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Be on the lookout, pig-crushing Android enthusiasts. The latest game from Rovio, Angry Birds Space, already has a fake counterpart in Google Play that downloads malware to your handset in the background. The fake version is actually a functioning game of Angry Birds Space. However, security company Sophos identified a Trojan horse within the app…
Even IRS has its mobile app to help citizens pay their dues more easily. The cartoon, which is a part of CA Technologies’ Chief & Chuck series, was penned by nationally renowned cartoonist Dave Blazek. As you can see from the image above, it doesn’t take a single tap on your behalf to use this…
Booking.com is launching what it says is the world’s first global last-minute hotel app for iPhone. In comparison, Hotel Tonight and Hotel Negotiator are focused on the U.S. market only, while Booking.com also covers other markets, including London, Hong Kong and Dubai. The application is expectedly very easy to use. One tap retrieves all the…
drinklobby is a new mobile app for iOS users, allowing them to explore the world of beverages, while also serving as a drinks recommendation engine and social network. The application also comes with the wish list capability, ability to “Check In” with a drink and photo, and see what other people are drinking through Drinks…
Google Currents is no longer a U.S.-only app and now everyone who has access to the Apple AppStore or Google Play can get it and enjoy news and magazines in a whole new way. Alongside this international rollout, Google also made sure there are local partners on board, including such publications as The Guardian in…
Springpad, which we know as Evernote’s arch-rival, is now in version 3.0, promising to make it even easier to share, discover and “act” on notes “with the help of those you trust.” The main new thing of this release is the ability to make sense of the real-time web services — Springpad 3.0 is touted…
Canada’s most read (and free) national daily newspaper Metro launched its Android and iOS apps, along with a new website and a $5-million national ad campaign. At the same time, the magazine expanded to 6 additional cities across the country and now covers 15 markets. Readers obviously liked the apps, with Metro News taking the…
Although we haven’t talked about BiteHunter when it was initially released, we decided to give it some space now that it’s in version 2.0. The real-time search engine for dining deals does just that – allows you to see where you can get best bang for the buck for a launch, dinner, brunch or whatever.…
Allrecipes.com updated its popular Dinner Spinner and Dinner Spinner Pro apps, adding a very cool feature to the mix – Grocery Scanner. As you can imagine, it allows you to use your smartphone’s camera (whether it’s an iPhone or some Android-based device) to add some grocery to the shopping list or to see recipes containing…
Jon Stewart of The Daily Show is poking fun at the latest technology news once more. This time, he’s left quite confused over why Google Glasses is beneficial and why Facebook would ever spend $1 billion on something as stupid as Instagram. First talking about Google’s Glasses technology, he initially seems enthusiastic that “the Google…