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Google catches Apple in app race

Apple is losing its advantage in smartphone applications to Google, diminishing one of the iPhone’s big selling points.

Samsung Brings Multi-Window Management to Android

It seem that history is indeed repeating itself, as Samsung seems keen to add a feature to its Tablets that has graced PCs for a long, long time, multiple app windows.

Google now allows developers to respond to Google Play Store reviews

archive / By Ketan Singh

Google is now allowing developers to directly respond to Google Play Store reviews, while making the users use their Google+ profile to remove anonymity.

Parse moves to support Facebook’s 3rd generation SDK for Android

archive / By Ketan Singh

Cloud app platform Parse has released an update which deeply integrates with Facebook’s latest SDK for Android, allowing you to take advantage of all of this new functionality in your apps.

Ford announces SDK to access in-car controls

archive / By Ankit Mathur

Ford has announced that developers will now be able to develop mobile apps that can be enabled to access in-car controls and interact with the user primarily through voice commands. The new SYNC Applink platform SDK is now available for download after developers register themselves at the ford website.

Device OS irrelevant to majority consumers

apps / By Amrit Singh

A new study by Accenture reveals that two-thirds of smartphone and tablet owners don’t have strong brand loyalty to any one particular operating system.

Canonical announces Ubuntu for phones

archive / By Ankit Mathur

Canonical has announced Ubuntu for phones and Ubuntu for Android, which will be shown off at CES this month. It will be available in two flavours for low end smartphones and high end superphones.

YouTube Android API launched, allows native embedding of videos

archive / By Ankit Mathur

YouTube Android API, which was announced at Google I/O 2012, has just been launched experimentally and allows embedding of YouTube videos natively like never before. This is expected to drastically improve the quality of video related apps that are available on the Play Store.