Archive for the 'Applications' Category

Motorola DEVOUR Brings MOTOBLUR To Verizon Wireless’ 3G Data Network

Verizon Wireless and Motorola, Inc. today announced the availability of Motorola DEVOUR in March. Motorola DEVOUR will be the first Verizon Wireless phone to feature MOTOBLUR, Motorola’s unique Android-powered content delivery service created to make wireless phones more personal and customizable.

MOTOBLUR is the first solution to sync contacts from [...]

iPhone apps run background checks on your date

In a move that is sure to make playboys everywhere nervous, Internet company PeopleFinders has created two iPhone applications that let users perform background checks on their potential dates.
The apps, known as “Stud or Dud?” and “Are They Really Single?”, utilize data culled from countless public records to give users a more complete [...]

LaterDude, which is free and the premium version LaterDude Pro. With the Pro version, you can also create Email and SMS reminders. Now you’ll never forget to respond to the people who are the most important to you. If you find that you are continuously multi-tasking, or are quite forgetful, you should definitely have a [...]

AT&T and Loopt Are Now Offering Always-On Location Services For Your iPhone

Firstly, this should be noted that this application is not running in the background on your iPhone. It’s a server-to-server agreement between AT&T and Loopt, so that you can always have location-based services working, and so people always know where you are. If you’re into that kind of thing, then this is the application for [...]

Vonage is coming to iPhone sometime this week

Vonage submitted its iPhone app to the store to go thru the approval process.  One short week later, they say they are approved.
Vonage is the second big VoIP company (almost 3 million US subscribers) to have an iPhone and iPod touch application.  Skype, which Ebay sold today to private investors for $2 Billion, was the [...]

Yelp updates App and brings Augmented Reality to US

Social review service Yelp has snuck the first Augmented Reality (AR) iPhone app specifically for the US into the iTunes App Store. The undisclosed new feature allows iPhone 3Gs owners to shake their phones three times to turn on a view called “the Monocle.” This view uses the phone’s GPS and compass to display markers [...]

Qik update hits the App Store – will stream live over 3G

When Qik hit the iTunes App Store a few weeks back cries of outrage rang out at the fact that it was limited to live streaming on Wifi only. but now there is a update availabe in the App Store for Qik which will allow live streaming over 3G

I am very happy about this since [...]

Microsoft tells WinMo devs they’re worth more than 99 cents

iPhone developers, the App Store’s overheated competition and bloated inventory have led to scorched-earth pricing that makes it virtually impossible to parlay mobile development into a valid for-profit business model without turning to subscriptions or in-app advertising. RIM’s tried to nip that behavior in the bud by capping the minimum sale price at $2.99, and it sounds [...]

Slingmedia working on slingplayer for iPhone coming soon!

Sling has gone and submitted version 1.1 of their popular SlingPlayer for iPhone application to Apple. New in this version include true 16×9 wide-screen support, improved remote control interface, faster speeds all around including channel changing, initial connection, remote control response.
While unfortunately there’s no 3G support in here, SlingMedia did let us know that they’ve [...]

ShoZu Announces New Custom Edition Client for BlackBerry

ShoZu Ltd., the award-winning social media hub, is poised to enhance social networking on BlackBerry® smartphones with the introduction of a new, highly integrated client, available on BlackBerry App World™. The new ShoZu client takes the ShoZu service on BlackBerry smartphones to a higher level of functionality [...]