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Target will be kicking the tires with check-in rewards for smartphone users, as the retail giant will be piloting the Shopkick Apple iPhone app in 242 of its stores in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York City and San Francisco. We’ve covered the Apple iPhone app Shopkick before when it debuted in some…
When the iPhone 4 was first announced, we caught a glimpse of the internals and it was pretty clear that Apple made way for a new, larger battery. Many were skeptical about the claimed call times, music and video playback times and web browsing that can be done on the new device. Given the iPhone’s…
It’s been a long time coming, but you can now get the official Google Voice app for the Apple iPhone. This isn’t a major surprise because third-party apps were let back in the App Store a few months ago, but this official version is free and it has support for the iOS 3.1 and above…
Google Goggles has just launched an initiative with a few partners, including T-Mobile, Buick, Disney, Diageo (parent company to Guiness, Smirnoff, Captain Morgan, and other brands) and Delta Airlines. Basically, those companies are making their print ads recognizable to Google Goggles so that when someone takes a picture with the Android or iPhone app for…
In a perfect world there would be no need to code the same application to run on multiple platforms. Developers could spend their time and energy towards building new features, or make the features their application already have easier to discover. Sadly, that’s never going to happen. It was supposed to with HTML5, but it’s…
For many (including myself), the Street Fighter series by Capcom is an iconic one… a series that draws back many fond memories of sitting in front of the old tube TV, thrashing away as the classic NES, and Super NES controllers. Some would consider the time spent playing these games as time wasted… For me,…
A popular visual news reading app, Pulse, just went free for Android and iPhone. It used to be priced between $1 and $4, but apparently they’re hoping to make their money through paid publisher partnerships. All of the standard features of a news reader are there – syncing feeds from Google Reader, searching for keywords,…
Tim Ferriss, the dude who wrote The 4-Hour Work Week in 2007, is releasing another book called The 4-Hour Body, where he’s offering a bunch suggestions for improving your body in simple, timely, and unusual ways. Ferriss tried each and every solution himself and provides his anecdotal experience. Mobile check-in app GetGlue has partnered up…
Last week, LEGO released its Creationary app for the iPhone, but that isn’t the only LEGO app to hit the iOS platform. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has announced it will be bringing its popular LEGO PC and console franchise to iOS soon with LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4. If you’ve never played a LEGO title…
Firemint’s Real Racing is one of those games that just needs to be downloaded on every iPhone gamer’s device. The graphics are slick (especially on the iPhone 4’s Retina Display), controls are tight, and the amount of game you get for your dollar makes it an easy recommendation for any racing fan. Firemint knows they…