By Brandon Russell |
Google’s new All Access subscription service is pretty great, but it’s currently confined to either the Web or Android devices. Unfortunate, but rather than sit around and sulk about its absence on iOS, developer James Clancey decided to create an app, gMusic, to access Google’s…
By Adriana Lee |
If new media is the hot, young neighbor on the block, then television is like the grand dame holding court in the mansion up the street. She’s clearly the richest lady in the county, and eventually everyone comes knocking to pay homage to her. First…
By Jacob Kleinman |
In its first day on the App Store, Bondsy was used to trade a few pounds of bacon for a bag of coffee beans, an old Nintendo Wii for a potted plant and several other weird transactions that don’t usually happen. The new app, which…
By Brandon Russell |
In collaboration with Microsoft, Google is developing a new YouTube application for Windows Phone that will, among other things, enable ads. According to a report from TheVerge, the two have resolved their differences after publicly fighting over Microsoft’s unauthorized YouTube app, which Google attempted to…
By Brandon Russell |
A new version of Gmail for Android is on the way, and it introduces a completely new design, including the now standard navigation drawer. Outed during a Google I/O session called “Structure in Android App Design,” the new Gmail ditches the familiar action bar and…
By Jacob Kleinman |
Smule, the company best known for making the iOS music apps including Ocarina and I Am T-Pain (the 25th most downloaded app in iPhone history), announced today in an interview with Evolver that it raked in $12.6 million in 2012 thanks to 100 million app store…
By Brandon Russell |
Drops First Aid, an app that provides helpful information for potential life-threatening situations, is one of those apps that should come standard on every smartphone. Think about it: the more people that know how to perform CPR, and provide general first aid, the better. We…
By Todd Haselton |
Nokia’s HERE Maps application for Windows Phone 8 recently gained another new feature: LiveSight. Like City Lens, which provides an augmented reality overlay on your screen to show you were points of interest are, Nokia said LiveSight will “recognize and identify places around you simply…
By Todd Haselton |
BlackBerry said during its BlackBerry Live conference last week that it will soon deliver standalone BBM applications to Android and iOS users. It’s a bizarre move on the surface, especially considering that BlackBerry is known for two things among consumers: BBM and its keyboards. Why…
By Adriana Lee |
Will Microsoft’s new YouTube app update for Windows Phone appease Google and end the bickering between the two tech companies? Well, let’s just say it’s a start. Google issued a cease and desist letter earlier this month, calling for Microsoft to pull its YouTube Windows…
By Jacob Kleinman |
Google is rolling out a new update for it’s Drive app on Android, promising a smoother cloud storage experience and a few new exciting features. First off, Google Drive on Android is getting the same “card-style” UI that Google has been rolling out across its…
By Jacob Kleinman |
If Siri’s just not cutting it anymore IBM might have the answer. The company’s Jeopardy-winning, cancer diagnosing supercomputer is being rebranded as a question-answering customer service web service and smartphone app called “Ask Watson” (we only hope IBM isn’t planning on dressing Watson up in…
By Jacob Kleinman |
GrubHub and Seamless, two of the biggest online food delivery services in the U.S., announced a merger that will allow the newly formed company to serve over 500 cities with food from more than 20,000 restaurants across the country. GrubHub founder Matt Maloney will take…
By Todd Haselton |
AT&T customers were shocked, some frustrated, when they discovered that Google’s new Hangout service didn’t support video chat over AT&T’s wireless network. The carrier commented on the situation last week and said that, in some cases, it doesn’t support pre-loaded video applications. This isn’t always…
By Todd Haselton |
Last week Google announced that it totally revamped its Google+ social network with tons of new features. We love it so far, and now we’re looking forward to enjoying the company’s brand new Android application, which was announced and released on Monday. Google promises that…
By Brandon Russell |
Wednesday’s three hour Google presentation covered a wide spectrum of information—some exciting, some not—that included a pretty massive update to Google Maps. It looks different, and acts different. Is that a good thing? Absolutely. This is easily the best, most comprehensive Maps experience ever. The…
By Brandon Russell |
Not even Google wants anything to do with its ill-fated Nexus Q, which the company unceremoniously dropped last year after a hugely bungled launch. According to multiple reports, including a confirmation by Google itself, the search giant’s new Music app isn’t compatible with the streaming…
By Brandon Russell |
Google Hangouts, the search giant’s new unified messaging service, isn’t likely to become much of a threat to existing platforms, particularly being so late to the game. But that doesn’t make its existence is any less important. Behind Google’s enormous ecosystem, the app introduces a…
By Todd Haselton |
Google Glass is about to get a handful of new applications, including Tumblr, Facebook, CNN, Ellse and Evernote, TechCrunch said on Thursday. The applications should be available for Glass owners by the end of the day. The Facebook app allows you to post pictures to your…
By Adriana Lee |
Google versus Apple is so over. It’s all about Google versus Microsoft now. Yes, I know that Google CEO Larry Page told I/O attendees that companies shouldn’t be pitted against each together in the press, but it’s sort of tough not to when those companies…
By Brandon Russell |
Even in our hyper-connected world, Google said we struggle to communicate with the ones we love. Not that the industry lacks solutions, but there hasn’t been anything, in the company’s opinion, that moves technology aside in favor of people. It sounds a lot like Facebook’s…
By Sean P. Aune |
Apple announced via an image on its site today that the iOS App Store has surpassed 50 billion downloads. On May 2 Apple announced that it was closing in on 50 billion downloads from its App Store, and a mere 13 days later it has…
By Todd Haselton |
Google announced Google Hangouts as its new cross-platform standalone chat application on Wednesday. It allows users with a Google account to chat with one another, video chat or even group chat across platforms, whether it’s on a desktop computer, a laptop, a tablet, a smartphone…
By Todd Haselton |
Google last night quietly issued an update to Google Play that changes the user interface just a hair. It’s not as drastic as the update that was issued in April, but it tweaks the way the icons for apps, games, movies & TV, music, books…
