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Windows Phone users may find Apple’s Siri service so awesome that makes the default Bing Voice look like an ancient technology. No more, thanks to the new app called Ask Ziggy. Available as a free download, it will understand your question (thanks to the Nuance-powered technology) and assist you in areas such as emailing, texting,…
It looks like many of you got new smartphones for the holidays and that also means many of you were busy downloading apps. According to Flurry Analytics, you were very busy, as smartphone users downloaded more than 1.2 billion apps from Dec. 25 to Jan. 1. This shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise,…
The secret’s out. Frank Warren, head of the PostSecret iPhone app, spontaneously announced on New Years’ Day that he is shutting down the app only three months after it hit the App Store. Unfortunately, the excessive malicious content published in the app led to its downfall. PostSecret was a $1.99 app that enabled iPhone owners…
You can find all of our CES 2012 coverage here. It’s the start of a brand new year and that also means the tech press is gearing up for the annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show next week. It’s going to be a grinding week of new product introductions, struggling to…
We kind of figured it would only be a matter of time before iOS apps came to the Apple TV and a neat hack has brought some full-fledged iPad apps to a large-screen television, according to a report from TG Daily. It’s a super early build and it’s not available to you but as you…
Christmas was awesome for Facebook, with the social network surpassing 300 million mobile users milestone, according to Enders Analysis analyst Benedict Evans. But that’s not all, the Facebook data also suggest that Android overtook Apple in terms of daily usage, although the historic figures still show an iOS dominance. Perhaps more interesting, BlackBerry is still…
You’ve cat to be kitten me right meow! Heh. Take a look at the epic gaming going on in the following video and it’s being accomplished by a cat! This seemingly cute and cuddly feline is playing Fruit Ninja HD on an iPad 2 and it’s playing pretty damn well for a, you know, cat. I used…
Talk about a useful app for the New Year’s Eve – BreathalEYES will use the iPhone’s built-in camera to measure your (or your buddies’) Blood Alcohol Content (BAC). The software looks for the presence of Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus (HGN) in the eye to do its magic, returning accurate results between BAC 0.02%-0.17%. As I don’t…
You know about Swype? You probably love using the popular virtual keyboard – I know I do. But you know what – even though it works like a charm, sometimes I don’t want to type anything on the phone. I would rather say it and let the technology convert my voice into text. Guess what…
After successful launch on the iOS platform, GreatCall — the company that we know for their super easy to use JitterBug phones — is launching the MedCoach app in the Android Market. If you haven’t read our previous post you should know this application is designed to make medication management easy for everyone. Available as…