Rovio releases Angry Birds Friends, for Android and iOS
Angry Birds has to be one of the more popular mobile games of recent times, with a whole slew of games based on the original bird-flinger now available. It might seem a little incredible, but believe it or not,...
Noah Falstein hired as Chief Game Designer at Google
Noah Falstein, a game designer and producer who has worked with some of the biggest names in the game development industry such as Lucasfilm Games, DreamWorks Interactive and The 3DO Company has, according to his LinkedIn Profile been...
Official QANTAS app for Android coming later this year
Today QANTAS released a new travel app for iPhone users -- seen above -- which is all well and good for them, but it seems Android users will have to wait around a bit longer to get it. The...
Official Twitter app updated, adds menu button for quicker access to settings
Twitter have today updated their official Android app, and although the update isn't bringing any major new features to the table, it does fix a complaint many users have had: the deeply buried settings button. With the new update,...
Microsoft offering a Switch to Windows Phone app … for Android
In the smartphone space, there's really only three real players these days; Android of course, iOS and Windows Phone, with an honourable mention to Blackberry which will probably be out of business within a year or two. Microsoft, being...
Matias Duarte talks Facebook Home
There's a lot of differing opinions on Facebook home, mostly surrounding how it's implemented and whether Facebook is secretly launching an assault on the Android homescreen, but Matias Duarte has spoken with ABCNews in the US about his thoughts...
CyanogenMod adding hands-free photography
Soon, it'll be easier than ever to take the perfect selfie, as CyanogenMod will soon be adding hands-free photography to their camera application. One of the senior members of the CyanogenMod team, Richardo Cerqueira, posted the above photo to...
Google updates Play Store policies to remind app developers about update mechanisms
Google has obviously been watching the antics of Facebook over the last month or so very closely because they've updated the Google Play content policies page to remind developers that any updates to apps should only be updated via...
Google finally adds Nexus 7 travel covers to Australian Play Store
After almost nine months of being teased on the Australian Google Play store and being available freely at retail stores for nearly seven months, Google has finally made the Nexus Travel covers available for purchase in Google Play. The...
New York Times releases Google Glass App
If you thought that the release of Google Glass had been quiet on the app front, then this announcement from the New York Times could be about about to start a whole landslide of new apps designed specifically for...
Security flaw found in Viber app
Update: Viber has been in contact with Ausdroid and has told us:
Since this is a major issue, and since we care a lot about our users' security, we kindly ask that you edit/update the current article, adding our response,...
Makers of Vine promise an Android app ‘soon’
Dom Hoffman, the co-founder of Vine -- that nifty little app which (for iOS only at the moment ) allows users to film and upload short video clips -- has given a presentation at the NYC Apps meetup, a...
New Google Play starts rolling out to Australians
We have received word that the new Play Store has started rolling out officially to Australians. We saw a few days ago that the recommended content was added for those that manually updated to the latest version but it...
Google has also put an Easter Egg in Google Glass
Google is well known for putting Easter Eggs in their software - just go tap the version number in your Android Settings or type 'tilt' into the search bar on the Google Webpage - and it seems that Glass...
Google gets more serious about tablet apps – Google Play Developer console receives tablet...
Google is really beginning to make an effort with regards to addressing a perceived lack of tablet ready apps in Google Play. This began last year when Google introduced their Tablet App Quality Checklist for developers and continued just...