Facebook has made it a routine to introduce annoying new features every now and then. Based on the face that the Facebook user count is approaching 1 billion, it is least bothered by the fact that a certain feature is not generally liked by the public. We have seen that in the past with the [...]
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The very best mobile apps of 2012 were celebrated last night in an event hosted by Dermot O’Leary and sponsored by Carphone Warehouse – Europe’s largest independent mobile phone retailer. The ‘Appy Awards’ marked successful and popular apps in twelve different categories.
Today, we can contact anyone we want, but we can’t always choose not to be contacted by certain people. Seeing a call from a pesky relative or friend, or even some unknown number prank calling gets pretty annoying sometimes, especially when you’re already waiting for a call by someone else. The ignore button is there, [...]
Fierce opposition by a broad alliance of companies and civil liberties groups, backed by innumerable internet activists, led to the demise of the detested SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIP (Protect IP) act earlier this year. And now, a worrying, similar rendition of these earlier bills has come into the limelight- H.R. 3523 or [...]
After the release of Android 1.0 Beta in November of 2007, the Android operating system has seen numerous updates. Each update, generally, brought bug patches and improvements with it. The last update, more commonly known as Ice Cream Sandwich, v4.0.4 was released in March this year. So far this version has received mostly positive feedback [...]
Whether you prefer Android OS, iOS or some other platform the truth of the matter remains that Android is hardly a cohesive, unified experience. This is not a bad thing, of course. Android is slightly chaotic, with a multitude of apps available for everything you could possibly want. Unfortunately though, not all of these apps [...]
Most people use their smartphone cameras as their primary point-and-shoot cameras these days. Since people tend to have their phones on them constantly, and with smartphone cameras improving drastically over the years there is no reason not to. Different attachable lenses for phones beef up the camera even further and the whole thing remains less [...]
If you have ever wanted to change your call screen for any reason, you can now do so. An XDA senior member lowveld has created an app that not only allows you to personalize your call screen but also offers an array of other features. Ultimate Call Screen HD follows a ‘freemium’ model, and hence [...]
Last week, Google finally pushed the Android 4.0.4 update to its flagship Galaxy Nexus device. It seems that users are already facing problems after the OTA update. This often happens after an update, users are happy they finally have the newest version of whatever OS they’re running and it has brought along bug fixes and [...]
FriendCaster is undoubtedly one of the best alternatives to the official Facebook app available out there. The app has been downloaded over an astonishing three million times already, which goes to show that it’s a far better option than the other third-party Facebook apps out there. The app has now been updated to version 5.0, [...]
Finally, after a long wait, Instagram for Android has been released and is available on Google Play (Android Market). The news was out for past few weeks that Instagram, the immensely popular app on iOS platform will be released for Android and it will be better than the iOS version.
All Android users are currently looking forward to when Instagram for Android will be released so that they can use the immensely popular app and find out why exactly it is so popular. With over 15 million users on iOS, the app has got to be pretty awesome.
Recently, the Android Market was rebranded as Google chose to merge the Android Market, Google Music and Google Books and name the entire thing Google Play. No matter what it is called, it still offers all the apps that Android originally offered. And now there’s an exciting new addition: FIFA 12!
The past couple of days have brought long-awaited announcements regarding Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich from both Samsung and HTC. This has garnered a lot of attention from users of various devices who will/will not be getting the latest version of Android sometime in the near future.
Bitdefender Power Tune-Up is an app designed to optimize your Android device. Although the app is still in beta, it is certainly very impressive and all Android users looking for an optimization tool absolutely need to use Power Tune-Up to get the best out of their device, Smartphone or tablet.
Google has rebranded Android Market and now it is named Google Play. In a surprising move, the company has decided to combine its Android Market, Google Music and Google Books all under one name, Google Play. Now it can just be a marketing strategy to compete with the highly successful Apple’s iTunes app store where [...]
