Tag: Android

San Francisco: Micro-blogging site Twitter has rolled a new feature that allows its 326 million users to add images, videos and GIFs to their re-tweets. Available for both Android as well as iOS users, the feature was announced on the micro-blogging site itself late on Monday. “It’s easy to express yourself by re-tweeting with a […]

New Delhi: Tech giant Google on Friday said the company is looking forward to working with India’s anti-trust regulator the Competition Commission of India (CCI) on issues related to the Android mobile operating system. Reacting to a Reuters story that the CCI has ordered a probe into Google for alleged abuse of its popular Android […]

San Francisco: Private instant messaging and voice over IP service Telegram has updated its app with a new design for Android and added an Archive Chats option. “Swipe left on a chat to transfer it to your archived chats folder. When an archived chat gets a notification, it will pop out of the folder and […]

New Delhi: A Delhi-based cybersecurity company claims to have discovered an application on Google Play Store and Apple App Store spoofs the user’s identity and makes calls. According to cybersecurity firm GIS Consulting, the app called “Call India-IntCall” does not require user permission to register; they can enter any 10-digit mobile number registered themselves without […]

San Francisco: China’s Internet powerhouse Tencent’s revenue from PUBG Mobile and its new version, Game For Peace, crossed $4.8 million a day in May, becoming the worlds top grossing mobile app, according to a new report from mobile app intelligence firm Sensor Tower. The two versions combined to generate an estimated $146 million in player […]

New Delhi: HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones, launched its new budget smartphone – Nokia 2.2 – in India on Thursday. The smartphone would be available in tungsten black and steel colours at an offer price of Rs 6,999 for the 2GB+16GB storage variant and Rs 7,999 for 3GB+32GB storage variant till June 30. […]

San Francisco: Two years after a banking Trojan called Triada was spotted on some budget Android smartphones, Google has confirmed that criminals did actually manage to get an advanced backdoor pre-installed devices before they even left the manufacturing facilities. Triada’s chief purpose was to install apps that could be used to send spam and display […]

San Francisco: After getting the dark theme update, search engine giant Google Photos is now adding live video previews to the main timeline of Google Photos for Android users. Videos in Google Photos are denoted by a white play icon in the top-right corner of thumbnails that includes clip length. Google Photos 4.20, which rolled […]

San Francisco: With larger and easier-to-interact buttons, Google-owned content sharing platform YouTube is testing a revamped user interface (UI) for the “Up Next” videos on Android. This new interface is more straightforward with larger touch targets. In the top-left corner is a numeric countdown that specifies how many seconds are remaining before the next video […]

New Delhi: Music streaming app Gaana, in partnership with Google Playstore, launched an instant app for music lovers on Monday for those who want to experience the app without downloading it. Android users can now simply click on the try now button on Gaana’s Playstore page to enjoy a native app experience, the company said […]

Apple unveiled its iPhone 11 models on Tuesday with a price cut for the most basic models while also laying out plans for streaming and gaming services as it bids to weather the slump in the global smartphone market. Price appeared to be a key consideration as the tech giant reduced the entry level price […]

San Francisco: Google Photos for Android is now rolling out new “Sharpen” and “Denoise” tools. After tapping “Edit” on a picture, navigating to Adjust and scrolling to the very end…

Bengaluru: Swedish caller identification app Truecaller on Friday launched its group chat feature that is aimed to facilitate efficient communication for its community. “Truecaller Group Chat” feature lets users share messages, photos and videos within a closed group of participants created on the app’s instant messaging platform and will be available as an update for […]

New Delhi: Several Android and iPhone devices which only support outdated operating systems were no longer be able to run WhatsApp from February 1. According to the Facebook-owned messaging platform, the move was necessary in order to protect the security of its millions of users. If WhatsApp is currently active on your iOS 8 device, […]

New Delhi: Microsoft has made its unified Office experience combining the Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps available for Android users worldwide. Now these key apps are available independently as well as in a unified form. Earlier the unified experience designed for mobile users was available only to Office Insiders as a preview, and Microsoft had […]