Wechat is being hailed as the up and coming competitor to Whatsapp. The app has picked up in the Indian market which is itself getting accustomed to smartphones and the handheld device revolution. It was launched in India in July last year in partnership with Ibibo as Tencent has minority stake in the company. There were speculations about it starting to charge money from its customers but Dennis Hau...

The preferences of the general consumer industry for gadgets and technology has changed drastically resulting in smartphones, tablets and other portable devices  becoming an integral part of our lives. One simply cannot imagine life without smartphones in this day and age. Then comes the question of the app ecosystem; something which can make or break the mobile platform. Indeed, mobile apps are essential...

Times Internet has launched another mobile app for one its lifestyle properties, TimesCity. The TimesCity app combines content from TimesCity as well as Times Food And Nightlife guide thus giving you access to the whole spectrum of stuff happening in your city.  The app is also cross platform and supports iOS, Android and Blackberry 10. The app provides info about restaurants, bars, events and cinemas....

Swype, one of the most popular keyboard apps on Android, has shed its beta tag and is now available for download on Google Play Store. Currently, there are two separate versions on Google Play - a free trial version for 30 days, and a $0.99 (Rs 54) for a limited time. With a worldwide user base of over 500 million , Swype allows users to slide their finger across the screen in addition to tapping,...

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,...

After quite a bit of speculation, Twitter has taken its music service live on iOS and the web. Basically it is a recommendation engine which crunches data about the music that is trending on the social network. Besides that, Twitter Music also doubles a music app and play full length songs if you have a Rdio or Spotify account. Sadly, these services are not available in India so we cannot take full...

Smart keyboard apps are quite popular on Android owing to the flexibility that the OS offers. There are several quality keyboards applications available for Android, of which Swiftkey, Swype and SlideIT are perhaps the best known. But, there is another app that is making some incremental improvements. Adaptxt, developed by Keypoint Technologies, has been updated with customization options. The...

Popular cross-platform messenger WhatsApp has found a home on hundreds of millions of smartphones. Now, the global smartphone messaging service is claiming to have more than 200 million monthly users. WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum revealed that the smartphone app is even more popular than microblogging site Twitter. It currently has over 200 million monthly active users, who send out and receive over 20 billion...

Mobile apps are making hitherto difficult scenarios really easy thus saving us a lot of time and energy for many people all over the country.  Nowhere is this superbly demonstrated than the instance of Mehvish Mushtaq, who has developed an Android app which collects and supplies the most vital contact details in the Kashmir region. The app called Dial Kashmir is a repository of all contact information...

Popular cross platform messaging app, Nimbuzz has finally announced the launch of the Nimbuzz app for Windows 8 platform. Previously compatible with only Windows Phone 7,  the app will utilize Window’s Live Tiles and locked home screen notifications in its latest version. Along with the increased native language support of the Windows Phone OS, the Windows Phone 8 version of Nimbuzz is...