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The basically ubiquitous Dropbox brings a new update to their cloud-based storage service, bringing the version history up to 2.2.2. If you use Dropbox almost primarily on you mobile devices, there is a new feature that has been introduced – the ability to move files and folders around your storage. Simply press and hold on the file or folder in ... Read More »

Facebook brought a major update for its Messenger client, which helped expand its reach. Until today the app had only one use – chats between online Facebook friends. Now it no longer requires you to have a Facebook account. Basically the new Messenger wants a piece from the WhatsApp and the native SMS clients’ share. It allows users to send ... Read More »

This isn’t the first time we talk about the Gmail 4.2 app, in fact we’ve seen it leaked just recently, but we can finally give you some good news. The Gmail 4.2 app is now available for download from the Play Store for all Android devices running Ice Cream Sandwich or later. In order to get it, all you have ... Read More »

If you’re a fan of the gameplay of tower defense games but find many of them are too visually lacking for your tastes, Total Defense 3D might just be the game for you. Instead if following the classic tower defense formula, Total Defense 3D adds features of real time strategy and role playing games as well. While this mainly boils ... Read More »

According to TechCrunch, Facebook is in talks to acquire WhatsApp. For those of you who have never heard of WhatsApp, it’s quite a simple application: You install it on your phone, it asks you for your phone number, WhatsApp sends you a conformation code via SMS, you input the conformation code, and now you’re able to message all the people ... Read More »

A new study – and we had a few of them these days – looking into application stores and their respective app ecosystem is available, showing some interesting numbers for the two main players in the business, Google and Apple.App Annie Intelligence has been tracking a variety of apps to asses the performance of the Google Play Store and the ... Read More »

Let’s Get Started , Our Game of the week Title has been driven away by Dodge the dots.We’re highly impressed with the Gameplay and its simplicity. If your a passionate gamer , then you have to give it a try! Part 3: Dodge the Dots is a completely original retro action/arcade game that is the 1st part of the 4 ... Read More »

In case you were browsing the Google Play Store and found supposedly Apple-made mobile apps inside, apps that would be usually found in its own App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch use, then you should probably stay away from them. They’re almost certainly not Apple-made and we wouldn’t be surprised to hear they contain malware, or that they ... Read More »

In a sequel that’s sure to breathe new life into the franchise, Angry Birds Star Wars is now officially available in the Google Play Store. Developer Rovio held a Google Hangout earlier this evening and announced the good news and quite honestly, I couldn’t be more hyped. A wonderful mixture of Lucasfilm’s Star Wars universe, melded with Angry Birds, somehow ... Read More »

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is just three days away from its tenth anniversary, and in much the same way as it celebrated ten years of Grand Theft Auto III, publisher Rockstar Games will be bringing the iconic title to mobile devices. The Grand Theft Auto series, or GTA, to which it is commonly referred, has consistently been one of ... Read More »

A report by security experts indicates that as many as 185 million Android users around the world may be vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. This means that even as the communications protocol is secure in itself, messages can be intercepted during data exchanges through spoofing of security certificates, and malicious hackers or software can tamper with communications. Computer scientists from Germany’s ... Read More »

A new Android app called “Battery Long” is said to provide a greener way of charging Android powered smartphones. Before you rush off to download it, you might want to read the next part. According to a Symantec Intelligence Report, the app does a whole lot more than it’s supposed to, such as sneaking out critical data from the user’s ... Read More »

Whether you call it soccer or football, the “king of sports” definitely has its fair share of fans among Android users, all of whom would be happy to know that Gameloft’s Real Football (also known as Real Soccer) 2013 is now available as a free download on Google Play. The new iteration of the RF series has been teased for ... Read More »

Sega has recently released Crazy Taxi for iOS devices. And while that bit by itself is not necessarily good news for Android users, there was also the mention of the game coming to Google Play. What we have is coming by way of Sega, in which we can say that it is official as opposed to rumor and/or speculation. According ... Read More »

Any gamer knows by now that EA is getting ready to reboot the Most Wanted franchise with Criterion, the mastermind behind the Burnout series, at the helm. If it’s even half as good as the Hot Pursuit reboot was then we should be in for one hell of a game. But what about us mobile folks? Well, EA’s looking to ... Read More »