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Netflix is finally bringing its online movie and TV streaming service to the United Kingdom, allowing users to download movies to their phones and tablets while on the go. Among Netflix’s content providers, we find local sources like BBC, ITV and Channel 4, as well as major Hollywood studios and media companies. The app itself…
It was nearly a year ago when I got to check out the Call of Duty Elite service before it officially launched with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. During their demo, Activision said it was planning to roll out Call of Duty Elite through four methods: web, TV via game console, in-game, and mobile.…
Announced for the iPad in February 2011, The Daily was the first magazine designed from the ground up for tablets. Now the News Corp. digital magazine will be available on select Android tablets by the end of the month. Verizon Wireless is partnering with News Corp to bring the publication to its tablets before any other…
Today, Comcast announced its plan to roll out live streaming to all of its customers courtesy of its new AnyPlay service. The new service is currently limited to Xfinity HD Triple Play customers in Denver and Nashville, and more markets will be added in the coming months. The AnyPlay service which is accessed through the Xfinity TV…
The Boycott SOPA Android app takes political activism to a whole new level. The new app works in a creative way, as it scans barcodes and tells you whether an object’s manufacturer/publisher is a supporter of the very unpopular Stop Online Piracy Act. In order for the app to work users first have to install the ZXing…
Nik Software, the makers of the insanely popular photo editing app Snapseed, just announced that its app will finally make its way on select Android devices. Wait, there’s a catch. These “select Android devices” need certain requirements, like tablets running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) powered by an NVIDIA Tegra 2 or Tegra 3…
Like existing 50,000 apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace isn’t enough, Nokia announced few exclusive apps from major content providers like CNN, Univision, ESPN and Sesame Workshop. Under the deal, the apps will be available exclusively to Nokia consumers before they are made more widely available to all Windows Phone users. Here’s what they got:…
BlueStacks‘ “App Player” will be compatible with Windows 8. Yep, that means you’ll be able to run all of those Android apps on your shiny new Windows tablet, ultrabook or laptop computer even though it runs the soon-to-be-released version of Microsoft’s OS. Needless to say, the company is using CES to demonstrate this tech mumbo-jumbo…
After Android, iOS, BlackBerry and Symbian – Wikitude is bringing its augmented reality app to Windows Phone users, allowing them to explore their surroundings while on the go. The application has been customized to enable the panorama user interface, which apparently differentiates the experience on Microsoft’s platform. The WP version also provides category containers such…
Viper SmartStart — the mobile app that lets users start and control their car from the iPhone, Android or BlackBerry — is announcing version 3.0 this week at CES. The new version is said to bring the experience “to the next level,” featuring new cloud-connected car software for both Android and iPhone. At the same…