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Windows Phone is set to receive another official app in its Marketplace. The Times, a wildly popular United Kingdom publication, has just made its official application live today. Not only is the application’s design nice, it will treat users to free content from the daily paper and the Sunday Times for free (if you have…
Gmail just updated its app for Android with a few more enhancements to all devices rocking Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) and up. In version 4.1.2, users can expect added support for 7-inch tablets along with the usual bug fixes and performance improvements. From what we’ve noticed, these changes aren’t cosmetic when it comes to…
Nokia launched a new Windows Phone app, which again is exclusive to Lumia smartphone owners. It’s Weather Channel (or simply “Weather”) and it’s readily available from the Windows Phone Marketplace. Aside from standard features all such apps have, this one also includes few extra bells and whistles, like: Augmented reality view that shows weather photos…
Google Wallet just received a major update to include a feature that was preventing so many people from signing up for a long time: support for all major credit cards. Wallet users can now link their Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express cards to their Google Wallet account to easily pay from those sources. Previously,…
Apple has been making some media-centric moves lately, beefing up its content offerings for its products. Yesterday, the tech giant added Hulu Plus to its list of channels for its Apple TV set-top-box, and today, the mega company has Amazon’s Instant Video Store in the App Store for iPad. The app not only offers Prime…
The latest Distimo Report looks at Apple’s App Store, four years after it was unveiled alongside iOS 2.0 (then iPhone OS). At launch, it had only 500 applications and today it counts more than 650,000 titles. Here are the highlights from the report: Due to emerging competition, the number of downloads among the top 200…
GPS navigation app/service provider Navitel, which is the leading navigation company in CIS countries, released 7 new maps of Eastern European countries, including Greece, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, as well as map updates of Eastern Europe. In addition, they also updated maps for 15 countries of Europe and Asia, including…
Amtrak has something special for those out there who always commute back and forth from work everyday. The commuter service is launching its new eTicket program, which allows passengers to board trains nationwide without an annoying paper ticket — a cool concept that has gone live as of July 30. Now this should come to…
Yahoo updated the IntoNow app for iPhone and iPad to version 3.0 and with it comes a generous amount new features that presumably aim to ramp up user engagement within the app. The one that people are probably going to have the most fun with is CapIt, which is essentially a meme generator. Once IntoNow…
The general election is coming folks, and both candidates are doing everything possible to stake claim to your vote. President Barack Obama has launched his official mobile application for iOS in his reelection bid. The mobile app packs election information, grassroots organizational tools, campaign news and more. From what we’ve gathered, the “Obama for America”…