What Might Have Happened If Microsoft Had Bought Motorola?
Unless you’ve had your head in the sand over the past 24 hours you would have heard that Google announced they will pay $12.5 billon for Motorola. But what you might not have heard was that Microsoft were also in the running but didn’t offer nearly as much cash. We all know, money talks, and it certainly did the talking for Google who will hold onto 17,000 US patents with as many as 7,500 still pending – this was the big draw for both companies, other than the obvious Android customer base. Redmond Pie have a great sum up today, discussing the where’s and wherefore’s if Microsoft had actually stumped…
EyeEm – New Photo Sharing App For iOS And Android
Well it’s a crowded market, photo sharing apps but if the app is good enough sucess can be very rewarding, indeed. EyeEm think they have got what it takes to take on the big boys ,they have created a smart photo sharing App that learns what you love and recommends vibes from like-minded people around the world. Just snap a beautiful photo and see where it takes you. The ‘vibe’ theory that it is based on, works as an intelligent photo album that automatically picks up similar content. It’s got some other cool features too, check them out below. This app is available for both iOS and Android – you…
Bump Two Androids Together To Transfer Money
Soon perhaps we will all be like the Queen and never need to carry around money. Well, unfortunately not many of us will have her sort of budget or infact the same reasons for not carrying money but at least the sentiment is there. PayPal have unveiled their first NFC (near-field communication) solution for Android devices. At the MobileBeat 2011 conference in San Francisco, Laura Chambers the Senior Director of Paypal Mobile, showed off how PayPal’s new NFC Android widget will work to transfer money just by tapping two phones together. Watch the video below to see just how cool this is.
Evernote For Android – Updated – For Tablets – Find Out All About It Here
The latest update to Evernote for Android now includes an all new table interface and allows you to create rich text notes and more, take a look at the updates below… This is a must app for your Android Tablet – download it here for free. The home screen puts everything you need right in front of your eyes. The screen is dominated by the new Snippet View, which lets you quickly browse through your notes. Along the left edge, you can choose to view notebooks, tags, as well as those notebooks that have been shared with you. Along to top edge, you’ll find the New Note button, Map View…
Group Video Calling Between Android, iOS Devices and Symbian – It Can Be Done, Here’s How
Perhaps in an ideal world we would all have the same smartphone, it would certainly make a number of options easier to use but there are plenty of apps that work across devices to enable you to communicate as if you were on the same device and even in the same country. There are a growing number of apps that allow video calling between platforms, mostly that’s iOS to Android but there is one app that goes a whole lot further. Find out which one that is below and why it is so good… iPhone version/Download here/Free iPad Version/Download here/Free Android version/Download here/Free Nokia/Symbian version/Download here/Free Fring One thing in…
MyPANTONE – New For Android – Updated For iPhone
As design projects continue to become more digital and designers more mobile, the demand for applications to support an ever-changing work dynamic intensifies. Pantone LLC, an X-Rite company (NASDAQ: XRIT) and the global authority on colour and provider of professional colour standards for the design industries, today announced two new mobile applications to meet this growing need. myPANTONE for Android brings Pantone’s popular iPhone application for capturing, creating and sharing PANTONE® Colour Palettes to the Android platform – giving graphic, digital, multimedia, fashion, interior and industrial designers access to more than 13,000 PANTONE Colours wherever they go, whenever they find inspiration. myPANTONE 2.0 incorporates feedback from more than 80,000…
Our App Of The Day – Jessops Android Photo App
Photos at your fingertips… order beautiful prints directly from your phone. You can now print those special moments with JESSOPS Photo directly from your Android phone. Easily browse your phone’s photo albums and choose your favourite snaps to print, whether they are friends or family, holidays or just at home. Available in 6×4” or 7×5” sized prints, professionally printed at the highest quality on Fuji paper giving them vibrant colours and sharp definition. This is a free app and you can pick it up here
PressReader – Now Available For Honeycomb
NewspaperDirect Releases Android Honeycomb Version of PressReader; World’s Largest Digital Newsstand Delivers 1,800+ Daily Newspapers to Latest Android Tablets. With one free app, millions of Android users can read hundreds of full-color, full-content newspapers on their Android-based smartphone or tablet. Initial download includes seven free issues. PressReader for Android Honeycomb is now available in the Android Market and is compatible with 3.0/3.1 Honeycomb-based tablets, such as the Asus Eee Pad Transformer, the HTC Flyer, the Motorola Xoom, and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 and 10.1. A Gingerbread-specific version of PressReader is also available for Android devices running Android 2.2/2.3. Pre-installations of the app on a number of Honeycomb devices are…
Top 10 Latest Highly Rated Paid Android Photography Apps
The Android photography market is getting better everyday. The iOS store has some brilliant photography apps, don’t get me wrong. But you’d be mistaken if you thought the Android market was resting on its morals. Many of the developers who have developed for the Apple iOS system are now also turning their skills to the Android market and they look good. These are all paid apps and and are selling like hot cakes, take a look at these… Vignette Select from a variety of shooting modes, which include a Self Timer, Fast Shot, and Time Lapse, to name only a few. After snapping that great photo, choose from an array…
Adobe Enables Developers To Build Apps For Android, BlackBerry And iOS Devices
Adobe today delivered an update to Adobe® Flash® Builder® 4.5 and Flex 4.5 software to enable developers to build applications for iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry PlayBook. Support for Android devices was released in April 2011. Developers now have a single platform for building highly expressive mobile applications that can be distributed via the Android Market, Apple App Store and BlackBerry App World. Offered standalone or as part of Creative Suite® 5.5 Web Premium and Master Collection, Flash Builder 4.5 enables the creation of applications that work seamlessly across leading mobile device platforms. “The reaction from developers to the new mobile capabilities in Flash Builder 4.5 and the Flex 4.5…
