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Chicago’s more than one million weekly train passengers can shop for groceries while commuting to work. Peapod is behind this project / ad campaign that involved placing a virtual grocery store in the city’s State and Lake Station Tunnel. Tunnel walls are wrapped with larger-than-life ads of grocery shelves, stocked with popular products and household…
Avantar proudly announced that its Yellow Pages is the first business directory app to offer free turn-by-turn voice GPS navigation on the iPhone. Sure, you can get the same capability with some other app, but this apparently is the first time you’ll get both local business information and navigation in one app. Moreover, Avantar also…
Banjo has updated its iOS app to make it even easier to keep up with your friends, expand your networks and beef up your privacy within the Banjo community. Here’s what’s new: By popular request, a new feature has been added showing a map view of your friends around the world. You can access this…
LG has recently said that they’re going to focus on Android and that they have no Windows Phones in the pipeline. They didn’t say they’ll abandon Microsoft’s platform altogether, but just read between the lines. According to FierceWireless, who interviewed Chris Weber, Nokia’s President for the Americas, LG’s decision isn’t necessarily a bad thing. He…
Clear Channel Media and Entertainment released an update to its popular iHeartRadio for iPad, featuring a completely refreshed design with new functionality. Available as a free download, the application now includes the following features: Custom Stations – allowing users to create their own personalized stations by simply entering an artist or song, and iHeartRadio will…
Telefónica, better known as O2 in the UK, has just launched an iOS application called “TU Me”. If you know what Skype does, then you know what TU Me does. It has free voice over IP calling, it has instant messaging, photo sharing, and you’ll even be able to share your location. The catch? It…
We just spent some time with the Samsung Galaxy S III here at CTIA in New Orleans and wanted to share some hands on pictures (and soon to be video) with our readers. Here are just a few short initial impression. From the little time we had with the device, we walked away pretty impressed,…
Nokia is partnering with several big-name developers to release their apps exclusively for Nokia’s Lumia handsets. The smartphone maker is partnering with ESPN to launch the ESPN Hub and an ESPN Fantasy Football app, only on the Lumia. The Hub app, an exclusive until May 2013, will feature sports scores as well as coverage of…
If want to save some money on an HTC One X, look no further than Amazon. The online retailer is offering the One X for $149, which is $50 less expensive than carrier AT&T. You might have to wait 8 to 9 days for the handset to arrive, but it’s worth the wait. Even if…
The battle continues between Proview and Apple over who owns the iPad name in China. Proview Technologies, a now defunct maker of computer displays who still exists as a subsidiary of Proview International Holdings, Ltd, claims ownership of the trademark, a fact seemingly confirmed by a lower court ruling in a Chinese court. A higher…