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A ROUND-UP OF THE LATEST NEWS IN THE DIGITAL WORLD
FACETIME FRIENDS WILL HAVE TO WAIT
IT’S not been that long since Apple introduced Group FaceTime to the iPhone and iPad, but had to pull the feature to fix a security flaw in the system. Apple said a fix was on the way, and would roll out to devices this week.
The bug was discovered, and reported to Apple, by 14-year-old Grant Thompson, while he was starting a Group FaceTime session with friends.
When he swiped up to add a second friend to a call before the first had answered, he was immediately connected to the first friend’s phone… even though they had not answered. Which could’ve been awkward.
Anyway, Apple’s fixing the bug, and the word is it may even “compensate” young Grant for his trouble.
THE END FOR GOOGLE+
SAVE the date – Google+ will finally be laid to rest on April 2.
There’s very little chance many of you will have much saved in Google’s ill-fated social network (if you had, it wouldn’t be shutting down, would it?), but if you do, you’ll want to head over there and download it before Google deletes it.
To do so, log on at Google’s “download you data” page ( takeout.
google.com) where you can select the data you want to save, and where to save it to.
Google has said the deletion of data will take some time, so yours might not be gone on April 2, but I wouldn’t take that chance.
If you have stuff you want to keep, go and get it now…