Lowdown introduces app for ‘smarter meetings’ to Canada and 20 other markets

Lowdown, the app designed to allow for “smarter meetings,” makes its way out of the UK and onto our shores. This iPhone app works to display your meeting location, directions to your meeting place, and estimated time it takes to get there. It even shows information about the people you are meeting based on their Twitter and LinkedIn accounts.

Aside from Canada, the other new markets the app is available include the US, Australia, France, Finland, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Israel, Belgium, Ireland, and Italy. The full-featured version of Lowdown comes with a 30-day free trial. You can continue subscribing for $6.99 a month or $69.99 a year. If you don’t want to, the free version only shows your current and next meetings.

Source: The Next Web

Lost Photos helps uncover forgotten photos in your email

We are pretty sure you have a bunch of photos you haven’t seen in a while buried under piles of online newsletters and work and personal emails. Now, you can recover these lost memories with Lost Photos for the Mac. The app scans and shows the photos stored in messages kept on popular IMAP email services, such as Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, iCloud, etc. You can download the photos to view, archive, and even share online on your social networks. The app is available for free and exclusively on the Mac App Store.

HTC rumoured to release a cheaper, plastic version of One M8

We all know HTC used to poke fun at the plastic flagship devices of its competitors. But it looks like they want to get in on the game but would try to release a more affordable version. @evleaks over a Twitter teased an upcoming “M8 Ace” device coming out that would have a plastic unibody instead of the company’s trademark aluminum construction. The M8 Ace will reportedly have almost the same specs as the Samsung Galaxy S5—a 5-inch 1080p screen and a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 2.5GHz processor—but with a lower price tag. We’ll just have to take this rumour with a grain of salt at the moment but imagine the possibilities.

Source: Engadget

Yahoo and Live Nation to livestream concerts every day for a year

Yahoo and concert ticketing business Live Nation want you to turn to the site for streaming live concerts. The two companies finalized their partnership on Thursday to have Yahoo stream a live concert every day for one year. Yahoo also intends to keep around 1,200 of the live song recordings so users can stream these clips “months and months” after the show airs.

They did not announce what acts we’d expect to catch but Yahoo marketing chief Kathy Saviit said it will compose the “world’s hottest bands and musicians.” We should be hearing more details about this new partnership soon.

Source: The Verge