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Lonely Planet announced a series of new country guide apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch, including apps covering Italy, Ireland, France, Spain, Australia and Costa Rica. As you can imagine from Lonely Planet apps, each comes with expert content and recommendations as well as detailed maps for the entire country – all of which…
Ice Age Village has been on the market for 10 days and it has been already downloaded more than 5 million times. Moreover, the game took the #1 ranking in the App Store’s Top Free Games category in over 50 countries for iPhone and over 90 countries for iPad; while also joining the App Stores’…
When Stephen Elop, Nokia’s CEO, announced that he was going to bet the farm on Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform, the world stood still for a moment in disbelief. Did he make the right decision? According to Europe’s wireless operators, the answer is no. Four operators were interviewed by Retuers, here’s what one said: “No one…
What happens when you land in a new city and you can’t read any of the posted signs since you don’t understand the local language? For most folks, they stop and ask the locals, but geeks don’t like human contact, so they invent technology to help them solve their issues. Enter Google. Back in February…
A couple of Siri ads surfaced on Monday that feature Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel. Early reports suggest this is a new ad campaign from Apple that’s branded by the US wireless carriers. The Samuel L. Jackson commercial aired during ESPN Sportscenter and features a Verizon Wireless logo at the end, while the Zooey…
WP Central has some good news for Windows Phone gamers. According to their report, seven popular Xbox Live titles are now discounted to 99-cents for the foreseeable future. The list includes high-profile titles like Angry Birds, Burn the Rope, De Blob, Doodle God, IonBallEX, Max and the Magic Marker and Toy Soldiers: Boot Camp. Most of the games dropped in price from…
RIM is finally coming to terms with the reality that BlackBerry is losing ground to iOS and Android. To turn itself around, RIM recently cleaned out its executive leadership and is now looking to hire a financial adviser to help it weigh strategic options going forward, says a Bloomberg report. Hiring a bank to help…
According to 9to5 Mac, some Apple stores are replacing white iPhone 4 handsets with a white iPhone 4S . This isn’t a company-wide replacement policy, but a local phenomenon that’s only happening in select stores which have exhausted their inventory of white iPhone 4 handsets. The iPhone 4S would be a refurbished unit, but that’s still…
We knew that the HTC One X would be landing on AT&T at some point in the near future, but it may be sooner than you think. According to BGR, the highly anticipated handset could land on store shelves as early as next week. When it does become officially available in the US, the One…
Quickoffice updated its iPad app, allowing users to create and edit 2007-2010 Microsoft PowerPoint files. And it’s not just basic things you can edit on your iPad – you can view, create and edit numbered lists in PowerPoint files; select from over 100 shapes in 5 categories and insert into presentations. Moreover, the updated Quickoffice…