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Dec 14, 2013

Skype 4.5 update brings Picture in Picture video calls to Android tablets

Gautam Prabhu

Skype has released a major update for Android, which like the previous update focuses on improving the tablet experience. Skype 4.5 for Android brings two new features.The first one is the picture in

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Dec 13, 2013

Five apps to help keep you sane during the holiday season

Kelly Hodgkins

The holiday shopping season is in full swing, which means you are likely encountering mobs of frantic shoppers at Walmart, lots of traffic at the mall and long lines at the Post Office. Take a

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Dec 13, 2013

Google+ Android app update brings shake to add snow to photos, unified search bar and more

Rajesh Pandey

Today, Google started rolling out an update for the Google+ app for Android adding some "snow, search and love" to the app. In addition to this, there are also some general bug fixes and performance

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Dec 13, 2013

Cover, the contextually aware lock screen, lands on the Play Store

Rajesh Pandey

A couple of months ago, the Coverscreen team gave us a glimpse to their contextually aware lock screen replacement app - Cover. The app has been under a closed beta since then and has received 100+

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Dec 12, 2013

Instagram unveils Instagram Direct, a new photo and video direct messaging feature

Kelly Hodgkins

Instagram was in New York City to unveil some big news for its photo sharing service. As expected, the company took the wraps off a private and group messaging service it's calling Instagram Direct.

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Dec 12, 2013

SwiftKey v4.5 beta brings emoji and dedicated number row

Rajesh Pandey

At the beginning of this month, the SwiftKey team rolled out a new beta that introduced a simpler and unified installer. Today, the team has released another beta version of their popular keyboard adding two

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Dec 12, 2013

Google updates Gmail for Android, now lets you set an out of office and send any file you want

Stefan Constantinescu

Google has just announced that they've updated the Gmail for Android app. This new version, 4.7 if you're counting, comes with three new features. The first is the ability to set an

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Dec 11, 2013

Google releases Android Device Manager app on the Play Store

Rajesh Pandey

Google, today, released an app for its Android Device Manager anti-theft service that it had released earlier this year. The app does everything that the web version of Android Device Manager does, except that

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Dec 11, 2013

Nova Launcher v2.3 update includes all the Google Experience Launcher goodness

Rajesh Pandey

Back in November, a beta version of Nova launcher was released by its developer - TeslaCoil - that introduced quite a lot of features as seen on the Google Experience launcher. However, that version was in beta

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Dec 11, 2013

Come February next year, Google will triple the number of game categories in the Play Store

Stefan Constantinescu

If you aren't using your mobile phone to check Facebook or read that interesting article your friend shared with you on Twitter, chances are you're playing a game to pass the time. Mobile

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Dec 11, 2013

Firefox for Android version 26 brings a new home screen and optimizations for Intel chips

Stefan Constantinescu

Not everyone likes Google Chrome. I get that. Luckily, you can install as many browsers as you want on an Android device and even set one of them as your default. Some like Opera, some

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Dec 10, 2013

PushBullet updated, adds Firefox support and lets you set custom notification dismal times

Stefan Constantinescu

PushBullet has easily become one of my favorite Android apps. Calling it app wouldn't actually be fair since you don't really interact with it, you simply set it and forget it. What exactly

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Dec 7, 2013

Google picks the best apps and games on the Play Store for 2013

Rajesh Pandey

The Google Play Store team has released their pick of the best apps, games,magazines, books and movie picks on the Play Store. The Play's team pick represent the absolute best of what the

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Dec 6, 2013

New Play Store update brings an activity feed, layout tweaks and IAP indicators

Rajesh Pandey

Along with Android 4.4.1, Google is also rolling out an update for the Google Play Store app. Play Store updates are automatically done in the background so the user does not really know

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Dec 5, 2013

Xposed module brings an unofficial Google Voice Action API for third-party apps

Rajesh Pandey

Google Voice Actions and Google Now are, undoubtedly, one of the best features Android has up its sleeve. However, Voice Actions can be a bit limited in nature since it only recognizes a certain pre-

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Dec 5, 2013

Action Launcher gets a massive update to v2.0; Free version released as well

Rajesh Pandey

Back in early October, Chris Lacy - the developer of Action Launcher Pro - released the first beta of the v2.0 update for the launcher that included a couple of new features. Now, after 2 months

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Dec 4, 2013

New SwiftKey beta brings a simple and streamlined installer

Rajesh Pandey

The SwiftKey team, today, released a new beta of their keyboard for Android with a new installer. The new installer streamlines the whole procedure to setup and personalize SwiftKey, compared to the current installer. The

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Dec 4, 2013

Any.do’s Cal lands on the Play Store; Android finally gets a Calendar app it deserves!

Rajesh Pandey

While there are a bevy of beautiful Calendar apps for iOS devices, things are unfortunately lacking on the Android front. The makers of Any.do - the popular To-Do app for Android and iOS - are