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Tripadvisor City Guides app gains 30 new offline maps
The travel space is one of the most exciting ones in the app arena and Tripadvisor has just pushed out an update to its City Guides app which makes it an ideal travel companion. Tripadvisor is probably best known as the place you go before you go on vacation but the company told me that it’s trying to push to become more of a tech company instead of just a travel company. A large part of that push is mobile technology and using apps which help you when you’re in … Read more
Marin Perez
Bump app update lets you move photos from phone to computer
Bump, a wildly popular file sharing app for Android and the iPhone, just released an update to its app that will now let users transfer photos from their phones to their computers by just tapping the phone on the space bar. In order for users to share photos, they have to go to the Bump website on their computer, and then tap the phone on the spacebar key to transfer them. There’s only one caveat, in order for this feature to work you have to enable location sharing on your … Read more
Charles West
Facebook Camera app lands on iPhone
Nearly everyone likes to share photos they’ve shot on phones with Facebook but using the experience has always been a bit clunky – that’s why it spent a billion buying Instagram, which makes sharing super simple. The new app Facebook Camera is meant to sove that problem and let you quickly share photos and view your friends’ snaps. Launching on iOS first, the Facebook Camera app is a streamlined experience that’s focused on getting and sharing photos. Instead of launching the Facebook app, waiting for it to load, hitting the … Read more
Marin Perez
IDC: Android dominates the smartphone market
The latest mobile numbers are out from IDC and, not surprisingly, it shows that Android and iOS are the clear leaders in the smartphone battle around the world. Google’s Android had a whopping 59 percent of the market for the first quarter of 2012. The battle between Android and iOS is much tighter in the United States but Android is clearly the leader when you look at the global perspective. Part of the reason for this is that Android has strong penetration in emerging markets like China and India, while … Read more
Marin Perez
RIM turns away from licensing BlackBerry OS or BlackBerry Messenger
We won’t be seeing the popular BlackBerry Messenger service coming to our iOS or Android phones anytime soon, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. While RIM was once heavily considering licensing its Messenger service to other manufacturers as a way to bring in some extra cash, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins has indicated that RIM’s main focus for the next several months will be BlackBerry 10, the operating system RIM hopes will compete with the juggernauts of Android and iOS. RIM’s fall from grace has been very drastic … Read more
Anthony Domanico
NASA launches an updated iPhone app
NASA launched a new version of its iPhone app which comes with several new features and a completely redesigned user interface. The new application adds weather forecasts in the spacecraft sighting opportunities section; maps, information and links to all of the NASA visitor centers; a section about NASA’s programs, as well as the ability to print, save and access favorite items, and bookmark images. Of course, all of the content you used to love in version 1.0 remains on place, including thousands of images, videos on-demand, live streaming of NASA … Read more
Dusan Belic
Apple releases two new Siri commercials starring John Malkovich
Apple is continuing its series of celebrity Siri advertisements with two new commercials from actor John Malkovich. Titled “Life” and “Joke“, the two Malkovich ads are much more offbeat and philosophical than the sing-songy Zooey commercial and the very routine Samuel L. Jackson ad. Apple posted the new Malkovich commercials on its YouTube channel, so you can hop over to YouTube and watch all four celebrity Siri ads or check out the two new Malkovich ones below. [Via 9to5 Mac and YouTube]
Kelly Hodgkins
iPhone thief reveals himself by accidentally sharing photos with owner
Meet Nelson. Nelson seems like a pretty nice guy. He works on the Disney Wonder cruise ship and has a girlfriend and plenty of friends. He also has an iPhone. Oh, but he didn’t buy it. He stole it from passenger Katy McCaffrey. She now knows all about her iPhone thief thanks to the photos he took with the handset and then accidentally shared with her. It’s a quirky little story of an innocent vacationer easily finding her iPhone in the possession of an ignorant thief. Once she started noting the … Read more
George Tinari
Google redesigns search app for iPhone
Google released version 2.0 of the Google Search app for iPhone and iPod touch. With it comes a brand new redesign that may look familiar if you have the iPad app. The app still retains much of its different features and Google services, but when you first launch it with the update, the simple and clean home screen might suggest otherwise. You have the classic Google search bar followed by a row of three icons for Apps, Voice and Goggles. Tapping Apps brings up a grid of Google services and … Read more
George Tinari
Apple tops HP in mobile PC sales
Thanks in large part to its iPad tablet computer, Apple has been crowned the king in mobile PC sales, according to an NPD report. NPD defines mobile PCs as tablet and laptop computers, the latter of which has been completely dominated by Apple’s iPad line of devices. Apple is estimated to have sold a whopping 17.2 million mobile PCs in Q1 2012, approximately 13.6 million of which were iPads. This number is up over 1.5 million from the 12 million Apple reported in their fiscal Q2 2012 earnings report from April. … Read more
Anthony Domanico
IBM blocks Siri over privacy concerns
If you happen to be an IBM’er who owns an iPhone, you will no longer be able to use Siri, at least while in the office. Facing growing privacy concerns pertaining to the “bring your own device (BYOD)” trend, many companies are attempting to figure out ways to ensure private company data is protected. Several mobile services store some of your personal data, be it contact lists or voice search history on your device, leaving certain data ripe for the picking. Siri is a well-known offender, and Apple’s privacy policy openly … Read more