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Twitter is reportedly introducing a standalone music app, which could be released on the iOS by the end of this month according to a Cnet report. Twitter purchased  music discovery startup We Are Hunted last year, according to the report. Since the acquisition, Twitter has been using its technology to develop an app called Twitter Music. The report add “Twitter Music, which is set to arrive [...]

Andy Rubin, who co founded Android a decade ago and spent several years at Apple as an engineer, spearheaded Android until now.  Google CEO Larry Page announced in a blog post that Android head Andy Rubin is moving on to other projects, and that Sundar Pichai is taking over. “Sergey and I first heard about Android back in 2004, when Andy Rubin came to visit us at Google. He believed that aligning [...]

Android tablets will continue to grow and cut into Apple’s worldwide tablet market share according to Research firm IDC’s  2013 forecast for worldwide tablet shipments. Tablets powered by  Android Operating System will reach to 49 percent of the market in 2013, while iPad’s share will drop to 46 percent. In 2012, Apple commanded 51 percent, compared with Google’s 46 percent. “One [...]

Google Now can start using the feature in Google’s Windows browser and Chrome OS platform  enable the option if they know the relevant Google Now server. As the feature is not yet public, Google Now  notifications are not yet displayed. Discovered by Francois Beaufort, a fan of Chrome, he posted the information to his Google+ page. In a recent Chromium release, engineers have added a potentially [...]

Pinterest launched a  web analytics tool for Bloggers and website administrators to see how much traffic Pinterest has referred to their websites including how frequently users are clicking on their photos. The  Pinterest Web Analytics can be accessed from here. Businesses  are keen to know what content is popular on Pinterest, since it gives them a window into customers ever changing preferences. [...]

PayPal has announced a new mobile SDK today to try to make it easier for developers to accept payments in iOS apps. “Developers should have the freedom to focus on innovating for their customers, not spending time worrying about handling the complex task of payments. As one of the largest, most trusted online payments service around the globe, nobody can grow with a developer’s business the [...]

Facebook on Friday announced new ways for developers to tap into Open Graph with verbs:  run, walk, bike, rate, quote, want to read and want to watch. Facebook made the announcement in a Blog post. New actions for lifestyle apps The Open Graph supports a variety of popular activities, like watching videos, and we’re adding the following new common actions: Fitness: run, walk, bike Books: read, [...]

Facebook today unveiled the much hyped and awaited major redesign to its News Feed at it’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California. Facebook  soon will have a bunch of new feeds for games, music, sports, photos, events, and news. It features bigger photos and videos, and the desktop version now has the same navigation as the mobile versions. Facebook provided more details in a Blog Post : Today [...]

Android’s share of mobile malware has increased by almost double in the last quarter, and now pegs in at 96 percent of the mobile malware market, according to a recent report by F-Secure Android users may be wondering If android is vulnerable to attack due to it been the the most popular smartphone OS currently, or is it because it’s just fundamentally easier to attack. Whatever the reason, [...]

Apple leads the U.S. smartphone market according to a report  by comScore on the mobile phone users for the November-January period. Apple’s smartphone market share rose 3.5 percentage points between October and January, up to 37.8% of both U.S. smartphone platform and hardware sales. Samsung was second in hardware makers with 21.4%, up from 19.5% three months earlier. HTC and Motorola both [...]