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Worldwide tablet market posts just 3.9% growth YoY in Q1 2014, down 35.7% QoQ

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Samsung and Apple are still the leading tablet vendors by shipments in Q1 2014, according to preliminary data from research firm IDC (International Data Corporation). The worldwide tablet market grew just 3.9% year-over-year in Q1 2014, with shipments of 50.4 million units in the quarter, down 35.7% compared to last quarter. Yesterday IDC reported worldwide smartphone shipments that was down just 2.8% compared to the holiday quarter. Continue reading “Worldwide tablet market posts just 3.9% growth YoY in Q1 2014, down 35.7% QoQ”

Snapchat gets Instant messaging and live video chats

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Snapchat has finally added support for instant messaging for its Android and iPhone apps and also brings live video chat. Once you swipe to the right on a friend’s name in your Snapchat inbox, you can start chatting with them, send them photos and videos, just like any other messaging apps. Once you leave the chat screen, all the messages will be cleared for both. But either of you can always tap a message or a screenshot to save them. Continue reading “Snapchat gets Instant messaging and live video chats”

LINE Messenger offers more than 1500 paid stickers free for Indian users

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LINE Corporation is giving away over 1500 paid stickers worth Rs. 4000 to Indian users to celebrate 400 million registered users worldwide. It crossed 18 million registered users in India recently and offered free talk time worth Rs. 50 to all its users in India last month. Earlier this year LINE partnered with Groupon India to offer exclusive weekly deals for LINE users. Continue reading “LINE Messenger offers more than 1500 paid stickers free for Indian users”

Sony Xperia E1 dual gets a price cut, now available for Rs. 8054

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Sony launched the Xperia E1 dual along with the Xperia E1 in India last month at a price tag of Rs. 10,490. It went on sale at Rs. 9,999 and got a price cut to Rs. 9,490 few weeks back. Now the phone has received another price cut and is available for as low as Rs. 8,054 in India online. The E1 dual has a 4-inch (480 x 800 pixels) touch screen display, powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core Snapdragon 200 processor and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean). Continue reading “Sony Xperia E1 dual gets a price cut, now available for Rs. 8054”

Airtel launches 4G on mobile in Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula

Bharti Airtel has launched 4G on mobile in three cities, Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula in India. The company launched 4G LTE service on mobile back in February starting from Bengaluru and also set up experience zones in the city to showcase the power of 4G on mobile in partnership with LG and Qualcomm. Continue reading “Airtel launches 4G on mobile in Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula”

Motorola schedules an event in India on May 13th to launch affordable smartphone

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Few hours back Motorola announced that they would unveil the company’s next smartphone at an event in London. Motorola has just sent us an invite for the India launch event on the same day as the London event. Yesterday LG announced several simultaneous events on May 27th and 28th to unveil their upcoming flagship, the LG G3. Continue reading “Motorola schedules an event in India on May 13th to launch affordable smartphone”

Facebook Messenger for Android updated with better photos and video sharing

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Facebook updated Messenger app for iOS with some great features earlier this week. Now, the social network is bringing these features to Android. The latest update allows users to share photos, videos and other types of media content faster with others.
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Google Search updated with Google Now parking reminder card

Google, which already takes care of your many day-to-day activities will now even help you remember where you have parked your car. The tech giant has updated its Search app on Android with Parking Location card that offers the ability to automatically detect where you have parked your car and help you find that spot later.

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Huawei Ascend P7 press shots leaked ahead of official announcement on May 7th

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Huawei Ascend P7, the successor of the Ascend P6 was expected to be unveiled at the MWC 2014 earlier this February when the live images of the phone leaked, but Huawei unveiled the Ascend P7 mini at the MWC ahead of Ascend P7. The company recently announced that it would unveil the Ascend P7 at an event Paris on May 7th. A week before the launch, @evleaks has posted some press shots of the smartphone. Continue reading “Huawei Ascend P7 press shots leaked ahead of official announcement on May 7th”

Google releases Docs and Sheets apps for Android and iOS

Google has launched Docs and Sheets apps for Android and iOS.  These standalone apps will enable users to edit, create, and view files both on and offline. In addition, the company said that its will soon launch Slides, an app for editing PowerPoint-style presentations.

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Facebook unveils App Links, the cross platform key to the Internet of Apps

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Facebook just unveiled “App links”, an open source solution that works across all the major mobile platforms, to solve a longstanding problem. This is perhaps the biggest and boldest move we have seen Facebook take, in mobile. Why? Well, because it aims to fix a problem that has been lingering over mobile, ever since the inception of the app store – interlinking of applications. Remember the time your phone took you to the web browser for seeing a Facebook photo instead of the app, even when the first party app was installed? The company aims to solve this exact problem by directly linking users to apps, or part of them, hence enabling the “Internet of Apps”. Think of it as the web hyperlink, but for apps, so you will tend to start browsing apps rather than websites.

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LG G Watch to launch in June for 199 Euros

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 When Google’s Android Wear project went official, LG was amongst the first to announce its take on wearables with the G Watch. Today in an official announcement, the Korean company said that it plans to launch the G Watch in June at an estimated price point of 199 Euros. Continue reading “LG G Watch to launch in June for 199 Euros”

Movie moments and Reading List now available for Windows Phone 8.1

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With the Windows Phone 8.1 update in the hands of developers in the form of a preview, Microsoft has chosen to release some of its own apps that take advantage of the new OS features and the APIs. Movie moments, a basic video editing app that takes advantage of the video editing APIs and reading List, a Read-it-later style service, have been made available for Windows Phone 8.1 as universal apps on the store. These apps were part of the Windows 8.1 update that launched for the bigger screened devices in October last year, which means we are finally starting to see some parity within Windows. If you are one of the many developer preview users, download these two apps from the Windows Store and test them out –

Reading List for Windows Phone 8.1

Movie Moments for Windows Phone 8.1

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