South Asia Travelpedia is an ideal app for travelers visiting South Asia. This app can help you to find tourist places, restaurants, shopping malls, and night clubs in major South Asian cities. South Asia Travelpedia is developed by Parkour Lab. The app is usually available for $4.99, but totally free right now at App Store.
Steve Jobs has been an icon and an inspiration for a lot of people. While he has been criticized often too, Jobs undoubtedly was a living embodiment of a man who struggled and began from nothing, eventually becoming one of the most important people in the world. Jobs was the co-founder of Pixar studios too, a company he founded after he initially left Apple. Now Pixar has decided to present a tribute to its mentor.
The social networking giant Facebook may enter the browser space by taking over an established browser maker. Pocket-lint has reported that Facebook wants to expand into the browser space and is looking to acquire desktop, tablet and phone browser maker Opera. None of the companies has issued any official response on this matter yet. However, TheNextWeb (TNW) has reported to gain access to some interesting developments.
Apple’s Siri has been lauded as one of the best voice-enabled personal assistants available. Although Siri is quite good, it is not perfect and does make mistakes. And now, Siri has a worthy contender in the form of S Voice, the voice assistant that Samsung unveiled to be a part of Samsung Galaxy S III. Galaxy S III will soon be in the hands of the consumers and S Voice will be pitted against Siri. Here’s a fairly accurate comparison of the two.
When Facebook acquired Instagram for a whopping billion dollars, many of us kept wondering that why on Earth would the social network pay such a hefty sum for a photo sharing service. However, when Facebook later stated its ambition to be successful across the mobile platform, it was understandable since Instagram has been a huge success on the mobile devices. A recent development suggests, Facebook might have started to utilize the Instagram know-how in their (Facebook’s) products already. You will know what I mean when you see the recently launched ‘Facebook Camera’ app.
While RIM may be deemed the company that launched the true smartphone revolution with its BlackBerry devices and coined the very concept, Apple will always be termed as the company which popularized the notion of smartphones. And its not surprising to note now that iOS and Android smartphones dominate the total shipments of the smartphones made during the last quarter of 2012.
Google has working hard to improve its Google Play platform, so as to pitch it effectively enough against Apple’s popular App Store. While Google Play still has a lot of catching up to do, the good thing is that Google is regularly adding newer and better features to its platform. Now, for instance, Google has added the option of in-app subscriptions for Google Play.
Dell’s consumer products division is not doing well lately, because of competition from cheap entry-level products in emerging markets by other companies. The company’s earnings reduced by a factor of three. Its shares tumbled in extended trade. Its consumer unit is struggling to slow down the decline in sales. Overall, Dell is struggling. Now the company is planning to revamp its consumer unit with sales of new touchscreen laptops and tablets featuring Windows 8 OS.