Archive : Mobile

The European Commission had made a preliminary antitrust finding against Google’s Motorola Mobility,it has sent Motorola,  a list of complaints on how it had abused its market position by seeking and enforcing a patent-related injunction against Apple. The EU Commission takes step to ensure that companies with huge patent chest do not prevent competitors from using technologies that are crucial [...]

Google  I/O conference, Google’s annual conference for Developers which features more than 120 sessions on the Android and Chrome operating systems and  one keynote begins May 15 and ends on May 17  in San Francisco. This conference is eagerly awaited each year as it usually brings some exciting new development for Android and Google’s other projects. Last year at Google I/O was announced [...]

PayPal introduced “Log In with PayPal” which essentially is a new avatar of its PayPal Access feature for online merchants, the new feature is tailored for mobile devices. Paypal call it’s “commerce identity system” that will make it easy for shoppers to checkout using PayPal, consequently improving the user experience on merchant websites. It uses the Industry standard [...]

Google was reportedly working on launching its Android based information aggregation tool Google Now to iOS. Google has now officially made Google Now available on iOS  with an update to the Google Search application. The look and feel is identical to it’s Android version and is available for both the iPhone and iPad, “Google Now is about giving you just the right information at just the [...]

Latest number from market researcher Kantar confirm’s  Android’s overwhelming dominance of the UK and the Global smartphone market Among the nine countries (Australia, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, UK and the U.S.) surveyed by Kantar   Android on average accounted for 64.2% of all handset sales in Q1 2013.   Windows Phone accounted for 6.5% of sales with an increase of  [...]

Twitter has at last refreshed its Mac desktop application after two years with a few new features.  It released a Mac app with simplified photo-sharing options, support for Retina displays, and 14 new languages. Today we’re announcing a few improvements to Twitter for Mac: Photos: It’s easier than ever to share photos. Simply click the camera icon in the lower-left corner of the Tweet compose [...]

Nokia is getting inspired  from Apple by having exclusive press events and sending out invites that gives only a hint of what it might be about. Nokia has sent out an invite to the members of the press to an event here in London on May 14. The invite teases “See what’s next” followed by “The Nokia Lumia story continues.” Nokia might announce at least one new Windows Phone handset at the [...]

Tumblr  released an updated iOS app on Wednesday, improvements includes new sharing features that allows Twitter and Facebook sharing, linking to third party apps like Tweetbot, the ability to save content for later reading and new templates for sharing posts through email. Tumblr detailed the new features in a Blog Post What’s New in Version 3.3.1 Now you can do more than just reblog when you [...]

Apple reported  earnings for first quarter of 2013, it posted a quarterly revenue of $43.6 billion and quarterly net profit of $9.5 billion, Apple earned $10.09 per share on the revenue of $43.60 billion versus $12.30 a share on $39.19 billion a year earlier. Apple sold 37.4 million iPhones in the quarter, compared with 35.1 million in the same period a year ago.Apple was sold 19.5 million iPads versus [...]

Wavii, the Seattle based startup which allows users find personalized feeds of the news, has been purchased by Google. TechCrunch is reporting that Google purchased Wavii for more than $30 million. Neither Google nor Wavii has confirmed or denied the news. “Wavii is kind of like having your own team of people whose only job is to work 24-7 to find the most relevant news, photos and videos about [...]