Although Google+ has sat around in a somewhat dormant state since arriving last year, Google has continued to maintain it has big plans for its social network. The mobile market, a field in which Facebook has continued to disappoint, will obviously be a key area to corner if Google+ is to be a success, and the official iOS app has just been given a pretty significant update, taking the version number up to 3.0.
Kinect PlayFit, a fitness-based Xbox LIVE feature announced by Microsoft some time ago, has officially launched today, with details of the service being announced by Larry Hryb, otherwise known as Major Nelson.
If there’s one thing that strikes everyone as attractive in Windows Phone, it’s the awesome Metro UI. It’s simple, clean and just very efficient in disseminating information. Metro UI has since then permeated just about every other major product from Microsoft, whether it is the Xbox 360, Office suite of productivity apps (look at Office 15!) or even its flagship Windows desktop operating system.
The chances are that if you are an owner of a desktop or notebook computer, powerful smartphone or tablet. then at some point you might have felt the need of accessing work based packages such as word processors, presentation creators and spread sheet applications. Generally speaking, a lot of us have software suites such as Apple's iWork or Microsoft's Office but if we require the freedom to work anywhere, from any machine, then it could be possible that we have checked out OnLive Desktop to accomplish this task.
Browsing is a major concern to mobile device users, and browsing is arguably the hottest topic when it comes to consumer data protection. Mobile browsers, whilst not yet as feature-rich and reliable as their desktop counterparts, are getting better and better as time goes on, and if you're an Android user looking to tighten browser security, you should certainly pay attention to SandroProxy, an app which goes far in helping you achieve that goal.
Google's I/O conference brought little in the way of surprise, but still presented aficionados of the Big G with plenty to get excited about. As well as the Nexus 7 tablet, which has seen an uprising in talk of a smaller iPad (a device which, as yet, hasn't been proved to be in development), Google also announced Android Jelly Bean (4.1), the successor to the rather tasty Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) operating system.
Although the mobile market has taken some time to adapt to a touch-based interface, there's no dispute that apps implementing a certain amount of touch-gestures are infinitely enhanced. Switcher for Android has prided itself on this ideal, and today, developer Vito Cassisi has updated his popular application.
During the WWDC keynote last month, Apple announced that Mountain Lion - the upcoming version of OS X - will be available for download for Mac users in July. And just like we had expected, the Gold Master build of said OS has just been seeded to registered users of Mac Dev Center.
If you've seen one of Samsung's ads over the last year or so then you'll probably already know that the Korean firm has not been too shy about poking fun at Apple. In fact, Samsung has even seen Apple's customers as fair game when putting its ads together, making fun of the people who line up outside an Apple store for a new iPhone, for example.
Google released Android Jelly Bean, or at least announced it, at Google I/O recently. Since then, Android enthusiasts the world over have been clamoring to get their hands on the latest version of the mobile operating system to come out of the search giant's Googleplex campus. If you're the owner of a Galaxy Nexus then you're one short flash away from having the Jelly Bean experience installed on your very own device. If not though, you face a wait of indeterminable time.
