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Just before some of you/us hit the road for the summer holiday, it’s a good idea to fill-up your phone with useful apps. There are so many of them, prompting HighTable to compile a list of the most useful ones and nicely present them in an infographic. As you’re about to see, they divided all…
Click A Taxi is now available in the UK and Ireland, allowing users to book a taxi without making a single phone call. The application — which up until this point was available in Denmark, Norway and Sweden — works both in major cities and small towns alike, and is in that sense different than…
SOS Online Backup launched a new version of its Android app for smartphones and tablets. Available as a free download, the application has two primary functions: My Cloud and Protect. The former provides users with access to all of the files in their personal cloud including those from other devices and computers. The Protect tool,…
One thing that has become synonymous with the iPhone is the fact that everyone who owns the handset thinks they’re a photographer. In a gutsy move, a Swedish startup hopes to capitalize on this new wave of mobile phone camera shooters. The company today released an iPhone app called Foap for both the U.S. and…
Splashtop launched version 2 of its popular remote desktop software along with the new “Bridging Cloud” infrastructure, consisting of high performance clusters of secure Internet relay servers that bridge users with their computers and mobile devices all around the world. First thing existing Splashtop iPad users will notice is a redesigned UI, which is (obviously)…
Vic Gundotra announced on stage at Google I/O the release of the Google+ app for Android tablets and the iPad. The design principles of the standard Google+ app for Android smartphones and iPhone are kept with the tablet version. It’s very nicely designed and easy to navigate. Hangouts work as expected and they will look…
Placecast unveiled an interesting solution to mobile payments today called ShopAlerts Wallet. It’s an HTML5 mobile web app that consumers can use to find local offers from various brands, plus process payments and store credit cards, tickets, and other payment information. ShopAlerts Wallet isn’t a direct app that users can navigate too. Instead, Placecast makes…
HipGeo and Rough Guides launched the Rough Guide Trip Lens app for iPad and iPhone, allowing users to transform a collection of individual photos and text into a “creative narrative of travel adventures.” Available as a free download, the application uses location-based technology to pinpoint the user’s location and record their journey as it happens.…
Mobiloans prepared a neat infographic to explain its users (and the wider community) how to completely digitize their finances. Their point is simple – since paying bills is done virtually and direct deposits go right into your checking account, going to a bank is becoming nearly obsolete. Heck, you can do many things with nothing…
Apple released a standalone Podcasts app into the App Store for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad today for junkies who want to separate their listening experience from the rest of iTunes. Users will get full access to Apple’s already extensive library of thousands upon thousands of audio and video podcasts. Rumors about a dedicated Podcasts…