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Android users have an average of 95 apps installed on their phones, according to Yahoo Aviate data

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by on August 26, 2014 at 6:58 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Yahoo acquired intelligent Android launcher Aviate back in January this year, before launching the service out of beta in June. In a nutshell, Aviate automatically organizes your apps and aggregates your personal and local data. This may include weather forecasts, transit information and calendar events. It adjusts according to time of day and your other activities to bring contextually-relevant information to your homescreen. A by-product of this is that Yahoo/Aviate gathers a lot of data about key activities on Android, including what apps users interact with most, average apps installed and so on. Indeed, Yahoo Aviate and Yahoo Labs have…

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Samsung says there are now over 1,000 apps for its Gear smartwatches

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by on August 26, 2014 at 5:55 am
Posted In: Around the Web, galaxy gear, Mobile

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Wearable gadgets haven’t taken off among mainstream consumers yet. Many people simply don’t see the use in a smartwatch, one of the reasons for that may be the perception that there are too few apps, thus limiting what is possible. Samsung is out to change that opinion after revealing that its Gear family of smartwatches now has more than 1,000 apps. That landmark is interesting because it is the very same number of apps that Pebble, Samsung’s closest rival when it comes to smartwatches, claims to have in its app store. At least that was the case when the Pebble app store for…

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LG announces the G3 Stylus, a Samsung Galaxy Note rival with a ‘fair price’

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by on August 26, 2014 at 3:08 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Mobile

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LG is introducing yet another variation of its flagship G3 smartphone, one which seems likely to go head-to-head with Samsung’s Galaxy Note range of phablets — perhaps with a lower price tag. Announced today, the LG G3 Stylus will be unveiled at the IFA electronics event in Berlin next month. The device maintains the same 5.5-inch size as the flagship G3, though it runs on a 1.3 GHz quad-core processor — that’s a step down from the G3′s 2.5Ghz Snapdragon 801 chipset. The G3 Stylus includes the same 13-megapixel rear-facing camera as its bigger brother, but the front-facing camera is…

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