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Path, a small San Francisco based social networking company, has come through with more improvements. Today the company announced version 2.5 of its iPhone and Android app, which is the first major update its released since 2.0 hit in November 2011. This news comes after the app’s recent addition of Nike+ Fuelband integration. Now Path…
GetJar recently shared some new stats pertaining to an application that got on board with the company’s virtual currency program. And just in case that you don’t necessarily believe that virtual currency is the way to go, the company also just announced some very impressive details on the program’s growth in a short amount of time. If…
It’s time for the Olympics and SwiftKey prepared updates for two its most-used language packs, UK English and US English. As a non-sponsor of the big event, they’re not allowed to use the “O” word — their blog post only hints their intention was to update language packs with words that will be used during…
We’ve seen a number of different location-based apps that show content related to your current location, usually pulling information from sites like Wikipedia. The HISTORY Channel doesn’t need third-party sources since it is the content producer itself, thus their new iPhone app, HISTORY Here, shows unique details about historical sites in your vicinity (or some…
Things just continue to get worse for Research in Motion, as another popular app-maker has decided to no longer support BlackBerry OS. The New York Times, you’ve heard of them, right? Well, the wildly popular news publication has decided to not only pull the plug on all future support of its mobile application for BlackBerry,…
Well, what do you know? Apple just updated its troubled Podcast app after being out for only a month or so. This app has been much maligned ever since it first hit the App Store. Users hated many things about it, such as its half-assed designed interface and spotty performance due to so many bugs.…
We’ve already told you about LG’s version of Siri called Q Voice. At the time we were talking about it, it wasn’t available for English speaking users. And while that’s still the case, the situation will change in the first half of 2013. Aside from standard database of correct answers, LG’s software/service also relies on…
CNN-owned personal news reading app Zite announced a new set of publishers joining their publisher program, including: Chicago Tribune, Cult of Mac, Entrepreneur, Hearst Magazines Digital Media, International Business Times, Los Angeles Times, and IDG’s Macworld, PC World and TechHive. These new publishers join the ranks of the publishers named in Zite’s inaugural Publisher Program…
There’s a new iPad app in the Apple AppStore, made to help children with autism communicate and interact with the world around them by allowing parents and therapists to create interactive representations, or scenes, of child’s environment. Jonathan Izak, creator of the AutisMate app, made the application for his 10-year-old brother Oriel, who is on…
Right after Apple released its Q3 2012 earnings today, chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer announced statistics for iOS — including the App Store, iCloud, etc. — in the earnings call. The numbers just keep getting bigger. There are now over 650,000 apps in the App Store, which is up from the 600,000 announced in April.…