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News by: Hamad Ali 25th May 2014

Google’s Play Store finally has a mobile web version. Going to play.google.com/store on any mobile device allows you to see a version of the site optimized for any mobile device iPad, iPhone, or other smartphones and tablets — will now display content optimized for touch displays.

Obviously this doesn’t matter if you’re on Android and have the Play Store

News by: Justin Herrick, Robert Nazarian 2nd Feb 2014

Despite selling Motorola to Lenovo, Google decided to keep the Advanced Technology and Products (ATAP) department and Project Ara in Mountain View. Google has announced that the inaugural Ara Developers’ Conference will be held on April 15-16. The focus of this first event will be the Ara Developers’ Module Kit since it will

News by: Jared Peters 24th Feb 2014

As we all know that Facebook had bought the WhatsApp, and here comes the new announcement from WhatsApp under new management from Facebook, has shifted course slightly on its 2014 roadmap. At MWC this year, CEO of the company, Jan Koum, announced that WhatsApp users would be seeing a new feature rolled out in the next few months: voice calling.

Voice

News by: Jared Peter 31st Jan 2014

Android 4.4 Kitkat brings the amazing addition and that was new ART Runtime Compiler for apps that was set to replace the aging Dalvik. ART was introduced as an experimental feature in Android’s developer options, and it came with its own set of problems. Even though ART was quite a bit faster than Dalvik, many apps didn’t play nice with the new

News by: Harrison Kaminsky 26th November 2013

Jelly Bean was Project Butter in Android 4.1, which had the goal to make Android’s system processes “buttery smooth” by making the operating system faster, more reliable, and less error prone to crashes.

However, Project Butter didn't do much on the memory footprint reduction front for Android. So, with the goal to make the newest

News by: Aditiya Thawardas 14th November 2013

BBM received an update to version 1.0.2. With the new version comes a few requested features, along with bug fixes. Contact Categories are now supported, which allow you to create categories in your contacts list in order to help organize your friends. Also, list sorting and filtering is possible. The entire change log includes:

BBM Contact

News by: Robert Nazarian 31st October 2013

As we all know that Google has officially taken the wrapper off the newest version of their operating system, Android 4.4 KitKat.this will be rolling to devices soon. Google is calling it Beautiful and Immersive and says it has a more polished design, improved performance, and new features. What are those features. Well lets get started.

News by: Harrison Kaminsky 31st October 2013

Android 4.4 for developer and designer:

Videos are available for android developers and designers, you should know about some of the changes being made in the latest version of Android OS, 4.4 KitKat-this includes new guidelines, orientations, and workflows for user interaction and experience. For development, this includes access to new tools

News by: Jeff Causey 31st October 2013

Good News:Google has officially taken the wrapper off the newest version of their operating system, Android 4.4 KitKat. The first device to get KitKat will be the Nexus 5 announced today by Google with owners of all Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 devices getting the update over the next several weeks. Google also indicates owners of the Google Play

News by: Bertel King 30 October 2013

Facebook is redesigned. The new version is currently rolling out to a limited number of
users, with a wider release planned for the coming weeks.

What's New:

Facebook said they're removing SMS support, but the app currently still
wants the ability to read and send text messages. Though, there is a
chance this could have something to do with

News by: Robert Nazarian 29th October 2013

Earlier today, Vic Gundotra unveiled some really cool enhancements for Google+.
Now it’s available for download. It appears this is an early build so
there could be a couple of bugs. You will find Google+ Photos has now
changed to Photos, which is what we saw in all the Android 4.4 leaks.
You also get a new Locations widget, sharing menu,

News by: Robert Nazarian 29th October 2013

18 new
features were announced by Vic Gundotra, who hosted a Google+ event this morning. Before i get into all the changes, Vic announced that Google+
now has over 540 million active users and 300 million in the stream at
anytime. He also mentioned that over 1.5 billion photos are uploaded
each week and growing rapidly.

Changes in

News by: Robert Nazarian 28th October 2013

BBM
for Android and iOS plans on enhancing
it even more. EVP of BBM for BlackBerry, Andrew Bocking, made an
appearance on CBC’s The Morning Edition and had some interesting things
to say. He mentioned BBM Channels, which is a “social engagement platform within BBM.” Users
will be able to connect with communities and businesses. It’s could be

News by: Artern Russakovsskii 23nd Sep 2013

After many updates of YouTube application here is the new update which i like most Background Audio, we’ve always desperately wanted one feature – the ability to listen audio in the background. That would make it possible to listen to music via YouTube while still multitasking on your device. It seems like our wish is going to be

News by: Aditiya Thawardas ,21 OCT 2013

we all have listened many rumours about the new Play Store application, version 4.4.21, which features a new slide-out navigation menu. As a refresher, the slide-out menu will have the following options: Store home, My apps, My wishlist, and Redeem, in addition to “Shop” at certain times. Today, I have the update for us to download. There’s no

News by: Bertel King,10 OCT 2013

Outlook Android application is updated with new features , and the most notable Feature is server-side search. This new functionality allows you to search through all of your email, even messages that aren't on your phone. But Microsoft must have doubts about the app's reliability, because they've included a link to search for more messages at outlook.com