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Facebook is teaming-up with 18 mobile operators in 14 countries to provide its users with free or discounted data access to Facebook messaging. The benefits will be available to folks running Messenger for Android, Messenger for iOS or Facebook for Every Phone, which is now optimized for chat. Carriers committed to special pricing for Facebook…
Yandex is launching a new version of its Yandex.Shell app (formerly SPB Shell), which is one of the world’s most popular UI solutions for customizing Android-based smartphones. In fact, since the announcement in February 2012, the application has been downloaded more than one million times. As you probably already know, Yandex.Shell gives any Android phone…
Samsung KNOX is a new end-to-end secure solution made to provide security “hardening from the hardware through to the application layer.” Incorporating Security Enhanced (SE) Android developed by NSA (National Security Agency), file system level encryption, and integrity management services implemented in both hardware and the Android framework, KNOX offers protection of business data and…
One of the neat features HTC will offer for the upcoming HTC One owners is the ability to sync with data found in the iPhone backup files. These files are generated by iTunes and include photos, videos, text messages and calendar entries. While most of us sync calendars with some cloud-based service (most Android users…
Samsung announced the TV Discovery service and is ready to demonstrate it at Mobile World Congress next week. The forthcoming service will help consumers find live TV and video content in real-time, while also providing them with suggestions based on the viewing habits of the user. In other words, it’s like Pandora for TV though…
We know the app economy is booming but it’s always nice to have numbers to put behind any claims. And Berg Insight brings us the goods, saying that during 2011, the number of mobile app downloads reached 29.5 billion, growing to 60.1 billion in 2012. And guess what, that number will keep going north, eventually…
Roughly a third of American small business owners use smartphones to manage their companies, performing tasks such as banking and customer relationship management. But which smartphone apps are best for you as a small business owners? A new infographic, prepared by SalesForce Desk, goes through the most popular mobile apps used by small business. Here’s…
Microsoft could be making few more billions if it releases Office for iPad, according to a Morgan Stanley analyst. The finance firm’s Adam Holt thinks that if priced at around $60, some 30% of iPad users would buy the software, generating up to $2.5 billion for the Redmond-based giant, even after Apple has taken its…
More and more developers are taking advantage of our mobile app portal, Appscovery. Here are some of the more interesting apps submitted during the last 7 days: Math Genius Express for iPad – A number puzzle game with 150 solutions to find! AltEgo Announces League of Legends App For Android New App For Family Safety.…
TopCoder has launched two developer competitions that are the initial phase to build a fully functioning iPad app from concept to deployment using TopCoder’s open innovation community and process. What makes this contest interesting is the fact that NASA sponsored it through its NASA Tournament Lab (NTL). NASA’s Nutritional Biochemistry Laboratory in the Human Health…