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Folia: A super-charged Google Docs rival with the ability to contextually link documents

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by on August 14, 2014 at 10:36 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

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Re-inventing the word processor might not sound like the most exciting thing in tech right now – and indeed, it might not be – but with our workday increasingly peppered by distractions and ‘Columbo tasks’ (“Just one more thing”), saving time and improving the way in which we work is a worthwhile endeavour. To that end, Branchfire, the startup behind mobile document editor iAnnotate, has been quietly working away to build a platform called Folia that brings a seamless workflow to collaborative word processing and document markup. Drawing on the company’s experience in handling more than a million consumer users and more than 100,000 large firms and…

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Sony hopes its ‘Album of the Day’ app for iOS will make you buy digital records again

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by on August 14, 2014 at 10:28 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Launches

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Digital music sales are beginning to slow, but Sony is hoping to reverse that trend with its new ‘Album of the Day‘ app for the iPhone and iPod touch. As the name implies, Sony will promote and discount one album from its music roster every 24 hours. The price-cut can be anywhere up to 70 percent and there’s a shortcut to purchase the tracks on iTunes. For now, it should be noted, that’s the only place which you can buy Sony’s cut-price records. On screen, a timer shows when the current deal will close, and there are options to read more…

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Spotify integration returns to Shazam’s mobile apps in the UK, Germany and Mexico

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by on August 14, 2014 at 9:37 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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Strange. Very strange. A few months ago, Shazam removed a feature that allowed mobile users to open tagged tracks in Spotify. The service was swapped out for Deezer in Germany, Mexico, Brazil and the UK – but today, Spotify has returned to most of these markets. A spokesperson for Shazam confirmed that “Spotify is back” for the Android and iOS apps, and in my (UK) tests that certainly holds true. The two featured buttons on each track page now rotate between Deezer, Rdio and Spotify, but you can access all of them by tapping the play dropdown button. What’s more, Shazam…

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Lenovo is now selling more smartphones than PCs for the first time ever

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by on August 14, 2014 at 8:39 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Mobile, Product Updates

Lenovo is gradually becoming becoming more of a mobile firm, as it revealed today that it is selling more smartphones than PCs for the first time ever. The company’s earnings for the first fiscal quarter ending June 30 2014 showed that it chalked up a “record volume” of 15.8 million units, up 39 percent from the year before. Comparatively, PC shipments rose 15 percent year-on-year to reach 14.5 million units. In fiscal Q1 2013, Lenovo’s combined sales of smartphones and tablets surpassed PCs for the first time ever — and now smartphones alone are outselling PCs. According to the latest figures from market research…

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