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Chrome for Android Updated: Features Speed Improvements, Fullscreen Mode on Smartphones
Yesterday, Chrome was updated for the desktop, and today Google has updated the Chrome browser for Android as well. Chrome for Android has been updated to version 27, and brings with it a number of improvements. Chrome for Android now lets users take advantage of full screen mode, a simplified search and tab history support for tablets. It also includes various bug fixes and stability improvements. Chrome for Android allows users to sync bookmarks and omnibox data across multiple devices, and even send webpages from tablets and smartphones to PC’s running … Read more
Ian Kersey
Rdio updates iOS app with Find People feature and cleaner UI
Music subscription service Rdio brought a small but welcome update to its iOS app today. It has an improved search feature, an easy way to find friends and artists, and a cleaner user interface for navigating. The improved UI mainly comes in for the side navigation. Rdio says it’s a “new, cleaner look.” The app currently is already pretty clean and very well-designed, so maintaining the high standards is always good. The update also introduces “Find People” for finding friends on Rdio and to discover artists. Relevant to this is … Read more
George Tinari
Samsung launches $800,000 app competition for Galaxy S4
Samsung has launched a global app competition to get new apps for its recently unveiled Galaxy S4 smartphone. Developers looking to win some cash and extra exposure should take advantage of the Samsung Chord SDK, which is used to create ad-hoc groups with multi-devices in real-time. Samsung has $800,000 to spare with winner taking home whopping $200,000. In addition, three second-placed apps will earn their makers $100,000, with $50,000 waiting for six developers that come in third. But that’s not all; winning apps will also be candidates for investments from … Read more
Dusan Belic
CTIA 2013: Call Snap Allows You To Decline Calls With a Photo
We’ve all be there. You’re in the middle of something and you get a call you can’t answer. When you decide to decline the call, if your phone supports it, you can send a pre-written text to the person saying, “I’m busy, what’s up?” or something of the sort. Well, Call Snap will let you show the person why you missed their call with a photo. Call Snap adds a new option on your phone’s call menu when you receive a call. It’s a simple slider that will initiate a … Read more
Blake Stimac
Pandora to let users listen to unreleased albums a week in advance
Pandora today launched a new service called Pandora Premieres, which lets subscribers stream unreleased albums from well-established artist a week in advance. This comes after Google launched its own service called ‘All Access’ to the market at Google I/O last week. The way Pandora Premieres works is users get access to any track on a featured album, regardless of the order, without any limits to how many times the album is listened to. This can go on for the time period the album is available on the station. In addition … Read more
Charles West
This week @ Appscovery
Again and again, we see a number of great apps submitted at our mobile app portal, Appscovery. Here are the titles you should check out this time: OSS Sampler Chooz Who – How Well Do You REALLY Know Your Friends? Morphball available on Google Play Weather Pod For iPhone : Weather Intelligence Made Beautiful Calendar widget with custom reminders functions Berry Jam: Filler Wee Kids ABC & Wee Kids Math are certified hits on the App Store! New App Brings 30s Voice Posts to Twitter and Facebook iMech Online Brings … Read more
Dusan Belic
BlackBerry users not happy about ported Android apps
Android apps that have been simply ported to BlackBerry 10 are proving unpopular with users, BlackBerry’s head of developer relations, Alec Saunders said. He went on to add: “From a commercial perspective, users hate them. Our partners who have ported apps get dinged for them.” BlackBerry allowed developers to easily port over existing Android apps to BlackBerry 10 in order to boost the app count. It is estimated that around 20% of the BlackBerry World is now made up of these kinds of apps. The problem is that these apps … Read more
Dusan Belic
In-app purchases getting popular among Windows Phone developers
More and more Windows Phone developers are adding in-app purchases into their apps and games, with 40% of the top-15 highest grossing developers in the Windows Phone Store supporting the capability. The consumer adoption, however, “varies by market, depending on regional trends, consumer preferences, and other regional differences.” The strongest adoption has been in central Europe, China, France, Middle East and the US. Unsurprisingly the most popular category for the use of in-app purchases was games, which saw more than twice the adoption of the second biggest category, tools and … Read more
Dusan Belic
Mobile technology helps America’s victims of crime stay informed about offender custody status
A company called Appriss introduced a mobile version of its automated victim notification service known as VINE (Victim Information and Notification Everyday). This service is used by victims of crime across the U.S. and monitors over 95% of the nation’s incarcerated offenders. Available for iPhone and Android devices, the VINE mobile app allows people who have been victims of crime to easily check on the status of their offender and register to be notified about changes in that status via phone or email. The service is free, anonymous and since … Read more
Dusan Belic
Google Wallet now available on Sprint’s HTC One, Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S4 and US Cellular’s Note II
Google keeps expanding the list of devices compatible with its Google Wallet service. The latest batch of phones that can sing along the search giant’s mobile payment service include Sprint’s HTC One, Samsung Galaxy Note II and Samsung Galaxy S4; as well as US Cellular’s Samsung Galaxy Note II. If you have one of those device and would like to benefit from NFC-based contactless payments, download the Google Wallet app (linked below) and try it out at the growing list of participating merchants. You’ll get as seamless as possible payment … Read more
Dusan Belic
120,000 BlackBerry 10 apps now available in BlackBerry World
BlackBerry World app store now counts 120,000 BlackBerry 10 apps that work on the company’s Z10 and Q10 smartphones (as well as the upcoming Q5). The new platform was launched with 70,000 apps “on board” with another 50,000 submitted in the next four months. BlackBerry president and CEO Thorsten Heins didn’t hide its excitement, praising the “thriving ecosystem” and a great response from the developer community. He was also quick to add that synthesizer maker Moog has selected BlackBerry 10 as the second after iOS to offer its app. To … Read more