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Project Ara has found itself in the hands of Google after the company sold off Motorola Mobility to Lenovo this last January. The modular smartphone will be getting its very own developers’ conference in April. The Project Ara developers’ conference will mostly take place online, with a handful developers attending on-site conferences at the Computer…
Smartphone cameras are the de-facto standard of photography these days, with plenty of apps and manufacturer software optimized to make those snaps look even cooler and more impressive than the originals. Apps such as Instagram and social networking sites like Google+ use preset camera settings and filters to make new pictures look old. While these…
Qualcomm has launched the Toq SDK, inviting developers to make apps for this fancy smart watch. The strategy that seems to be working for Pebble may also prove useful for the chip-making giant, though you never know. Despite rocking that fancy Mirasol display (which looks like million bucks compared to Pebble’s screen), the Toq never…
Microsoft has quietly started sharing Windows Phone 8.1 preview to select group of developers. We’re not sure who’s on the list, but chances are we’re talking about big boys here, which would include companies like Facebook, EA, Evernote, Gameloft and so on. The official launch of the platform is set for April, when Redmond giant…
Samsung has Pen Windows multi-tasking and LG – QSlide, which first (as far as I know) shipped with the Optimus G Pro. If you’ve been living under a rock you should know that QSlide allows users to run small apps on top of everything else currently running on LG’s phone/phablet. As I’m writing this, only…
Last time I’ve heard there were no shortage of iOS and Android apps. Google, apparently, disagrees with this as it has decided to launch a conversion tool that uses Apache Cordova to allow Chrome’s HTML5-based apps to run on two of the world’s most popular platforms. We’ve already mentioned this service in the past and…
Apple developers are in for a treat today as Apple has released iOS 7.1 beta 3. The new beta is the first release since the December 13th offering, iOS 7.1 beta 2. Beta 3 includes a host of bugfixes and improvements, bringing iOS 7.1 a step closer to becoming reality. iOS 7.1 Beta 3 can…
Credo Mobile has made its business on offering up the phones people want with a social conscience. The San Francisco based company donates portions of its proceeds to progressive causes such as Planned Parenthood, the Rainforest Action Network, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation Credo now has Google’s latest, the Nexus 5 in both black and…
Popular social sharing app Snapchat has been hacked, and the account info for 4.6 million users has been released online. Usernames and a partial phone numbers were available for download on a website set up by the hackers. The phone numbers and account information was posted to SnapchatDB.info. The site was suspended by late Wednesday…
Apple is tightening up its requirements for apps as it sent out a message to all devs in its developers portal, saying it wants all app submissions to be iOS 7 ready by February 1st. This includes new apps and updates to existing apps. The company is implementing this to get developers to enter its new…