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Samsung Galaxy S4 vs. iPhone 5
If you’re an iPhone owner who’s looking to upgrade to a newer device, you’ve got cash to burn, and can’t decide whether to buy an iPhone 5 or the Samsung Galaxy SIV when it hits US stores later this month, perhaps we can help. We’ve already done a comparison piece for top 2013 smartphones vs ...
Samsung Galaxy S4 Hits US Stores This Month : See Price, Retailer Details
Samsung has announced that its flagship smartphone, the Galaxy SIV, will be hitting carriers and retail shops later this month. The Galaxy SIV was announced mid-March, and everyone has been drooling over the device’s Jedi-like features, such as Smart Screen, Air gesture, and AirView, that lets you control the device without actually touching the screen. Samsung ...
3 Tips to Battle Google Apps Outages
It happens all to often. The web services we’ve come to know and love run into connectivity issues, and we’re left without access to our favorite apps. This morning some Google users and Google’s App Status Dashboard reported a service disruption with a handful of its top apps, keeping people from accessing email, documents and more. ...
Google-Motorola Avert Phablets : Make Smaller, ‘Phenomenal’ Android Phones
In today’s mobile and social news roundup: Motorola making ample-sized Android phone; Microsoft and Foxconn parent signs licensing patent; and Chat Heads invade iOS. Motorola making ample-sized Android phone When Google acquired Motorola, everyone was expecting that the next Nexus device would be from Motorola, or that the next Razor line would be Google-centric, but ...
WhatsApp and Snapchat Poses Huge Threat to Facebook Messenger
Facebook Messenger has been widely used to keep in constant contact with friends and family, but as more people rely on their mobile devices, many have found alternative methods of communication outside of the popular social network. Chat apps such as Snapchat and WhatsApp have been gnawing away at Facebook Messenger’s target market, and that ...
Pinterest’s Exponential Growth Hinges on the Right Architecture
Pinterest, the photo-sharing social network that has become a haven for online sellers, has experienced significant growth in terms of users, page views, its team, servers, API, Memcache Instances, Redis Instances and MySQL DBs. The question now is, in just three years, how did it grow so big? Pinterest’s Yashwanth Nelapati and Marty Weiner recently ...
Xamarin Acquires LessPainful, Introduces Automated UI Testing Platform
Making an app is not an easy task. Hundreds of lines of codes to write and just one mistake could result to things crashing down in an instant. Aside from that, after writing the code, you need to test it in various platforms to ensure that everything looks good and works well. Good thing there ...
Microsoft Takes on AWS with Azure IaaS, Price Match and Offer Ubuntu 12.04
Microsoft has taken Windows Azure Infrastructure Services from pre-release to general public availability, packing some big guns to compete with Amazon’s popular offerings. The news comes just as the annual OpenStack Summit hits its stride this week, where Rackspace unveiled its own AWS competitor based on its open platform. Windows Azure Infrastructure Services, aside from ...
5 Facebook Apps We Want for Google Glass
This week brought long-awaited specs on Google Glass and its companion Android app, along with API details for developers anxious to build apps for the wearable gadget. Another extension for Android’s open source platform, Google Glass comes with some surprisingly strict limitations on how developers can distribute and monetize apps. But we doubt that will ...
Google Launches MyGlass for Android, SoftBank Still Gunning for Sprint
In today’s mobile and social news roundup: Google Glass tech specs and API out; Softbank still confident in Sprint deal; China has most malware on mobile devices; Twitter to launch TV Online soon; and YouTube updates iOS app with live stream support. Google Glass tech specs and API out Google has released the tech specs of ...