Software : Seven new Android apps are now compatible with Chrome OS |
| Seven new Android apps are now compatible with Chrome OS Posted:  Google has ported seven new Android apps over to Chrome OS, expanding their reach beyond phones and tablets without altering the apps much at all. The search company highlighted three of the new additions for the holidays in a Google+ post: Cookpad Recipes, Couchsurfing and OverDrive. These apps and four others join Evernote, Duolingo, Vine, Sight Words, and more in the Chrome OS web store's Android apps section. However this section also contains web apps, making it not the easiest list to parse through - leaving us clueless as to what the other four new apps are. Taking advantageGoogle launched Chrome OS to be a lightweight cloud-run laptop operating system, but a lack of quality apps has forced it to look toward Android. The first of what Google promised will be many Chrome OS-compatible Android apps arrived in September. Android's app ecosystem is booming, of course, though Google's rollout of Chrome OS-compatible Android apps is so slow you wouldn't know it. |
| Twitter looks to the apps on your phone for better ad targeting Posted:  Twitter is has announced that it's about to start paying very close attention to the apps you have installed on your phone. Why would it care? To serve you more target advertisements, of course. Why else? "To help build a more personal Twitter experience for you, we are collecting and occasionally updating the list of apps installed on your mobile device so we can deliver tailored content that you might be interested in," reads Twitter's support site. It notes that Twitter won't collect any data from within other apps, though - just lists of what those apps are. Don't worry, you can turn it offThe data Twitter collects on your installed apps might affect the "who to follow" suggestions, promoted tweets and more unsolicited items your feed shows you. Thankfully you can turn Twitter's "app graph" off in your Twitter app's settings menu, and it's off by default if you previously told the app to "limit ad tracking" or opted out of internet-based ads, depending what OS you're on. A prompt within the app will let you know if Twitter switches it on for your account, and until then the company says you have nothing to worry about. |
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