Archive : Mobile

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. [...]

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 [...]

Twitter rolled out a new version of its iOS and Android app, search feature gets improvements including additional topic and user suggestions when searching. Twitter has removed video uploading support for Mobypicture, Posterous, and Vodpod. This will make TwitVid and YFrog the exclusive video uploading services via Twitter’s iOS app. “We recently introduced the ability to see older Tweets [...]

Google updated Maps for iOS app. the company  announced the  the new features in a blog post and noted that it is rolling out the English version of the app to seven new countries Google Maps for iOS gets the ability to search Google Contacts, quickly access search for local places, and select between Kilometers or Miles in an update to version 1.1 today. What’s New in Version 1.1 * Search [...]

Apple may launch the next version of iPhone, dubbed iPhone 5S in August this year, with an update to i Pad series including both a fifth generation 9.7-inch iPad and a second gen iPad mini in April according to sources familiar with Apple’s plans speaking to iMore’s Rene Ritchie. iMore reports that the next iPhone will it will come with a better camera and a faster chip which is only natural, it [...]

Apple’s supplier Corning’s flexible Willow Glass won’t make an appearance in Apple devices until 2016 at the earliest according to a report by Bloomberg. Below are the excerpts from the report: Companies are yet to come up with products that can take full advantage of Willow glass, which can be made in a roll similar to newsprint, James Clappin, president of Corning Glass Technologies, [...]

Google has come out with and update to its YouTube app for iOS, the new features includes the Send to TV feature that Google originally debuted on Android devices last year November. The iOS app will enable users to send YouTube videos from their iOS devices to a Google TV, PS3, or Xbox and soon it would be coming to even more smart TVs this year.   “Have an iPhone or iPad and a Google TV? [...]