Google Play store celebrates 25 billion downloads, 675,000 apps

Google's Play Store is their storefront for apps, books and videos and has just celebrated 25 billion downloads as well as the availability of 675,000 apps across myriad versions of Android OS on smartphones, tablets and Google TVs. To celebrate the milestones, Google is giving users a chance to download content forjust 25 cents. There will special collections like 25 movies you must own, 25 banned books, 25 albums that changed the world and 25 top selling magazines, all at special prices. Google Play can be accessed through Android devices.

YouTube finally releases official app for iPhone and iPod Touch

The YouTube app that comes pre-loaded with most iOS devices was made by Apple and hasn't been updated in ages and Apple decided to ditch it altogether in iOS 6. Users who still want access to YouTube as a standalone app can now go and get Google's official App for iPhone and iPod Touch. The new app actually offers more content since the older YouTube app didn't play ad-supported videos.

Seeing the brilliant engineering Google has employed in recent iOS apps (have you seen Google + on the iPad? Stunning!) we expect an iPad optimized version that's Retinized to come along shortly.

Source: Venturebeat

PaWuv 1.0 App locates pet friendly hotels

It isn't always easy to find a hotel that welcomes your pet, as well as you! PaWuv 1.0 is the App for pet owners to find hotels that they can bring their pets to as well as what the restrictions are and how much it will cost. PaWuv goes through thousands of pet friendly hotels from all across the United States and includes information about their acceptance policies, weight limits, pet fees, and much more. Already on the road? Not a problem. PaWuv will locate you and then show you all the pet-friendly hotels nearby. 

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Norton Mobile Utilities Lite for Android adds up to 5 hours of battery life

To help combat slow performance and battery consumption, Norton released its latest version of Norton Mobile Utilities, a tool that optimizes your battery life and keeps devices running at top speed.

The tool shows you what applications your phone is running and allows you to close out apps to manage your battery drain. According to testing, using Norton Mobile Utilities resulted in a phone battery savings of more than five hours which is a big deal on Android powered devices.

Consumers can download the free app from the Google Play and a full-featured version is also available for $9.99.