Gmail’s iOS App Is Updated To Open Links In Chrome, Google Maps, and YouTube Apps

Google has updated the Gmail app on iOS in a way that users can take more control of the link actions from e-mails.  Now when you tap on links from an e-mail in the Gmail iOS app, you can designate other Google-designed iOS applications to open them in a relevant way rather than having Apple’s mobile Safari browser open it every time.  This functionality will work if you have the Google Chrome, Google Maps, and/or YouTube iOS apps installed on your phone.

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YouTube’s iOS App Now Has Live Streaming Support

The YouTube iOS app has been updated to version 1.3.  One of the best features that was added is live streaming.  This update was added right after the popular Coachella concert, which was streamed on YouTube.

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Google Releases “Field Trip” App For The iPhone

Google has released the Field Trip application for the Apple App Store.  Previously the app was only available for Android.  The application runs in the background of your phone and shows you information about nearby businesses including where to shop and eat. Field Trip grabs information from websites like Food Network, Run Riot, Sunset, Inhabitat, Daily Secret, and Zagat.  You can control the sources that you want Google to pull information from.  You can download the app from here.

Amazon Launches Music Streaming App Cloud Player For The iPad

A couple weeks ago Amazon.com announced that the Amazon Cloud Player will be integrated with the Ford Sync AppLink platform.  The company has announced today that their iOS application has been updated with native support for the Apple iPad.  The Amazon Cloud Player iPad app looks similar to the iPhone version that was launched about a year and a half ago.

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Hulu Gets A Kids Lock On The iPad

The Hulu app on Android had a Kids Lock feature for quite a while.  Now the same feature is available on the iPhone and iPad.  The Hulu Kids Lock is a virtual button that makes it possible for parents to block mature content from being viewed by kids.  Parents can disable to the Kids Lock by inputting a password.  The feature was added in version 2.7 of Hulu for iOS.

Apple Paid Out Around $8 Billion To Developers

Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the company has paid out around $8 billion to developers.  This is about a $1 billion increase since the last time the numbers were announced on January 7th.  In October 2012, Apple said that they paid $6.5 billion to developers in October.

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Amazon.com Wins Victory On Apple’s False Advertising “App Store” Claim

Apple filed a lawsuit against Amazon.com over the trademark “App Store.”  Amazon.com’s application store is called the “Appstore for Android.”  U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton had rejected Apple’s claim of false advertising against Amazon.com.  “Apple has failed to establish that Amazon made any false statement of fact that actually deceived or had the tendency to deceive a substantial segment of its audience,” stated Judge Hamilton.

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