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Mar 17, 2015

Nintendo partners with DeNA to bring its games to ‘smart devices’

Rajesh Pandey

Nintendo has teamed up with Japanese mobile gaming firm DeNA to bring its iconic characters and games to smartphones. The companies will work together in developing games for "smart devices." Nintendo will not be porting

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Mar 11, 2015

Google releases stable build of Chrome 41 with pull-to-refresh; Chrome 42 beta adds support for notifications from sites

Rajesh Pandey

The Google Chrome team for Android today announced the release of Chrome 41 for Android as well as Chrome 42 Beta for Android. The latest stable release of Chrome for Android adds the ability to

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Mar 11, 2015

Cyanogen partners with Boxer to provide a better email experience through Cyanogen Email

Rajesh Pandey

Cyanogen and Boxer today announced a partnership that will see the latter's app being shipped as the default email client on Cyanogen OS 12. The app will be a part of the Cyanogen OS

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Mar 11, 2015

Latest Nova Launcher beta brings full Material Design makeover and tons of new features

Rajesh Pandey

Nova Launcher -- one of the most popular third-party launchers for Android -- has received a major new update in its beta channel today. The update brings the full Material Design treatment to the app with

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Mar 6, 2015

WhatsApp only blocking third-party clients, not ‘permanently’ banning users

Evan Selleck

For WhatsApp users, the last few months have been somewhat of a roller coaster, at least for those who use third-party apps to access the service. In January reports surfaced that the company was

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Mar 5, 2015

WhatsApp is now permanently banning users using third-party apps

Evan Selleck

At the tail-end of January, it was reported that WhatsApp had begun short-lived suspensions of users that were using third-party apps to utilize the service. Those temporary suspensions are starting to get

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Mar 2, 2015

BBM update for Android brings custom PINs, Android Wear support and more

Rajesh Pandey

Not to feel left out in all the MWC action, BlackBerry announced that it will begin rolling out a new update for BBM for Android with support for custom PINs, Subscriptions and more. With this

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Feb 26, 2015

Google now lets Play Music users upload 50,000 tracks and stream them for free

Killian Bell

Google has increased its Play Music upload limit to 50,000 tracks, allowing users to upload and stream more than double the number of songs they could before, absolutely free. One of the best things

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Feb 26, 2015

Google Calendar for Android update brings 7-day week view, Google Drive integration and more

Rajesh Pandey

Google has started rolling out a new version of Google Calendar for Android with a lot of improvements and enhancements. Firstly, the update brings the much requested 7-day week view and pinch-to-zoom

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Feb 24, 2015

Twitter finally launches ‘While You Were Away’ feature for Android app

Evan Selleck

It's been more than a month since Twitter launched its "While You Were Away" feature for iOS, and now it's finally available for Android users. "While You Were Away" does essentially what the

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Feb 23, 2015

Google launches YouTube Kids app for Android and iOS devices

Rajesh Pandey

As a report had indicated last week, Google has gone ahead and unveiled a YouTube app for kids called YouTube Kids. Its the first product that Google has built from the ground up for kids

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Feb 20, 2015

WhatsApp calling feature slowly going live for all users

Evan Selleck

In late January 2015, WhatsApp rolled out a limited trial for its calling feature, which allows WhatsApp users to make calls to one another right from within the app. That limited nature of the rollout

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Feb 20, 2015

Google to launch a YouTube app for kids on February 23

Rajesh Pandey

According to USA Today, Google will be launching a new YouTube app this coming Monday meant specifically for kids called "YouTube Kids." The app is targeted squarely towards young kids and will deliver content that

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Feb 19, 2015

IFTTT launches Do Camera, Do Button and Do Note; renames existing app to IF

Evan Selleck

The popular web automation service IFTTT (If This Then That) has decided to shake things up a bit, and launch three brand new apps. The three new apps, which are available in the Google Play

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Feb 18, 2015

VLC 3.0 will add Chromecast support to the media player

Rajesh Pandey

As revealed by the changelog of the upcoming v3.0 release, the VideoLAN team will be adding support for Google's Chromecast to their popular media player. Once Chromecast support is added to the app,

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Feb 18, 2015

Pushbullet now allows you to reply to messages on Hangouts, WhatsApp, and others from your PC

Rajesh Pandey

Pushbullet is easily one of the best apps available for Android devices out there. The app allows you to easily forward links, snippets of text, and more between your PCs and Android devices in just

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Feb 17, 2015

ColorOS camera app ported to OnePlus One

Rajesh Pandey

The OnePlus One comes with CyanogenMod's own CameraNext app that packs features like Clear Image, slow-mo video recording and more. However, compared to camera apps from other OEMs, CameraNext is cumbersome and slow

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Feb 13, 2015

Facebook is testing a Material Design-like UI

Evan Selleck

Facebook has a knack for taking its time when it comes to its Android app, but at least it looks like the social networking giant is at least toying around with the idea of implementing