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Following up on its craft and trade update last month, the location-based check-in game for iPhone, MyTown, has just become a little more interesting. Instead of just checking-in to real-world businesses and claiming them as your own in an online game of Monopoly, you can now use your phone’s camera to scan barcodes and check…
This sounds a little too good to be true, but it seems that the upcoming Android 3.0 (Gingerbread) OS has already been seeded to a few testers’ handsets. If this new rumor is to be believed, Google could be gearing up to release the next-generation Gingerbread Android OS update sooner than we previously thought. While…
Citi said it has fixed a privacy bug in its Apple iPhone app but snafus like this could hurt mobile banking’s prospects with the mainstream. The Citi Apple iPhone app had a flaw where the customer’s account information was stored on the device. The bank has updated the app to fix the flaw and reportedly…
The Thumbplay music service has updated their Android app so even if you’re out of wireless coverage to stream music, you can cache particular songs locally on your phone to listen to whenever you want. Thumbplay still syncs up with your desktop and web collection wirelessly, and offers iTunes playlist importing and a music discovery…
It seems like only yesterday that Google Maps got updated for Android handsets, and each update has been bringing handy new features, but it’s being updated again with newer goodies. Last time, on version 4.3, we saw the addition of public transportation schedules, which was a big help for those of us that live in…
It looks like Verizon smartphone customers use more data than their counterparts on AT&T with the Apple iPhone, according to a study by Validas. The report said Verizon smartphone users generally use 421 MB of data per month, compared with 338 MB per month for Apple iPhone users. “The key detail in this study that…
Great news for all you smartphone modders feeling a little anxious about the legal ramifications of jailbreaking your iPhone or rooting your Android phone – the US has just added exceptions to the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) that make it completely legal to hack your smartphone to your heart’s content. Just this Monday morning,…
AT&T is adding a few more cities to its Wi-Fi Hotzone Pilot Project as it continues to bring the joy of wireless Internet to the masses. This means AT&T customers will have plenty of coverage outdoors in certain areas where they just might need it most. The first city was New York City where AT&T…
Flickr’s iPhone app, launched in September, has been updated to version 1.2 so you can upload HD videos taken on the iPhone 4’s 5 megapixel camera, and share posted pictures to Twitter. Additionally, the app takes advantage of iOS 4’s new multitasking abilities, letting you upload stuff in the background while you’re doing something else.…
The latest version of the Apple iPhone operating system is already being used by the majority of users, as Chitika research said 50% of its iPhone ad network traffic is coming from iOS 4. Granted, the data doesn’t speak for the whole Apple iPhone market because it only measures devices which reach Chitika’s ad network,…