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World Lens application coming to Android platform

07/14/201207/14/2012 John Montgallo

Quest Visual expands the availability of World Lens Quest Visual, a developer of mobile applications, has announced that its popular World Lens app will be available for Android mobile devices. The World Lens application can translate text using the camera attached to a mobile device and augmented reality. When used, the translated text is superimposed over the original source through the use of augmented reality technology. The application has proved popular amongst tourists and those looking for directions in foreign countries. Application uses augmented reality to translate text The World…

New study asks: Do Apple or Android apps crash more frequently?

02/06/201202/06/2012 Jennifer Goula

Crittercism, an analytics company, has announced the release of its new report which has shown that iOS apps have a greater tendency to crash than Android apps. However, many mobile experts are wondering if this is truly a problem with Apple apps or whether this is simply a typical occurrence in the app arena when the operating system or its upgrades have only just been released. The crash survey performed by Crittercism evaluated over 214 million app launches between the months of November and December 2011, in order to decide…