The Smart Watch war is heating up! The IFA 2013 was the launch pad for some awesome devices! Samsung unveiled Galaxy Gear smartwatch – notifications, control music playback, range of watch faces, 1.9-megapixel camera, a speaker and two microphones Galaxy Note 3 –5.7 inches Super AMOLED display, 3GB of RAM and a 2.3GHz quad-core processor
One billion activations for Android Head of Android, Chrome and Apps, Sundar Pichai, announced that over 1 billion Android devices have been activated to date. Another mind-blowing stat is that there are at least 1.5 million activations taking place per day! Source: Android Central Android 4.4, aka Android KitKat is upon us! Sundar Pichai, Head
Self-destructive Tweets now possible! “Spirit for Twitter” is an App that lets you schedule your tweets to be deleted within a specified time period. You can add an expiration date to your tweets using a simple hashtag. E.g. #1m, #2h Source: The Verge A $7.2 billion affair – Microsoft buys Nokia’s devices unit Yes,
Windows 8 rushes to 7.41% market share Latest stats indicate that Windows is still the most popular OS with a massive 91.19% market share. Out of this, Windows 7 remains the most popular with 45% share and Windows 8 has shown a lot of promise by rapidly claiming 7.41%. XP and Vista have 33.66% and
Woohoo! Yet another awesome Google+ update! Google+’s newest update, a bookmark feature, makes it easier to consume content in the stream! Simple press “New posts” and a resume button and ribbon is added, allowing you to jump between the newly added posts and where you’ve read up to in the stream. Source: Google Plus Daily
Twitter rolls out awesome updates! Twitter’s latest update makes it easier to keep up with conversations on the social network. Now it shows conversations in chronological order. Tweets in a conversation are connected using a vertical line. Along with this, Twitter has also rolled out a ‘report abuse button’. Source: Mashable Google rolls out HD
Australia No. 6 in global smartphone penetration Australia boasts a whopping 64.6% smartphone penetration rate that puts us at number 6 in the Top 15 nations. (Digital marketers take note!). With every 3 people out of 4 owning a smartphone, the UAE reigns at number 1! Source: Mashable Google+ rolls out auto-awesome notifications! Google+’s
Facebook Unveils Shared Photo Albums Facebook has announced shared photo albums on, a new feature that allows multiple users to upload images to the same album. The album creator can share access to as many as 50 “contributors,” who can each in turn share up to 200 photos! Source: Mashable Google U.S. Traffic Higher Than
Google to make cars? As strange as it may seem, the tech giant has definite plans to start manufacturing cars by harnessing the power of self-driving car technology! They just might give Tesla Motors a run for their money! Source: Android Headlines Nokia reigns at home, captures Finnish market! Q1 data for 2013 revealed
Australia Post launches new Parcel Send App Australia Post announced that their new Parcel Send App, which allows the user to Pay for postage and order a pick up, all from their mobile device is ready to download. You can download the App now from the Play Store. Source: Ausdroid Google Search gets a
