“The Hunger Games” to Be a Part of App, Draw Something This Friday

This Friday, Draw Something players should expect to see “The Hunger Games” movie and novel related words as part of the game. An additional of seven words will be added to the game, which now is updated with new words, particularly pop culture and news references.

So if your both a movie and a Draw Something fan, you better brush up on your drawing skills and draw the movie characters Peeta, Haymitch, Gale, Effie, Tribute, Reaping, and Primrose, the best way you can.

OMGPOP was recently purchased by Zynga, so expect to see new game features for Draw Something soon.

“The Hunger Games”  is set to hit the movie theaters on Friday.

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Google Replaces Android Market, Intros Google Play

Google has replaced the Android Market with a cloud-based platform that consolidates its music, movies, books and apps under a new brand called “Google Play”.

This new platform unifies Google’s entertainment brands such as the Android Market, Google Music and Google eBookstore and makes it all available to a single hub. Google’s books, music and video apps will be branded as Play Books, Play Music and Play Movies respectively.

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Skype App Launches Beta Version for Windows Phone

Microsoft has released a beta version of its free voice and video calling app for Windows Phone.

The Skype for Windows Phone Beta allows Windows phone users to ‘make free audio and video calls’ to their Skype contacts using 3G, 4G or WiFi connections

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Google Docs App for Android Adds Offline Access

Google has released an update for Google Docs app for Android with a new feature that allows you access your files, even without an internet connection.

This latest feature allows users to select and save files on their Android devices for offline access then automatically updates once an internet connection is present.

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Facebook Rolls Out New Timeline Apps Platform

Facebook has officially launched its new Timeline Apps platform, a new platform which allows the integration of third-party Open Graph apps into the new Timeline.

The new Timeline Apps platform, which was first announced at last year’s f8 conference, allows news, entertainment and other services to ‘facilitate information sharing’ and lets users enhance their Timeline by integrating the apps into the social network.

A variety of new Timeline apps are now available and can be added into the timeline. Visit the Facebook blog for more info.

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Twitter Introduces Photo Upload Service to Developers

Twitter has just released a new photo upload service, which allows users to attach images directly to the site and utilize Twitter’s photo-sharing and uploading features from their third-party apps. According to the company, they have already introduced the photo upload functionality to developers.

Last Monday, Twitter kicked off its new media upload API, allowing developers to upload images with PNG, JPG, and GIF formats into tweets. The said feature was launched just before Apple’s Twitter-infused iOS 5 update; and perhaps the purpose of this action was to drive the app makers and users into the new photo-sharing option.

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Instagram Reaches 150 Millionth Photo, 7M Users

Instagram seems to hit the limelight at times, as the company recently announced that they’ve already reached 7 million registered users with over 150 million photos being uploaded.

This record was just achieved nine months after the application hit the market. According to sources, the 150 million photos could be broken down into 1.3 million photos uploaded per day or 15 photos posted per second. Instagram CEO and co-founder, Kevin Systrom, even affirmed: “The growth of photos being posted per day is tracking on an exponential curve. It’s the one curve we look at to measure the health of the service and the addiction of the product.”

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Zynga’s “Words With Friends” to Hit Facebook This Week

Earlier reports disclosed that social game’s developer Zynga will be bringing one of its popular mobile games, “Words With Friends”, on Facebook.

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Free iPhone Game Apps from July 17 to July 20

Everyday, new game apps are released for iPhone. While these apps can either be free or comes with a price, All We Like listed some of the free iPhone game apps that was released this week.

See the list of free iPhone game apps that were unleashed this week after the jump.

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Apple Produces 425,000+ Apps, 14 Million iPad Units

The year 2011 has been one of the most remarkable years for the Apple company, as they’ve been able to showcase a total of 425,000 applications and an increasing number of 100,000 iPad apps, elevating from the 90,000 number reported last month. There was also a record of billion applications that were downloaded from the App store every month, and almost 14 million units of iPads being produced for the quarter.

As stated by chief operations officer, Tim Cook, Apple became “the mother of all backlogs” when they released the iPad 2 this spring. The company’s suppliers have been affected by the earthquake that hit and damaged Japan. As the winter quarter opens, the sales of iPad grew to 7.33 million, but it decreased to 4.69 during the first calendar quarter of 2011.

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