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CyanogenMod, insanely popular for its customized aftermarket firmware for select Android devices, just announced an impressive milestone of 1 million installs (combining both official and unofficial). If you aren’t familiar with hacking or installing custom ROMs then you should know the CM team is the standard. These talented developers are great at finding ways to…
5th Cell, which is the development studio responsible for the wonderfully imaginative Scribblenauts, has released its first exclusive title for iOS called Run Roo Run. The premise behind Run Roo Run is a simple one: You play a mother kangaroo who travels across Australia in order to free her captured Joey. Run Roo Run will…
Verizon made it clear that it plans to equip all of its future smartphones with LTE (including the next generation iPhone ?) as it tries to move more customers off its 3G CDMA network. The largest phone carrier in the United States is putting new LTE requirements in place for all smartphones, hotspot devices, tablets…
TomTom is showing off a preview of version 1.1 of its app for iPhone and iPad at CES 2012. The update will bring a social aspect in to what is normally an individual travel experience. Don’t assume TomTom is trying to snag a piece of the success known as Waze Social GPS. TomTom seems to be…
Huawei announced that its pretty awesome MediaPad tablet will now ship with preloaded Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Moreover, the Chinese company also unveiled new MediaPad color series, which will be available in three colors: shadow black, classic brown and passion pink. What’s strange though is that these differently colored versions will initially be offered…
PriceGrabber launched DealGrabber, a new iOS app dedicated to the local deals category. Available as a free download, the application allows consumers to browse thousands of deals in their area from a variety of local deal websites such as Groupon, LivingSocial, Restaurant.com, Eversave, Gilt City and many more. Instead of sorting through cluttered inboxes filled…
NVIDIA won’t limit its Tegra 3 processor to mobile devices like tablets and smartphones (though we still haven’t seen a single smartphone boasting the company’s quad-core CPU) — they’re going for cars, as well. Audi is the first car company (as far as we know) that will integrate the powerful processor in its vehicles starting…
Sprint is teaming-up with accessibility-focused Android app developer Apps4Android to launch 5 accessibility-themed Sprint ID packs. Available for download next week, these were developed with the support of the U.S. Department of Education’s Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) for Wireless Technologies. The packs include: 1. Accessibility ID Pack Includes applications necessary to operate a smartphone…
Trend Micro struck an agreement with Verizon Wireless to offer its mobile security software through Verizon Apps on select Android devices. Under the deal, Trend Micro Mobile Security Personal Edition will be available for download for such devices as HTC DROID Incredible 2, Motorola DROID X2, CASIO G’zOne Commando, HTC ThunderBolt, LG Revolution and Samsung…
Popular task management service Nozbe updated its Android app. Version 2.0 has been completely rewritten for speed and stability, fixing a number of bugs along the way. Moreover, it comes with a new polished UI that allows you to more easily add actions and browse projects. Overall, you’ll notice how things are improved (for instance,…