HTC has added its Camera app in the Google Play Store. The app will bring HTC Eye experience to supported devices. Users can directly download updates and bug fixes directly from the Play Store instead of waiting for firmware updates to hit their devices.
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Microsoft has rebranded Lync with Skype for Business. The company is promising Skype for Business will remain an Office 365 service when it replaces Lync sometime “in the first half of 2015.
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Xiaomi continued to sell its smartphones like hot cakes but this time in China. The company clocked $163 million (¥1 billion) in 12 hours by selling 720,000 phones.
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A new malware vulnerability called as “Masque attack” is targeting iOS devices, as per a security firm FireEye. Masque Attack allows malicious parties to install duplicate versions of third-party apps on your iPhone or iPad, replacing your original app with theirs, which can access and monitor your data.
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Google Voice has announced that it now supports MMS on Verizon. The MMS support was announced to Google Voice last month to almost all the carriers in the US and Canada except Verizon.
The latest app to receive Material Design update is Android Wear companion app, as per a report from Phandroid. Background of the app has been changed from black to white, says the report.
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Sony’s Smartwatch 3 is now available on the US Google Play Store for $249.99. The smartwatch announced in September was available for pre-order in the US Play Store last month.
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Facebook has announced that more than 500 million users are using its standalone Messenger each month. The social network removed the Messenger from main Facebook app in July and started urging users to download the Facebook Messenger app.
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LG has released four smartphones under its Aka line of smartphones in Korea today. Announced last month, the smartphones have animated eyes above the interchangeable protective panel that express different emotions.
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A long due and much needed update is finally rolling to Instagram’s Android and iPhone apps. Users can now edit photo captions after they are updated which means all your typos can be deleted and a fresh comment can be added instead.
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Uber is looking forward to raise $1 billion in a latest round of funding, as per latest report from The Financial Times. The popular on demand car service secured $1.2 billion funding in June this year.
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Opera Software has announced that Opera Mini browser has more than 50 million users in India. The mobile browser is now the third most popular app in India, behind messaging app WhatsApp and social media network Facebook.
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Kid monitoring wearable tracker KizON is beginning its oversees rollout with Europe. The device that helps parents keep a track on their children via GPS and WiFi was limited only in South Korea.
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AT&T has rolled out FiLIP 2 smartwatch that is aimed at kids ages between 4 to 11. The successor of the original FiLIP launched last year, FiLIP 2 is priced at $99.99.
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Looks like Samsung is taking its time more time to launch smartphones based on its homegrown operating system Tizen in India. A report from the Economic Times is claiming that the South Korean electronic major will launch Tizen powered smartphones in the country by December this year.
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