Apple, Android app makers cool to Microsoft overtures

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft's plan to make its new version of Windows a mobile hit by letting it accept tweaked Apple and Android apps has met an obstacle: some of the software developers the company needs to woo just aren't interested. Windows phones ... Read more

All Articles and Tips about Android Apps - May 20, 2015

Microsoft brings new Word, Excel, and PowerPoint preview apps to Android phones

Microsoft's Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps are slimming down so they can get down to work on your Android smartphone. Following up to the Office for Android tablet release in January, Microsoft has unveiled a preview build of its core productivity apps ... Read more

Experts bust Android security myths

Symantec's 2015 "Internet Security Threat Report" says 17 percent of all Android apps (nearly a million) are malware in disguise. In comparison, Symantec uncovered approximately 700,000 Android malware apps in 2013. Android more vulnerable than iOS ... Read more

Will Google Let This Android Ad-Blocking App Into Its Walled Garden?

Adblock Plus, perhaps the most widely used ad-blocking software, released an beta app for Android on Wednesday that bakes its flagship ad-zapping feature into a mobile browser. Hundreds of millions of Internet users employ an ad blocker to filter ... Read more

Android Wear picks up WiFi support, emoji drawing

Google has introduced WiFi support and a host of other new features with the latest update to its Android Wear app, dedicated to smartwatches running the OS of the same name. Users now have the option of displaying apps even when their arm is relaxed or ... Read more

MixRadio App Available For Android And iOS Devices

MixRadio, the popular, personal, free music streaming service is now finally going cross-platform and becoming available to Android and iOS users after previously only being available on Windows Phones (Nokia Lumia handsets). Not only that but it might ... Read more

Be among the first to download the Periscope Android App

The latest social app sensation, a creation by Twitter called Periscope, let's users share live video with people around the world. The good? The app is supposedly awesome and seeing record adoption rates. The bad? The app has thus far eluded the ... Read more

Microsoft Rolls Out Office For Android Phone Preview

The latest step in making the Office experience consistent is the Office for Android phone preview apps launched by Microsoft today. In a blog post announcing the Office for Android preview the Office 365 Team says, "Over the last 12 months, we've ... Read more

The Rampant, Risky Babbling of Android Apps

Eurecom researchers recently developed an Android application that can monitor the network traffic of other apps to alert users of suspicious or malicious network activity. With more than 1.2 million applications in the Google Play store, there are ... Read more

Free Office for Android Arrives With Better Everything

Microsoft says the updated Office for Android apps are in preview mode, meaning they're not finished, but ready for any feedback that Android owners would like to offer. Android users who want the free apps have to sign up to become a Microsoft Office ... Read more