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YouMail Features Call Blocking in Android Phones

YouMail, an Irvine California based company has recently released a new feature in its ‘YouMail’ and ‘WhoAreYou?’ Android applications. Android phone owners can now block unwanted callers permanently with the help of this feature. Users of YouMail can click on the “Ditch” option to block callers, whenever they receive calls from unwanted numbers. Blocking a [...]

Instagram Announces Long-Awaited Android Version

The Android version of the popular photo sharing app, Instagram, will be released in the near future, announced the company’s founders yesterday at a South By Southwest conference presentation. Instagram is a free photo filtering and sharing app that allows users to edit and share photos with other app followers. The photos can be uploaded [...]

Android Market relaunched as ‘Google Play’

Google on Tuesday renamed its Android Market as ‘Google Play’ and relaunched it as an online store that offers Android applications, eBooks, movies, music and other digital media entertainment content. Google Play is a unified platform of Android Market, Google Music and Google eBookstore. Now users can easily access different digital content in a single [...]

Motorola’s New Android Smartphones

Motorola has announced that it will launch its Android-powered smartphones at the end of this month. ‘Motorola Motoluxe’ will be available in Germany and UK while ‘Motorola Defy Mini’ will be introduced in Germany. Motorola Motoluxe is powered by Android 2.3.7 Gingerbread and sports a 4 inch touch screen display. It has an 8 megapixel [...]

Android Users Browse the Web More Frequently Than Others – A Study

Walker Sands Communication, a full-service marketing and public relations firm, announced in its recently released Q4 Mobile Traffic Report for 2011 that Android users tend to browse the Web more frequently than others. This mobile traffic report is compiled on a quarterly basis to determine the notable Web trends, by considering the Web analytics data [...]

Skype 2.1 – Video Calling In More Android Devices

Previously, Skype has made the statement that they will add support for more Android handsets when they will launched their new Skype for Android a couple of weeks ago. Today they are rolling out the video support for additional 17 popular Android devices with the launch of their new Skype 2.1 for Android.