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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…