Hangouts may be Android's star messaging app at the moment, but Google is still willing to show its original Messenger client a little TLC. The company has updated its basic Android texting app with support for quick replies from notifications. While...
It's been almost a year since home-sharing service Airbnb announced a comprehensive and far-reaching redesign across the entire company — that included a new website, new mobile apps, and a new logo. Both the site and apps put a major focus on the often-beautiful photography Airbnb uses to advertise the homes of users that are available, something that seemed like a logical translation to tablets, but Airbnb's app remained phone-only. That change today with the release of Airbnb for the iPad and Android tablets.
If you've used Airbnb at all since its redesign last July, you'll feel right at home here. After logging in, the app presents you with a nicely scrolling grid of potential destinations — right now, the first things I see are New...
We heard the rumors over and over: Android apps are coming to Windows 10. It sounded like a good way to let Windows Phone and Desktop users fill the gaps in the Windows Store—but it isn’t happening. Instead, Microsoft is making it ridiculously easy to port Android apps to the Windows Store. And everything else too: iOS apps, Win23 (desktop) applications—even websites.
At Build 2015, Microsoft offered fresh details on its vision of Windows 10 as one operating system that consumers will use across PCs, smartphones, tablets, and the Xbox One game console. Among other announcements, we learned the name of Internet Explorer's successor: Microsoft Edge. The company also revealed that Office will soon be its own platform with add-on apps running inside the productivity suite. Microsoft is also making it easier for developers to bring apps from Android and iOS to Windows on smartphones. And once again, we got a demonstration of the futuristic HoloLens headset. These are the biggest stories of Microsoft's Build 2015 conference.
Microsoft's own Joe Belfiore just unveiled the company's successor to Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, and he showed how the browser is another extension of Redmond's cross-platform ambitions. Similar to how Windows 10 supports code from Android and iOS, Edge supports browser extensions from Chrome and Firefox.
With Internet Explorer in the rearview, Microsoft clearly has its sights on the two browsers that users generally rely on while also focusing on productivity. Belfiore said onstage that Edge is "a browser that end users will think about for getting things done." Pulling that off means building in support for the extensions users already use, but modified with Edge functionality. Extensions will live in the browser toolbar....
If you're looking forward to picking up the first smartwatch from a major Swiss watchmaker, it's going to cost you. Tag Heuer will start selling its upcoming smartwatch for $1,400, as first reported by Bloomberg. The price isn't that outlandish in context — the smartwatch is reportedly based on the Tag Heuer Carrera, which starts around $1,500. While details are still scarce on Tag Heuer's smartwatch, we do know Intel will provide the chipsets and sensors, it will run Android Wear, and will be available in October or November.
According to Tag Heuer CEO Jean-Claude Biver, the upcoming smartwatch will last 40 hours, which surpasses the Apple Watch and every Android Wear smartwatch on the market. Speaking to Bloomberg, Biver said he's...
Today, as expected, Microsoft announced that developers will be able to more easily bring their Android applications to Windows devices. Developers, Microsoft said, will be able to “reuse nearly all the Java and C++ code from an Android phone app to create apps for phones running Windows 10.” Developers will also be able to recycle their Objective-C apps for iOS using new tools… Read More
Microsoft's Terry Myerson confirmed on-stage at Build what many of us suspected in the hours leading up to the event -- the company's going to make it easier for developers to bring Android apps into the Windows Store. To make this possible, Myers sa...
After months of rumors, Microsoft is revealing its plans to get mobile apps on Windows 10 today. While the company has been investigating emulating Android apps, it has settled on a different solution, or set of solutions, that will allow developers to bring their existing code to Windows 10.
iOS and Android developers will be able to port their apps and games directly to Windows universal apps, and Microsoft is enabling this with two new software development kits. On the Android side, Microsoft is enabling developers to use Java and C++ code on Windows 10, and for iOS developers they’ll be able to take advantage of their existing Objective C code. "We want to enable developers to leverage their current code and current skills to start...
So much for hopes that TAG Heuer's first smartwatch will cost less than its conventional counterparts. Jean-Claude Biver, the head of TAG's parent company LVMH, says that the Android Wear timepiece will cost about $1,400 when it ships in October or N...
Airbnb is finally rolling out an app that will enable users to browse and search its listings on a device that’s bigger than a phone, but not quite as unwieldy as a laptop. But more than that, the new app for iPad and Android tablets is designed to provide users with some inspiration for where they might want to take their next trip. Read More
