on security measures and precautionary systems. Since the PlayStation network has attacker attacked in 2011, when it was offline for a huge period of time.

Now, issues is been raised after several PSN users in North America sign in problems due to incorrect password, Sony has announced in it forum that the password reset activity is done due to suspicious action.

To keep the account safer for the user, the reset password will be send to the users in their email.

Yet it has not announced that how many accounts had their passwords reset or what suspicious activity was detected by Sony.

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Twitter gets more visual with photo, video previews

Now a day’s Twitter has become the tool for the Internet for posting the short text messages, but now it will be shown with multimedia content more conspicuously. 

On user’s timeline streams preview of photos and videos will appear, whereas earlier people need to click on links to see them. The latest feature will now appear on the twitter’s iOS and Android apps as well as on the web version.

The changes which are implemented in done only in the photos section and for videos which is created with the Twitter Vine app, still the users need to navigate it from the outside page from third party services.

While watching users can enlarge the pictures or the videos by tapping them on mobile and clicking on them on the desktop.

 Yet, to compete with bigger rivals like Instagram and Snapchat twitter have to provide the more media rich experience for users. The company said "These rich tweets can bring your followers closer to what's happening."  Twitter will also make the changes, to build out its advertising business. 

The company said in its IPO documents, that video is the important elements of Twitter advertising business, which has generated the 85 percent of the company profits last year.  Marketers can add the incentive while advertising with twitter by posting the more video and photo content in the user feeds. 

Twitter had already tied up with more than a dozen of broadcasters and media network with it’s amplify program, which posted the promotional video content in users feeds. In which few of the partners include Bloomberg TV and BBC America ( Television Network) .

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Facebook adds new capabilities to its mobile app ads service

Facebook is increasing its advertising services to expand its growing mobile business.

The company said on Tuesday that now the Facebook mobile app ads will allow companies to promote their mobile apps to Facebook 1.15 billion users which will include new skills designed to increase the amount of time that consumer utilizing while using the third party app

Deb Liu, the Facebook director of monetization has revealed that from the beginning of the year more than 145 million third party apps has been installed by Facebook users. Roughly 8400 advertisers used the Facebook app ads in the second quarter.

Facebook’s mobile app will grant the users and the owner of the travel app to offer or promote their airfare, hotel room etc. as the same Music app can promote their new songs.

Previously the motto of the Facebook mobile app is to only encourage the user to install the third party app on the Smartphone or tablet but not to repeat visits to the app.

 Share on Facebook is now doubled since July due to which the company has increased its mobile advertising revenue.

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