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I love it when a software startup ventures into connected hardware, even if that hardware is a tad pricey and might not even see the light of day. Enter Hamburg-based Flying.com, maker of Flying, an iOS app for frequent flyers that competes with Munich-based Mileways. Read More

Facebook Messenger is finally available on Windows Phone—a mere two years after it made its way to iOS and Android.

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During Mobile World Congress late last month, it was announced Facebook Messenger would be arriving for Windows Phone. Fast-forward a little over a week, and that time has finally arrived, … Continue reading

There certainly isn’t any shortage of news reading applications, both Google and Apple offer their homegrown apps on their mobile platforms, apart from the hundreds of developers who have made similar apps. The Sony Socialife News app has always been exclusive to the company’s Xperia devices as well as VAIO PCs, but now it has opened up the app for all Android devices, regardless of who manufactures them. Any device running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean or higher is compatible with the application.

Sony says that this app has been designed for high-speed viewing. It pulls in news from a wide variety of sources, including social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, it even pulls in YouTube videos. Through the Add Feeds function, users can easily add more sources or can surf through Sony’s affiliated news partners for content that might interest them.

Users can also add RSS feeds and blog posts to the app. It allows bookmarking of social media posts and news articles for easy reading at a later time. Bookmarks are synced across multiple devices so users can always pick up right where they left off. A homescreen widget is available as well which can display the users’ particular content of choice. Socialife News will play host to official content of the FIFA World Cup as Sony is an official sponsor of the event. The app is available for free via the Google Play Store.

Sony Socialife News Reader App Now Open To All Android Phones original content from Ubergizmo.

Have you ever heard of the app Puffchat? Well if you haven’t, don’t worry. Basically Puffchat is a competitor to the popular Snapchat app, which for those unfamiliar allows users to send multimedia content such as photos and videos to other Snapchat users, which will then be deleted from the system after a brief period of time.

This is great for sending sensitive material that you don’t want to get out, although so far the running joke is that Snapchat is more of a platform for sexting, if anything. That being said, Puffchat has been discovered to be not as secure as Snapchat. In fact it seems that it is so insecure that anyone with a little computer knowledge will be able to access supposedly deleted photos and messages. Yikes! (more…)

Snapchat Competitor, Puffchat, Found To Have Security Flaw original content from Ubergizmo.