According to a report from The Verge, Google has issued a cease and desist letter over Microsoft's recent update to the Windows Phone YouTube app. The Internet giant is demanding that Microsoft remove the app from the Windows Phone Store by...
Following the announcement yesterday that Apple surpassed 50 billion iOS App Store downloads, the company today revealed in a press release that Brandon Ashmore from Mentor, Ohio downloaded the milestone app. The 50 billionth app downloaded was Say the Same Thing. Ashmore will receive...
Beginning today, iOS app maker Codito is running a portfolio wide sale of all of its board games. "Tigris and Euphrates," "Ra," "Medici," "Le Havre," and "Tikal" will all be $0.99 until further notice. The development company focuses on bringing popular classic...
About two weeks after Apple began counting down to the 50 billionth app download from the iOS App Store, the company surpassed the milestone this evening. The person who downloaded the app will receive a $10,000 iTunes gift card, while the...
At its I/O conference today, Google revealed that it has activated 900 million Android OS devices since the platform launched back in 2008. In addition to that number, the Internet giant says that users have downloaded over 48 billion apps...
At its I/O conference today, Google announced a complete rebrand of its "Hangouts" feature that has been pretty popular on Google+. The service will now consist of multiple parts, including: Google Talk, Google+ Messenger, and Google+ Hangouts. The now standalone app...
According to a report from FOSS Patents, Apple plans to add the recently launched Samsung Galaxy S4 to its United States patent lawsuit with Samsung. The judge presiding over the case, Lucy Koh, has already informed both companies that they must narrow...
BlackBerry (formerly Research in Motion) today announced that it will be bringing its popular BlackBerry Messenger service to the iOS and Android platforms sometime this summer. The service currently allows BlackBerry-to-BlackBerry communication through the use of a device-specific "PIN number."...
When T-Mobile launched the iPhone last month, it offered customers the ability to purchase Apple's smartphone for $100 down and an additional $20/month to cover the remaining cost of the device. That "deal," however, appears to have ended now as...
According to a report from BGR, AT&T has plans to discontinue the HTC First, which is better known as the "Facebook Phone." The device, which was unveiled last month, is the first to come preinstalled with Facebook Home, an Android OS...
Facebook today updated its iOS app (App Store link) with several improvements to Photos, including the ability to share a photo on a friend's timeline, saving it to the iOS Camera Roll, or making it your profile picture. Other small...
This past week, Siri alternative for Android OS "Speaktoit" (Google Play link) launched an update that features a number of new improvements, including a new feature called "mental push-ups," the ability to read email from Yahoo, Gmail, or Outlook, and...
According to several reports, Facebook today announced that "Facebook Home," its Android OS skin, has surpassed one million downloads. This number is significantly lower than expected for the world's largest social network that currently boasts over one billion users. In...
AT&T today revealed that it will begin selling the HTC First, which is also known as the "Facebook Phone" because of its standard integration with Facebook Home, for a mere $0.99, down from the regular $99 pricing with a new...
T-Mobile today announced that it has sold 500,000 units of the iPhone 5 since the device launched on the carrier less than one month ago. T-Mobile didn't say how many iPhone 4/4S units it sold in the quarter, however. On March...
Microsoft today released an overhauled YouTube app for Windows Phone 8, giving users the ability to manage their profile and playlists, share videos, and more. What’s new? Lots. Pin videos, playlists, channels, and even search queries to Start as Live...
HTC yesterday reported its financial results for the first quarter of 2013, announcing a revenue of $1.45 billion and a net profit of a mere $2.88 million. The company's profits have fallen significantly year-over-year by 98%, and this quarter has...
Instagram yesterday updated both its Android app (Google Play link) and its iOS app (App Store link) to add a new feature that allows users to tag people in those photos. The feature, which is similar to the way tagging...
Apple yesterday released a small updated, iOS 6.1.4 to only iPhone 5 users. The update includes only one noted change, an updated audio profile for the speakerphone of the device. It's not exactly clear what this new audio profile does,...
Apple yesterday began its public countdown to 50 billion app downloads from the iOS App Store, with the current total at around 49,287,200,000. The company says that the person who downloads the 50 billionth app will receive a $10,000 iTunes...
