Google brings back free calls to Gmail Hangouts

After rolling out the unified Hangouts, Google took out the ability to make free calls in Gmail. It’s a good thing they’ve been listening and brought the feature back. They even improved it further by making calls to the US and Canada free for countries where Hangouts calling is available.

Other new features their adding to this “future of Google Voice” include being able to add multiple phone numbers and video participants to the same call as well as playing sound effects using the Google Effects app. These new additions are said to be coming out in the next couple of days.

Source: Gmail Blog

Microsoft opens Office and SharePoint Store to new markets

Microsoft’s Office and SharePoint was only previously available to the US market. Now, it is open to 22 new markets with additional language support for French, German, Japanese, and Spanish. The countries with new storefronts include Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, India, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, Switzerland, and United Kingdom—with some of these countries having several language markets already.

All those using the new Office can access the Office and SharePoint Store within the Office app or through Office.com.

Source: Office News 

Twitter update includes direct message syncing and mobile search improvements

New Twitter update for Android, iOS, Twitter.com, mobile.twitter.com, and TweetDeck now lets you sync your direct messages or DMs across your devices and Twitter accounts. If you read a DM on your phone, it’ll be marked as read on your other devices, vice versa.

Search results have also been improved. You just need to make sure you have the latest version of the app from the iTunes App Store, Mac App Store, and Google Play Store.

Pearson comes out with new iOS developer books

IT publisher Pearson has just released four new iOS development titles you should check out.

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