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Briefs: Firefox’s new Rocket browser & deeper Duo integration

Advertisements October 9: In our second Android brief of the day, we have news about Firefox’s new Rocket browser and deeper integration of Duo video calling in Phone, Contacts and Messages apps. Also read our first news brief of the day: Mi Mix 2 to be Flipkart exclusive, Vivo X20 get a new colour & […]

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Microsoft brings Edge to Android, introduces Microsoft Launcher

Advertisements Update (Nov 30): Microsoft Edge browser has now shed the preview tag and has now launched for all on Android. Update (Oct 14): Microsoft has released the preview version of the Edge browser in the Play Store. Additionally, the Microsoft Launcher has left the beta tag and is now available in the stable form […]

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Facebook launches Messenger Lite in US, UK, Canada & Ireland

Advertisements An year after originally introducing the Messenger Lite app for developing markets, Facebook on Monday announced its expansion to US, UK, Canada and Ireland. This light and data-efficient application is no longer just for emerging countries. The application can now be grabbed from Play Store and is less than 10MB to install. It works […]

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Instagram adds enhanced comment controls to combat harassment

Advertisements In order to give its users better tools to combat harassment and online bullying, Instagram has added more options to control comments. The social media giant is finally giving users the ability to control who comments on their photos. The Instagram users with public profiles will be able to limit commenting ability to people […]

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Amazon Music gets Alexa support in US, UK, Germany and Austria

Advertisements Amazon has announced that it is adding support for voice assistant Alexa to its Music app. The integration will be initially available in US, UK, Germany and Austria. According to the company, it is really easy to use Alexa in Amazon Music app. All you have to do is press the Alexa option to […]

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Twitter is testing a native version of its Twitter Lite mobile website

Advertisements Twitter has quietly released a Twitter Lite Android application in Google Play for the Philippines market, targeting the consumers with limited data plan or less-powerful Android devices. According to Twitter, the application is currently in the testing phase and the company has not yet decided whether it wants to release the app to other […]

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Samsung Bixby Voice now available in India

Advertisements Samsung has announced that Bixby’s voice capabilities are now available for the Indian users. The company noted in a press release that Samsung Galaxy Note8, Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ users will be able use Bixby Voice in US English after updating Bixby on their smartphone. Samsung says it has optimised Bixby Voice to […]

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Twitter for Android now displays popular articles around you

Advertisements Twitter has quietly rolled out a new feature on its mobile app, which shows users the popular articles around them or on their timeline. The feature is accessible by going to the search tab and scrolling down to popular articles. According to Buzzfeed, which first reported about the feature, ‘popular articles’ is now live […]

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