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Samsung has announced 14 new partners for its Wallet app. Companies joining Sammy’s scheme include American Express, United Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, Malaysia Airlines, Amtrak, Valpak, eGifter, Gyft, Yowza, SpotOn, Agoda, HRS, Opodo and Thrillcall. This batch joins existing partners that include the likes of Walgreens, Expedia, Belly, Lufthansa and Hotels.com. The Samsung Wallet app works…
Those of you with HTC One getting the Sense 5.5 update will be “blessed” with an additional 25GB of free Google Drive space. According to AndroidCentral, this promotion is similar to the one running for the HTC One Max that gives owners 50GB of free storage. With updated HTC One, you get a total of…
O2 is bundling a year of free Evernote Premium account to anyone signing-up for its service. Valid through October 24th, 2014, the promotion can be claimed by O2 Pay Monthly, Pay & Go and data-only SIM customers. Compared to the free Evernote account, the Premium subscription — which costs 4 GBP per month or 35…
The Opera Mobile Store, which is apparently the fifth-largest mobile app store in the world, has tripled the size of its catalog in the last 12 months, currently offering more than 140,000 apps. The Store provides more than 75 million monthly visitors, an increase of 63%, with mobile apps and games across many platforms, including…
YouTube may launch its own subscription service in the near future. According to Billboard, the online video destination will take advantage of existing deals Google struck for Google Play Music All Access to get all the licenses needed for such a service. The report goes on suggesting that in addition to paid option, users will…
You may’ve heard about this BYOD trend, where BYOD stands for “Bring Your Own Device.” The idea is to allow employees to use their existing smartphones and tablets at work, instead of buying them corporate-owned devices. It’s a huge trend with pretty much all big software companies taking note of it. Yes, this includes Google,…
And we thought BlackBerry pretty much completed the testing of BBM for Android. Think again. The Canadian company is rolling out another round of tests among select group of Android users who’ll get to see a new welcome screen, the persistent notifications in the status bar and a slightly revamped UI. In addition, the mentioned…
Evernote announced a new version of its business service, Evernote Business. Version 2.0 comes with a number of improvements that allow team members to “work smarter together in Evernote,” making it easier for employees to tap into the knowledge inside the company and be more productive. First thing users will see is Business Home, which…
Just like Google, Mozilla too wants a piece of the second screen market. The company is reportedly testing the new technology that would allow users to beam content from their mobile browser to the TV. In a statement sent to Engadget, Mozilla said it is “conducting some experiments around second-screen support with a number of…
Google keeps adding new markets to its Play Books “scheme.” Their latest batch includes 9 countries such as Indonesia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam and New Zealand. If you live in one of the places mentioned above – congratulations. If not – well, don’t worry, we’re sure Google is working to bring…