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Twitter App To Receive Update With DM History
Jul 18th
In an upcoming update for the Android Twitter App, users will be able to view older Direct Messages on their mobile devices, and also reliably and consistently delete them across platforms. Read More
Chrome On iOS Updated — Cast Support, New Icon
Jul 15th
Google Chrome on iOS devices has just been updated, bringing a new and interesting feature: support for Google Cast. As of now, developers will need to add Cast support to their Web pages, and then Chrome users will be able to ‘Cast’ them on to their supported devices. Read More
65 Percent Increase In Time Spent On Apps
Jul 3rd
Nielsen recently did a research on how many Apps do users actually use and how much time they spend on their mobile phones. According to the report, U.S. Android and iPhone users who are 18 years and over are spending more time each month on their Apps than they did two years ago. From spending 18 hours 18 minutes in Q4 2011 users are now putting in 30 hours 15 minutes in Q4 2013, which shows 65% increase in time spent on phones. Read More
Apple Loses To Google For Most Valuable Brand 2014
May 25th
According to the Millward Brown annual BrandZ study, Apple, hailed by the same study as the Most Valuable Brand for the past three years, loses to Google for Most Valuable Brand 2014. It has been speculated that Google has been fast gaining on Apple in the past year and this year it finally overtook the tech giant. Read More
Google Search for iOS Updated, Voice Search is Now Interactive
May 14th
Google has just released a new version of the Google Search App for iOS, updating it to version 4.0.0. The major change in this update is that Google Search has just got more interactive. Once you start the voice search with a simple ‘Ok, Google’, and ask something like ‘What’s the weather like today?’, you can actually follow up with a query like ‘what about tomorrow?’, and Google Search will understand that you are once again asking about the weather, without you having to repeat yourself. Read More
Samsung To Pay Around $120 Million To Apple For Patent Infringement
May 3rd
In a report by Re/code, it has been revealed that a federal jury reached a verdict in a trial between Samsung and Apple, and has concluded that Samsung has in fact infringed several of Apple’s patents, awarding them $119.6 Million in damages. Read More
“Can You Escape” For iOS – For The Detective In You
Apr 22nd
If you enjoy solving puzzles and clues to reach to a solution, you’ll love the game “Can You Escape”. The game is by Kaarel Kirsipuu, who has a list of escape games to his credit. Can You Escape has 8 levels and task at each level is to solve the puzzle by finding hidden objects or coded numbers in the room in order to advance to the next level. When you enter the room you look around and click on objects, enlarge them to look for clues. Sometimes you even have to solve mathematical puzzles, some color correlations and more to reach to the final key to unlock the door. The difficulty grows at each level, and this keeps the player glued. Read More
iPhone Users Can Now View Texts on Google Glass
Apr 22nd
In an update on their Google+ page, Google has announced that users with Google Glass and an iPhone can now view their text messages on their glasses. Read More
Samsung Saw Steve Jobs’ Death As The Best Opportunity To Attack iPhone
Apr 17th
The emails and documents which are being used as evidence in the ongoing trial between Apple and Samsung have brought forward some very secret and bizarre facts. One such email from Samsung obtained by Apple Insider lets out a very interesting move by Samsung. According to this email of Oct 2011, Samsung feared Steve Jobs death could take the attention away from its new launch Galaxy S II as people perceived Jobs as visionary and perfectionist and this would prove to be an unintended benefit for Apple. So instead going after Apple publicly they tried to use this as an opportunity by launching an Anti-iPhone marketing campaign. Read More
Apple And Google Competing For Square?
Apr 10th
Last year, both Apple and Google approached the mobile payment company Square for acquisition. Square, the mobile payment company by Jack Dorsey, co-founder and co-creator of Twitter. In the past, there have been speculations that Google would be the probable buyer as it would want more information on the purchases that consumers make, both to check how well its ads work and to subsequently target those ads to people. This is one of the reasons why it launched Google Wallet, which is yet to catch popularity for payments. But people close to Dorsey doubt Google to be the buyer because of the sour past discussions over acquisition of Twitter and also Dorsey believes Square’s design values are more towards Apple. Read More
