Skype for Windows Phone comes to China with app upgrades in tow
Skype’s newest Chinese partnership may not allay fears of government snooping, but it’s paying dividends for mobile users — Skype for Windows Phone has just reached the country for the first time as part of a larger app update. Microsoft’s messa…
Field Trip app updated with new layout and content
Field Trip, a location-based information guide, updated recently with some great new changes. Designed by Google’s Niantic Labs, Field Trip aims to deliver underground information to users based on their location. The app is long due for a UI update, and it’s finally here. The new…
Completed Firefox 26 brings a new Android home screen (video)
Firefox 26 has exited beta at last, and it includes a few big treats for Android users. The mobile browser now includes a promised home screen with quick access to favorite pages, bookmarks and the Reading List. There’s also new optimizations for …
Google Hangouts app update tweaks texts and group messaging
Since Google bundling text messages into Hangouts, it’s had its share of quirks, and the Android app’s latest update addresses a few of them. If you were aggravated by the application converting group messages to MMS by default (and the possible u…
Apple’s 12 Days of digital gifts comes to the US for the first time
Apple’s donning the Santa suit again this year to dole out digital freebies, and for the first time, iOS users in the US make it to the “nice” list. Today, the company has launched the annual 12 Days of Gifts for 2013, offering one complimentary s…
Bing for Android now refreshes your wallpaper once a day
Tired of staring at your smartphone’s wallpaper, but can’t bring yourself to change it? Microsoft is remedying what is surely the most first-world of first-world problems with an update to Bing for Android. Version 4.2.0 of the app not only gets a…
Google voice search on Android and iOS now speaks French, German and Japanese
To date, Google’s mobile voice search has been limited to English speakers — not very convenient if you’re looking for coffee in Cologne. Thankfully, its vocabulary is expanding today. The Google Search apps on both Android and iOS now recogniz…
Foursquare redesign for iOS brings you more location info at a glance
Foursquare gave its iOS check-in app a makeover just a few months ago, but it’s already back with a redesign that takes fuller advantage of Apple’s platform. The version 7.0 app has a more compact layout that puts more information up front — you’…
Quip’s mobile-native word processing comes to Android
Quip’s built-for-mobile word processor has at last reached Android. The newly available app mirrors much of what we’ve seen in the iOS version, including adaptive documents, cloud syncing and deep collaboration tools that include messaging and ima…
Plex multimedia app gets a new UI to match iOS 7
Plex might be a straggler in the iOS 7 app update parade, but as they say: better late than never. The refreshed app comes with a new look for Apple’s latest mobile platform, but since it retains most of the old interface’s elements, you can’t exa…
AIVAnet 