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Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One Google Play edition phones have started getting an OTA (over-the-air) upgrade to Android 4.3 today evening. ‘ I just got the 4.3 OTA notification on both of my Google-suppled GPe phones. The update is around 150 MB for the SGS4 and 180 MB for the HTC One, and comes as build JWR66V. This comes immediately after both HTC and Samsung released their Android 4.3 kernel [...]

Android Gingerbread 2.3 operating system simply refuses to fade away even though it’s a  two year old mobile software primarily as the low cost devices with frugal hardware could only support that. Not surprisingly, its found on  33% of Android devices as per   Android Developers Page. Android Jelly Bean leads with a 40% share of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich  still has 22.5% share and [...]

Active Google Maps users now get a chance to show off their knowledge through Google City Experts, Google’s effort  to encourage more high quality local business reviews on Google+.Users who have at least 50 reviews to will be required to produce at least five new reviews each month for which they will be rewarded. The program is currently limited to London, Birmingham, Bristol and Edinburgh [...]

Popular game maker Zynga has taken issue  Facebook’s casual sex app ‘Bang With Friends’  for infringing its trademark of ‘with friends’ ( Words With Friends, Chess With Friends and Hanging With Friends)family of games  and have  filed a lawsuit against the app maker. Bang with Friends makes it easy to turn Facebook friends into flings. That’s news to Bang With Friends’ [...]

Two former Apple retail store employees have sued the company for unpaid salary and overtime compensation, claiming that  hourly paid employees were not had to wait in line and go through security bag searches during their lunch time or after they had clocked out according to a report by Bloomberg. The ex-employees  who reportedly have worked at Apple for years are seeking class action status for [...]

Microsoft Office Mobile Comes To Android Smartphones Running Android 4.0 Or Higher After debuting Microsoft Office mobile on iPhone in June, six weeks later Microsoft is launching Microsoft Office Mobile for Android phone running 4.0 or higher. Microsoft is in no mood for an Android tablet version of the app is clear from it’s recommendation to the users to  use of the Office Web Apps on Android [...]

Taiwanese phone maker HTC has announced a revenue and profit warnings for Q3 2013 which says that HTC may make its first ever loss in 16 years – first time since it’s inception. The  company’s profits have been heading south for few quarters now mainly due to fierce competition from dominant smartphone makers Apple and Samsung coupled by saturation of Smartphone demand. Delay in launch [...]

The Nexus 7 launch also saw Android Jelly Bean getting a bump to version 4.3. Android 4.3 look and feel are not much different than it’s predecessor, the home screen, app drawer Google Now, and Notifications all looks familiar. The most important addition to Android 4.3 is the Multi-User Restricted Profiles feature, which lets the primary user control the usage of apps and other content of other [...]

Facebook’s announced it’s Q2 2013 earnings today, the results are much better than expected thanks to a massive increase in mobile advertising, it reported its best fiscal quarter to date with revenues of US $1.813 billion and a net profit of US $ 333 million against expectations of  $1.62 billion revenue. This meant a  30 percent increase over last quarter, Share markets were evidently [...]

Google on Wednesday announced the next in line Nexus 7 tablet to the media in a breakfast event with Sundar Pichai, president of Android and Chrome at Google, the new 7-inch  weighs 290 grams, the tablet is lighter and thinner than its previous generation and comes with a  1080p resolution. It runs the newer 4.3 version of Androd Jelly Bean, specs include a high resolution 7-inch screen with a [...]