Microsoft unveils app to help coding newbies develop Windows 8.1 apps

Looks like Microsoft wants to increase the app count in the Windows Store with the release of Project Siena. The beta app is designed to help non-programmers develop HTML5 and JavaScript apps for Windows 8.1. According to The Next Web, Project Siena works best with the creation of visual apps such as catalogs and asset-based resources with videos, photos, and maps. 

Twitter expands emergency alert sign-ups to mobile app

Twitter is making it easier for you to subscribe to participating organizations alerts. You just have to head over to their Twitter profiles on your iOS and Android devices and subscribe from there. The alerts will range from app notifications, highlighted tweets, and text messages. Twitter has also expanded the service in Brazil and Australia with the new update.

The program is a result of the Lifeline service launched in September after the major tsunami and earthquake hit Japan.

Source: The Next Web

Nokia considers the Lumia 2520 as the mullet of tablets

Nokia has just released what could be one of the strangest but somewhat fitting ads for its Lumia 2520 tablet. The Finnish brand is likening the Lumia 2520 as a “work and play” device, which is much like the mullet hairstyle of decades past a.k.a. business in front and party at the back. Watch the clip above and judge for yourself whether it’s weird or a stroke of genius.

Source: My Nokia Blog

Translate.com unveils mobile apps for crowdsourcing translations

Translate.com wants to start crowdsourcing translations for over 75 languages with the launch of its Android and iOS applications. Emerge Media took inspiration from Waze’s strategy of crowdsourcing traffic information. According to the company’s CEO Anthos Chrysanthou, Emerge Media knows there are many ways to translate a sentence and that is what they want to provide the apps users.