CrunchTime is a new app that wants to help iPhone and iPod Touch users achieve their work-life balance goals. You could think of it as a combination of an organizer and check-in service, allowing you to gain achievement badges while tracking work hours, health, vacation hours and more. As a result, users will get a…
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GSMA starts accepting entries for the Brand App Challenge
The GSMA announced that it is now accepting entries for its Brand App Challenge, a competition in which mobile app developers create “brand apps” for a select group of global consumer brands, including Coca-Cola. Winners of the contest will be named at the upcoming GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain and will receive cash…
Australia’s Telstra to start selling Motorola Defy on November 30th
Good news for our readers from Australia looking for some tough Android love. Telstra will launch the Motorola Defy on November 30th, offering it for AU$49 on a two-year contract. Alternatively, those of you (us) who don’t like that type of written commitments can grab the device for AU$600 outright, which is kinda steep in…
Nokia Research Labs experiments with the age old universal inbox idea
These days we all have at least one email account, one Twitter account, we’re also on Facebook, and a myriad of other online services, so wouldn’t it be nice if we could go to just one place on our phone, a universal inbox, to interact with all the flood of notifications we receive? The answer…
Berenstain Bears Digital Book Shares a Powerful Thanksgiving Message
Happy Thanksgiving to all of my American friends and colleagues! As you all sit down with those closest to you to give thanks, you may want to load up a new digital book on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch to share with your youngsters. Oceanhouse Media recently announced the release of ‘The Berenstain Bears…
Apple buys 98 acres of land in Cupertino, roughly doubling their size in the area
Even the most jaded of technology watchers has to admit that the past few years have absolutely been stellar for Apple. Say what you will about their tight vertical integration model, their tyrannical CEO Steve Jobs, and the price of their products, but Apple has found a successful formula for practically printing money and to…
More photos of the upcoming Nexus S running Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) leak
The upcoming Google Nexus S is one of the worst kept secrets in the history of Android devices. Not only was it shown off by Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, at the recent Web 2.0 Summit, but a number of pictures have slowly been trickling out showing us what this handset is capable of.…
Red BlackBerry Torch 9800 Now Available at Bell and Virgin Mobile Canada
If you’ve been looking for a BlackBerry Torch, but the regular ol’ black and white options just aren’t cutting it for you… looks like another option is in the mix. That is, if you happen to live in Canada. Bell and Virgin Mobile have both made a red BlackBerry Torch 9800 available for purchase. Actually,…
Droid Incredible HD coming in January, Motorola Olympus headed to Verizon
The Droid Incredible was such a successful device for Verizon and HTC that most Android fans are probably salivating at the thought of an HD version with LTE. While some rumors put it at the end of this year, which is really unfathomable given Verizon’s LTE rollout plans, perhaps the latest rumor slating it for…
Android Market apps get ratings
Google is exerting more control over its Android Market, as the company will begin showing app ratings. According to the Android developer blog: To prepare for this launch, starting next week, developers submitting new or updated applications will be required to include a rating for all applications and games uploaded onto Android Market. In addition,…