Blaq for BlackBerry 10, the newest version of one of the PlayBook’s most popular apps, is making its way to BlackBerry’s newest platform on Wednesday, April 17th. While its substantive improvements have not been detailed, there’s a good chance Blaq for BB10 will adhere to the Cascades design and coding guidelines, featuring fast gesture-based navigation [...]
Popular office application for Android, Office Suite Pro, has been updated to version 7.1 with a bunch of new features that make it much more accessible to the average user. In addition to Multi Window support for compatible Samsung devices like the Galaxy S3, Galaxy Note II and upcoming Galaxy S4, the new version is [...]
If you visit music.twitter.com today, you’ll see the Twitter logo with a #music hashtag next to it, followed closely by a “Coming soon” label. If that’s not enough to whet your appetite, reports indicate that the social media giant, which boasts 200 million active members, will be collaborating with big-name music startups like Vevo, Rdio, [...]
File Managers may not be the most exciting app category to report on, but they engender a sense of loyalty in users, both to the app itself and to Android as a platform. Being able to manipulate the file system has set Android apart from iOS and Windows Phone, as users can drag-and-drop items from [...]
Pebble has released a firmware update for its smartwatch today that fixes a number of bugs relating to iOS connectivity and notifications. The 1.10 release is aimed at providing as stable a platform for end users who will soon be exposed to new watchfaces and apps from the developer SDK. One of the most exciting [...]
Earlier today it was revealed that TELUS is in talks with Mobilicity to purchase its assets and AWS spectrum, which the new entrant spent $243 million in 2008 to acquire. Despite government pushback against excessive license transfers (they’re considering a change of rules to prevent the incumbents from purchasing an unfair amount of spectrum) and [...]
Facebook and Facebook Messenger have been updated this morning in anticipation of Home’s release later today. If you recall, Facebook Home is a launcher replacement that will bring a full screen of status updates and high-resolution photos to your Android device. While it’s not launching in Canada for another few weeks, its best feature, Chat [...]
For a long time, CyanogenMOD has been the salvation for many users on aging Android hardware, cutting through the bloated, slow OEM experience to bring you a clean build of Android’s finest. Despite needing to know your way around a command prompt, Android hacking has become somewhat mainstream over the last couple of years; processes [...]
LinkedIn has confirmed the long-suspected rumour that it purchased popular web- and mobile-based news reader, Pulse, for what is believed to be around $90 million. The company confirmed the acquisition on its blog today, but pricing details were not made public. According to a stats sheet made available on the blog post, Pulse has over [...]
MasterCard has launched its long-awaited payment platform, MasterPass, to facilitate mobile payments on the web and mobile devices. At its core, MasterPass is a locker, able to hold the information of up to 25 credit cards, even from issuers other than MasterCard. “[We] are a technology company that specializes in payments,” said Jason Davies, Vice [...]