Snapchat Will Let Users Create Their Own On-Demand Geofilters For A Price
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Snapchat Will Let Users Create Their Own On-Demand Geofilters For A Price

Location-based filters have become one of Snapchat's key features, allowing users to jazz up their photos and videos with a sense of place. This has been open for community submissions since December 2014, but today they are expanding the program in an attempt to make some money. Users and businesses can now pay to create a temporary custom pay to create a temporary custom geofilter for their events.

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New Rising Media Will Be At Gadget Show Live 2013

The Gadget Show Live has been an amazing event for New Rising Media to cover, and I'm proud to announce we will be heading back again to cover this year's event!  

You may remember that we did both last year's events in April and at Christmas.  While these both went rather well (I actually looked young then!), we would have been foolish to rest on our laurels between then and now.  So it's fair to say we have A LOT planned.

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New Rising Media Update

As Editor-in-Chief, I have felt a necessary requirement to explain where we have been over the last week.  It's been a rather busy time of inconvenient illnesses, a jaw operation, and preparations for our next big wave of coverage.

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iOS 5.1 Shows '4G' Indicator On iPhone 4S

For meeting network downlink speeds of 14.4Mbps, what AT&T considers to be 4G, the iOS 5.1 update has begun to show "4G" in the status bar instead of "3G."  We can't help but feel that this may be everso slightly disingenuous.

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