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Foursquare has just pushed a massive update to its iPhone app and the location-based service now includes the ability to add photos and comments to your location check-ins. The photos for the Foursquare iPhone app comes thanks to a partnership with Instagram, which is the hipster app of choice nowadays for sharing photos. The company…
Best Buy is offering a sweet deal on the iPad for the holidays by throwing in a free MiFi or mobile hotspot from your carrier of choice (excluding T-Mobile). With the bundles, you’ll be getting a Wi-Fi only iPad at its listed price, but the MiFi will get thrown in free with a two-year contract.…
With Verizon Wireless having officially turned on their brand spanking new LTE network, analyst firms are starting to predict just how much money the bleeding edge high speed mobile broadband technology is going to make operators. ABI Research estimates that by 2015 revenues from LTE will exceed $15 billion. That’s a terribly small number compared…
iPhone wielding hipsters rejoice, Instragram just released an update for their popular image sharing application that adds support for 7 languages (Japanese, German, Russian, French, Chinese, Italian, and Spanish), 2 new filters called “Sutro” and “Toaster”, and a “suggested users” feature that pairs you up with people who hang out in the same parts of…
After Symbian and Android, fring is bringing its fringOut service to the iPhone users, allowing them to call for less. This can come pretty handy if you or one of your friends/relatives is stranded at some European airport. In that sense, the company is also launching a neat campaign offering $5 of fringOut credit to…
Cricket Wireless announced a new mobile music service called Muve Music. What’s interesting about it is that it comes included in a wireless rate plan that has been designed specifically for the mobile phone. For just $55 per month, Muve Music customers will get unlimited music, Nationwide Talk, Text, Web and more. The official debut…
Australian firm ASiQ has announced what they’re claiming to be the most expensive application available in Apple’s App Store. The app, called SafeCell, will run you $12,500 and connects your mobile phone to an airplane’s onboard satellite computer via Bluetooth thereby allowing you to make phone calls and transmit data from your device, rather than…
Out of all the things Apple’s iPad can do, it was the promise from Steve Jobs that it would breathe new life into the titans of the magazine and newspaper industry that caused a flurry of applications from institutions ranging from The Financial Times to Vogue to be born. Looking to capitalize on the popularity…
The Economist Group announced the global launch of its quarterly lifestyle and culture magazine Intelligent Life on iPad. Available as a free download (compliments of Credit Suisse), the winter issue of the magazine includes a mini biography of Ralph Fiennes, a comparison of Appleism vs. Googleism and an essay asking why we are turning verbs…
Samsung is launching a special version of its Bada-powered Wave smartphone. The Korean company has teamed up with Germany’s most successful football (soccer) club, FC Bayern Munich, to launch the Wave Bayern Munchen Limited Edition. In addition to the special packaging (pictured above), Samsung has also bundled some Bayern Munich-branded mobile apps and content. Included…