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Apple on Thursday published its best of 2012 selections on the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBookstore — and there are a few surprises. Last year, Instagram received iPhone app of the year, while Snapseed got the best iPad app. The “Best of 2012” rankings include winners in a variety of mediums among multiple categories. Below are a list of the biggest overall winners: iTunes Store Music Best [...]

Google Currents for Android has received a new update which makes it easier to scan through categories and editions from Google publisher partners like The Guardian in the app. Official Android Blog detailed the release Currents is filled with great editions like The Los Angeles Times, CBS Sports, Android Central, The Guardian, Shortlist, and Forbes. Today, we’re revamping Currents to make it even [...]

Google is filtering explicit content in Google image search queries in the US and UK, even for users who have Safe Search turned off. Google has made changes to the Safe Search parameters, users now need to be more specific when requesting explicit content. You can enable “Filter explicit results” from the SafeSearch button. The only close to a official statement came for a Google representative [...]

Yahoo launched a new version of Yahoo Mail, making the popular email service faster and cleaner, with a consistent look across all devices. The new version was announced by Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer in a blog post, will be available on all major platforms, it includes an updated web Mail version and new apps for  Windows 8, iPhone and Android. “You’ve told us loud and clear that [...]

Twitter released its 2012 Year In Review  on Tuesday which reflect upon what happened on Twitter this year. Here’s what Twitter had to say: Every day, we’re amazed and humbled by the many ways in which people use Twitter, which range from simply retweeting to igniting conversations with hashtags (even around lesser-known topics) to sharing spectacular and far-flung views. In 2012, everyone on [...]

Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo announced a re-design, with the option to include a large header photo across the top of Twitter user profile pages few weeks ago. Starting on December 12,all Twitter users will be forced over to use the “cover photo”, ala Facebook and other services. Twitter announced the changes in a Blog post. “A few months ago, we introduced new Twitter profiles so that [...]

Social Media is abuzz with reports about Gmail and other Google services, such as Google Play, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Chrome Sync facing an outage this evening. Many are experiencing the outage, but it is not a total outage. Google’s Apps Status Dashboard indicates a service disruption on Dec. 10 for both Gmail and Google Drive. In addition, the status site “Is it down?” said [...]

Google Apps, the popular and cheaper alternative to Microsoft Exchange was a huge hit with small Businesses and Education Industry, in its earlier day it use to offer Apps for Business for free for up to 200 users, Google was phasing out support for its free Google Apps for businesses over the last couple of years. The party finally ends today – Google is now pulling the plug on its free Google [...]

YouTube has updated the YouTube app for iOS on Tuesday with support for the iPhone 5′s display, along with the ability to stream videos over AirPlay to the Apple TV or other enabled devices more easily. The updated iOS YouTube app now also has full support for the iPad, with a iPad friendly interface that is specifically designed for Apple’s tablet. “Just in time for the holidays, now you [...]

Google has released a much needed new version of its iOS Gmail app for iPhone and iPad promising a “faster, sleeker and easier” email experience. The release adds key features such as support for multiple accounts and auto-complete functionality. You can now log in to as many as five Google accounts and switch among them with a couple of taps. The app also adds many new time-saving features. For [...]