Android Apps

Facebook for Android update brings voice messages

Following the big announcement of Facebook Graph, which lets you search within Facebook, Facebook has updated its Android app. While the image browsing feature has been tweaked to make it better, the update also brings two new features. ...  

Now, a smartphone-controlled toilet launched; features hands-free flushing, speakers and more

The technology has gone too far that today users can conveniently control their TVs, music systems and many other devices with a smartphone. And now you can add one more thing - toilet - to the list of devices controlled using a smartphone, thanks to Japanese technology. ...  

25 per cent of Android apps in Google Play are suspicious

New Delhi: According to a new research report, more than 100,000 Android apps available on Google Play are suspicious. Bit9 has released a report summarising an analysis of more than 4,00,000 Android apps available on Google Play. The report has been prepared after looking at the permissions, categories, publishers, ratings and popularity to rate the overall trustworthiness of each mobile app. The reports states, the majority of Android apps (72...  

Now, you can run Android apps on Windows

Houston: Soon many of you will have a chance to add applications from the most popular mobile operating system, Android, to the most popular desktop system, Windows and enjoy technological marvel, thanks to the Chipmaker AMD and Bluestacks. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and BlueStacks have teamed up to let consumers run Android apps on their AMD-powered PCs. BlueStacks, creator of a Windows app that enables you to run Android apps...  

Skype introduces video calling for Android

London: Skype, which is being bought by Microsoft for $8.5 billion, introduced a new service on Thursday allowing users of Android phones to make free video calls to Skype contacts, including those on Apple iPhones. The company whose name became synonymous with Internet calling in the mid-2000s said its updated Android app would initially support video calling on selected HTC and Sony Ericsson Phones, with more to follow soon. "We...  

Google rolls out Android Market for browsers

Mountain View: Users of phones running Google Inc.'s Android operating system are getting more ways to browse and buy apps for playing games, reading the news and other tasks. The Internet search leader announced its Android Market Web store Wednesday. The store lets users choose apps through a Web browser and have them installed remotely to their smartphones and tablets. Previously, the Android Market was only available on Android-running devices....  

Google unveils instant translation app

London: Google has unveiled a mobile phone application that allows users to translate chats instantaneously. Google Translate can use devices running its Android operating system to allow translation of English to Spanish and vice versa. Users will have to punch a key to activate the translation between sentences, but Google expects the service to operate in real-time within 18 months. It uses technology similar to the updated Googles application, which...