Category: APPS

Android’s Google Play and Apple’s App Store have outperformed themselves year on year, reveals a new report published on App Annie. Google’s Play Store, though, beat the App Store on total downloads, owing to a 10 per cent year-on-year growth in …
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WhatsApp users may soon be able to make group voice and video calls. The feature was spotted in the latest beta version of the messaging app by WABetaInfo … a paperclip on Android or the plus symbol on iPhone – and select the Location button, which …
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WhatsApp has replaced Apple’s emoji set with a custom set of its own which has now rolled out to all Android users. For years, messaging app WhatsApp has relied upon Apple’s emoji set to give users consistent emoji support across iOS, Android, and the web.
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WhatsApp added the ability to make voice and video calls within its chat app last year, in an attempt to compete with the likes of Apple’s FaceTime, Microsoft’s Skype and Google’s Duo app. However, it is currently only possible to make one-to-one calls to …
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The latest feature will soon make its way to most of the smartphones, but as of now, the group calling code for WhatsApp has been spotted in the latest beta version for the iPhone app. However, it is unclear when WhatsApp would roll-out the new feature.
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Last week Facebook gave mobile game publishers in its Messenger platform the ability to monetize their games with purchases and ads, a direct challenge to Apple’s App Store supremacy. Today, TapResearch released insight into who’s playing Messenger games.
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One thing that upsets Apple fans is poor software design. And if app developers are going to have to accommodate for the iPhone X’s top “notch” obstruction on the display, they’re going to need to code differently than before. The latest iPhone X …
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It’s easy to end up with a huge library of images on your iPhone, most of which you might never look at again. Flic uses a Tinder-style swipe right/swipe left mechanic to let you tear through your photo collection and free up some space. You might be …
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“Apple has reportedly banned an anti-abortion app from the App Store after complaints were made about it from ‘left-wing bloggers,’” Luke Dormehl reports for Cult of Mac. “” “Anti-abortion group Human Coalition claims that, when Apple first …
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Pro-Life website ‘Life Site’ reported yesterday that “Apple banned a pro-life mobile application after abortion supporters complained, even though the app was approved and previously offered on its App Store.” Note: While this is a legitimate news story …
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… announced its new feature that allows the Facebook-owned messaging app’s users to share their location with family and friends in real-time. WhatsApp users on Android and Apple iOS devices will soon have the option of temporarily sharing their …
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this chat app is now full-on surveillance app WhatsApp’s live-location sharing feature for iOS uses Apple’s default Maps app. Since Maps is extremely basic at this stage in India and still fairly inaccurate, users are likely to find it difficult tracking …
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The idea of the smartwatch has been floating around our collective culture ever since the introduction of comic book hero Dick Tracy’s wrist communicator way back in 1946. But it wasn’t until just a few years ago that the concept really came to fruition.
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Pro-life? There’s an app for that, but you might not know by looking at your iPhone. Tech behemoth Apple has suddenly dropped a pro-life prayer application from its App Store after left-wing bloggers complained about it being listed on the store’s …
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Apple has started to ban VPN applications from its iOS store in China. According to the company, these apps include content that’s illegal in the country, thereby violating Apple’s policies. Needless to say, VPN providers and users are not happy with the …
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are demanding answers from Apple CEO Tim Cook after his company removed apps in China that allowed users to skirt … in markets and bringing benefits to customers is in the best interest of the folks there and in other countries as well.”
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Apple Inc. and General Electric Co., two companies that … manufacturing, healthcare and energy. On top of powering GE’s apps, the SDK will also enable customers to build their own custom software. Outside developers could potentially use the toolkit …
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