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Samsung updated its ChatON app for Android with several new features, including Olympic buddies, which broadcast daily schedules, medal tables and breaking news. So by subscribed to these virtual buddies you can easily keep up with the latest news from the Olympics without leaving Sammy’s chat client. In addition, there’s the new Walkie-talkie capability, allowing…
Popular navigation app CoPilot Live has been updated with new features to help sports fans find their way around London. Both European and UK versions of the CoPilot Live Premium app help users avoid congestion in central London caused by the temporary Olympic Route Network (ORN). As you may’ve heard, this series of VIP lanes…
According to ABI Research, the world’s smartphone subscribers will download about 36 billion apps in 2012, resulting in almost 37 native apps through the year for the average smartphone subscriber. That’s nearly 6% increase to the 35 apps downloaded per smartphone subscriber on average in 2011. However, the average download count will not increase substantially…
Like it or not, mobile location-based services are on the rise. Small businesses take notice, it doesn’t have to be a big boys’ club. Whether we’re talking about Facebook, Foursquare or some other (smaller) app/service, local businesses can benefit from their use. Here’s how: Claim your store. First thing to do is to claim your…
OneTok is a new service for developers that allows them to easily voice-enable their mobile apps. The cloud-based platform is described as seamless to implement, providing developers with a fast and cost-efficient way to make their apps more accessible. At the moment, OneTok works with Android, BlackBerry 10 and iOS, with Windows Phone 8 support…
Next Issue is, in a nutshell, the Netflix for magazine subscriptions. You sign up for the Next Issue service, download the iPad app, and for a flat monthly fee you have unlimited access to the pretty decently sized magazine selection Next Issue currently offers. It’s that simple. Even though Apple launched Newsstand last year with…
Discovery Channel Canada launched local version of the Discovery Channel app. Available as a free download, the application acts as a companion to the Discovery Channel, allowing viewers to engage via socially-driven, show-related chat environments and to participate in polls, trivia, contests and more. Furthermore, users can also extend and share the “Discovery experience” with…
Just in time for the London Olympics, the same-day hotel booking service/app HotelTonight released its market data to give insight into Android and iOS users’ hotel booking habits. The key finding is that iOS bookers take the lead on spend and speed of booking, while those with Android devices win on spontaneity and length of…
The market for mobile note-taking services is heating up. Currently Evernote is dominating the landscape, with smaller rivals like Springpad and Catch.com fighting to get their own slice of the pie. Pearltrees is a new entrant and it has an interesting concept. Described as a “place to collect, organize and share everything you like on…
Stamped, one of my favorite apps and what I personally named one of the best in 2011, is out with version 2.0 of its app. It’s completely redesigned and reimagined with features that give it new purpose and celebrity users like Justin Bieber, Ellen DeGeneres, and Ryan Seacrest to help reel in some more users.…