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Amazon Appstore launches in China!
Amazon is bringing its Android Appstore to the world’s biggest smartphone market – China. The new store was launched without a fanfare even though it may prove as one of the most profitable Amazon’s ventures in the long run. Users in China will be able to get both free and paid apps, opening up a whole new opportunity for developers around the world. Up until this point, app publishers were going through any number of local app stores in order to get their app available in China. Alongside the Appstore, … Read more
Dusan Belic
BlueStacks hits 10 million installs
BlueStacks, the company that makes software which brings Android apps to larger screens, has surpassed 10 million users, 4.2 million of which came online in the first quarter of this year. This in turn puts BlueStacks in second position behind Samsung and ahead of ASUS and Amazon. BlueStacks launched their “App Player” software for PCs in March 2012, Mac version in June, while a special version for the Microsoft Surface was released in February 2013. Their application is downloaded by users in over 100 countries with a large user base … Read more
Dusan Belic
Facebook Photo Sharing App Comes To Google Glass
While Google Glass allows users to share their photos directly to Google +, posting to Facebook has been impossible with Google Glass, until now. A third-party app called “Glass to Facebook” lets Glass users share their snaps with the super popular social networking site. Created by Tesseract Mobile, the app shares the photo to Facebook in a thumbnail sized image, which can be clicked on to reveal the photo in full screen mode. The app is extremely easy to use, requiring users to download the app and then grant access … Read more
Ian Kersey
YouTube Windows Phone 8 app updated, brings new pinning feature and Kids-corner support
Finally, the official Windows Phone 8 YouTube app receives a new major update that brings lots of much-needed improvements. Features such as the ability to pin videos, playlists, and channels; support for Kids-corner is also added to the list. Speaking of the list, here is the rest of the new application features: Pin videos, playlists, channels, and even search queries to Start as Live Tiles for fast access. The tile flips to show either the latest video from your subscriptions or the most popular one. A filmstrip view of playlists. … Read more
Charles West
Kickstarter project raising funds to allow Android apps to run in webOS on HP TouchPad
If you own the HP TouchPad you may’ve already installed Android on it as you can pretty much forget about getting new native apps anytime soon. Or, you may be resorting to dual-boot to run both Android and webOS. While that’s all cool, re-booting all the time is a pain in the neck, and we’re sure you want to run Android apps inside webOS. That could soon be possible thanks to a new project currently raising funds at Kickstarter. Guys behind this initiative are looking to get $35,000 to support … Read more
Dusan Belic
Gmail for iOS gets updated with better integration of other Google apps
Google released an update today for its Gmail for iOS app that brings improved integration with other Google services that are available on iOS as well as a few other improvements. By “improved integration” with other Google apps, I don’t mean you’ll see any of their functionality popping up in the Gmail app. Rather, it’s a lot easier to stay within the Google ecosystem now because you can open links from Gmail that will launch another Google app if you have it installed. If there’s a map, you can tap … Read more
George Tinari
Hulu Plus App Comes to Windows Phone 8
Windows Phone 8 users now have access to one of the hottest video streaming services around, Hulu, with the release of an official Hulu Plus app, which allows Hulu Plus subscribers access to their favorite shows via 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi. The app also includes a Hulu Plus Live Tile, which provides updates such as availability of new episodes, and shows clips of popular shows which help users find new shows and movies to watch. The app also can resume playback of content from other devices that use a form … Read more
Ian Kersey
Apple to top 50 billion App Store downloads soon
Apple is about to hit 50 billion App Store downloads, the major milestone which will be celebrated with some cool prizes. A person who downloads the 50 billionth app will get a $10,000 gift card and the following 50 people will score a $500 gift card, bringing the total value of the contest to $35,000. The Cupertino based company used the opportunity to unveil the top 25 free and paid apps of all time. The top paid apps list includes such titles as Angry Birds series (all versions are on … Read more
Dusan Belic
LINE surpasses 150 million users
Popular messaging and social networking app LINE has crossed the 150 million registered users mark! To make for an even more impressive news, it’s worth adding that the new 50 million users were added in just three months after the company has hit the 100 million user milestone. Those living under a rock (and obviously not use the LINE app) should know that LINE gives users free voice calls and messages across popular mobile platforms like iOS, Android and Windows Phone. It works both over cellular networks (3G and 4G) … Read more
Dusan Belic
Amazon’s Kindle iOS app gets accessibility features, other platforms to follow
Amazon has updated its iOS Kindle app with accessibility features to allow blind and visually impaired customers to navigate their Kindle libraries and read books. “With this update, we’re also making customer-favorite features-such as X-Ray, End Actions, sharing, highlighting and bookmarking — more accessible.” said Dorothy Nicholls, Vice President, Amazon Kindle. Relying on Apple’s VoiceOver technology, the application allows users to read character-by-character, word-by-word, line-by-line, or continuously, and move forward or backward in the text. In addition, users can also customize the reading experience by changing the font, text size, … Read more
Dusan Belic
How to turn off Google Now on your iPhone
If you’re using Google’s search app on the iPhone, you’ve probably noticed Google Now, which presents you with local weather conditions, traffic and some other information. While this is handy, you may dislike the fact that location services are running constantly, draining your phone’s battery life along the way. Luckily you can turn them [location services] off, and keep using Google search. In order to do so, fire-up Settings and simply turn-off Location Services from Google Search – you can turn-off this capability for every installed app. Now you won’t … Read more