IDG News Service - In yet another mobile acquisition, Yahoo has acquired Qwiki, a New York City company that makes an app for turning photos and videos into short, edited movies. The Qwiki app takes pictures and videos that people already ...
Tags: Moviemaking APP, Qwiki, mobile acquisition
IDG News Service - Chinese Internet giant Tencent is rolling out a global marketing campaign for its WeChat messaging app in a bid to expand the product's reach across 15 different markets, and boost its popularity among users outside ...
Tags: Computer Products, IDG, WeChat
Submissions to Microsoft's Windows Store, after stalling earlier this year, are again on the increase, perhaps because developers have been reinvigorated by talk of Windows 8.1 and this week's BUILD conference. According to the MetroStore ...
Tags: APP, Windows, software, Computer Products
It was only a matter of time before it happened and now it has – ransom malware has successfully made the jump from the PC world, where it torments millions of Windows users, to the mobile world, where it has similar designs on ...
Tags: Android Smartphone, APP
Companies in the retail, apparel, footwear, luxury and consumer goods industries can make the onsite vendor compliance audit process faster, easier, more accurate and more productive with the new Factory Audit Mobile App for Centric 8 from ...
Tags: Centric Software, Factory Audit, Mobile App
Women’s specialty clothing brand, Free People, has launched a dedicated app. The multichannel app will allow iPhone users to shop while on the go, browse the brand’s most recent campaigns, scan hangtags to access online content, ...
Tags: Free People, Weblinc, Multi-Channel App
While mobile payments transform financial life in many less developed countries, retailers and payment providers in the U.S. and Europe are still trying to find the right incentives to drive adoption. The added convenience of mobile ...
Tags: Mobile Payments, credit cards
Microsoft today briefly previewed an Office application designed for the Windows "Modern," née "Metro," user interface (UI), and said it would launch the touch-enabled suite next year. "This is big," said Frank Gillett, an analyst ...
Tags: Microsoft, Office Apps, Windows
Google is hoping to appease developers that want better portability for their hosted apps by working with Red Hat on running App Engine in private clouds. The Google Cloud Platform team has been working with Red Hat’s JBoss ...
Tags: Google, Red Hat, Private Clouds, App Engine
Organize and share your digital life with Badger! Badger is a social content-sharing application available for Android that lets you organize and share your videos, photos, and locations. Create beautiful badges to group your favorite ...
Blackboard today unveiled Mosaic, a unique platform that gives schools and universities a radically different approach to deploying mobile apps. While institutions can spend months developing apps and lack flexibility to make changes once ...
Tags: Blackboard, Mosaic, Mobile Apps
Want to go out for coffee without running into your friends and being forced to make small talk? There's now an app for that. "Hell is Other People" is an app for people who want to avoid their friends. Seriously. Still angry that ...
Foreground, background, midground - all these are to become a thing of the past as the Lytro camera lets you refocus on any point on an image. Picture: Lytro Source: Supplied Post processing camera Lytro has gone wireless and has launched ...
Welcome to chew-controlled gaming. Stride gum today announced the release of its iOS game, 'Gumulon', a groundbreaking game controlled by chewing. Using the front-facing camera (available on select mobile devices), players use their ...
Tags: Stride Gum, Gumulon, iOS Game
With more than a billion monthly active users, it's easy to imagine that most of the data travelling over Facebook's networks is delivering photos, status updates and "likes" to its end users, but that's far from the case. The social ...
Tags: Facebook, Network Fabric, Social Network