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Wikitude, one of the earliest augmented reality apps, has just launched a new product called Wikitude Drive. Well, “new” is a relative term; they’ve actually been working on this product for a couple of years now. Much like its points of interest browser, the Wikitude Drive overlays driving directions on top of a live image…
PopCap and Sony Ericsson have just announced a partnership that will put classic games like Plants vs. Zombies, Peggle, and Chuzzle onto the upcoming Xperia Mini and Mini Pro Android smartphones. This is the first time PopCap’s games have landed on Android devices in Europe, though they’ve been available in the U.S. through Amazon for…
Taking a queue from Shazam’s LyricPlay, music ID service SoundHound has launched a new feature for their iOS app which lets you track a song’s lyrics in real time. Lyrics can be pulled up for songs you’ve identified playing nearby, or anything playing from your personal iTunes library. With LiveLyrics, you’ll be able to jump…
It looks like RIM’s losing more than one team member to Samsung. Ryan Bidan, whom we’ve seen in several official BlackBerry PlayBook demos, is moving on from Research In Motion. He was a senior product manager that handled the BlackBerry PlayBook development. Before that, he handled gaming at Microsoft. While people in the wireless industry…
Has the Green Lantern movie and the upcoming Batman sequel got you thinking about comics? Or maybe you’re an old-school fan, gearing up for the San Diego Comic-Con? Either way, you’ll be happy to hear that DC has released an official comics app for Android powered by the well-established folks at Comixology. Individual issues for…
Following up on some significant updates for Windows Phone and Android, The Foursquare location-based check-in app for BlackBerry has been bumped up to version 3.0. The biggest changes are around user interface, with some new graphical category tabs, new layout for tips, and lots of other small tweaks. There’s also a new discovery engine to…
Okay, to be fair, I’ve only been using the HP TouchPad for a week, so saying I couldn’t live with some of these webOS apps might be a little bit of an overstatement. In fact, I can say with some certainty that I would not spontaneously keel over and die if any one of them…
Earlier today the RIM’s tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook, was updated to OS 1.0.7. It’s not quite as significant as the last update, but there are a few new features, mostly surrounding file attachments. Now files can be saved to your BlackBerry smartphone over Bridge in addition to locally on the tablet. The PlayBook can also…
The BlackBerry Bold 9900 recently passed FCC certification, but that’s not the only RIM device coming down the pipe. The Torch 2 9810 has also made its way through the testing rigamarole, which suggests that it’s one of the multiple devices RIM has promised in the next month.The bands tested line up with AT&T’s HSPA…
Carl Charneski, Administrative Law Judge for the International Trade Commission, has ruled that HTC has stepped on two of Apple’s patents, following a review of a year-long infringement case between the two companies. Apple had originally claimed HTC was infringing on ten of their patents, but even two out of the batch are grounds for…