It’s been almost a week since Google announced their own streaming music service to compete with established services like Spotify and Pandora — Google Play Music All Access — and now that I’ve had a chance to play around with the app; I thought about sharing my experience with the app in a blog post. Google Play Music All Access app (yeah, the name totally sucks) was launched just about...

Apple has easily outsmarted its rival Google to become world’s most valuable brand. The iPhone,  iPad and iPod  maker is valued at $185 billion,  as per the annual BrandZ study of the world’s top 100 brand. Although Apple topped the list once again, its brand value only increased 1% to $185 billion, which is not as impressive as the 19% increase (from $153 billion in 2011 to $183...

The ‘Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)‘ policy that is gaining a lot of traction in the corporate world and educational sphere alike, is one of the key considerations in employee satisfaction these days. This policy does not chain employees to use company issued devices, but frees them to bring their personal laptops, tablets and smartphones to the workplace and access company data and applications...

Google Now has finally landed on iOS. The service that Android users have enjoyed for a year, just became available on iOS devices in the form of an update to the Google Search app. ”Google Now is about giving you just the right information at just the right time,” Google said in a blog post. Google Now has been an integrated feature of Android 4.1 since June 2012, but now, it will,...

Global smartphones sales eclipsed those of feature phones for first time ever in the first quarter of 2013, as per the latest report from research firm IDC.  The report revealed that 216.2 million smartphones were shipped accounting for  51.6% of all mobile phones shipped  globally in the first quarter of 2013. This marked the first time when smartphones have claimed more than half of all quarterly...

Gaana, Times Internet’s music streaming service has announced the second version of Gaana in addition to Gaana+, the pro, ad-free section for the iPhone. We had written about Gaana and its upcoming paid feature based on some hints given out by Satyan Gajwani some time back. Gaana 2.0: The second version of the app for iPhone introduces a section called My Zone which is sorta like a favorite section,...

Yahoo! has released two new mobile apps, for weather and email, suggesting that company is emphasizing more on mobile. The company has released a Mail app for iOS and Android tablet users and a Weather app for iOS. This marks the first time that Yahoo has released their own weather app, as well as their Mail app for tablets. “Today, we’re excited to introduce the Yahoo! Mail Apps for iPad...

Mozilla’s new mobile operating system Mozilla OS is not coming to India, at least not in 2013. The Mozilla OS has been touted as the challenger to Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS operating systems. It has been positioned as the platform that will take more than two billion people on the planet online on smartphones. Plus, what’s surprising is that India has more than 860 million...

It was exactly one year ago today, on April 4, 2012, that Instagram finally launched its much-anticipated app on Android. The Facebook owned popular camera app hit 100M user mark in February this year. Today, on its one-year anniversary, Instagram has announced that nearly half of all Instagram use comes from its Android app. The disappointing part is that Instagram didn’t share specifics in terms...

Following close behind the launch of Nexus 7 16 GB WiFi version in India after a lot of delays, Asus has announced the launch of Nexus 7 32 GB WiFi+3G as well as WiFi-only model in India. The 3G version of the tablet will be available at an MRP of Rs. 21,999 whereas the Wi-Fi variant would be available for Rs. 18,999. It’s worth pointing out that this is the maximum retail price and the street...