Category: apps

Popcorn Time is now available on Android

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Popcorn time, a popular and upcoming streaming service for pirated movies and TV shows, has just launched itself as an app on Android. The app has already been pulled from the Google Play store but the APK has been made available on the service’s website, which already caters to the desktop platforms with respective apps. Touted to be a Netflix-like service for pirated content, the platform is based on a P2P network, and so, it manages to stay up, using the longstanding copyright loophole that the service doesn’t host content, but the many of its anonymous users do. This is very much like a torrent service, but you can stream the movies instead of downloading them. All the movies are available in 720p and 1080p as streams and it is possible to even choose different streams on the service. Anyway, here is a video of the app announcement –

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtcTz-CPesQ

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Motorola releases Motorola Alert app for Moto E

Motorola launched Moto E, its budget handset in India for Rs 6,999. The phone which already is power packed by features is getting more powerful with a special app introduced by the company. Today, Motorola has introduced an app that alerts your contacts when in need.

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Spotify finally gets a makeover on Windows Phone with new UI and features

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Spotify, one of the world’s leading streaming music services, has long neglected the Windows Phone platform, even when it already had an archaic version for the yesteryear Windows Phone 7 operating system, but times are a changing. A much needed makeover has finally happened and the update is now available for all Windows Phone 8 users. The update not only includes a visual makeover, but also new features of the service like “Spotify Radio”, a Pandora-like auto-recommendations. But the biggest catch is, the app still requires you to have a premium account, whereas free streaming is available on other platforms since the end of last year. We should hopefully see another update to address this issue.

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Microsoft Office for iPad exceeds 27 million downloads

Microsoft launched Office apps – Word, Excel and Powerpoint for iPad in March. The software and tech giant has announced that the apps have done extremely well and surpassed 27 million downloads in mere 46 days since its launch.

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Foursquare Swarm releasing next week with stickers, new mayorships and more

Foursquare Swarm for iPhone

Foursquare, popular location-based social network announced Swarm, its upcoming location-based app. Today, it has detailed some of the features of the app. The new Swarm app would offer Insights, have Stickers, new mayorship and streaks. Continue reading “Foursquare Swarm releasing next week with stickers, new mayorships and more”

BBC introduces Horizons app for Android, iPhone and iPad

BBC has rolled out app for the Horizons series that discovers the latest technologies and innovations that could revolutionize the way we live. The popular series is returning to BBC in its fourth season and will be available on Android and iOS as a free download.

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Adobe Voice storytelling app released for iPad

Adobe has launched a storytelling app for iPad that enables users to make animated videos which can be turned into stories. Dubbed as Adobe Voice, the app creates a video story by adding elements like music, graphics, voice recordings and images. This animated engaging video story can then be shared easily on social media, email, personal blogs, websites and Adobe’s Creative Cloud platform.

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Gaana 4.0 for Android and iPhone brings music videos, lyrics and more

In a bid to enhance its offerings, Gaana has updated its app on Android and iPhone with several features. The app has integrated music videos and lyrics into its popular music streaming service.  Gaana has added a music videos section that features hand-picked, popular music videos that can be accessed from the home screen of the app.

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Yahoo News Digest now available for Android, adds International Edition

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Yahoo News Digest, a product of its Summly acquisition, took form as an iOS app back in January, when it debuted as a beautiful news reader with many sources. The same app is now available for Android, and it looks almost exactly like its iOS counterpart, pixel to pixel, which is a good thing because we think the app is beautiful. However, you do get a really nice home screen widget that lets you browse the feed at a glance. Previously limited only to the US and the UK, the News Digest app goes global this time around with an International Edition and another country-focused Canadian edition. Users in US, UK and Canada will all get local editions along with the International edition, which in turn will be available for all the worldwide users.

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Unlockar lock screen app for Android pays you to unlock your device

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Unlockar Apps, a startup based in New Delhi has released its first app Unlockar, a lock screen for Android smartphone with uScreen. This is an intelligent lock screen that pays you in the form of rupees or uCoins every time you unlock the phone. You can use these to obtain deals, discounts, shopping vouchers, or even bid at auctions at the uShop, its own online shopping portal. Continue reading “Unlockar lock screen app for Android pays you to unlock your device”

Amar Chitra Katha goes digital with ACK Comics app for Android, iOS and Windows

Amar Chitra Katha has forayed into the digital world by launching official digital store app for across platforms — Windows 8, iOS and Android. Dubbed as ACK Comics, the store will offer more than 300 titles on personalities such as Akbar, Chanakya, Jawaharlal Nehru and JRD Tata to users.

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Microsoft updates OneDrive for Android with file sharing and sorting, bigger thumbnails and more

Microsoft which recently renamed its cloud storage service as OneDrive has updated the Android app with several features. The latest 2.5 version of the app allows users to share files by inviting people, sending a link, or you can even send files to another app.

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Google updates Maps on Android and iOS with new features

Google has pumped up more power into its mobile apps on Android and iOS. For starters, the company has added support to save maps for offline viewing. Users can now save and even name multiple maps by signing in through Gmail account and access them later when in need.

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Angry Birds creator Rovio launches Flappy Bird themed ‘Retry’ game in few countries

Flappy Bird created a lot of buzz in the handheld gaming industry and Angry Birds creator Rovio has decided to use the hype to create a similar game. Rovio has just launched ‘RETRY’ game that looks like Flappy Bird.

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