Shazam, the music program that is becoming wildly popular among the mobile audience, has now crunched its numbers and they are fairly impressive. According to the company, it is already used by nearly 20% iPhone users in the U.S. and its annual digital sales have exceeded the $300 million mark.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) recently found itself in trouble when a hacker released the personal information of some 50,000 registered users of the network. The hacker claimed that this move was taken after an anti-Islam politician, Geert Wilders, was interviewed by Lateline.
The good news for the thousands of KickStarters users who decided to back the popular Android game console, Ouya, are that the console will finally be shipped to them on March 28. This has now been announced by the Ouya team.
With the rise of mobile devices, cameras have become very popular and are essentially available to every other person. However, this has raised the critical question of individual privacy at public places. Interestingly, Apple has now filed a patent which speaks about a camera with built-in privacy filter.
As of this moment, a number of TV guide apps are available on the mobile platform. Some of them are vendor-specific, such as those offered by Netflix etc; others are more generic. However, Samsung has come up with its own offering, namely the ‘Video Discovery app’ which makes searching content across multiple listings a lot easier and quicker.
Game maker Rovio’s Angry Birds series has been one of the most popular mobile game series of all time. Lately, the game maker has announced that it will launch its long-awaited animated television series based on the gaming phenomenon, Angry Birds Toons. It is going to be on air from March 16. Details inside.
Gadget enthusiasts must have already heard about Samsung’s new phablet – Galaxy Note 8.0. We have seen Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 image leak few days ago. Now, Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 finally made it official.
Yesterday, Apple released iOS 6.1.2, fixing a Microsoft Exchange calender bug that surfaced after the release of iOS 6.1. But many iOS users may have been hesitating whether or not to update to iOS 6.1.2 due to a jailbreak availability issue. Yesterday, iOS jailbreaker Evad3rs has released Evasi0n 1.4 with support to iOS 6.1.2. The release has been announced on Twitter.