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New Personal Assistant App Friday Released on Google Play

July 10, 2023 By 901am

A new app recently debuted at the Google Play store and it has the potential to actually become extremely popular.

The app, called, Friday, is a personal assistant app. How does it work? Friday basically locates the different sources of information on your device – your Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, your email, your text messages, phonecalls, even photos – then scrunches it up into a seamless repository of all this data. What you get is one go-to place to find out what has been happening in your life by looking at all of this information. [Read more…]

Originally posted on July 23, 2012 @ 12:03 pm

Filed Under: Android, API, Apps Tagged With: Android, apps

Users Can Now Purchase Magazines, Movies, TV Shows in Google Play

July 10, 2023 By 901am

During the Google sponsored Google I/O Conference, the folks behind Google Play revealed a few new things about Google’s app store. Specifically, the company revealed that people can now buy TV shows, movies and magazines directly from Google Play. Previously, users can only rent videos from Google Play.

With the new functionality of Google Play, purchases are now officially opened to users. For example, for magazines, users can buy individual magazine issues or buy a subscription to receive new issues when it is released. [Read more…]

Originally posted on June 27, 2012 @ 9:15 pm

Filed Under: Android, Apps, ECommerce, Entertainment Tagged With: Android, Goggle Play

Ice Cream Sandwich Adoption Going Slowly

July 10, 2023 By 901am

The newest Android iteration, otherwise known as Ice Cream Sandwich, has been released for months now but based on figures, not a lot of Android users have adopted the new generation Android OS yet. Google is meeting with a bit of resistance among Android users and this is proving to be a frustrating turn of events for the company.

According to Google, there was an improvement with the number of adopters to Ice Cream Sandwich, but when faced with the numbers, it was discovered that the number of adopters still remain quite small. Based on a 14 day period that ended on the first of June, only 7.1 percent of the android devices were installed with Ice Cream Sandwich, this is already a slight increase from the 4.9 percent share that was recorded for the first 14 days of May. [Read more…]

Originally posted on June 6, 2012 @ 8:13 pm

Filed Under: Android Tagged With: Android, Ice Cream Sandwich

New Test Drive Feature Added to Amazon App Store for Android

July 10, 2023 By 901am

Amazon is continually finding ways to improve its level of service and support for its commercial efforts. One of these new improvements is the company’s release of a new version of its App Store that will be made available to Android tablets and smartphones.

The new version of the App Store will include a Test Drive feature that was also first seen and implemented on the amazon.com site. The Test Drive feature allows a user to see for themselves how an app works and what its functions are even before they get to purchase the app and download it. [Read more…]

Originally posted on May 22, 2012 @ 1:04 pm

Filed Under: Amazon, Android Tagged With: Amazon, Android, App Store

Google Plans New Strategies for Android release and Nexus Phones

July 10, 2023 By 901am

Google is planning to change its whole strategy on subsequent releases of Android and its self-branded Nexus phones, pushing its presence in the mobile phone market to more prominence.

The new strategy that Google plans to implement is to first diversify its partnership with phone manufacturers. Whereas before, the company would only work with one manufacturer in developing its Google Nexus phones, the new strategy is to offer consumers an array of Nexus phones and tablets that have been developed and manufactured by up to five different manufacturers. [Read more…]

Originally posted on May 17, 2012 @ 9:23 pm

Filed Under: Android, Google Tagged With: Android, Google, Nexus

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