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Microsoft, Google join forces to create YouTube app with ads for Windows Phone
Microsoft and Google have decided to make love, not war by joining forces to create an official YouTube app together for Windows Phone. “Microsoft and YouTube are working together to update the new YouTube for Windows Phone app to enable compliance with YouTube’s API terms of service, including enabling ads, in the coming weeks,” the two companies both said in a statement. “Microsoft will replace the existing YouTube app in Windows Phone Store with the previous version during this time.” They had a bit of a disagreement earlier over an … Read more
George Tinari
Chrome Beta For Android Updated with Google Translate Support
You daring web browsers that are too cool for the stable version of Chrome are in for a treat today. Chrome Beta for Android has been updated to give users some nifty tweaks that we’ve seen in the desktop version for a while now, along with some other features as well. Here’s what you’ll find in the latest update from the Google Chrome Releases Blog: Google Translate: When you come across a page written in a language that isn’t in the same language as your phone or tablet, look for … Read more
Blake Stimac
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