Looks like Microsoft is keen to resurrect the ol' Mac vs PC war, though this time it's more like iOS vs Windows 8 with their new commercial which attacks Apple's iPad, bringing Siri along to help them in the cause. In the commercial, Microsoft highlights Windows 8 and it's various features such as Live Tiles, and Powerpoint, along with the $449 price of the 64GB ASUS' VivoTab Smart tablet, ignoring any stre ...

After months of having a mobile app that was just a bookmark to the YouTube mobile website, Microsoft updated the YouTube for Windows Phone app to finally bring it up to par (ish) with, well, what you'd expect a YouTube app to be like. Unfortunately though, the Microsoft-made app came under fire for not adhering to some of Google's policies, such as the lack of advertisements and how the Windows Phone app a ...

Foursquare updated their Android and iOS apps with a new "super-specific search" today. The new feature allows users to make search queries at a more granular level, through a range of filters such as price, open timings, whether any of your friends have been there before, etc, making full use of Foursquare's huge amount of user check-in data. The app can also understand natural language queries, which seem ...

After updating the Google+ app to suit the new design of their social network, Google has also bought the cards user interface to Google Drive for Android today. The updated app sports the new flat, squared-off style that Google is using nowadays, with a larger focus on images. Users can now switch between a text-based list and a grid which offers larger file previews. Individual file previews are displayed ...

Looks like waterproof smartphones are the fad right now, with Sony's Xperia Z kicking things off this year, and then Samsung's Galaxy S4 Active turning up this week and now LG's announced a new waterproof smartphone called the LG Optimus GJ. As you can probably guess from the name, the Optimus GJ shares a lot in common with LG's flagship-or-not phone the LG Optimus G, with the same 4.7 inch 720p display, qu ...

Twitter announced today, that they are finally rolling out two-step authentication for accounts. This has been a long time coming, after several high profile twitter accounts were hacked over the last few months. Definitely a much-needed security feature. The two-factor authentication works through SMS to protect accounts, and you can enable the feature right in your Account settings, provided you have a co ...

If you were looking for a fully functional Instagram client for Windows Phone (y'know, one that can actually upload images to the service, apart from just viewing pictures), then here's good news for ya. Itsdagram, the popular Instagram client for Windows Phone just released a free ad-supported version. The premium without-ads version of Itsdagram costs about $1.49 (just like other Instagram clients on WP) ...

Foursquare for Windows Phone got a huge update last week that bought along a ton of improvements, but apparently Lumia owners have an exclusive feature in the app that they can use on their Nokia Phones. There's a new augmented reality view that puts venue information right in your live camera view, similar to the LiveSight feature in the latest Nokia Maps. All you have to do to see it, is tap the camera ic ...

Nokia's HERE Maps for Windows Phone just got a huge update to version 3.3.354.8 today, bringing in a new feature called LiveSight. According to the blog post: LiveSight reveals what’s around you through your camera display Integrated compass shows you which way you’re facing so you can oriented quickly HERE uses sight navigation as a new way to discover and find your way through the world. Sometimes pins on ...

Remember the rugged 'Samsung Galaxy S4 Active' we saw yesterday? Well it's popped up once again in Croatia, but this time with video! The ruggedized S4 features physical buttons, a 1080p HD display, 8 Megapixel camera, and a Snapdragon S4 Plus CPU which contradicts earlier screenshots which showed it having a Snapdragon 600 quad-core 1.9GHz processor, with an Adreno 320 GPU. On the other hand, the S4 plus o ...

Just three months later launching in Beta, Opera for Android is now available. Opera for Android isnt too different from most other mobile browsers, and uses the popular WebKit engine, but also brings a couple features in from it's desktop version. There's features like the "Speed Dial" menu, an "Off-Road" mode which allows you to connect to the web through a proxy, which compresses data so as to speed up w ...

We've seen some of these images last week in Nokia's blog post and we did our own quick comparison of the Lumia 925 vs the HTC One, but Nokia UK also uploaded their comparison images of the Nokia Lumia 925's camera vs the competition over on their Flickr, so that you can really see what a huge difference the new camera in their latest Windows Phone is, in terms of low light image quality. The Nokia Lumia 92 ...

At an event in New York today, Yahoo announced a huge redesign of popular image-sharing site, Flickr. Flickr has gotten a huge facelift in terms of interface, now having huge blocks of images instead of the old thumbnail or list view that was used previously. Users also now have 1 TB (as in a terabyte) of free storage space for their images or videos, which is a lot more than any other online storage. Flick ...

Here's a quick, fun new commercial for the Xenon-flash equipped Verizon Nokia Lumia 928, entitled just simply "#takebetterphotos". The ad highlights how most cameraphones are terrible at low light performance and dont really capture the scenes very well, which make for awkward uploads to social networks. Check it out, right below: Take photos worth sharing The new Nokia Lumia 928 easily captures vibrant pho ...

After the new Google+ features announced at Google I/O last week, Google has updated their Google+ app for Android to version 4.0, bringing in a couple photo management functionality and enhancement features. Google+ will now automatically show you "highlights" of each photo gallery, so you dont have to go search through an entire gallery of images. You can also preview or undo automatic photo enhancements, ...