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Microsoft OneClip app is a cloud-powered, cross-platform clipboard

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Evernote is one software that will let you store images, numbers or text and make it available across devices and platforms. While there are other alternatives such as Google Keep or Apple Notes app, Microsoft is also testing a similar virtual clipboard internally.

Microsoft’s OneClip is a cross-platform clipboard app that allows to quickly copy pieces of data such as images, phone numbers or strings of text, then making it available immediately across different platforms. Read more »

Dropbox app gets Material Design and gesture navigation support

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An update to Dropbox for Android gave the application a much deserved makeover. Version 2.6 brings the Android 5.0 Lollipop’s Material Design language to the cloud storage app.

The tabbed browsing interface of old has been replaced – users looking for files in photos and favorites will find them in the side menu. Read more »

Microsoft is working on Office Now personal assistant for mobile platforms

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Microsoft’s Office productivity suite will get its own personal assistant app called Office Now. Currently the application is being tested on Windows and might be released for iOS, Windows 10 Mobile, and Android.

Office Now gives a summary of one’s day at a glance. Read more »

Google updates Hangouts for Chrome

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Google axed its Talk messenger about three months ago and focused its push on Hangouts instead.

Now the search giant has updated the Hangouts app for Chrome browser with the Android’s Material Design language. The new design slices the page in two columns – right one shows current conversation and left side shows a stack of recent conversations. Read more »

Razer launches Firefly gaming mat with customizable LED lights

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Gamers have a fascination for matte black products and glowing LED lights. The present breed of Razer’s gaming mice and keyboards are the living proof of that. Now the company has stepped ahead to bring a gaming mouse mat with LED lighting called Firefly.

Razer Firefly has a textured finish and a reflective coating to optimize the mouse tracking. This gaming mouse mat is hard and has LED lights smartly placed around the left, right and bottom edges. Those LED lights can be controlled and customized to emit specified colors as well as effects. Read more »

HTC releases official Mail app for Lollipop devices on Google Play Store

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HTC released the official Sense Mail app in the Google Play store. The application functions like any other modern email app – one can read and compose emails, create folders, and manage multiple email accounts using it.

Designed using its own Sense UI language, the HTC Mail app offers useful customizations such as changing the font and its color, highlighting text, and more. Read more »

Cyanogen plans to set up India office in coming few months

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From rejuvenated brand image to squabble over software updates, Cyanogen saw it all last year while taking a dip in the fast growing smartphone market of India. After Xiaomi and OnePlus recently opened their India offices, Cyanogen plans to follow suit in coming three months.

Vikram Natarajan, senior vice-president of global partnerships and distribution at Cyanogen, told ET Tech, “India is very attractive. It is one of the hyper-growth markets for mobile today.” Read more »

T-Mobile to offer $80 discount on the 64GB Galaxy S6, S6 edge this weekend

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Memorial Day is observed in the US for respecting and remembering the folks who died during the American Civil War. It also happens to be an opportunity for marketers to offer good deals and discounts on popular products.

This is T-Mobile is offering a discount of $80 on 64GB version of Galaxy S6 or Galaxy S6 edge models to bring them to the price of the 32GB models. This is a sweet deal provided Galaxy S6 and Galaxy 6 edge do not offer expandable storage. Read more »

Google to launch a new Photo service by end of this month

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Millions of photos are stored online at cloud services of Flickr and Facebook. But not many would prefer about Google’s own photo service nested in Google+.

That’s why Google is working to reveal a new photo tool that will allow storage and sharing the images to popular social networks such as Facebook and Twitter easily. This new photos tool is expected to be announced at the Google I/O developers conference at the end of this month in San Francisco, according to the latest report. Read more »

Apple introduces official iPhone Lightning Dock for $39

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Apple quietly introduced its first official iPhone Lightning Dock solution for iPhone models announced since 2013. The accessory debuted alongside an updated 15” MacBook Pro with Force Touch trackpad and a new 27” Retina iMac with 5K display earlier today.

The new iPhone Lightning Dock features a white square base with rounded corners. The gadget supports Lightning port-packing iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and iPod touch 5th generation models. Read more »

Mysterious HTC tablet gets Bluetooth Certification

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Recently, HTC was tipped of working on a low-end tablet set to release in coming months. Now we get more solid confirmation that HTC indeed is aiming to grab some space in the budget-level tablets across different countries.

A mysterious HTC tablet has gained Bluetooth Certification and carries 2PMW100 as the model ID. From the listing, it is quite evident that it is one of the prototype units carrying the EVT hardware version number. That means, the hardware is not finalized and may change, if that tablet is released later. Read more »

Microsoft is hosting a contest for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Collectors Edition

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Upcoming role-playing game The Witcher 3 : Wild Hunt is getting excellent ratings from the game reviewing community. It is easily one of the hottest and most anticipated game to be available for PC and gaming consoles.

Microsoft’s Major Nelson aka Larry Hryb is hosting a contest on his blog to know your strategy to face and fight the evil monsters of The Witchers 3 game. The users are required to answer that in the comments section stating their fighting strategy – magical powers or brute force combat. Read more »

Xolo One Liverpool FC Limited Edition launched for $99 in India

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Xolo has decided to join the football merchandise fun, announcing a new One Liverpool FC Limited Edition at INR 6,299 ($99) in partnership with the Merseyside football club.

So now, you won’t have to buy a Liverpool FC cover or set any wallpaper specially. This Limited Edition phone has the exclusive Liverpool content such as logos, boot animation, icons and wall papers. Read more »

Google launches Xolo Chromebook, Nexian Air Chromebook for $200 in India

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Google continues with its plan to infiltrate Indian market with affordable Chromebooks. Today the search giant introduced Xolo Chromebook and Nexian Air Chromebook for INR 12,999 ($204) in the country.

Running the Chrome OS and featuring the Google Now digital assistant, these Chromebooks serve as a perfect first laptop for the young adults and those with minimal requirements.Of course, the popular Google apps are preloaded along with a handful of offline apps such as Google Docs and Gmail Offline. Read more »

Rdio launches on-demand Select subscription service at $3.99 a month

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Music streaming service Rdio has announced a new subscription service called Rdio Select for those seeking on-demand, affordable music. The new Rdio Select will cost $3.99 a month against the standard $9.99 a month for unlimited access.

Rdio Select is almost like a diet music subscription plan that offers streaming without ads and capability to skip tracks. However, the catch here is the you can only download 25 songs a day. Read more »