Toronto: Whether it's choosing the right present, selecting the proper size or style, or digging up a current mailing address, gift giving can be difficult. Karma, a new app for iPhone and Android, aims to simplify the process with its service that lets people send gifts instantly via SMS, email or Facebook. The app recommends gifts based on the recipient's demographic profile and interests, which it garners from Facebook. After...
05:18 PM, Mar 26, 2012
Bangalore: Apps, apps, apps! That is the main challenge that Microsoft and Nokia, who are trying to claw back market share from Apple Inc's iPhone and Google's Android in the red hot smartphone market, face now. And so far the going does not look too good for the challengers and their warhorse Windows Phone platform. Apps, short for applications, are small pieces of software that do useful or fun things...
12:24 PM, Mar 26, 2012
Fairfield: Interactivity during the Academy Awards telecast once meant booing at the television every time there was a winner I hadn't picked for my Oscars pool. This year, I had my head glued to an iPad instead. The Oscars' official companion app returned this year, after winning an Emmy in 2011 for outstanding creative achievement in interactive media. Produced by ABC, the network that televised Sunday's ceremony in the US,...
01:37 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Fairfield: Interactivity during the Academy Awards telecast once meant booing at the television every time there was a winner I hadn't picked for my Oscars pool. This year, I had my head glued to an iPad instead. The Oscars' official companion app returned this year, after winning an Emmy in 2011 for outstanding creative achievement in interactive media. Produced by ABC, the network that televised Sunday's ceremony in the US,...
01:37 PM, Feb 27, 2012
London: Top internet firms like Facebook, Yahoo and Flickr are able to read personal text messages and photographs sent via smartphones because many mobile phone apps give their developers the right to go through such content. Many phone users do not know that when they agree to the terms and conditions, they are actually giving developers the right to inspect their personal information, the Daily Mail reported. In some cases,...
05:14 PM, Feb 26, 2012
San Francisco: Dropbox unveiled on Thursday a new photo uploading feature for Android smartphones, potentially sharpening its competition with Google, Apple, and a host of other companies battling to rule the burgeoning market for online storage solutions. With a single click, the feature will allow users to wirelessly upload high-resolution pictures straight from their smartphones onto the virtual "cloud," where the files can be accessed from any computer or mobile...
06:15 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Mumbai: A new update of the Android Google Docs app has been released that brings real-time collaboration on mobile devices. Ardent users of the Google Docs will love the functionalities of the desktop version being ported to the mobile platform. After applying the latest update, Google Docs for Android users can enjoy real-time collaboration on single document on Android smartphones as well as tablets. Google Docs had introduced real-time collaboration...
01:29 PM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: EA (Electronics Arts), a known mobile game developer, plans to release a game based on famous cartoon series the 'Simpsons' for Apple's iPad and iPhone devices in the coming weeks. According to report by CNET, the game - called 'The Simpsons: Tapped Out' - will be given away for free, but players will have the option to buy virtual currency, or in this case, "doughnuts," that can speed...
01:22 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Role playing games or RPGs, as we call them, have become quite popular on Android and especially with the increase in the graphic and processing qualities of the device. Gun Bro's is a great example of this coming from Glu Mobile a popular application developer. This game is a story of the fight between the TOOL (Tyrannical Oppressors of Life) and the FRAGGED (Freakishly Rugged Advanced Genetics Galactic Enforcement Division)...
02:11 PM, Feb 17, 2012
New Delhi: Over the years adult content has been the most searched on the web, but now mobiles are also witnessing the same phenomenon. Adult content providers are exploiting all the capacities and functionalities of mobile phones such as chat, SMS, premium SMS, WAP, location, etc to push their content to mobile consumers. "Out of 70 million global mobile users who watch adult content, 13 per cent (90 lakh) are...
03:10 PM, Feb 16, 2012
San Francisco: Under pressure from US legislators, Apple Inc moved Wednesday to quell a swelling privacy controversy by saying that it will begin to require iPhone and iPad apps to seek "explicit approval" in separate user prompts before accessing users' address book data. Apple's move came shortly after two members of the US House Energy and Commerce committee requested the company to provide more information about its privacy policies. Bloggers,...
08:25 AM, Feb 16, 2012
San Francisco: Guests at some New York Fashion Week shows and others watching online now have a new way to identify the looks they see sashaying down the runways. The app called Made Fashion Week is companion app for people attending the shows, delivering instant content including images of models, item information and designer biographies in sync with what is seen on the catwalk. "The moment that a model appears...
11:40 AM, Feb 14, 2012
Reuters: Security researchers said they found a vulnerability in the Google Inc mobile payments platform which is currently available in phones sold by Sprint Nextel Corp. Mobile payment services that allow consumers to pay by waving their phone at a check-out terminal, instead of using a credit card, have long been available in Japan and some other countries but are only just emerging in the United States. Isis, a venture...
10:19 AM, Feb 11, 2012
San Francisco: Looking for a promising career in a lousy economy? A new study suggests you're apt to find it in apps - the services and tools built to run on smartphones, computer tablets and Facebook's online social network. The demand for applications for everything ranging from games to quantum physics has created 466,000 jobs in the US since 2007, according to an analysis released Tuesday by technology trade group...
12:06 PM, Feb 07, 2012
San Francisco: Google Inc has been quietly policing its online store for months now in an acknowledgement of malware's growing threat to its increasingly popular Android mobile software. The new sheriff in town is Bouncer: a security service Google put in place to scan new apps as developers load them onto Market, its applications store. Bouncer sweeps apps for potentially malicious behaviour and also analyses new developer accounts to prevent...
10:55 AM, Feb 03, 2012
London: People who have been "unfriended" on social network Facebook can now check out the person through a new software that can be installed in any internet browser. The software - called "Unfriend Finder" - also alerts users when someone rejects or ignores a friend request. It is free, and till date has been downloaded 44 million times, the Daily Mail reported. The script works in browsers such as Google...
12:09 PM, Feb 01, 2012
New Delhi: It's cool! Now you can convert content on your Facebook Timeline into a movie. Definition 6, a unified Marketing agency, in association with Facebook has come up with a new app - Timeline Movie Maker, which lets you create a movie highlighting moments from your Facebook Timeline. You can also add sound tracks to your movie. Once the movie is created, the tool allows you to make changes...
01:21 PM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: IBNLive.com is one of the cherry-picked 60 apps with which Facebook launched its Open Graph to the world on January 18. It is also the only Indian news app using the new Facebook service, joining an exclusive league of global apps. Facebook users can reach IBNLive with Friends, the all-new app, by surfing to http://apps.facebook.com/ibnlivesocialreader. Using the hot new Open Graph technology from Facebook, this app will now...
12:33 PM, Jan 19, 2012
Los Angeles: The great white shark is lurking in cyberspace, in the form of an iPhone application launched this week that allows users to track a dozen of the predators as they roam around the Pacific Ocean. The California-based Marine Conservation Science Institute launched the app, which the non-profit describes as the first shark tracker of its kind, to raise funds for its research. Great white sharks have scared and...
01:32 PM, Jan 13, 2012
