Although this week has been predominantly about the Google I/O conference, there’s been plenty of interesting iOS stories flying around this week. Whether you’re interested in seeing what Apple might have up its sleeve for 2013, or you like looking at great concepts, there’s been a mixture of everything in this week’s top stories. As always, the…
Amidst rumors of an Apple music streaming service, Google recently announced its own streaming service, Google Play Music All Access. The Verge has recently posted an interesting article examining why Google has been able to launch its own music streaming service ahead of Apple, which may not even be able to finalize a deal in time for a WWDC release…
Whilst we are most certainly an iOS orientated blog, it would be rude, and downright ignorant to ignore the phenomenal impact that Google Glass is going to have on the mobile technology market. That being said, yesterday, Google revealed a fantastic video documenting the prototyping process of Google Glass. The talk was given in a technical session aside…
Normally when it comes to Android announcements they pass by without me feeling the need to comment in any length. I’m not one to publish “Apple is doomed” articles, and I’m not about to start now. However, Google released some stuff yesterday, and it’d be fair to see that the company has really outdone itself. Four new products and services caught my eye…
1. App Store hits 50 billion downloads Apple’s been counting down to the 50 billion download mark for a few weeks now, and it finally reached it. We don’t yet know who the lucky downloader is, but we probably will soon – he or she has won a $10,000 App Store gift card! Could you imagine winning 10 grand for downloading an app!? So awesome. 2. New Google…
Google Maps has been on iOS for a good time now following the release in the App Store after Apple changed to its own in-house mapping application with the introduction of iOS 6. Now, however, Google is to the point where it is ready to begin updating it with some awesome new features. Some of these new features include deeper integration with the reviews…
As you all know, Google is kicking off its annual I/O conference today, and has announced a whole host of exciting new products and services. However, few of them impact iOS users like ourselves. One which certainly does is the new cross-platform Hangouts service. Hnagouts will be launched as a native app for iOS, and will give Google+ users the…
Google has just announced a new game service that will be available to anyone regardless of platform. It will essentially allow games developers to start adding in real-time multiplayer, social features, achievements and leaderboards in to their games. Not only will it be available on Android, it’s going cross-platform, and will be available to iOS…
Google has announced its new storage configuration for its online services, bringing together Drive, Gmail and Google+ in one place, with 15GB of storage absolutely free. The unified storage now suits users who perhaps use very little Gmail storage, but are more active on Drive and Google+. The unified storage means that users are no longer restricted to…
SoundCloud for iOS now supports Google+ sign-in, allowing users to log in or create an account using their Google+ login details. Version 2.6 is now Google+ friendly, for both the iOS and Android apps, the latter of which was published last week. Now that SoundCloud supports Google+, users can also share their SoundCloud music and audio with their…
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