Hands-On With the Week’s Top Apps

Hands-On With the Week’s Top Apps

There were a lot of great apps and updates released this week. Google announced two big apps during the keynote at its annual developer conference Google I/O. One app breaks out the Hangout feature of Google+ into its own standalone app. The other, brings a whole new music streaming service [...]

6 Apps You Don’t Want To Miss

6 Apps You Don’t Want To Miss

Hangouts Google launched a stand-alone app for Google Hangouts this week. Available for iOS and Android, the app allows you to have an ongoing hangout with a group of friends for a few days, months, or even a year. Within a Hangout friends can send text messages, photos, and can [...]

Apps of the Week: Hubble Space Center, Sonic the Hedgehog, Field Trip and more!

Apps of the Week: Hubble Space Center, Sonic the Hedgehog, Field Trip and more!

A game and a couple of tools highlight this abbreviated list of picks The combination of Google I/O going on in San Francisco and BlackBerry Live in Orlando this week has our team a little sparse, but we think there are a few great picks to be seen this week [...]

15 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

It has been another busy week as summer approaches, and everyone gets restless for the warm weather. If you’ve been too preoccupied soaking up some rays to check out the news, don’t worry — we’ve got you covered. We at Mashable have rounded up the most important updates in tech [...]

AutomateIt Becomes First App To Introduce New Activity Recognition Features

AutomateIt Becomes First App To Introduce New Activity Recognition Features

The new activity recognition features introduced in the latest Google Play services update are just two days old, but SmarterApps has already released an AutomateIt update in the Play Store that takes advantage of the new functionality. The latest version touts the ability to make your phone smart enough to [...]

Pocket Casts updated with improvements and fixes galore

Pocket Casts updated with improvements and fixes galore

Continuous playback over notifications and more bug fixes than you can shake a stick at Since making the move to a completely new design with Pocket Casts 4, a few lingering bugs have been piling up. Those are getting squashed today, along with a few new feature adds, with a [...]

Google Play Games Feature Badges For Multiplayer, Achievements, And Leaderboards Rolling Out In The Play Store

Google Play Games Feature Badges For Multiplayer, Achievements, And Leaderboards Rolling Out In The Play Store

It’s been barely 48 hours since Google’s brand new Play Games management system went online, and already dozens of high-profile games have been updated to include its features. But how do you tell which titles use Play Games and which don’t when browsing the Play Store (without, you know, actually [...]

Google Glass Stole the Show at Google I/O 2013

Google Glass Stole the Show at Google I/O 2013

Google made a lot of announcements in its marathon keynote to kick off Google I/O on Wednesday, but its most buzzed-about product was almost a no-show at the event. Google Glass barely got a mention, even though this is the first I/O where the tiny wearable computer is actually in [...]

Sony Posts Android Open Source Project Code For The Xperia Tablet Z To GitHub

There’s a lot to like about Sony’s latest generation of Android devices. One od the things that most people don’t like is the custom interface that Sony puts on pretty much everything. If you want to do away with it and get some sweet, clean Android Open Source Project code [...]

Prototype Your Own Google Glass App With This Tool

Prototype Your Own Google Glass App With This Tool

Think you have the perfect idea of a Google Glass app, but don’t have the high-tech specs (or perhaps the technical expertise) to make it happen? Now you can create your own Glass apps without having Glass or any coding experience. Well, sort of. Glass Sim is a prototyping tool [...]