Archive : Mobile

The twitter feed of news agency Associated Press (AP) was hacked, and “reported” that there was an explosion at The White House, injuring US President Barack Obama. The tweet came around 5 pm BST. The tweet was identified as fake as no other news agencies are reporting any situation at the White House. The false tweets had it repercussions, the US stock market briefly tanked. The Dow Jones [...]

iPhone 4 owners who had not taken advantage of Apple’s free case offer for the ‘AntennaGate’ and filed a class action lawsuit against Apple, were promised $15 checks, instead. The US $15 “AntennaGate” settlement checks have started arriving for qualifying iPhone 4 users. The lawsuit was filed for “misrepresenting and concealing material information in the marketing, [...]

Geeksphone, a start-up phone manufacturer headquartered in Madrid, Spain who were the first company to sell Firefox OS based phones for sale ran out of stock in just few hours according to a report from TechCrunch. The phones named Keon and Peak were retailing for US $119 and $194 respectively. “Due to the great demand of our phones at shop.geeksphone.com, the shop is currently out of stock.” [...]

Google is testing waters to adding Google Now functionality to the Google home page according to Alex Chitu from the Google Operating System blog. Google Now is currently available for Android users and Google Glass users, “Google Now uses your location to show relevant information like weather, traffic conditions, and nearby places. Google can know your location based on your browser settings and [...]

A Malware  family called Badnews has been discovered by Lookout Security in Google Play developer accounts, Badnews avoided detection and made its way onto the Google Play store has been downloaded between 2-9 million times according to Lookout . Google was notified of the outbreak and all affected apps have been removed from the Android store. Lookout found 32 applications that contained code from [...]

Twitter introduced a new music discovery app called Twitter #music on Thursday. Twitter provided more information in a Blog Post.   “Today, we’re releasing Twitter #music, a new service that will change the way people find music, based on Twitter. It uses Twitter activity, including Tweets and engagement, to detect and surface the most popular tracks and emerging artists. It also [...]

Twitter advertisers rejoice, Twitter has introduced changes to its ad platform which will let advertisers to target ads to Twitter users based on the words used in the tweets and deliver ads based on those keywords. The feature called ‘keyword targeting in timelines‘, and its available today in 15 languages and all markets. Twitter says that this does not mean more ads for the users, only that [...]

 Prices for Windows 8 powered touch screen devices, including laptops, are set to plunge according to Intel CEO Paul Otellini. Mobile devices based on Intel  running Windows 8 currently are at least 60% expensive than Android powered hardware in the same segment. “If you look at touch-enabled Intel-based notebooks that are ultrathin using [Bay Trail] processors. Those prices are going to be [...]

Google updated its YouTube app for iOS on Monday, adding a new features like live streaming and the ability to queue videos for TV playback. According to the update notes listed in the App Store, version 1.3 brings these new features: Quick access to new uploads for subscriptions via “My Subscriptions” feed on the Guide. Access to Live streams. Queue up videos to play on TV. One Channel [...]

Mozilla will begin selling smartphones running its new mobile operating system this June in nine countries across Continents according to Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs speaking at AllThingsD’s Dive Into Mobile conference on Monday. “We haven’t done a great job [on mobile browsing]. I’m expecting someone will do a Apple on the whole browsing experience,” said   Kovacs. “We plan to launch [...]