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A Sweet App That Helps You Visualize Complex Rhythms

DARWIN THOUGHT OUR ancestors used music as a means of courtship before the invention of language. Other experts have suggested that humming and stomping whipped early man into a communal “battle trance.” Whatever the case, rhythm has been part of the human experience for as long as there’s been a human experience. This app is meant to put you back in touch with that evolutionary birthright.

Microsoft Launches Azure App Services, A New Set Of Tools For Web And Mobile App Developers

Microsoft is launching Azure App Service today, a new cloud-based service that gives developers a single service for building mobile and web apps, combined with tools for automating business processes across cloud services, and a new service for building and consuming APIs. All of these services revolve around Microsoft’s oft- (and over-) used mantra of “mobile first, cloud first.”

Amazon wants to give paid apps away for free

Downloads from Amazon's Appstore almost assuredly aren't the raging success that the company's ventures like Prime are, but the retail juggernaut isn't giving up on it yet. In fact, the former looks like it's getting an injection of the latter's DNA with something called Unlocked.

What you need to know about texting apps

If you live in the United States, you might've been surprised when Facebook purchasedWhatsApp for $19 billion -- or, in other words, thing-you'd-think-you'd-have-heard-of money. Facebook identified what those of us in the US with texting plans and Apple Messages haven't noticed: There are whole ecosystems of social networking and instant messaging separate from those we customarily use.

Facebook plans to add third-party apps to Messenger

The social network is set to announce about 20 third-party services, whose apps will work on top of Messenger when the integration rolls out, according to a person familiar with the matter. It's not yet clear who the early partners are or what the integration will look like, but Facebook will likely expand the capability to more developers following the initial rollout.

A translator app will let you speak foreign languages with your Apple Watch

Intercontinental Hotels Group announced it's launching an app for the Apple Watch that will allow tourists to translate languages around the globe.

The IHG Translator app, which will be released for the global launch of the Apple Watch on April 24, is based off a feature of the company's mobile app that helps users travel like a local in a different country.

BlackBerry thinks 100M BBM downloads are impressive

BlackBerry announced that BBM has been downloaded more than 100 million times on Android, a year and a half after the messaging app first launched on Google's OS.

Facebook says it's developing virtual reality apps

Facebook is sharing a little more of its vision for virtual reality.

Less than a year after Facebook closed its acquisition of Oculus VR, maker of the innovative wrap-around Oculus Rift headset and a pioneer in the virtual-reality video game realm, Facebook revealed Tuesday it is developing versions of its apps for use in a virtual reality environment.

Any app that works with Android Wear now works on your Pebble

It's been splashing around in beta for a little while, but now your Pebble can respond to notifications direct from that monochrome screen -- kind of like Android Wear, sans touchscreen.

Aiming to Ease App Discovery, Apple Pairs With Pinterest

There are more than 1.4 million mobile applications in Apple’s App Store. This is a good thing for Apple’s customers, because the choices are practically endless. This is also a bad thing for Apple’s customers, because the choices are practically endless.

Alibaba Launches Enterprise Messaging App DingTalk, Its Latest Mobile Software Product

Alibaba is best-known as an e-commerce company, but it aspires to be much more. Some of its initiatives, including affiliate Ant Financial, have been very successful. Others, like itsoperating system Aliyun and mobile messaging app Laiwang, have yet to take off. Alibaba is continuing to build its portfolio of software services, however, with DingTalk, a collaboration and messaging app for small-to-medium sized businesses.

This is how App Store rankings are manipulated

In past years Apple has said it's cracking down on the manipulation of App Store rankings through bot programs, but a recent image from Chinese social media site Weibo suggests the trade is alive and well using actual iPhones.

Pawn Storm Update: iOS Espionage App Found

Operation Pawn Storm is an active economic and political cyber-espionage operation that targets a wide range of entities, like the military, governments, defense industries, and the media.

The actors of Pawn Storm tend to first move a lot of pawns in the hopes they come close to their actual, high profile targets. When they finally successfully infect a high profile target, they might decide to move their next pawn forward: advanced espionage malware.

Google just bought a storytelling app for kids

When Google said it was busy creating a kid-friendly internet, it wasn't joking around. The company just bought Launchpad Toys, best known for its animated storytelling appToontastic. While it's too soon to know what Google's exact plans are, Launchpad says its going to make "even more amazing creativity tools" for the younger crowd. That may mean web-based tools, knowing Google. Whatever the search provider does, now's a good time to check out Launchpad's apps -- Toontastic and its add-on content are free in the wake of the buyout.

Source: engadget.com

Facebook Dominated Mobile App Downloads in 2014

Facebook had a tremendous year for app downloads. According to new data about 2014 mobile app usage, iOS and Android users downloaded Facebook’s mobile apps more often than any other apps, both in the US and globally. And according to Facebook’s fourth quarter earnings, reported yesterday, over half a billion users now access Facebook exclusively through mobile devices.

FOLLOW WIRED Twitter Facebook RSS Having a Hard Time Being a Human? This App Manages Friendships for You

Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, we can track just about any superficial health metric imaginable: Our steps, our sleep, the number of beers we drink, the number of gym classes we miss because of those beers. Is it just me, or should we be sick of ourselves by now?

App Turns Your iPhone Into a Crappy Disposable Camera (And That’s a Good Thing)

The first time you see your White Album pics is when they arrive in the mail.  White Album

The joys of smartphone photography are obvious. We have a camera with us at all times. We can take pictures whenever we want, and take as many as we want. We can review them instantly, edit them easily, and with a few taps, send them to anyone, anywhere. In Silicon Valley parlance, smartphones have taken all the friction out of photography.

Facebook reportedly working on anonymous mobile app

Facebook recently came under fire for its real name policy and how it enforces that policy.

Now it looks like the company is exploring another way to interact on its billion-strong social network.

The New York Times is reporting that Facebook is working on a mobile app that would allow users to interact anonymously with each other. The publication’s two sources say the app should be released in the “coming weeks.”

Apple Releases OS X Yosemite GM Candidate to Developers

Apple released the OS X Yosemite GM candidate on Tuesday.

GM, or golden master, refers to the final copy of a piece of software that is ready for a public release. The GM candidate build will likely be one of the last releases before Yosemite is officially unveiled to the public.