Apps

Pokemon Go competes with Rio Olympics for popularity

Forget beach volleyball, soccer or tennis, not to mention the steeplechase or discus. Pokemon Go is challenging the Olympics for most popular game among some young Brazilians. Hundreds of them turned out in a Rio de Janeiro park on Saturday holding their mobile phones to hunt for virtual creatures in the hyper-reality game app that […]

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Google Duo: A simple 1-to-1 video calling app to compete with FaceTime, Skype

It represents Google’s response to other popular video calling options, including Apple’s FaceTime, Microsoft’s Skype and Facebook’s Messenger. It’s not that different from the other video chatting services, except that it gives users a glimpse at who’s making the call, helping people decide whether to answer or not. Google says it’s calling the feature, “knock, knock”. […]

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Rio Olympics 2016: How to catch all the action on Facebook, Twitter

Social networking sites Facebook and Twitter and internet search giant Google have rolled out special features and emojis to let people add some Olympic spirit to their digital communications. “Twitter is the place where all the live action is at present,” Aneesh Madani, head of sports partnerships at Twitter India told ET. “With over 1,700 […]

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Pokemon Go developer John Hanke gets hero’s welcome at Comic Con

The creator of the wildly popular Pokemon Go gaming app received the celebrity treatment on Sunday at the final day of San DIEGO’s annual Comic-Con, as he discussed the viral popularity and future of the game. John Hanke, founder of Niantic Labs and developer of Pokemon Go, was welcomed with loud applause from more than […]

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Skype will not run on these Android and Windows smartphones

Microsoft-owned Skype has announced that its transition from P2P to cloud is nearing completion. And so the company will be dropping support for some older versions of Android and Windows phones. The deadline set is October 2016. To run the latest version of Skype for Android (Skype 6.2 and higher), users will need to have […]

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