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BBC Rolls Out Sports App for Kindle Fire Devices and Updates its Android and iOS App
0By: Jeff Stewart | August 4th, 2013 | Android, iOS, Mobile Apps, News, Sports
After releasing its sports app for Android and iOS platforms, the popular media outlet BBC has now rolled out its sports app for Amazon’s Kindle Fire devices. BBC revealed this news through a post on its blog which made it known that the Fire-optimised app will be first available to residents of the UK, who will be able to get it...
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Waterloo-Based Vidyard Launches App for HootSuite to Give Social Marketers an Ideal Opportunity to Market Through Videos
By: Jeff Stewart | August 4th, 2013 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
With the support of the government, startups in Canada have now reached a level where they are not only creating apps for foreign companies, but they are developing applications for local companies too. A recent example in this regard is of Waterloo-based Vidyard that has created an app for Vancouver-based
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US Government Releases New Set of Privacy Proposals for Apps
By: Jeff Stewart | August 4th, 2013 | Mobile Apps, News
The US government has released a set of proposals on Friday, July 26th, which if implemented, would require app developers to tell users what data they gather and how they use it. This set of proposals was first highlighted by TNW, which reported that: “The US government’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration today issued its first draft of what will be a mobile apps cod...
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Instagram Confirms Latest Update Prevented Third Party Apps from Uploading Pictures
By: Ali Raza | August 3rd, 2013 | Mobile Apps, News, Social Media
TQ recently reported that Windows Phone users are not able to upload their pictures to popular photo sharing site Instagram through a third party app called Instance because as soon as they upl...
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Pictures Shared on Instagram Through Third-Party Windows Phone App Instance Removed Immediately After Uploading
By: Jeff Stewart | August 3rd, 2013 | Mobile Apps, News, Social Media
The popular photo sharing social network, Instagram, has not released a native app for Micrsoft’s Windows Phone app. As a result of that numerous independent developers got in on the action and developed their own unofficial third party ...
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AVG Acquires the Services of Ex-Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs to Expand its Mobile Business
By: Jeff Stewart | August 3rd, 2013 | Business, Mobile Apps, News
After leaving Mozilla, former CEO, Gary Kovacs, has been appointed the new Chief Executive Officer of AVG, a privacy and web security company. The news was broken by AVG itself, as the company issued a press release to announce the appointm...
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AWS Makes it Easier for Developers to Track Visitor Traffic to Their Apps by Adding More Support
By: Jeff Stewart | August 3rd, 2013 | Mobile Apps, News
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced on Tuesday, July 30th that it has added some more support that will enable developers to keep a track of visitor traffic to their applications slightly more easily. Developers will be able to do so when an IP address gets connected via AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). Mentioning the details of...
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After Defacing Viber’s Website Hackers Now Defaces its App Store Too
By: Jeff Stewart | August 3rd, 2013 | Mobile Apps, News
At the end of the last month, TQ reported that popular messaging and voice calling app Viber was hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army. As a result of this attack, Viber not only found some discrepancies in some of its systems, but the website of the popular service was also defaced by the hacker group. The intruders left the fol...
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TELUS Makes It Possible For Android Users To Surf With New Optik TV Remote App
By: Talha Bhatti | July 30th, 2013 | Android, Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
The life of Android users has just gotten a whole lot easier after the introduction of TELUS’ new Optik TV Remote app for devices supporting Google’s operating system. The basic idea behind the creation of the app was to make the need for the remote control obsolete and brin...
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Minecraft – Pocket Edition climbs to Top Spot in Paid iPhone App Rankings in Canada
By: Talha Bhatti | July 28th, 2013 | Business, Games, iOS, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
Coming to the end of July Minecraft – Pocket Edition took over the top spot in rankings for top paid iPhone apps in Canada according to The Canadian Press. The stats recorded Minecraft – Pocket Edition produced by Mojang, being positioned above Contra: Evolution by PunchBox Studios and ‘Heads Up!’ by Warner Bros. at number three. &nb...
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