Digital Trends - Google Music users, you can breathe a slight sigh of relief, but don’t get too excited. Read more...
Distimo: App spotlights help Android more, sales help iOS
Distimo has taken a fresh look at mobile app promos that has shown a sharp contrast in their effects on Android and iOS apps. Read more...
Laurene Powell Jobs to attend State of the Union address
Steve Jobs' widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, is on the official guest list for tonight's State of the Union address by US President Barack Obama, according to the White House. She will watch the speech from First Lady Michelle Obama's box in the House of Representatives Read more...
Microsoft gives devs prizes for ‘quality’ Windows Phone apps
Microsoft Canada has taken an unusual approach to spur Windows Phone development through an initiative called the Developer Movement. Those who publish at least one "quality" app to the Marketplace get prize bundles that scale the more they post Read more...
RIM debuts enterprise security system for iPhone, Android (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - Beggars cannot be choosers, it seems. Once the singular darling of the enterprise market, Research In Motion has resorted to creating proprietary security system for the iPhone and Android handsets, which have rapidly begun to replace the BlackBerry as the serious smartphone of choice. The Web-based system, named Mobile Fusion, will be available in late March of next year, according to the official announcement. Read more...
Skype software update adds Skype-to-Facebook calls (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - Announced on the official Skype blog earlier today, the communications company released new versions of Skype for both Mac and Windows that include the ability to connect to Facebook. After installing Skype 5.4 Beta for Mac or Skype 5.7 Beta for Windows, users can click the Facebook icon on the left side of the screen and authorize Skype to access Facebook data through the Facebook Connect button. However, users have to agree to release a bevy of information from Facebook in order to activate the Facebook functionality. The software brings in the Facebook feed of both previous Skype contacts as well as all Facebook friends. Similar to the Facebook feed, users can like updates from friends in addition to reading or adding new comments on previous status updates. Read more...
iOS app allows streaming from Google Music Beta
Thanks to the newly-released gMusic: A native Google Music player app ($1.99, iTunes), iOS device owners can stream music from Google Music Beta rather than iTunes Match. Like the official Android app, it lets users access as many as 20,000 songs stored in the streaming music locker. An Offline mode caches store songs locally on the device's memory without having a data connection.... Read more...
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