New Delhi: Apparently inspired by the cover image on the Facebook timeline, Twitter has also introduced an header photo to Twitter user profiles. The new header photo will be visible on profiles on the Twitter website as well as the iPad, iPhone and Android apps. On the iPhone, Android and iPad, Twitter has also added the photo stream below the user's most recent tweets. The microblogging leader has also announced...
07:03 AM, Sep 19, 2012
Toronto: Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a system that uses dashboard-mounted smartphones to help drivers avoid red lights and reduce fuel consumption. The app called SignalGuru predicts when a traffic signal is about to change, and the speed that should be driven when approaching an intersection in order to cruise through without stopping. "The stop-and-go pattern that traffic signals create increases fuel consumption significantly," said Emmanouil...
04:33 PM, Sep 17, 2012
San Francisco: Google Inc is releasing a new version of its YouTube video app for iPhones that will for the first time feature advertising but won't have the benefit of being pre-loaded on Apple Inc's popular smartphones. The new YouTube app will be available for download at Apple's App Store beginning on Tuesday, Google said in a blog on the company website on Tuesday. Web-connected smartphones are increasingly important to...
02:28 PM, Sep 11, 2012
New Delhi: Bharti Airtel has announced the launch of 'my airtel' app for Airtel customers in India. The app, which is available for free, will allow Airtel customers across various services, including mobile, fixed line and DTH, to check their outstanding bills, recharge their accounts, make payment, activate deactivate any service, and raise requests and complaints. Apart from this, Airtel digital TV customers can also order movies and games, without...
03:51 PM, Sep 04, 2012
Washington: Researchers have developed a new software that can track the exact location of distant objects and monitor their speed and direction, allowing smartphone armed soldiers to better target the location of their enemies. The software developed by the University of Missouri researchers relies on smartphones' global positioning system (GPS) and imaging abilities. It could be used by everyone, including golfers judging distance to the green and biologists documenting the...
11:02 AM, Sep 01, 2012
California: What's the worst insult you can throw at a fast-moving company like Facebook? Call its iPhone app slow and poky. On Thursday, Facebook Inc. addressed users who had gripes with its app for iPhones and iPads with the launch of a faster version. Rather than add a slew of new features, the company said it rebuilt the application from scratch to make it speedier and less clunky. In a...
09:54 AM, Aug 24, 2012
Los Angeles: Samsung's new music service tries to combine four things into one: an all-you-can-listen plan like Spotify, a pay-per-song store like iTunes, an Internet music storage service like iTunes Match and a radio service like Pandora. That's a great premise at a great price: At $10 a month, Music Hub promises an affordable, ad-free listening experience. In practice, though, Music Hub can make your head spin. There are some...
01:55 PM, Aug 23, 2012
Toronto: Children going door to door for fundraising programs - and parents having to respond to those hopeful young faces - may soon be off the hook thanks to a new app that converts grocery receipts into fundraising dollars. Shoparoo, available for iOS and Android, lets people raise funds for community schools by taking snapshots of their grocery receipts - whether they're from large retail chains like Walmart, Safeway or...
11:57 AM, Aug 21, 2012
London: Your smartphone may soon be able to tell you when you are most stressed, with the help of a new software that can identify stress from the patterns in your voice. The app called 'StressSense' is first trained to recognise a person's unstressed voice. For that, users must relax and read a 3-minute passage from a book into their phones. The system then compares this recording to its pre-programmed...
04:54 PM, Aug 19, 2012
San Francisco: In a move to regulate how users access its microblogging service, Twitter announced new restrictions that sternly discouraged independent software developers from creating Twitter apps. While the move is not expected to immediately affect how current Twitter users across the world access the service, the new rules will likely nudge new users toward Twitter's own apps while slowly ushering the demise of popular third-party clients like Tweetbot. Twitter,...
12:32 PM, Aug 17, 2012
San Francisco: Social networking start-up Pinterest has rolled out versions of its service for Android-based smartphones and for the iPad, its latest move to boost its appeal to a broader audience. An online scrapbook where users can "pin" images and share them with others, Pinterest has grown to about 23 million users in July from about one million a year ago, according to online analytics firm comScore. In its first...
11:19 AM, Aug 15, 2012
London: European rabbis said on Tuesday that they were lobbying Apple to pull a mobile app version of 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,' a notorious anti-Semitic forgery. The Conference of European Rabbis, which represents Orthodox Jewish congregations across the continent, says it wants the iPhone manufacturer to stop selling an Arabic-language version of 'The Protocols' being offered through its iTunes service. The group says carrying 'The Protocols' in...
11:10 AM, Aug 15, 2012
New Delhi: Nuance's latest speech recognition software, Dragon 12 aims to change how you work, communicate, and create content. This latest iteration, Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 has been designed to turn talk into text faster and more accurately than its previous versions. Users only need to speak to capture ideas, create content, browse email, search the Web, or control their PCs. Dragon 12 also lets users convert their iOS or Android...
11:26 AM, Aug 12, 2012
San Francisco: Google Inc showed off enhancements to its voice-based search technology for Apple Inc's iPhone and said it was testing a new service that will combine its Web-based email with its search engine. The new version of Google's search app for the iPhone and iPad, expected to be available within a few days, will let users find information about everything from the weather to nearby movie showings by speaking...
10:21 AM, Aug 09, 2012
San Francisco: Apple's new version of its iPhone and iPad software - iOS 6 - will not include a pre-loaded app for Google Inc's popular video website, YouTube, Apple said on Monday. It was the latest sign of the growing rivalry between the technology companies the once were closely aligned but now are vying for supremacy in the fast-growing mobile computing market. Earlier this year, Apple said it would dump...
07:21 AM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: In this age of camera phones, capturing those memorable moments is not a big deal. And there are these amazing apps that make those captured moments even more memorable. We raked through the photography apps on Google Play, tested them to come with our hand-picked list of the five must-haves of the lot. 1. Pixlr-o-matic Size: 6.6MB Rating: 4/5 Why to install this app: I find it to...
01:11 PM, Aug 06, 2012
Los Angeles: Are you tired of baby pictures which show up on your Facebook feed? Unbaby it! Now you can download a new service that will automatically replace all the baby photos on your Facebook feed with pictures of something more palatable- like cats or album covers, Los Angeles Times reported. The service called Unbaby.me is a photo-replacing plug-in, the brainchild of three New Yorkers Yvonne Cheng, Chris Baker and...
05:38 PM, Aug 05, 2012
Washington: Amazon.com Inc launched a video application for Apple Inc's iPad on Wednesday, the latest effort by the world's largest retailer to get its digital content on as many gadgets as possible. The Amazon Instant Video app lets users stream or download movies and TV shows bought or rented from Amazon on their iPads. Amazon has more than 120,000 videos to rent or buy, it noted. Members of Amazon Prime,...
09:50 AM, Aug 02, 2012
Toronto: Whether it is a live video stream of the 100-meter dash, on-demand replays of diving, or notifications when the national team wins a medal, the mobile app is likely to play a greater role in the 2012 London Olympic Games. Nearly 30 per cent of 1,330 people questioned in an online survey said they would watch the games on their smartphones, and 31 per cent planned to view it...
10:57 AM, Jul 31, 2012
New Delhi: The stage is now set and all eyes are on the London Olympics 2012 which is just hours away. In the quadrennial gala event, athletes of many sports of countries world over congregate to show their skills. Also, this time India is expected to break its Olympics medal tally record. People often miss the golden moment of watching athletes making history, because they are unable to sit at...
01:45 PM, Jul 27, 2012
