Archive : Mobile

Samsung’s market value eroded on Friday  by US $12 Billion which is 6 percent of its value due to  brokerage downgrades that have highlighted concerns about slowing sales of its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone according to a report by Reuters. “The share slide of more than 6 percent comes after it recently introduced two stripped-down versions of the S4, fanning worries that profit margins [...]

Twitter launched Vine for Android on Monday,  the Android version of it’s popular video capturing and sharing service via Google Play. Vine app for iOS has been available since January with about 13 million active users soon after Twitter purchased it. The Android version does not have al lthe goodies of it’s iOS counterpart. “Though we’ve been very focused on releasing Vine [...]

 Google Glass app called “Tits & Glass” developed by developers at MiKandi, a mobile app store for adult content which was launched on Monday was in the news for becoming the first sexually explicit app on Google’s revolutionary device, the app allows users “share racy content from their devices directly to other Glass users and online” . Google updated its developer [...]

Apple iPod was until recently sold in 32GB and 64GB  variants,on Thursday without fanfare Apple has released a new version of the iPod Touch, the iPod Touch 16GB, it’s priced at £199, it’s a bit less expensive than the fifth-generation 32GB iPod Touch at £249 and 64GB iPod Touch at £329. Apple has stopped selling the 3.5-inch fourth generation 16GB iPod Touch. The new 16GB iPod touch [...]

Rumour had that Samsung is coming out with a smaller and compact version of it’s hugely popular and fast selling flagship smartphone  Samsung Galaxy S4 with dialed back specs and price. On Thursday the Korean giant has officially taken the wraps off the Galaxy S4 mini. Galaxy S4 mini will be powered by a 1.7 GHz dual-core processor, alongside 1.5GB of RAM and 8GB of internal memory — of [...]

Google Play All Access music streaming service was launched few weeks ago at Google I/O and was available for Android mobile OS, with an iOS app sorely missed and keenly awaited. The wait seems to be nearly over.  At the D11 conference, Google’s head of Android Sundar Pichai confirmed that the service will be making its way to iOS according to Engadget. Users who start a free trial by June 30th, [...]

Evernote has today announced that they are beefing up security of their wildly popular app, rolling out two step authentication and two other features to ensure that the user is the only person accessing your Evernote account. The updates come after Evernote was hacked few weeks ago and usernames, email addresses, and encrypted passwords were compromised. Two-step authentication works by getting a [...]

Google shows off a new Gmail interface for both Android and iOS, along with a new inbox experience for the web, a new inbox feature that offers automatic organization of incoming mail into groups. Category labelled “Primary” will house messages from friends and family, and the messages which do not land in other tabs.  “Social” tab will automatically contain notifications and [...]

Twitter allows popular individuals to verify their Twitter profiles to avoid fake profiles  through verification check marks, Facebook  is following Twitter’s lead and have on Wednesday announced Verified Pages feature, which will also make it easier for users to find the official account of celebrities and prominent people they want to follow. Profiles will be marked with a small blue icon [...]

Facebook no longer seem to be in the race to buy the Silicon Valley  startup, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told  Allthings’sD Walt Mossberg at All Things D’s D11 on Wednesday that Facebook isn’t getting into proprietary Facebook mapping software. Google also reportedly was in the hunt and had offered $1 billion to win over the owners of Waze. The report further added that “the [...]