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Evernote has once again updated its Android app with new features. The first thing included in version 3.3 is the full-featured notebook sharing. You can now share your notebooks right from your smartphone or tablet. To do that, go to the notebook list, then tap and hold a notebook, select “Sharing Settings” from the list…
HotelTonight, the mobile app/service that provides iPhone and Android users with deeply discounted same-day hotel deals, raised $9 million in Series B round of financing. The new money comes on the heels of the Series A round, when the company managed to raise $3.25. Battery Ventures led the round while existing investors, Accel Partners and…
The Motorola Droid RAZR is impossibly thin, measuring just 7.1 mm at its thinnest point, but it’s now officially considered obese thanks to the 6.7 mm thin Fujitsu Arrows F-07D. The Arrows will probably never leave Japan, which is a shame, but at least it demonstrates that building thin smartphones isn’t exactly impossible. Spec wise,…
It seems like every day we’re seeing a new mobile music service hitting the streets, so how can a company like SoundCloud stand out from the crowd? According to SoundCloud CEO Alexander Ljung, the company is going to be successful by focusing on being the social platform for sounds on the web. “In regular life,…
Here we go again. Reports from AllThingsD suggest that the world’s largest social network is working with HTC to build, develop and release a Facebook phone and the project, code-named “Buffy,” is being spearheaded by Facebook CTO Bret Taylor. The details are actually pretty sparse but AllThingsD is promising that it will have a full…
The CTIA and ESRB announced that they will be introducing a ratings systems for mobile apps and this will be revealed near the end of the month. We’ll learn more about what this entails when the ratings system is unveiled Nov. 29 but it will be interesting to see what this will require. For those…
The ifixit team has taken its screwdrivers to the new Nook Tablet and have done what they do best: Tearing gadgets apart. The Nook Tablet is one nice piece of kit that may not be selling as well as the Kindle Fire but both tablets have quite a bit in common. The Nook Tablet was…
Oh no. It appears some people from across the Atlantic are reporting a bug that makes the volume on their Galaxy Nexus phones move up and down on its own. This problem is hampering many users who’ve purchased the phone on the U.K. wireless carrier called O2 and unfortunately, the company has no answers when it…
The Charlie Brown Christmas app is getting a lot of attention from folks looking for some fun Christmas apps this year. It turns the classic TV special from 1965 into an interactive experience on iPhones, iPads, and Android devices everywhere. The app acts as a digital pop-up book in which you can flip through pages…
Over the weekend, Pantech announced its latest Android handset and the Pocket is headed to AT&T with a 4-inch touchscreen display with an old school 4:3 ratio aspect, which the company claims it will give users a 20 percent larger viewing area compared to other devices. Other features include a 5MP camera with HD video recording capabilities, Bluetooth,…