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Conojo Whiteboard is an Interactive Drawing Tool and Collaborative Whiteboard for iPad

Conojo Whiteboard for iPad

Conojo Whiteboard is an Interactive Drawing Tool app for the iPad. This lets iPad users create & share diagrams, mindmaps and presentations easily. Since this is also a collaborative whiteboard, collaborative planning & whiteboarding is easy with real time whiteboarding via Bluetooth & Wi-Fi with other iPad users nearby. It has tools to draw, expand on, and export your ideas and has built-in recording feature that lets you record your creation from start to finish. It has a huge collection of templates and also lets you get template packs via in-app purchase. Continue reading “Conojo Whiteboard is an Interactive Drawing Tool and Collaborative Whiteboard for iPad”

Facebook 5.2 for Windows Phone brings improved notifications, secondary live tiles and more

Facebook for Windows Phone has received a major update to version 5.2, that brings a lot of new features including new chat notifications, new secondary tiles for chat, events, groups, pages, and photo albums, supports for all the 50 languages that are currently supported in Windows Phone 8. Facebook 5.2 Beta for Windows Phone got these features recently, the new stable version adds all these features and also includes some bug fixes.

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Gaana 3.0 for Android and iPhone brings redesigned UI and new features

Gaana 3.0 for iPhone

Gaana.com has updated Gaana for Android and iPhone to version 3.0 that brings new look, faster search engine and new features that include, curated streams, social music discovery and personalization. The new Discover Section in the app showcases cherry picked playlists to suit every mood and also lets you listen to pre-programmed radio streams (Radio Mirchi streams & Gaana Radios), featuring popular Radio Jockeys’ bytes, Celebrity favorites and loads of curated music. Continue reading “Gaana 3.0 for Android and iPhone brings redesigned UI and new features”

Sony LIV app now available for BlackBerry Z10 and Z30 smartphones

Sony LiV for BlackBerry

Sony has launched Sony LIV, premium video-on-demand service for BlackBerry 10 smartphones. The Sony LIV app is available for BlackBerry Z10 and Z30 smartphones from the BlackBerry World. The app comes pre-loaded on Sony Smartphones and is also available on iPhone and Windows Phone 8 devices. It offers content from Sony TV channels such as Sony Entertainment Television, MAX, SAB, MIX, across various genres including, drama, comedy, thriller, reality shows and more. Continue reading “Sony LIV app now available for BlackBerry Z10 and Z30 smartphones”

Foursquare for Android updated with redesigned UI and faster performance

Foursquare for Android new UI

Foursquare for Android has been updated (v2013-12-19) with a completely new user interface that is more flatter, similar to iOS 7. Foursquare for iPhone got updated with redesigned iOS 7 look earlier this month that also added new features, but the new Android update doesn’t add any new features. Continue reading “Foursquare for Android updated with redesigned UI and faster performance”

500px Official app comes to Windows Phone

The Windows Phone App store is finally catching up with iOS and Android apps, recently we saw Instagram come to Windows Phone followed by the popular game, Subway Surfers. The next app to join the Windows Phone store, which now boasts more than 200,000 apps is the official app of 500px. 500px is easily one of the most popular photography social networks and there were numerous third party applications on the Windows Phone store but not the official app. That hole has been plugged as 500px have finally launched a Windows Phone application.

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Whatsapp crosses 400 million Monthly Active Users, 1/4th added in 4 months

It’s always fascinating to see the growth of a communications platform. The mobile phone grew worldwide thanks to a company called Nokia that connected people with calls and SMS as the medium, but in this age of apps and Smartphones, it’s Whatsapp that’s doing all the connecting. We have been watching its explosive growth over the course of two years, and it has been really interesting. Today, the company’s blog has announced that the service has crossed a whopping 400 million monthly active users, with almost a quarter of them – 100 million added in the last four months. This is seen as a huge growth for a space, in which there is suddenly a lot of competition, with some of them even willing to shell out big bucks for TV promotions and so on. However, it remains to be seen if people embrace choice or go for ubiquity.

