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Apple continues acquiring small companies left and right. Their latest target is Snappylabs, which makes the burst photo app Snappycam. The mentioned application enables super fast burst photography and can capture up to 30 or even 60 frames per second. That’s much more than the included Camera app that can handle “only” 10 fps. So…
Google has acquired Bitspin, a Zurich, Switzerland-based company that makes the fairly popular Timely Alarm Clock app. For the time being, the application will remain to be available for download from the Google Play Store, and additional themes and sounds which used to be cost money (via in-app purchase) are now free. For those who…
If Nokia can have exclusive apps for its Lumia phones, so can Samsung. That’s right, the Korean company is launching two apps that will only work with their Windows Phone devices. The first app, Share Box, allows Samsung smartphones to connect to DLNA-compatible devices (like HDTVs) to play music or video without wires. At the…
Meizu badly wants developers to bring apps to its own app store, so it decided to take no cut from app sales. Whereas most other services like Apple’s App Store and Google Play Store take the 30% cut, the Chinese firm will give 100% of app sale revenues to developers. Considering we’re talking about store…
Tweetbot for iPhone continues to be one of the best third-party options to run your tweets through, as the Twitter client just updated its app today. Now users gain support for viewing photos sent by way of the service’s direct messaging feature, similar to what the official Twitter application added earlier this month. However, Twitter…
Sony Mobile has recently launched an app that allows users to access media files from three different online storage sites from a single place. The “My Cloud” app currently supports Box.net, DropBox and Tonido, though we guess some other services like MediaFire and GDrive will be added in the future. In order to be able…
Nokia has decided to yank its Here navigation app from Apple’s App Store because it claims iOS 7 “harms the user experience of HERE.” This decision is eerily close to the deadline Apple gave to developers in making their apps iOS 7 compatible by February 1. Nokia says users can still use it via the…
Did you get a new Android smartphone or tablet for the holidays? Still wondering what are the must-have games are to download from the Google Play Store? Well, we’re going to break some of the best games you can grab on your new smartphone or tablet right here, right now! Don’t get us wrong, there…
One thing that was missing in the YotaPhone was a built-in ebook reader, which we would find fairly essential for a device that packs an e-ink display on one of its sides. The Russian company took note of that and is now offering a special version of the e-reading app called FBReader. That “special” part…
As far as I’m concerned, Evernote is one of those apps that can easily make or break some platform. Luckily it’s readily available for BlackBerry 10 users though they don’t get to access all of the features iOS and Android apps have at their disposal. Still, the popular note-taking service is getting better with the…