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Google Play for Education Makes Software, Devices Affordable

Google announced on Wednesday during its big Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco a new effort called “Google Play for Education,” which is designed for making devices and software affordable for educators. Teachers can now buy apps and push then to a classroom of tablets at once, which then can be charged to a school account. #sonitekca

Google Hangouts #App: One Giant Leap for Chat Kind

Hands up if you’ve ever been in this situation: You start a conversation with a friend or family member at your desk on Instant Messenger. Away from your desk, you send them a text. Later on, you decide it makes more sense to speak face-to-face on Skype. All of a sudden, you’ve got a balkanized conversation. And it’s far, far worse if you’re trying to involve multiple people. You quickly get to the point where you can’t remember who said what to whom on what service on what device. #sonitekca

8 Astronomy #Apps for Stargazers

Our rapidly changing universe has been perfecting itself for more than 13 billion years, and the proof is just above your head. Sure, you learned about the Big Dipper as a kid, but can you name the other constellations or point out visible planets on a crystal-clear evening? We found eight astronomy apps that not only map out the stars, but also let you explore beyond our solar system and uncover facts you never knew about space.#sonitekca

Practical Mobile App Marketing Strategy to Drive High ROI with App

www.sonitek.ca/mobile-application-development.html, mobile app development company understand that why most apps fail to return profit to developers. Before your company launch a new app on android or itune store, you must deeply understand & implement mobile app marketing strategy mentioned into this file. #sonitekca

Here's How Reddit's Communities Are Interconnected

The best part of browsing Reddit comments (besides the awesome pun threads) is discovering a new subreddit — a community so niche or fine-tuned to your interests that you can’t imagine life before subscribing to it. In fact, if you spend time in certain subreddits, you’ll find common links to others. For example, users in r/books often link to r/scifi and r/fantasy. And r/Android links frequently to r/AndroidDev and r/AndroidApps. The resulting “cliques” are great places to find and trade content about related topics.#sonitekca

Google Offers 15GB Unified Storage Across Gmail, Drive, Google+

Google is consolidating storage between Drive, Gmail and Google+, now offering users 15GB of free storage shared across all three platforms. “Life gets a bit easier when your Google products work well together—whether that’s inserting a Drive file into an email or sharing a photo from Drive on Google+. As this experience becomes more seamless, separate storage doesn’t make as much sense anymore,” Clay Bavo, Google’s Director of Product Management said in a blog post announcing the change.#sonitekca

Twitter Acquires Data Analysis Startup Lucky Sort

Twitter has acquired Lucky Sort, a startup that specializes in data visualization, the two companies announced Monday. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Lucky Sort was founded two years ago and launched its first product called TopicWatch last February. TopicWatch let users analyze real-time trends on social media (including Twitter) as well as from other news sources. As part of the acquisition, Lucky Sort will shut down its services in the coming months.#sonitekca

Facebook Home Finally Hits 1 Million Downloads

Facebook Home has finally hit 1 million downloads exactly one month after being released for Android, according to install numbers in the Google Play store. At a press event on Thursday, Facebook’s director of mobile engineering told reporters that Home had been downloaded “just about” 1 million times. On Sunday, Facebook Home was classified as having been installed 1 million - 5 million times in the Google Play Store. Facebook did not immediately respond to our request for comment about when exactly it passed the million mark.#sonitekca

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