In case you are wondering, the title of this post is a rather average attempt at a pun on Fedde le Grand’s most well known hit to-date, ‘Put your hands up’ – however, the app that he has released for the iPhone is far from average – it’s actually rather good indeed! And like the…
CoPilot Live v8 iPhone app adds new connected features
Wow! What is it with GPS/Sat Nav news today?! First of all we had Sygic announcing info about their new app (see here), and now it’s CoPilots turn! ALK Technologies has announced that the latest version of its best-selling CoPilot Live satellite navigation iPhone app has been approved by Apple and is available immediately for download…
Citysearch update iPhone application
Citysearch has just contacted us to let us know they’ve updated their iPhone application, and it’s available from today: We’ve updated our iPhone app! Now local searching on the go is even easier, and with enhanced performance and stability. Our listing information is now organized into tabs and with bold icons to facilitate smoother browsing.…
Nuance unveils medical dictation apps and an SDK at the HIMSS conference
Nuance is using the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Atlanta to talk about its medical mobile technologies, based on the Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice-to-text software. The company unveiled a series of apps for smartphone-equipped doctors, nurses and other health care professionals. The so called Dragon Medical Mobile suite consists of several applications:…
Verizon makes phone calls to Chile free after earthquake
When a natural disaster strikes, the first thing most people do is to try to get in touch with friends and family in the affected region. When Haiti was hit by their earthquake, we saw a handful of companies doing their part by facilitating ways to communicate with Haiti for free. Today, Verizon is doing…
Twitter Scam Alert: New Phishing DMs Hit Twitter
The thing about Twitter is that you inherently trust the network of people that you follow. You likely had to explicitly decide to follow someone, so the thinking goes that you know them at least casually. That’s the angle that hackers have recently and continue to exploit. A new Twitter phishing scam has just started…
Windows Phone 7 Series not coming to Windows Mobile phones, not even HTC HD2(?)
Sorry, HTC HD2 owners, we’ve got some bad news for you all. Microsoft has confirmed that their Windows Phone 7 Series “3 chassis” guidelines will essentially prevent most, if not all, currently available Windows Phones from getting an upgrade to WP7 when it launches later this year. That means all those Windows Mobile 6.1 and…
Medialets Analytics SDK now ready to give devs app-tracking metrics on BlackBerry and Android
There’s no doubt that Apple has enjoyed the iPhone AppStore’s meteoric rise as the world’s single largest mobile applications store, but there’s more to the mobile world than just the iPhone. The Android platform has been gaining some serious traction recently, and BlackBerry has seen its mark share growing steadily over the past couple years.…
App Smear brings STDs into AppStore (while bikinis remain banned)
We say the best way to start a new week is to poke fun at Apple’s apparently contradictory stance on “explicit” iPhone apps in the AppStore. The best way to do that is to show you a new iPhone app, called “App Smear” (like “Pap Smear,” get it?), that jokingly analyzes your “P” or your…
WIND Launches Ottawa Network, Still no Stores
Canada’s newest carrier, WIND Mobile, has extended their reach to the nation’s capital, Ottawa – the home town of yours truly. Coverage extends as far north as Buckingham, Orleans in the east, and Kanata in the west. It’s conspicuous that WIND doesn’t mention anything about the southern limit, but taking a look at the WIND…