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Camera+ 5 for iPhone brings The Lab with photo editing features and a new UI

Camera Plus 5 for iPhone

Camera+ has received a huge update to version 5.0 that brings a lot of new features including The Lab with world-class photo editing features, Shooting refinements, iPhone wallpaper crops, New icons and more. This update also brings a Slick, intuitive user interface to match iOS 7’s new design.

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Dolphin Zero privacy-focused browser launched for Android

Dolphin Zero for Android

Dolphin Browser has launched Dolphin Zero, a new private browser that automatically deletes your data including browsing history, cache, passwords and cookies to make your browsing experience completely private. The browser has aggressive shredder to make sure to automatically delete any traces from your browsing, so no data is stored, says the company. Continue reading “Dolphin Zero privacy-focused browser launched for Android”

Sony QX Cameras to get firmware update in January

At IFA 2013 in Berlin, which was held during September, Sony launched their latest flagship Android smartphone – Sony Xperia Z1 and a couple of WiFi enabled QX series lens. Sony’s QX 10 and QX 100 received a lot of acclaim from the industry and are now all set to receive a firmware update. According to Engadget, the update will be coming to the two lenses sometime in January and the update is expected to improve the camera performance.

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Cut the Rope 2 released for iPhone and iPad, coming to Android early 2014

Cut the Rope 2

ZeptoLab, the creators of popular Cut the Rope games has released Cut the Rope 2, a new game in the Cut the Rope franchise, as the company promised back in September. In this new game, Om Nom breaks out of his box and travels through lush forests, busy cities, junkyards and underground tunnels forCandy. The game also features little green monsters, that acts as candy collecting helpers. Continue reading “Cut the Rope 2 released for iPhone and iPad, coming to Android early 2014”

Xbox Music and Xbox Video apps released for Windows Phone 8

After a long wait, the Xbox team at Microsoft has finally released of Xbox Video and a separate Xbox Music app for Windows Phone 8. It’s been long since the Zune brand was shunned and its services morphed into Xbox Music and Video, but Windows Phone 8 released only with Music functionality, and there was no video rentals or downloads. We now have two separate apps, one for Xbox Music which works only with a Music pass, much like a Spotify client and Xbox Video, which finally allows you to download or stream videos from the service full of TV shows and Movies. Currently it doesn’t offer HD playback either, so that’s a bummer, considering the fact that the Lumia 1520 just released and is perfect for watching movies. In the build up to separately updated apps for the platform moving forward to 8.1, these apps come as a much needed release for Windows Phone currently.

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Viber app makes its way to Windows 8 App Store

Viber for Windows 8

Viber, cross-platform VoIP app finally makes its way to the Windows 8 App Store, that enables you text and make calls on both Windows 8 and Windows RT devices running on Windows 8.1 OS. This version has been designed from the ground-up for Windows 8 and brings a lot of new features that are not available on any other platforms, including a touch-friendly custom interface, live tiles and lock screen notifications. Continue reading “Viber app makes its way to Windows 8 App Store”

Opera Coast browser for iPad updated to v2.0, adds new features

Coast by Opera for iPad

Opera introduced Coast browser for iPad with gesture-based user interface back in September. Now the browser has received a major update to version 2.0 that brings new features including better audio support that lets you audio play easily by heading to a webpage such as SoundCloud, customized home screen, PDF support and more. It also makes the app faster with some under-the-hood changes, including improvements in speed to navigate between pages and an updated Coast security engine that recognizes attacks even better. Continue reading “Opera Coast browser for iPad updated to v2.0, adds new features”

TalkSide context-aware call screen replacer app released for Android

TalkSide for Android

Twiize, Tel-Aviv-based technology startup has launched TalkSide, full screen caller ID app . This is the first ever context-aware app of this kind, says the company. The Context-aware engine prepares the talk for you, even before you call to guess what content users would want to talk about or share during the call, and creates a visual talk feed. It also replaces the default caller image screen with one that is rich in content. Continue reading “TalkSide context-aware call screen replacer app released for Android”