Статьи по тегу «android»

San Francisco-based Branch International, or Branch.co, raised $9.2 million to bring digital financial services to mobile phone users in Sub-Saharan Africa. Andreessen Horowitz led the Series A round. Branch’s free-to-download Android app is a kind of “branchless bank for the next generation,” says founder and CEO Matt Flannery. Read More... →

It’s easy to get caught up in the new, cool thing aspect of transportation tech and apps, but there’s some real social benefit and freedom to be found here. Take, for instance, Moovit’s latest upgrade. The public transportation app recently added features to make it easier for blind users to take transit using VoiceOver (iOS) and TalkBack (Android) integration. The app… Read More... →

Microsoft today announced at its Build developer conference in San Francisco that Skype chats will be getting chatbots to interact with users. It’s coming today to Skype desktop, iOS, and Android — and eventually Skype for the HoloLens augmented reality headset. The new tools can loop other bots into the conversation, and it can even pre-populate […]... →

Microsoft today announced at its Build developer conference in San Francisco that Skype chats will be getting chatbots to interact with users. It’s coming today to Skype desktop, iOS, and Android — and eventually Skype for the HoloLens augmented reality headset. The new tooling can loop other bots into the conversation, and it can even […]... →

Pinterest запустил новый формат пинов – практические инструкции (how-to пины). С его помощью бренды и издатели смогут делиться с пользователями сервиса пошаговыми мастер-классами, рецептами и другим подобным контентом. В числе первых пины нового формата стали использовать такие компании и издания, как Brit&Co, Delish, Elle, Food.com, Home Depot, Marie Claire, Style Me Pretty и другие. В данное время how-to пины не являются рекламными. Пока видеть их могут лишь пользователи Android-устройств, проживающие в... →

As expected, Dropbox and Adobe are announcing today that people can now open PDF documents stored in Dropbox using the Adobe Acrobat Reader app on Android devices. This lets users of the apps sign, highlight, annotate, and comment on files from Dropbox from within Acrobat Reader. The integrations are the result of a partnership between […]... →

As expected, Dropbox and Adobe are announcing today that people can now open PDF documents stored in Dropbox using the Adobe Acrobat Reader app on Android devices. This lets users of the apps sign, highlight, annotate, and comment on files from Dropbox from within Acrobat Reader. The integrations are the result of a partnership between […]... →

Израильская компания Beamr приобрела американский стартап с российскими корнями Vanguard Video(поставщик видеокодеков HEVC и H.264) и привлекла инвестиции на сумму $15 млн от фонда Disruptive Growth, Marker, Innovation Endeavors и председатель совета директоров компании Alphabet Эрик Шмидт. Об этом сообщается на сайте Vanguardvideo. Сумма приобретения Vanguard Video на разглашается. Vanguard Video основана выпускницей ЛЭТИ Иреной Тертеровой. Стартап предоставляет видеокодеки  HEVC и H.264, позволяющие сжима... →

Instagram has begun rolling out a update that lets you record longer videos on the media-sharing application. Starting today, you’ll be able to post videos as long as 60 seconds, an increase from the 15 seconds you had before. It’ll be available on both iOS and Android, but only a small group will have this […]... →

Instagram has begun rolling out a update that lets you record longer videos on the media-sharing application. Starting today, you’ll be able to post videos as long as 60 seconds, an increase from the 15 seconds you had before. It’ll be available on both iOS and Android, but only a small group will have this […]... →

The U.S. will soon get to experience Nintendo’s first mobile effort. The Japanese game company announced today that Miitomo will launch in the U.S. on Thursday for iOS and Android. It came out in Japan earlier in the month, where it reached 1 million downloads after three days. Miitomo represents Nintendo’s first attempt at breaking into […]... →

The U.S. will soon get to experience Nintendo’s first mobile effort. The Japanese game company announced today that Miitomo will launch in the U.S. on March 31 for iOS and Android. It came out in Japan earlier in the month, where it reached 1 million downloads after three days. Miitomo represents Nintendo’s first attempt at […]... →

Компания Oracle почти в 10 раз повысила сумму исковых требований к Google за незаконное использование Java в Android, пишет PCWorld со ссылкой на документы, которые разработчик передал в суд. Оценка ущерба выросла с $1 млрд до $9,3 млрд.... →

Twitter is taking a step toward making its service more accessible to visually impaired users. The company is launching support for alternative texts to accompany images across its iOS and Android apps, which means that any image descriptions will be available to those using screen readers. This feature can be used by not only the […]... →

Команда Яндекс.Карт представила обновленные мобильные приложения для iOS и Android. Теперь поиск в приложениях работает даже без доступа в сеть - адреса и организации можно искать и сохранять в режиме офлайн, просто скачав в приложении карты нужных городов и областей. Несмотря на то, что у офлайн-карты теперь больше возможностей, весить она стала гораздо меньше. Скажем, карта Москвы занимает всего 144 МБ вместо 1,9 ГБ, а карта Питера и Ленобласти — 231 МБ вместо 3,2 ГБ. Сделать карту легче удалось за счет ... →

В десктоп-версии Google появилась возможность сохранять найденные картинки для будущего просмотра. Ранее она была доступна только мобильным пользователям. Чтобы сохранить изображение, нужно зайти в Google Картинки, нажать на понравившееся изображение, затем – на иконку в виде звезды. Картинка будет храниться в папке «All Saves». Сохранённые картинки затем можно организовать в тематические подборки. Просмотреть их можно как с десктопа, так и с мобильного устройства. Пока эта функция доступна только для жит... →

What do you call it when you have an app that lets your friends take a photo of you, using your own phone? It’s not a selfie… It’s not a portrait… Let’s call it a someone elsie. Shootlr today launched an iOS and Android app that is attempting to take this brave new frontier of photography to the masses: It enables you to compel your friends to take a selfie for… Read More... →

Google is rumored to be looking at bringing augmented reality to its camera app. If true, the company would leverage technology from Google Goggles thereby allowing you to see relevant search results like nearby restaurants, transit information, and recommended retailers to purchase items. Details given to Android Authority through an anonymous source state that the […]... →

Google is launching the Android Experiments I/O Challenge today in an effort to bring more interesting open-source apps to its Android Experiments showcase. The three winners of the challenge, which will run until April 13, will get a trip to this year’s Google I/O developer conference. The five runner-ups will get Nexus 6Ps (which in turn makes me think Google’s I/O giveaway this… Read More... →

Google is announcing today the launch of Android Experiments I/O Challenge, a short program to encourage the submission of cool new open-source Android apps to the Android Experiments program that Google introduced last year. Google has racked up apps in its online gallery since then, but with its I/O developer conference coming up in May, […]... →