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Swype, one of the most popular keyboards in the market, today announced its plans of soon releasing a beta release for Ice Cream Sandwich at the end of January. Swype like many other Android apps out there is prepping new updates to accommodate the latest OS to Google’s mobile operating system. Here’s the company’s full tweet below: Good…
It looks like you have a new excuse to get kicked off a plane, as Zynga has released its latest iOS word games, Scramble With Friends. In order to play, you’ll spell words by dragging your finger over letter tiles in a variety of directions, find as many words as you can before the time…
The folks at Box have never been shy about updating its apps and the Android app is getting some major improvements in the 1.5 version. One of the coolest new feature which also takes advantage of the unique value proposition of Android is the ability to get update widgets. This allows you to see which…
India-based Dexetra is teaming-up with Q&A service ChaCha to create a “revolutionary element” to the Siri-like Iris app for Android. As a result, the popular voice-powered Q&A application will now include ChaCha’s vast database of questions and answers, allowing instant responses to inquiries asked by users for free. Moreover, this partnership is touted to allow…
SugarSync, a cloud storage and syncing service that competes with the more familiar Dropbox, updated its apps for iOS and Android today with some new features for media content. The iPhone and iPad get some cool new tools for keeping photos in sync, while Android gets an even more impressive way to sync your videos…
As of yesterday, the iPad has been on the market for 21 months and in that relatively short amount of time, iPad users managed to pass three billion app downloads, according to ABI Research. Apple iPhone users took two years to accomplish such a feat, yet the iPad already accounts for 19 percent of all…
According to app tracking metrics from Distimo, the Android Market may have reached the 400,000 app milestone. This is just one of several milestones recorded for the Market in the past twelve months. About 31 months after it opened for business, the Market reached the 200K mark in April 2011 and then climbed to the 300K…
Vopium updated its Android app as I’m sure every user of the popular VoIP service has already noticed. The reason is simple – the application got a new “streamlined” UI that “improves communications and enhances the user experience” by automatically optimizing itself to match each device’s resolution and screen size. Moreover, the new app also…
Another day, another platform supported by USA TODAY. This time their target is Amazon’s Kindle Fire, which users will now be able to access the magazine’s award-winning content from the comfort of their sofa, couch or wherever they happen to use their tablet. Available as a free download, USA TODAY is sponsored by Volkswagen as…
If you were one of the 7 million people who activated a new smartphone over the holidays, there’s a high likelihood that you downloaded Angry Birds, as Rovio said it had 6.5 million downloads on Christmas day. This included multiple Angry Birds games like Angry Birds Rio, Angry Birds Seasons and the original Angry Birds,…