Tag: App
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Xbox One Soon To Stream Games To PCs
Microsoft’s January 21st conference and press event showed off some interesting new products and services from the company. In our first of a trio of articles covering the event, we’ll explore how the new Windows 10 operating system will interact with the Xbox One, as well as additional Windows 10 content and updates coming to…
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Facebook Messenger to Add Voice to Text Feature
Facebook is looking to add a new feature to its Messenger app for iOS and Android devices which will allow us to record small snippets of speech that will be converted into readable text. The Vice President of Facebook Messenger, David Marcus (not Captain Kirk’s son) has been caught loose-lipped on his own profile on…
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Google Reveals Text To Speech Translation
Skype recently came out with their own home brewed text to speech system – users can talk in Spanish and expect a translation into English or from English into Spanish. However, Google have now entered the game with their own text to speech translation software system, directly through a dedicated Google translate app. Currently written…
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Apple’s Minimum Price for Apps Raised
Following the new implementation of local collecting of VAT in Europe, which sees online transactions being taxed in the country of origin, Apple has raised the minimum price of apps on their service in the UK up from 69p to 79p. The EU, Canada, Norway, Iceland and Russia have also been affected, with Apple adjusting…
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Apple Enacts App Store Returns Policy
Following on from demands from EU authorities to better regulate in app purchases, Apple has enacted a new policy on digital stores which allows users to ‘return’ digital purchases made up to 14 days following the purchase. After what became quite the scandal for app stores, specifically Apple and Google ones, the move is expected…
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Microsoft Office Sway Released To All
Microsoft’s new office app Sway is now live, where once before the tool was only available to users on a waiting list, now anyone can get their hands on it. The online tool lets users put together their own presentation documents in a fully integrated browser setting. Sway lets users create embeddable in browser presentations,…
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Skype Debuts Real-Time Translation
Skype’s revolutionary translation system is about to go live in a public test initiative. The system is designed to translate what people say to each other into the other’s native language as it’s said, hopefully breaking down language barriers and subsequently making it a lot easier for people to communicate worldwide. The translation system went…
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Messenger app Viber introduces new social gaming
The popular instant messaging app Viber which has around 209 million monthly active users, has announced that it will be expanding into games, following in the footsteps of Line, We Chat and also Kakao. It’s been a relatively quit year for Viber; it was bought by Japan’s Rakuten for $900 million back in February this…
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Google Santa Tracker is Back for 2014!
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Google has revived and revamped its popular Santa Tracker app in time for Christmas 2014 and it’s even more fun than last year! Available now on the Google Play store for free on Android smartphones or tablets (running v4.0.2 and above) the Santa Tracker app can be installed right now and enjoyed until the big…
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Google Pays Out Following App Lawsuit
The in app purchases problem in the tech industry has bubbled to the surface again this week, as Google has joined the list of companies having to pay out big money refunds for unauthorized purchases made on their app store. Growing pressure from courts and in the media has seen the problem coming to the…
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Google announce new Chromecast guest mode lets your friends connect without using your Wi-Fi
I think that a lot of people will agree that Google’s Chromecast is a great bit of technology; it allows users to easily “cast” video from various sources, whether it’s YouTube, Netflix or perhaps some home movies or pictures you have stored on your phone. Also, on some supported Android devices users are able to…
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FingerKey App Can Unlock Your Mac Using TouchID
What with all this hacking left, right and centre, more and more people are being concerned about the security of their data. We all know we should have really secure passwords with random letters, numbers and other strange characters to ensure it is difficult to crack – but at the same time we all know how difficult…