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Google Now for iPhone and iPad video leaked on YouTube

A video that is said to be of Google Now for the iPhone and iPad was leaked onto YouTube earlier today, only to be pulled a short while later - not before it was downloaded, it would seem. The video has since been reappeared on the video sharing website, where it is still available for all to enjoy. You can check it out after the jump. Read The Full Story

Alien VS Predator: Evolution Review

, Mar 12th 2013 Discuss [0]

This week we’ve had a look at the epic beast of a game in Alien VS Predator: Evolution for mobile devices running iOS and Android. If you’re a fan of 3rd-person controls rolling out some of the most impressively smooth graphics you’ve ever seen on your Android smartphone, tablet, iPad, or iPhone, you’re in luck – Angry Mob Games and Fox Digital Entertainment have made a masterpiece. This game takes all the excellence delivered in past gameplay for games having these two monsters attempt to best each-other and delivers it in a mobile container – your first surprise is certain to be how your smartphone can run such gameplay.

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IDC: Low cost Android tablets take lead in tablet market

, Mar 12th 2013 Discuss [0]

The IDC recently had to adjust its numbers for its 2013 forecasted market share. It didn't expect there to be so many low-cost budget Android tablets to be announced this year, like the HP Slate that goes for $169. The IDC has increased its 2013 forecast for the tablet market from 172.4 million units shipped worldwide to 190.9 million. It also believes that tablet shipments will see an 11% increase annually between 2013 and 2016. Read The Full Story

Mozilla will not bring Firefox to iOS

, Mar 11th 2013 Discuss [0]

Mozilla stated at SXSW that it is not currently developing a version of its Firefox browser for iOS and it does not intend to do so in the future. Mozilla feels that it can better focus its time and development elsewhere because it won't be able to build the browser it wants on the iOS platform. As CNET says, it won't be able to "carry over its sophisticated rendering and javascript engines to iOS." Read The Full Story

Early iPhone prototype from 2005 was the basis of Apple’s iOS devices

, Mar 11th 2013 Discuss [0]

Many people have no idea what was cooking up in Apple's labs when the company was working on the iPhone, but a prototype from 2005 has appeared, and it features a roughly 8.6-inch display with a separate motherboard consisting of USB ports, ethernet, and even a serial port. It was the basis of what iOS devices came to be a couple years later. Read The Full Story

Apple finally enables HTTPS for App Store

, Mar 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

Elie Bursztein, a Google developer, reported several vulnerabilities in Apple's App Store that could lead to extreme privacy breaches and attacks on users. The reports, made back in July 2012, led Apple to enable HTTPS for its App Store. By having HTTPS on, users are protected from the various types of attacks that Bursztein pointed out. It also helped that Bursztein made the attack codes public in order to light a fire under developers to enable HTTPS for their apps. Read The Full Story

Google patents rear-touch controls 6 years after Apple

, Mar 9th 2013 Discuss [0]

A patent application has just revealed that Google is going to be implementing rear-touch controls for its future Android smartphones. The patent is similar to a patent filed by Apple in 2006, which it planned on using to implement the rear-touch feature in its future iPads. However, it's been 7 years since Apple was granted the patent, and yet there are still no iPads with rear-touch controls. Perhaps Apple will begin production on that project now that Google is gunning for it too. Read The Full Story

Perion launches Incredimail for the iPad

If you've been around the Internet long enough and you're a Windows user, you've no doubt come across Incredimail at some point, being slammed with a hodge-podge of flowery stationary and cutesy-item overload. The service has been refined over its many years, and for the first time ever has grown beyond its Windows foundation to join ranks with a secondary platform: the iPad. Read The Full Story

Skype 4.6 rolls out for iPad and iPhone, offers calling redesign

Skype has rolled out version 4.6 of its iPad and iPhone app, bringing with it several improvements, fixes, and a newly redesigned calling "experience." General improvements and fixes aside, users will find that some common complaints have been corrected as well, including the issue with dial pad/in-call buttons displaying incorrectly during a call. Read The Full Story

Marvel Unlimited brings 13,000 comics to iOS for $60 a year

, Mar 7th 2013 Discuss [0]

When you're a real hardcore comic book collector, you don't often think about the idea of owning every single comic book ever made - but Marvel does. As one of the most well-known and well-read comic brands in the industry for many, many years, Marvel Comics began ushering in the digital age several years ago with digital versions of their illustrated stories on the web - and more recently in mobile apps. Now they've brought their ultra-popular unlimited access pass to a 13,000 comic collection - nearly their whole back-catalogue spanning over 70 years - humongous! Read The Full Story

SlashGear 101: this week’s Facebook News Feed redesign

, Mar 7th 2013 Discuss [0]

The changes that are coming to your Facebook News Feed are numerous – but they’re not going to interrupt the way you do business on a daily basis. Instead you’re going to find the features added this week by the Facebook crew to be just that – Features: helpful and (hopefully) rather intuitive to use. For those of you working with the mobile app version of Facebook on either iOS or Android, this change-over will be extra simple: it is, at its core, a bridge between the mobile and desktop experience.

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Facebook Choice of Feeds, Mobile UI detailed: rollout begins today

, Mar 7th 2013 Discuss [0]

This week the folks at Facebook are updating the way that your News Feed works. One of the several features revealed this week was "Choice of Feeds" - this feature allowing you to control what you see to a whole new degree. There's an "All Friends" option, there's one for Music, and there's a feed for just Photos, too. You'll also find a "following" feed that only shows Facebook friends, brands, and etc that you follow specifically. Read The Full Story

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