Friday, July 26, 2013

Android news Jul 27, 2013

TechRadar.com

Android 4.3 has a sort-of hidden app permissions manager
hard for Android users to keep track of what exactly their apps are doing, but it looks like that's about to change with Android 4.3.Android Police caught wind of a function called "App Ops" in the latest Android update that lets you control exactly what apps can access, be that navigation, data, phone calls or s... -techradar



Google is evidently working on real-time mobile translation tech

Google is evidently working on real-time mobile translation tech
its sights set on the future with projects like Google Fiber and Google Glass, and now it's adding real time voice-to-voice translation to that list as well.Google's Vice President of Android Hugo Barra said this week that Google is now in the early stages of creating real time translation software that it hopes to perfect withi... -techradar



Interview: Ubuntu may do it better, but Canonical head sees merits of Windows 8 efforts

Interview: Ubuntu may do it better, but Canonical head sees merits of Windows 8 efforts
is heading into the weekend with about $6.6 million (about £4.29m, AU$7.14m) raised for the Ubuntu Edge, not a shabby number for the superphone's 5-day old Indiegogo campaign. We chatted with Mark Shuttleworth, the software company's founder, on the day Edge wa... -techradar



Fighting Talk: 'Siri, why do I hate you so much?'

Fighting Talk: 'Siri, why do I hate you so much?'
hat I hate about iPhone owners? Siri.I can't stand them for it. I have this notion that they're all sitting around in bars, screaming into their phone that they want to know what the weather is like (have you looked out the window?), or asking if they have emails from Mum. They're probably not, as I've never actually seen anyone... -techradar



Apple dropping as smartphone fans opt for Android

Apple dropping as smartphone fans opt for Android
have reported healthy iPhone sales this week, but its being dwarfed by its robotic competitor. The recent IDC tracker findings, which look at the worldwide shipments and market share of all mobile phone makers, noted that Apple shifted 31.2 million iPhones in the last quarter, but only nabbed 13.1% of the market.Apple and... -techradar



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