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Sky Go coming to select HTC and Samsung Android phones later this month
Sky Go, the Sky TV service that allows users to watch live and archived content while on the go, will get a dedicated Android app later this month. Up until this point, the mobile service was available via browser and as a native iOS app. According Sky, the application will work on a “selection of Android smartphones starting with Samsung Galaxy and HTC handsets,” though we guess pretty much any smartphone running Google’s mobile platform will do the job (but you never know). On the other hand, they may be … Read more
Dusan Belic
Facebook has 425 million mobile users
Facebook filed for the largest IPO in history today and the world’s largest social network revealed some interesting figures in its filings. What really stuck out to us is that Facebook said that half of its users are now mobile, so that means 425 million users poke, comment and share links via a phone. TechCrunch did a great job of digging through the filing to come up with that figure and Facebook itself points out that these numbers are based on its own internal metrics. The Facebook apps may be … Read more
Marin Perez
Mint.com launches an app for Android tablets
After the smartphone version, Mint.com is out with an Android tablet app, allowing its users to more easily manage their money and visualize their spending on interactive graphs. Available as a free download (though with a Mint.com account), the application is touted to deliver a “clear picture of their overall spending by category or by date.” You’ll be able to use Mint.com for Android tablets to: Organize all accounts – a single tap gives you a complete overview of your finances, helping you review account balances while automatically categorizing transactions. … Read more
Dusan Belic
An app provides Amazon affiliates with quick access to earnings reports
Amazon’s affiliates program, Amazon Associates, is one of the most popular such programs on the web, counting some 900,000 users. Some of them must have an iPhone and may like to be able to access their stats and earnings reports while on the go. No problem – they can fire up Safari, login to Amazon’s website and get all the details from there. But there’s also a more elegant solution, involving a native app that provides some additional functionality along the way. The Associate Reports app was not released by … Read more
Dusan Belic
HTC Titan II passes through FCC
While we still don’t have an official release date for the HTC Titan II, the Windows Phone smartphone with a massive 16-megapixel camera just took one step closer to hitting the market by clearing the Federal Communications Commission. First announced at CES 2012, the HTC Titan II was the first official Windows Phone with 4G LTE on AT&T. With a 4.7-inch Super LCD display, 1.5 GHz SnapDragon processor, 16-megapixel camera and all the bells and whistles you’d expect from a device of this class, the Titan II could very well … Read more
Marin Perez
Amazon App Store customers triple quarter over quarter
Amazon just announced its 4th quarter earnings and dropped a few pieces of information pertaining to its growing Android application store. Even if it’s not your go-to Android application portal, Amazon’s App Store is worth having around just for the free app of the day and according to its latest earnings report, its application store is growing faster than ever. Amazon App Store customers tripled quarter over quarter, which is a pretty impressive stat on its own. We can no doubt thank the introduction of the Kindle Fire to be … Read more
Blake Stimac
Waze 3.0 lands on Android with a gorgeous UI
Waze has brought its 3.0 version to Android and this features a much cleaners user interface as well as a few new features. We’ve covered Waze multiple times before because we believe it’s a great way to get free traffic reports on your smartphone. The app and service crowd sources traffic data and it has been delivering a good enough product where more than 12 million users are now on Waze. The Waze 3.0 app for Android brings a minimal UI which focuses on two large buttons on a full … Read more
Marin Perez
Shopkick drove $110 million in revenue for others in 2011
I’ve written a lot about how mobile technology can enhance shopping and shopkick has just released some impressive numbers from 2011: the app and service drove more than $110 million in revenues for retailers and brands last year. If you’re not familiar with shopkick, it rewards users for physically entering stores with virtual points which eventually can be redeemed for physical and virtual goods. The service relies on equipment which is physically installed in stores to interact with the phone via high-frequency signals. While this includes a higher barrier to … Read more
Marin Perez
Rift Mobile launches for Android
Here’s one for all of you partly living in the world of Telara. Now you can keep up with Rift even while you’re not sitting at a computer from — your Android smartphone/tablet will help you out. iOS version is also available in case you care to know… Available now as a free download to anyone with a Rift account, Rift Mobile allows users to chat with their friends and guild, receive Zone Event notifications, and win some great loot. You can chat with friends and guildmates and get push … Read more
Dusan Belic
Q&A social network Formspring launches Android app
After the iOS app, Formspring is going for the Android users. Their new, free to download application, allows you to keep up with your buddies on the Q&A social network, see what other people are asking and respond promptly — all while on the go. Some of the Formspring stats include: iOS app users average 1.5 hour session times iOS is well reviewed with 5 stars in the app store 28 million users total in just over 2 years, with nearly half a million sign-ups in December alone 25 million … Read more
Will Park
New Shazam-enabled shows to air on Syfy, E!, and USA Network
We’ve already talked about Shazam-enabled shows, which allow TV addicts to not only recognize what they’re watching but also to interact with the show. The “world’s leading media discovery company” is now announcing that the entire second season of Being Human on Syfy will renew the integration of Shazam for TV into the hit series. In addition, other popular NBC Universal Cable Entertainment shows, E!’s The Soup and USA’s Psych, will also incorporate Shazam into special episodes airing in the coming weeks. Being Human (Syfy) – The second season of … Read more