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CNBC has just launched a BlackBerry app for you financial types to monitor worldwide stocks, bonds, ETFs, mutual funds and lots more while on the move. Real-time market data is provided in full graphs showing historical data, and come with added analysis from recent and archived CNBC video clips. There’s also news alerts tailored to…
We all have those little things when we speak which makes it difficult for speech recognition to fully work – it could be a slight Southern drawl, a bit of a lisp or just unique pronunciations. That’s why Google is adding the ability to personalize your Voice Search app for Android. According to the Google…
No stranger to the mobile space, Visa has released an Apple iPhone app which includes the ability for merchants to offer location-based deals. The Visa Mobile iPhone app will offer discounts and other location-based deals from more than 50 merchants. The merchant will be able to tailor the offer for their customers and this actually…
It’s the year of Angry Birds, undoubtedly, and Rovio has made a killing with the mobile game as the it has been downloaded tens of millions of times. Additionally, cartoons, parody videos, toys and other types of merchandise have arisen from the birds-versus-swine game. And if you didn’t think the Angry Birds train was getting…
CNN has released a new Apple iPad app and the news program is actually a pretty cool way to get your news in a visually-appealing way. The CNN iPad app aims to give you a visually-appealing, immersive take on the news. The program gives you three ways to view the content – broadsheet, list view…
The U.S. Army is making some pretty solid progress towards making a smartphone a part of the military lifestyle, it seems. Starting January, iPhones will be rolled out with Common Access Card readers to provide security services to military personnel, with Android smartphones following-up in April. Coverage in the field shouldn’t be a problem with…
BlackBerry Tour 9630 Owners, it’s OS update time… and the best kind of update, the official kind! Sprint has just released OS 5.0.0.1030 for the device, and it’s ready for download. You can grab your copy via the link below: Download OS 5.0.0.1030 for BlackBerry Tour 9630 from Sprint > As always, be sure to…
The feud between Google and Apple over Google Voice appears to be over, as the app has been approved for the iPhone already and it now supports the iPod touch and the iPad. That’s right, Google is now turning your other iOS devices into free text-messaging machines. While the iPod touch and iPad can’t make…
The Android and iPhone war still rages on, but some new stats put an interesting spin on just where the two are headed in terms of overall mobile OS and device share. It’s no surprise that Android is gaining quick ground in the smartphone space. Every single carrier carries one or more Android smartphones and…
iPhones and Beer. Beer and iPhones. Chances are most (or at least some!) iOS-toting folks like yourself enjoy a good frosty beer every once and awhile. I know I do… That said, enjoying that next beer is now a little bit easier if you pack an iPhone 4. The folks at iBottleOpener have just let…