Spotify is finally coming to the United States and has already started accpeting signups for invites in the US. Visitors in the U.S. are now redirected to a signup page where you can enter an email address to be one of the first to receive an invite. The Sweden-based streaming … Read the Full Story →
Google employee Erica Joy recently revealed that Google has officially submitted the Google+ application to Apple’s App Store and is awaiting approval. Joy also went on to mention that the app will be available for both, iPhone and iPad. For my iPhone using friends: the Google+ iPhone app has been … Read the Full Story →
Google recently introduced Swiffy, a service that converts .SWF Flash files into HTML5 compatible with devices like the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Swiffy is part of the Google Labs suite of services that has the potential to become a major part of Google’s media integration in its desktop and … Read the Full Story →
Apple’s App Store offers more than 3,50,000 applications for iOS devices and according Symantec CEO it could be the next target for malware. In an interview with Bloomberg, Symantec’s CEO Enrique Salem cautioned against potential threats and challenges which Apple and Google could face as the mobile app market expands … Read the Full Story →
Early today, Google began rolling out their new web app UI, changing the ‘blue tabs’ at the top of the site to new ‘grey tabs’ with pull down icons. The new change closely resembles tabs on Google’s Chrome web browser. The search giant has also updated their generic search to … Read the Full Story →
With all the buzz being that Apple will bring NFC to the iPhone during its next, inevitable revision we all pondered what a world would be like where we all paid for things just by waving our smartphones at a terminal. That future could well be a reality, but it’s not Apple that will be the first to market but rather its new arch rival – Google.
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Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) on Tuesday officially announced in a company press release that they are acquiring Skype for $8.5 billion. Now, that’s a lot of cash to put down on a company that, just last December left users in the dark before the holiday season, and put fear in investors who … Read the Full Story →
EA has been busy acquiring iPhone game developers and publishers to strengthen its presence in the mobile space. They recently acquired Chillingo one of the most successful game publishers on the App Store and today Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) announced an agreement to acquire Firemint. Firemint, Australia based iOS developers, … Read the Full Story →
According to Apple 2011 is the year of iPad 2 but some tech pundits are calling it the year of ‘iPad 2 Clone’ as every company wants to jump in and capture the tablet market share. Today Sony unveiled their tablets running Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) called S1 and S2. The … Read the Full Story →
Mobile users of Google’s Gmail can now utilise the service to its fullest, thanks to an update that brings Priority Inbox to handheld devices. The idea behind Priority Inbox is simple: Google analyses which emails you read and reply to and uses that information to sort email into normal mail and … Read the Full Story →
Two percent does not seem like a huge number. But when you consider that 2% of the entire world’s internet browsing (that’s including desktop computers) is done using iOS today, that tends to put that figure in sharper focus. It is an impressive achievement for a mobile operating system. And … Read the Full Story →
Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear. It seems someone at Samsung has been a little economical with the truth of late! I’m sure we all remember Samsung boasting that they had managed to sell 1 million Galaxy Tabs by December and how by January that number had doubled to 2 … Read the Full Story →
With Apple putting AirPrint into iOS but not allowing the use of a shared printer many users were left out in the cold with their only option being to buy a new printer. Now though, Google of all companies has come to the rescue by launching Cloud Print. Cloud Print … Read the Full Story →
Samsung put the hype machine in overdrive after announcing ‘something big’ is on the way on a Samsung website. Showing a picture of a Galaxy S beside a mystery device, Samsung added the words ‘evolution is fate’ for that added drama. Expected to run Android 2.3 and possibly powered by Samsung’s … Read the Full Story →
With HP’s ‘Something big, something small, something beyond’ event coming up on February 9th, rumours have been rife as to what we will be seeing coming out of the computer giant. What we expected was something using Palm’s WebOS – probably a tablet. Turns out we could well be seeing … Read the Full Story →
