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Google I/O 2016: Allo and Duo apps revealed

Be sure to catch all the news, views and analysis of Google I/O 2016 on Gearburn via our portal, and live blog. Let’s face…

Bushido Bear, Titan Quest & more: this week’s top mobile games

Welcome to Gearburn’s Mobile Game Picks of the Week, a weekly series in which Hadlee takes a look at the latest, most entertaining, or…

Meet Gboard, Google’s keyboard for iPhone users

Apple took a page out of Google’s playbook when it announced support for third-party keyboards on iOS 8. This of course meant that fan-favourite…

4 apps that’ll make face-swapping adventures even funnier

The past few months have seen face-swapping applications explode in popularity, making for some entertaining (and freaky) moments. Which ones are worth downloading though?…

Google sets sights on better accessibility in Android

Smartphones are amazing tools, but there’s no doubting that platform-holders can do a little better when it comes to accessibility. Apple has done a…

The Freemium boom and the games defining it

It might sound like a buzz word… scratch that, it really is a buzz word called “Freemium” and over the last year it’s been…

Get ready for SwiftKey in your car [CES2014]

If you don’t know what Swiftkey is, then you’re missing out on the best keyboard app there is. Released in 2011, Swiftkey’s predictive typing is…

Swype exits beta, enters Google Play

While Nokia’s moving towards Blackberry-inspired QWERTY keyboards and Samsung is starting to experiment with innovative gestures, Swype is now out of Beta and comes…

Action Launcher 1.5.7 review: ‘Shutters’ and more

Action Launcher 1.5.7 (US$3.99) is here, and Developer Chris Lacy released a brand new feature called, Shutters. What this does is eliminate the need…

Become a Ghostbuster with these 8 paranormal apps

Ghost hunting is the next big phenomenon, to the point where it’s become even more popular than zombies. A lot of paranormal fans are…

Google Play get serious: Glass app reveals gaming goodness

The Google Glass companion app, the software needed to run the dorky-looking but pretty cool wearable smartphone, has been broken down into separate files…

Holo-themed Android apps and why I love them

Since Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), Google’s mobile OS finally started looking as well as it functioned. Pre-ICS was a horrible thing to look…

6 apps the BlackBerry Z10 needs right now

The BlackBerry Z10 is an excellent new smartphone, in our opinion. But it’s lacking some of the quality apps that Android and iOS both…

Sideload Android apps onto the BlackBerry Z10 with a PC

Personally, I think BlackBerry’s new Z10 full touch smartphone is the best product it’s ever launched. Slick, fast, button-free and iPhone-pretty, the Z10 is…

5 apps for the bigwig, the CEO, owner of the biggest office

Being an employer is a job separate from what you already do every day at work. Once you are in charge of managing the…

5 mobile apps perfect for the new Pope

Memeburn’s Stuart Thomas covered some pretty hilarious tweets regarding the Pope’s resignation, but what about the new Pope? How will he cope in a…

No Facebook phone, but its app’s going to be preloaded into emerging market Android devices

Sad news? No, best news ever. Previous “Facebook” phones were utter crap. So it’s great news that instead of forcing another aborted effort into…

5 free bacon apps for iOS that will get you licking your chops

I’m a vegetarian. But the hardest dead animal flesh to resist is bacon. Even browsing for the top results in the Apple App Store,…

5 Apps to help you with your new years resolutions

Ah, December… that special month that signifies the end of another year. A time that forces us to reflect upon the last twelve months…

Dropbox app coming to Windows 8, competition for SkyDrive?

Dropbox will soon be making its way to Windows 8. The announcement made by VP of Engineering, Aditya Agarwal, at Le Web 2012 sees…

Xbox LIVE launches new apps in US, UK and Europe

Yesterday, Xbox LIVE Director of Programming Larry Hryb, announced via his pseudo blog Major Nelson that the company had launched new entertainment apps in…

Windows Phone Store sits at 120k apps as WP8 deemed ‘success’

Windows Phone Store has seen steady growth in the amount of published apps available for WP users. Windows Phone Senior Platform Designer, credited this…

5 rocking guitar apps to get you shredding

The guitar is one of the most versatile instruments in music today. Used in pretty much every genre of music you can think of,…

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