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There’s only a couple of weeks left in 2012, so now’s the time to reflect back on the year and round up the highlights. One of my favorite roundups to do every year is to pick out which apps on my iPhone and iPad I used most and that are relatively new. The end of…
Sparking controversy among many of its users like most major policy changes do, Instagram has updated its own with a key stipulation that is frustrating many people: Instagram (mainly Facebook, since Instagram is under Facebook ownership) has the right to license your photos to other companies for any purpose, e.g. advertising. Basically, all Instagram photos…
Google’s Jeff Huber announced today on his Google+ page that the Google Maps app released for iPhone just a few days ago received over 10 million downloads in the first 48 hours of availability in the App Store. “We’re excited for the positive reception of Google Maps for iPhone around the world,” he writes. “Congratulations…
DataMan Pro is an app for iPhone and iPad that allows users to stay on top of their tiered data plan by rigorously tracking how much data they use on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis to avoid those nasty overage fees. I was able to spend some time with it for the past week…
Apple has rounded up its list of the best iPhone apps and games of 2012. Every year Apple posts its list in iTunes, giving its pick for the best app of the year, best game of the year, and runner-ups for each. iPad apps get their own separate list, which we’ll also cover. Best-sellers are…
Grokr is a brand new app that has garnered plenty of attention before it even hit the iOS App Store. Formed from a startup of the same name by founder and former CEO of McAfee Srivats Sampath, it’s what everybody is calling the Google Now of iOS. Its ultimate goal is to learn more about…
A report from advertising and analytics company Chitika that it published today bares sad news for Google and Microsoft. Chitika in the past has released statistics on web traffic for various devices. Now, after closely monitoring Google’s Nexus tablets and the new Microsoft Surface, it has some new data to share: the Nexus tablets and…
The previously announced Samsung Galaxy Camera, an Android-powered touchscreen digital camera with 4G LTE connectivity, is on its way to Verizon Wireless. Though the Galaxy Camera was announced for AT&T’s network in November, its speeds were limited to HSPA+. The Verizon version is the first to ship with 4G LTE. This announcement doesn’t come as…
In an interview with Fortune, Google CEO Larry Page had a few interesting remarks to say about its biggest competitors, Apple and Amazon. He says that the intense competition between the three companies is ultimately harmful to consumers, calling it “a shame.” “All the big technology companies are big because they did something great. I’d…
After much speculation about Microsoft’s plans to bring its Office productivity suite of software to iPhone and iPad, it seems that it has been all but confirmed at this point. Now, even Microsoft has — albeit unintentionally — revealed some information about Office on iOS. On a support page of Microsoft’s French website regarding accessing…