Microsoft Office for iPad apps downloaded 27 million times in 46 days

Microsoft Office for iPad has enjoyed 27 million downloads in 46 days, which means around 587,000 dowloads a day, an unprecedented number for applications that arent games, messaging or social media focused. Looks like Microsoft and Apple are both benefitting from Microsoft Office coming to the iPad via the Office 365 subscriptions. Of all the Office apps, Word seems to the most popular download, consistently making it to the top charts.

New promo video for LG G Watch shows what's around the corner for wearables

Looks like LG has taken the challenge of making a notable Android Wear powered smartwatch quite seriously. This video is a promo or teaser of the upcoming G Watch and promises quite a lot of game changing features. LG's coming a little late to the party, their nemesis Samsung's already released second generation devices and so has Sony, so the first LG G Watch has to be an outstanding product to set itself apart. Time will tell if they have what it takes to disrupt the wearables market.

Source: LG

CNN lets Google Glass users support its citizen journalism platform

Have a story to tell and Google Glass on hand? CNN is expanding its citizen journalism platform iReport by letting people submit stories using Google Glass. iReport is now available on Glass and it just needs existing Glass users to authorize CNN to send notifications to their unit. Once that is up and running, you can manage settings and submit photos and videos with the device.

Source: Ubergizmo

Microsoft starts Windows Phone 8.1 support on June 24

Microsoft announced at its BUILD 2014 conference that Windows Phone 8.1 will be coming out over the summer and now the company says support for the operating system will start June 24. Its new announcement confirms that the public release for the new mobile OS will arrive sometime in June. Microsoft said support for Windows Phone 8.1 will be until July 11, 2017. This means you will be getting software updates for the OS until said date.

However, you must also remember that the release doesn’t mean you’ll be getting the update immediately. You will have to wait until the carriers and manufacturers send the update to supported devices.

Sources: GSMArena + Microsoft