Fantastic news for Canadian Android owners today: the amazing Checkout 51 app is now available on Google Play! Never heard of Checkout 51? Well hold on to your hat, because it will blow you away. The Checkout 51 app updates every Thursday morning with new offers and discounts on everyday grocery items and products. Think [...]

Vū Digital is aiming to make social content discovery smarter and more beautiful with the launch of their new Vū Mobile app for iOS and Android today. In their own words, Vū describes the new app as “a smart content tool that delivers rich personalized content to users through a beautiful gesture-driven interface.” On the surface, Vū is just [...]

If you’re an Android users with a Hotmail or Outlook.com email address, Microsoft has some good news for you! The official Outlook.com email client has been redesigned to match the Metro modern UI of the web interface. Microsoft’s “modern” UI, which debuted with Windows Phone 7 back in 2010, has slowly been making its way [...]

Remember that Google Play redesign that leaked a few weeks back? Turns out it’s the real deal, as Google officially unveiled the redesigned Play store for Android today. The update brings Play’s visual style more in line with the new Jelly Bean design language, featuring a brighter look and a Cards-based interface reminiscent of Google [...]

We’re a little slow on the uptake with this one, but DroidLife posted some leaked screenshots last week detailing a redesigned Google Play app for Android. The new version of Google Play, identified as version 4.0.16, features a completely redesigned UI that better conforms to Android’s “Holo” design language. The new design features colour-coded sections, and a [...]

In the wake of Samsung’s Galaxy S4 announcement, Rogers is offering new and existing customers a little bonus if they choose to pick up an older Galaxy phone. From today (March 19th) until April 1st, customers who purchase and activate a select Samsung Galaxy smartphone will receive a $35 Google Play gift card. The full [...]

Google introduced “actionable notifications” in Android 4.1 Jelly Bean last year, giving users the ability to view more information or act on a notification directly from the pull down shade. Today that feature comes to Gmail for Android with an update that allows you to reply, delete, or archive an email directly from the notification [...]

During a conference in Barcelona this morning (kicking off day two of Mobile World Congress), Jamie Rosenberg, VP of Google Play, made a very bold statement that selling their devices (Nexus 4, 7 and 10) direct to customers via Google Play is “here to stay”. Despite notorious supply issues, Google firmly believes this style of allocation [...]

As many of you know, I have spent a considerable amount of time in Las Vegas over the past few years. Of course, the time spent wasn’t all about partying and gambling, but that doesn’t mean that I didn’t have my chance to learn a thing or two about the various kinds of card games [...]

We spoke yesterday about the update to Facebook’s mobile site, which allowed users’ to share posts on their friends walls on the go. Well, turns out the “soon” Facebook spoke about in terms of release was a lot sooner than we thought; as in today. Among the updates listed above, a few of the more notable [...]