Instagram finally launched on Windows Phone this morning, which means the popular photo-sharing app is now available on every major mobile platform. Don’t expect a uniform experience though. Turns out, there are some big differences between the iOS, Android, and …
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Real-time crowd-based navigation, traffic monitoring, weather conditions, and incident reporting has come to Windows Phone in the person of Waze. The Google-owned app showed up in the Windows Phone Store today. This rounds out Waze’s device support for all of the major mobile operating systems. The Waze app is free of charge. Install it on […]
The app offerings for Windows Phones have slowly been growing since the launch of Windows Phone 8. Today, the underdog mobile platform finally gets Instagram and Waze, two huge titles on iOS and Android.
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Valencia. X Pro II. I dunno, Sierra. Ready your favorite filters, because Instagram for Windows Phone will finally and officially be here today. But it’s pretty half-assed.
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Google is overhauling its approach to serving you articles and news. With "Newsstand" Google’s taking another shot at building a one-stop app for all the different stuff you might want to read online. It’s a bit like Flipboard meets your magazine subscriptions in a single application for your phone.
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It’s hardly show-stopping news out of Cupertino today, but gadget fiends hoping to wrap their holiday tech shopping without leaving home now have one more option in their tablet-friendly arsenal. It’s the Apple Store app for iPad, and it’s coming soon to a slate near you. The application, designed specifically to take advantage of the iPad’s added screen real estate, is a big step up from its iPhone equivalent. There’s a bounty of high-res product images with full pinch-to-zoom support, intuitive category links and detailed product info, including explanations for certain device add-ons, like increased storage or wireless connectivity. Curiously, this version lacks the in-store options available with the Apple Store app for iPhone, such as the EasyPay checkout feature that launched way back in 2011. Fire up your iPad and hit up the source link to check it out.
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Via: TechCrunch
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We wouldn’t be surprised if you’ve never heard of Mail.ru — after all, it’s huge in Russia, but not in the US. In an effort to carve out a space for itself in America, the company has launched a trio of products under its US-based My.com brand (no, not Me.com), including an Android and iOS email client called myMail. Its clean looks and features are reminiscent of the Dropbox-owned Mailbox app, and it includes real-time notifications and a slide-out menu. myMail takes things further, however, by adding avatars and an auto-night mode that disables pings during times you specify. Next on the list is an IM app named myChat that also offers free voice and video calls à la Viber and Tango.
Both of the aforementioned services are free, but My.com aims to subsidize the costs of running them with revenue from its new mobile gaming portal called myGames. Its roster of games is looking short at the moment, but titles range from Texas Hold ‘Em to combat strategy and farm simulation. Obviously, the company’s facing some very tough competition, and it needs to claw its way up to earn significant name recognition stateside — a feat even its acquisition of ICQ couldn’t help it accomplish.
Via: TheNextWeb
As if on cue following this week’s demonstration of the new Google Glassware development kit at the San Francisco Hackathon, online automation service IFTTT has released a new Google Glass action. Beginning today, you can have IFTTT (If This, Then That) send a notification to your Glass timeline whenever one of your specified triggers fires. […]
Apple’s iTunes App Store was long thought to be the dominant ecosystem as far as apps were concerned, with plenty of developers to choose to developer for iOS exclusively, or to develop apps for the iOS platform first. Well Google has since managed to catch up and according to reports, could even beat out Apple in terms of revenue generated. According to a report by Barron’s, they note that according to a Citigroup analyst, Mark May, it has been estimated that Google Play’s revenue will compound annual growth over the next four years, allowing it to grow from $1.3 billion in 2013, to a whopping $5.2 billion in 2017.
However this number is expected to be even bigger if one were to factor in in-app related ads, in which May thinks it will boost revenue to $3.2 billion in 2014, and come 2017 Google could be looking at $7.2 billion in revenue from Google Play alone. Those are some pretty impressive numbers, and with that being said, May has actually raised his price target from $1,025 to $1,190 and issued a Buy rating on Google’s stock. It’s hard to say where we might be in the next 3-4 years, but assuming this is the trend, Google Play could be Google’s new cash cow.
Google Play Revenue Expected To Grow To $7.2 Billion In 2017 original content from Ubergizmo. 
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FiftyThree, the company behind iOS apps Paper and Book, has created a carpenter-style stylus for use with Paper. Aptly and simply dubbed “Pencil,” the stylus lets you erase with the top end just as you would with a normal pencil. It also lets you blend marks on your iPad with your finger, and it can […]
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