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Goodbye SkyDrive, hello OneDrive! Six months after British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB) has forced Microsoft to rename SkyDrive, the Redmond giant has unveiled the new brand for its cloud storage service – OneDrive. As that was the case with SkyDrive, OneDrive will also be marketed as a service where users can store and share their…
The personalized magazine space is about to get even more competitive with Facebook apparently looking to enter the space. According to Re/code, the social networking giant will launch its news reader app called Paper in the coming weeks, with features that are comparable to the one Flipboard is offering. In other words, except the app…
Beats Music will be officially launched on January 21st, supporting iOS, Android and Windows devices, as well as web-based streaming. The price is set at $9.99 per month, and that cash gets you unlimited streaming and downloads from the catalog counting more than 20 million songs. These downloads are your to keep as long as…
Let’s face it – Samsung-made gear is not cheap. In fact, it’s rather expensive with the Korean giant trying to differentiate its offering with unique software and features rather than hardware components. To make its tablets more appealing, Sammy often offers them with an array of free content and services. The newly announced Galaxy Note…
AT&T will soon launch the Beats Music Service with AT&T as partner. According to the New York Post, the service will kick-off before the Grammys, which is scheduled for January 26th. The report goes on to suggest that Beats will spend millions on an ad campaign during the Super Bowl next month. Apparently, the main…
AT&T had three major announcements at this year’s CES. First they unveiled Sponsored Data, allowing businesses to pay for users’ mobile data consumption. This in turn will make some apps and services 100% free, without their usage adding to customers’ data bill. When using these sponsored apps/services, users will see a “sponsored” symbol in 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…
Google Play Music All Access is now available in Germany. Just like that was the case with the service launches in other markets, users can try out the service for free for the first 30 days, after which they can continue for €7.99 per month. Actually, that price is good only if you sign-up before…
Samsung’s enterprise-friendly KNOX service may not have got the expected reception, according to the Wall Street Journal report. Apparently, the Korean company is facing few hurdles to sell its service to businesses with bugs and unwanted delays standing on the way. The KNOX was officially announced at Mobile World Congress in February but the service…
Up until this point Google Voice Search was only available in English. No more! The search giant has updated its service with support for three new languages: French, German and Japanese. The new capability works on both iOS and Android-based devices though in the former case you first need to install the Google Search app…