Google has unveiled Editions at Play, its new experiment between their Creative Lab and Visual Editions that focuses on interactive digital books. The digital book merges traditional reading experience with the smartphone technology.
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Microsoft has acquired popular third party keyboard app Swiftkey for $250 million, according to a latest report from the Financial Times. Swiftkey specializes in predictive typing which is powered by artificial intelligence.
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Facebook has made some changes to its News Feed algorithm, yet again. The social network is tweaking the News Feed this time to eliminate the posts which are not relevant to you.
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WhatsApp has joined the billion users club. The Facebook owned messaging service now has over 1 billion monthly active users which translates to one in seven people on Earth. WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum announced the latest milestone via an official post on Facebook.
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Microsoft had teamed up with Dropbox to integrate Office in 2014. Now the company is expanding Office integration to Box and Outlook.com. The latest update will let Office subscribers work on documents, spreadsheets and presentations in real-time shared within Box and Dropbox.
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Google is adding an important feature to Docs, Sheets and Slides. The company is bringing the ability to comment in real time in its productivity apps. The mobile commenting feature that was already available on Docs is now expanding to Sheets and Slides.
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SwiftKey has added support for all the new 184 emojis for devices running on Android 6.0.1 in the latest version 6.2 update. These emojis include, volleyball, taco, middle finger, champagne bottle, as well as new faces for sickness, thinking, and rolling eyes. The update also brings currency input for several countries, improved typing behaviour when backspacing and several other fixes. Check out the complete changelog below. Continue reading “SwiftKey Keyboard 6.2 brings new emojis for Android 6.0.1”
Facebook started testing the live video feature on their iPhone app last month. Now the social network has announced that it is expanding the feature to all iPhone users. In order to share a live video, you will have to tap on Update Status and then select the Live Video icon.
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Facebook is pulling the plug on Parse, its mobile developer platform. Acquired in 2013, Parse helped small mobile developers build apps using Facebook-owned tools and servers. The social network is killing the service on January 28, 2017.
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Yahoo is rolling out a couple of new features to its Android and iOS app. The company is adding custom swipe feature on both the apps, that will allow users to slide their finger left and right across an email to perform your most used actions.
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Google has started rolling out a new version of the Hangouts to Android users with a couple of features like quick replies, conversation shortcuts and more. The version 7.0 brings adds the ability for a user to reply to a Hangouts message without having to go into the app.
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Periscope and GoPro have partnered to bring live streaming videos to GoPro’s action cameras. Users of the Twitter owned live streaming platform on iOS can now broadcast live directly from their GoPro HERO4 Black or Silver camera.
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Inbox by Gmail is getting a new update that will make it easy for users to find important information which is buried inside your emails. The app is getting ‘answers at glance’ and ‘streamlined search results’.
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Opera has updated its Opera Mini app for Android to version 14 that brings better language support, with 90 languages to choose from. This includes 13 Indian languages – Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. In addition to the improved language support, Opera Mini for Android also gets a QR- code reader and generator and an improved download manager. Continue reading “Opera Mini 14 for Android brings support for 13 Indian languages, QR-code reader and more”
Spotify is all set to introduce a new service on its mobile apps this week, according to a latest report from the Wall Street Journal. The US-based popular streaming service is rolling out a video service on its Android and iOS app.
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