Last time Apple checked in during its Q3 2013 earnings report it announced the App Store was home to 900,000 apps and over 375K designed specifically for iPad. Today, the App Store has now reached 950,000 apps and quickly approaches 1 million with Apple accepting 50K new apps in the last two months alone. The news comes from app discovery service Appsfire, which regularly tracks new and updated apps added to the App Store.
Apple often celebrates milestones for its App Store with some type of giveaway or contest for users. Earlier this year it made a number of premium apps available for free to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the App Store and also gave away a $10,000 App Store gift card to announce the 50 billionth app download. We wouldn’t be surprised to see Apple do something similar for the 1 millionth app on the App Store.
Apple has likely seen an increase in new app submissions in recent weeks, as a long list of developers update and release new apps to accompany last week’s launch of iOS 7 and the new iPhones. At the current rate, it will take Apple just another couple of months to hit the 1 million mark.

App Store stops by 950K apps on its way to 1 million

Yahoo launches new mobile streaming video app ‘Yahoo Screen’

Yahoo is the latest big media company to start focusing on a second-screen video viewing experience with the release of its new Yahoo Screen mobile app today.
The move shows yet another company that’s banking on turning connected tablets and smartphones into the new TV viewing experience — one that doesn’t require remote controls and is much easier to access. For now, it doesn’t look like you can push this video content to your TV screen, but that could eventually change.
The app basically collects all the video content that’s currently distributed on Yahoo and packages it together via an iOS app. Some of the content you can find includes Yahoo’s slate of original web shows such as Jack Black’s Ghost Ghirls and John Stamos’ Losing It With John Stamos as well as the huge backlog of Saturday Night Live videos that Yahoo has an exclusive on, as VentureBeat previously reported.
 Yahoo launches new mobile streaming video app ‘Yahoo Screen’

Significant Tricks to Find Out Top App Development Companies

Today mobile app development is flourishing industry. Mobile apps brought many changes in everybody's life. Which task completed within hours, all that tasks completed within minutes through mobile apps. Many IT companies entered into app development field and get best revenue from users. If you have unique app idea then it's very easy to convert into real app by hire developer. But find out top app development companies is very difficult task for anyone.

Internet is best option to search best company for develop your app. But if you follow some tricks then you can find out top app development companies very easily. Here described some tips that will help you to find best one.
 Significant Tricks to Find Out Top App Development Companies

Updated: Camera Burst Mode For iPhone 5, iPhone 4s And More Added In iOS 7 GM

Apple’s iPhone 5s is set to launch with impressive improvements in the camera department. However, one such feature thought to be reserved for the upcoming handset – a “burst mode” for the Camera app – is available to access now in the prerelease iOS 7 Gold Master (GM), and is reportedly compatible with the iPhone 5, iPhone 4s, and more.
The news comes from iDownloadBlog, who explains that the feature can be accessed in the iOS 7 GM Camera app by holding a finger down on the shutter icon. Doing so will result in one’s iDevice taking “continuous, rapid shots,” the website explains.
Though Apple unveiled the feature alongside its iPhone 5s, which also sports an exciting slow motion mode of video recording, an f/2.2 aperture, and a larger active sensor area that supports 1.5 micron pixels, the Cupertino, Calif. company did not announce that the Camera app’s burst mode would be available for other iDevices. As such, no information concerning compatibility has been formally confirmed.
That being said, iDownloadBlog’s research indicates that the feature is available for the iPhone 5, iPhone 4s, iPad 3, and fifth-generation iPod touch. It seems that the iPhone 4, at least, is unable to support the feature due to “hardware limitations.”
 Updated: Camera Burst Mode For iPhone 5, iPhone 4s And More Added In iOS 7 GM

How to Access HootSuite via Web, Mobile, App or Extension

HootSuite is a tool for social media management that we've talked about and referenced many times. I am a Certified HootSuite Solution Pro, which means that I have been trained on not only how to use HootSuite, but how to help business owners understand how they can use HootSuite to manage and monitor their social media accounts. We are continuing our series on How to Make the Most of Your HootSuite Account by reviewing the actual ways businesses can access HootSuite from a technical perspective - web, mobile, app and extension.
 How to Access HootSuite via Web, Mobile, App or Extension

HootSuite is a tool for social media management that we've talked about and referenced many times. I am a Certified HootSuite Solution Pro, which means that I have been trained on not only how to use HootSuite, but how to help business owners understand how they can use HootSuite to manage and monitor their social media accounts. We are continuing our series on How to Make the Most of Your HootSuite Account by reviewing the actual ways businesses can access HootSuite from a technical perspective - web, mobile, app and extension.
Read more at https://www.thesocialmediahat.com/article/how-access-hootsuite-web-mobile-app-or-extension#s4080DhJgXGbgSYe.99

Google Unites Gmail And G+ Chat Into “Hangouts” Cross-Platform Text And Group Video Messaging App

Today at I/O, Google rebranded “Hangouts” as a new unified, cross-platform messaging system. It lets people text, photo, and group video message across Hangouts’ Android and iOS apps, plus its Gmail and Google+ site integrations. Hangouts rolls out today, replacing Google Talk [GChat] and G+ Messenger. While it doesn’t support SMS yet, it could challenge Facebook Messaging and Apple’s iMessage.
For over a year, whispers from GigaOm, Droid Life  and others signaled Google would undertake a big unification of its fragmented messaging offering. Today Google will offer new free iOS and Android Hangout apps, the Google+ integration, and you can upgrade from Google Talk to Hangouts by clicking on your photo in the Gmail chat list. There are currently no plans for other platforms like Windows Phone or Blackberry.
Google’s Vic Gundotra said at I/O today in San Francisco that “Technology should get out of the way so you can live, learn, and love.”  Operating systems and devices shouldn’t matter. You just want to talk with those you care about. That’s the point of the revamped Hangouts. It brings humans and conversations to the forefront.
 Google Unites Gmail And G+ Chat Into “Hangouts” Cross-Platform Text And Group Video Messaging App

Predictive Apps Are The Next Big Thing In App Development

This post is based on published research. Forrester clients can read the full report here: Predictive Apps Are The Next Big Thing
Developers And Their Business Counterparts Are Caught In A Trap
They swim in game-changing new technologies that can access more than a billion hyperconnected customers, but they struggle to design and develop applications that delight customers and dazzle shareholders with annuity-like streams of revenue. The challenge isn’t application development; app developers can ingest and use new technologies as fast as they come. The challenge is that developers are stuck in a design paradigm that reduces app design to making functionality and content decisions based on a few defined customer personas or segments.
 Predictive Apps Are The Next Big Thing In App Development