Articles tagged "Apps"

A two-year-long study found that 2,040 apps on Google Play Store are harmful in some way. Some require suspicious amount of permissions, while others are straight up malware, reports the University of Sydney and Data61 of CSIRO. The research...

A new report examining the revenues generated by app developers shows a great disparity between iOS and Android publishers. According to the Sensor Tower app research group, the top 100 app makers on Apple’s mobile platform earn on average 64% more...

In April, Google announced that it would comply with feedback given from the European Commission on the way that Android carries itself with Chrome and Google Search. In order to make the playing field fair for other web browsers and search engine...

As a warm up to the I/O conference, Google announced the winners of the fourth annual Google Play Awards. This year there are three new categories – Most Inventive, Best Living Room Experience and Most Beautiful Game. These went to Tick Tock: A...

Instagram introduced the Polls sticker back in October 2017 that lets you ask questions to your followers, and now, this Facebook subsidiary has announced a new sticker that allows you to quiz your followers. Instagram has introduced the Quiz...

Apple’s iOS 13 is going to bring several overhauls over previous versions with system-wide dark mode, undo gestures and special iPad features like multiple windowed apps. Today news broke out that Apple is also working on merging its Find my iPhone...

The number of Likes on your Instagram posts may soon be invisible to others as the Facebook subsidiary has created a design prototype, which hides the Like counts from your posts. This information comes to us through reverse engineering expert...

We're now mostly downloading apps that are around 5 years old, says Eric Feng - Founding CTO of Hulu. The Top 30 apps in Apple's App Store are, on average, 1,853 days old (5 years) compared to 625 days old (less than 2 years) in 2014. This means...

Viber claims 1 billion registered users, making it one of the largest chat apps in the world and today the company announced its latest feature - Viber Local Number (VLN). Viber will allow you to get a local based virtual landline or mobile number...

YouTube's picture-in-picture (PiP) mode was initially limited to Premium users, but that changed last June as the feature was extended to non-Premium users in the US. More than nine months later, the PiP mode is now spreading to non-Premium...

Facebook-owned WhatsApp has announced a new privacy feature that lets you control who can add you to a group. The option to manage this feature is tucked inside the Settings > Account > Privacy > Groups menu. There you will see three more options...

Facebook-owned WhatsApp rolled out Picture-in-Picture (PiP) Mode for its iPhone app last year in May, and it extended this feature to its Android app later in December. However, the PiP Mode on Android app has a limitation - it plays video only...

The latest offense from Apple is in the News+ app. Specifically, the way that Apple lets users sign up. It offers a “Try it now” button that takes you directly to the payment screen. Apple’s guidelines say “Make sure users know that once the free...

WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps in the world right now, but it still lacks some useful features that are present on competing apps like Telegram - one of them being Dark Mode. WhatsApp is working on Dark Mode since last September....

Last week we told you about WhatsApp's test of in-app browsing and reverse image search features on its Android app. Today we learn about two more features that this Facebook subsidiary is working on. WhatsApp is developing two new features...

Facebook-owned WhatsApp announced its Business app back in September 2017 and launched it next year in January. But, the app was only launched on Android and there's been no word from WhatsApp about its availability on iOS. Fast forward to February...

Google Inbox was supposed to be the future of Gmail. It offered more advanced filtering, snoozing of messages, and more visual organization to the Gmail inbox. As of lately, Inbox users knew that the app was going kaput, but it wasn’t until recently...

WhatsApp, like many other companies, tests new features on the beta channel before rolling them out widely to its user base around the globe. And the latest features that this Facebook subsidiary is testing are in-app browser and reverse image...

On Wednesday, Facebook experienced a major but partial outage that lasted most of the day. In my personal experience, I first noticed this when I tried to send a photo through Facebook Messenger and it kept failing, although I was still able to send...

A new report from The New York Times outlines details of a criminal investigation in the US into Facebook’s past dealings with user data and the companies involved in the scheme. A grand jury has subpoenaed records from “two prominent makers of...