Category: Apps
Hate calling customer service? Soon you’ll be able to do it over Facebook Messenger
It was a big night for Facebook last night as over at its "F8" developers conference Mark Zuckerberg announced some big additions to Facebook Messenger. The big new addition is that businesses will be able to use the app to talk directly to customers - perhaps (hopefully) replacing the need for hours wasted on hold,…
Google plans to let you pay for bills by Gmail
Hate the hassle of paying bills? What if you could pay them by email? It turns out that paying companies using Gmail is apparently, well according to Recode, a project that Google is currently working on. Boasting the title of Pony Express the system lets users receive the bill by Gmail and then pay it…
Uber opens up to let any app conceivably summon a car
In an interesting move by ride-hailing app Uber, the company has completely opened up its back-end to developers via a new API, which will enable third party apps to request and cancel rides without having to go into the Uber app itself. If we're reading the Uber developers blog correctly, what it means is that…
Google Play adopts age ratings and human moderators
Google has today announced a couple of changes to Google Play to attempt to make the user experience a bit better for everyone. In a blog post the company says that it will start applying age ratings to apps available for download, following videogame ratings, localised for different places. So in the UK and Europe…
In New York, getting an Uber is faster than an ambulance
If there's an emergency in New York, phoning 911 might not always be the fastest option - as taxi app Uber can beat the ambulance service by nearly four minutes. The surprising claim is made by Thought Bubbles which has been doing the digging - it reckons that the average wait time for an ambulance…
Kindle too sweary for you? Sounds like you need “Clean Reader”
Good news! It turns out that most of the world's problems have been solved, leaving humans the time to focus on the stuff slightly lower down the list, like books that have swears in them. As spotted by the Guardian Books Blog, Clean Reader works just like Kindle or iBooks - with ebooks for sale.…
iPhone FINALLY gets a Google Calendar app
Finally! After years of having to make do with Apple's lacklustre calendar, Google has finally released an official app for its Calendar service. Apart from better and deeper integration with Google's services, the app's major boon is that it allows easy access to an "agenda" list view - something that Apple has inexplicably made trickier…
Ignore the Apple Watch and the new Macbook… It is ResearchKit that will change the world
It was a big evening for Apple fans, as the biggest company in the world announced the latest round of updates to its products and gave us more details on a whole new one. A new Macbook Air, simply known as the "Macbook" was shinier, faster, and thinner than ever and eschewed all ports but…
Apple Watch apps only designed for “10 seconds” of use
A good spot by The Guardian, citing a Bloomberg report. Apparently, in Apple's lab where apps for the forthcoming smartwatch are being built, guidelines dictate that apps are being designed to be used for a maximum of ten seconds. This perhaps shouldn't be surprising - Apple is clearly wondering why anyone would stare at their…
WATCH: Funny or Die’s Uber takedown
Uber has certainly proved controversial - for a whole host of reasons. So it is perhaps no surprise that Funny or Die has finally got around to taking it on. Have a watch, its pretty devastating. An Apology From Uber from Funny Or Die