Archive : Mobile

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 tablets. Office Mobile on Android is almost identical to it’s iPhone variant. [...]

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 [...]

Apple announced its quarterly earnings for Q3 2013 on Wednesday, it recorded revenue of US$35.3 billion and quarterly net profit of $6.9 billion  and an earnings per share of $7.47. Analysts expected the sales to be around $35.02 with a earnings per share $7.32. iPhone sales quashed concerns that a robust competition is hitting demand. Apple  sold 31.2 million iPhones in the quarter, far more [...]

Apple is testing larger display sizes potential future models for both the iPad and the iPhone according to a report from Wall Street Journal which quotes unnamed sources. “In recent months, Apple has asked for prototype smartphone screens larger than 4 inches and has also asked for screen designs for a new tablet device measuring slightly less than 13 inches diagonally.” quotes the article. The [...]

After buying out Toronto-based crowd-sourced location data company  Locationary, Apple purchased  transit navigation app HopStop, HopStop’s deal was first reported by Bloomberg . HopStop organises data on local businesses and will be a part of the mapping suite too. The deal to pick up HopStop which had recently launched a Waze like service for reporting delays, accidents and other traffic [...]