By Jacob Kleinman |
Skype’s video messaging service, which launched in beta form in February, is now live for Android, iOS and PCs. Oddly, Microsoft’s own Windows Phone operating system was left out of the fold, though we imagine that will launch in the near future. The latest addition to…
By Todd Haselton |
Google Play Music is awesome, and we especially love the new All Access feature that allows us to search for and play songs from artists around the globe. The only problem? Apparently there was an issue in the first version of the software that was…
By Jacob Kleinman |
Google’s Senior VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra announced an update to Google+ today that will sync notifications across mobile devices and desktop computers. The company also released an update for its social network‘s mobile app to introduce syncing, sharing stats and allowing users to delete…
By Jacob Kleinman |
Foursquare released an update for its Android app recently, and the company promises a better mapping and search experience. The upgrades to the popular social media app seem tailored to a new generation of bigger smartphones, making better use of additional screen real estate. For mapping, Foursquare improves…
By Jacob Kleinman |
Gmail’s desktop UI has gone through some pretty drastic changes in the past few weeks, and now that Google seems to have the new design sorted out it’s time to bring it over to the mobile world where the first stop is the Android app,…
By Jacob Kleinman |
Vine is finally on Android. While the six-second video-making app’s arrival in the Google Play store should be cause for celebration, some smartphone users are complaining that the newly-ported app is glitchy, buggy or just not working at all. Of course, these complaints represent a small…
By Jacob Kleinman |
Vine, the six second video app best-known for creative stop motion and one-liner jokes from aspiring comedians, finally landed in the Google Play store today for Android devices after its long stint as an iPhone-only service. In a blog post announcing the news, Twitter boasted that the app is…
By Jacob Kleinman |
A new extension for DashClock released this morning displays Google Hangout notifications on your modified lock screen. The update brings yet another add-on the the popular lock screen widget for Android, which already lets you view the weather, missed calls, unread Gmail messages and more. While the…
By Jacob Kleinman |
Earlier today, WhitePages (no, not that White Pages) announced it acquired Mr. Number, a spam identifying and call blocking Android app with more than seven million downloads and a cemented spot in the Google Play top 20 communication apps category. WhitePages hopes to use Mr. Number’s services…
By Jacob Kleinman |
If you want to learn a foreign language and have an Android phone then this is your lucky week. Pick up Duolingo for free on Google Play and start learning a foreign language the fun way. Google Play’s app of the week uses gamification to teach…
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 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 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 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 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…
By Todd Haselton |
Heading to Google I/O? Maybe we’ll see you there, but if not you can download the new Google application to catch up on the live streams while they take place. If you are heading, you’ll definitely want to install the new update, which will allow you…
By Todd Haselton |
Amazon’s Android application store is now available where Google’s own paid app store isn’t: China. The company already offered Chinese residents an option to buy eBooks but, until now, applications were not availabl. To be fair, Google Play is also available in China but, according…
By Todd Haselton |
Angry Birds Friends, the popular Facebook social game, is now available on iOS and Android devices. The premise is similar to what you can expect from other Angry Birds franchise titles, but instead of playing solo you’re actually competing for high scores and power ups…
By Adriana Lee |
Irony, thy name is Google Now. Mountain View’s answer to Siri has been gracing Jelly Bean devices since last year, and today, the iOS app for Google Now has entered the stadium. Some say it’s as good as Siri, others say it’s even better. But…
By Todd Haselton |
Vine launched for iOS on January 24 as a Twitter product that allows users to take quick 6.5 second snapshots of the life around them and upload them to Twitter. Users can follow one another on the service, too, and like or comment on the…
By Adriana Lee |
Google extended its charitable branch, Google.org, to mobile last Friday with the new One Today Android app. From the looks of it, the core, social-driven mechanisms could prove to be a rather effective fundraising tool. Users choose a charity and agree to match any $1…
By Ron Duwell |
Google launched its “MyGlass” companion app in the Google Play market on Tuesday. The app will be integral to connecting the augmented reality glasses to a smartphone, and it’s likely that the application was published since the early Explorer Edition of Google Glass is shipping…
By Sean P. Aune |
Choosing the apps that will be the most useful to you can be a difficult task. Despite Google recently purging 60,000 apps from Google Play, there are still thousands upon thousands for you to sort through to find the ones that will best suit your…
By Adriana Lee |
If Facebook Home was one of my friends, I’d be breaking out the ice cream and letting her cry on my shoulder right about now. She just had her coming-out party and basically got rejected from most of the people who danced with her. Facebook…
