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APPS

Dec 18, 2013

Pebble to kick off 2014 with an appstore for its smart watch

Pebble watch owners have something exciting to forward to in 2014. The smart watch maker announced today that it plans to open an appstore filled with Pebble compatible apps early next year.The launch of

ANDROID PHONES

Dec 18, 2013

Xperia Z1’s MotionShot camera app ported to all Android 4.0+ devices

Android OEMs have been adding quite a lot of camera related features to their devices like slow-motion video recording, drama shot, vertical panorama and more. The Sony Xperia Z1 is no different, and comes

APPS

Dec 18, 2013

Opera Max: If you let your phone’s data flow through Opera’s servers, you’ll use less bits

Opera, the Norwegian browser vendor that invented tabs and start screens and other such things that we take for granted every day, has just announced Opera Max. Before I explain how it works, I want

APPS

Dec 17, 2013

Video ads to land in your Facebook feed later this week

Be prepared for an onslaught of noise and distraction in your Facebook feed as video ads are coming and they are coming soon. As soon as this week, claims a report in the Wall Street

APPS

Dec 14, 2013

Motorola’s Touchless Control app now lets you use more Google Now commands without unlocking, say your pin to unlock

Motorola has released an update for its Touchless Control app. The update allows users to use more Google Now commands without unlocking their device, and the ability to unlock the device by saying the pin.

APPS

Dec 14, 2013

Skype 4.5 update brings Picture in Picture video calls to Android tablets

Skype has released a major update for Android, which like the previous update focuses on improving the tablet experience. Skype 4.5 for Android brings two new features.The first one is the picture in

APPS

Dec 13, 2013

Five apps to help keep you sane during the holiday season

The holiday shopping season is in full swing, which means you are likely encountering mobs of frantic shoppers at Walmart, lots of traffic at the mall and long lines at the Post Office. Take a

APPS

Dec 13, 2013

Google+ Android app update brings shake to add snow to photos, unified search bar and more

Today, Google started rolling out an update for the Google+ app for Android adding some "snow, search and love" to the app. In addition to this, there are also some general bug fixes and performance

APPS

Dec 13, 2013

Cover, the contextually aware lock screen, lands on the Play Store

A couple of months ago, the Coverscreen team gave us a glimpse to their contextually aware lock screen replacement app - Cover. The app has been under a closed beta since then and has received 100+

APPS

Dec 12, 2013

Instagram unveils Instagram Direct, a new photo and video direct messaging feature

Instagram was in New York City to unveil some big news for its photo sharing service. As expected, the company took the wraps off a private and group messaging service it's calling Instagram Direct.

APPS

Dec 12, 2013

SwiftKey v4.5 beta brings emoji and dedicated number row

At the beginning of this month, the SwiftKey team rolled out a new beta that introduced a simpler and unified installer. Today, the team has released another beta version of their popular keyboard adding two

APPS

Dec 12, 2013

Google updates Gmail for Android, now lets you set an out of office and send any file you want

Google has just announced that they've updated the Gmail for Android app. This new version, 4.7 if you're counting, comes with three new features. The first is the ability to set an

APPS

Dec 11, 2013

Google releases Android Device Manager app on the Play Store

Google, today, released an app for its Android Device Manager anti-theft service that it had released earlier this year. The app does everything that the web version of Android Device Manager does, except that

APPS

Dec 11, 2013

Nova Launcher v2.3 update includes all the Google Experience Launcher goodness

Back in November, a beta version of Nova launcher was released by its developer - TeslaCoil - that introduced quite a lot of features as seen on the Google Experience launcher. However, that version was in beta

APPS

Dec 11, 2013

Come February next year, Google will triple the number of game categories in the Play Store

If you aren't using your mobile phone to check Facebook or read that interesting article your friend shared with you on Twitter, chances are you're playing a game to pass the time. Mobile

APPS

Dec 11, 2013

Firefox for Android version 26 brings a new home screen and optimizations for Intel chips

Not everyone likes Google Chrome. I get that. Luckily, you can install as many browsers as you want on an Android device and even set one of them as your default. Some like Opera, some

APPS

Dec 10, 2013

PushBullet updated, adds Firefox support and lets you set custom notification dismal times

PushBullet has easily become one of my favorite Android apps. Calling it app wouldn't actually be fair since you don't really interact with it, you simply set it and forget it. What exactly

APPS

Dec 7, 2013

Google picks the best apps and games on the Play Store for 2013

The Google Play Store team has released their pick of the best apps, games,magazines, books and movie picks on the Play Store. The Play's team pick represent the absolute best of what the