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Amazon just announced its 4th quarter earnings and dropped a few pieces of information pertaining to its growing Android application store. Even if it’s not your go-to Android application portal, Amazon’s App Store is worth having around just for the free app of the day and according to its latest earnings report, its application store…
Waze has brought its 3.0 version to Android and this features a much cleaners user interface as well as a few new features. We’ve covered Waze multiple times before because we believe it’s a great way to get free traffic reports on your smartphone. The app and service crowd sources traffic data and it has…
I’ve written a lot about how mobile technology can enhance shopping and shopkick has just released some impressive numbers from 2011: the app and service drove more than $110 million in revenues for retailers and brands last year. If you’re not familiar with shopkick, it rewards users for physically entering stores with virtual points which…
Here’s one for all of you partly living in the world of Telara. Now you can keep up with Rift even while you’re not sitting at a computer from — your Android smartphone/tablet will help you out. iOS version is also available in case you care to know… Available now as a free download to…
After the iOS app, Formspring is going for the Android users. Their new, free to download application, allows you to keep up with your buddies on the Q&A social network, see what other people are asking and respond promptly — all while on the go. Some of the Formspring stats include: iOS app users average…
We’ve already talked about Shazam-enabled shows, which allow TV addicts to not only recognize what they’re watching but also to interact with the show. The “world’s leading media discovery company” is now announcing that the entire second season of Being Human on Syfy will renew the integration of Shazam for TV into the hit series.…
We all know that the holiday shopping season can be a lot of things: expensive, fun, stressful and others. Whatever you were feeling during the holiday shopping season, there’s a decent chance you were using a cell phone or smartphone during the process, according to new data from Pew Internet. The report found that 52…
With the U.S. presidential election coming up, you’ll likely be hit up by campaigns to donate some money and if the request is coming from the Obama campaign, they may be able to take your credit-card donation via an iPhone, iPad or Android thanks to Square. For those who don’t know, Square is a payment…
Good ol’ BBC has once again updated its Android app, this time focusing on all of you with Android tablets. Yep, the new version of the application sings along Honeycomb devices, offering “simple browsing in landscape and portrait view.” In other words, it [application] now has a new UI for “large tablets” while those of…
If you attended some event in the past few years, you’ve probably heard about Eventbrite. The web-based service helps event organizers manage ticketing and costs nothing for free events. The company has recently launched an iPhone app (the news we missed), and now they’re out with an Android version. As you can imagine, these apps…