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Fotopedia launched yet another photo-rich application for the iOS-based devices. The new app is all about wildlife, made for families, nature lovers, photographers and/or explorers. You’ll be able to watch as a baby seal hatches, as a polar bear falls asleep, as a wolf hugs the ground while it stalks its prey — each of…
Sometimes you can’t always launch into a full-blown mobile video call, but the latest update to Skype for Android ensures you can still share what’s going on with friends. The 2.6 update to Skype now enables picture- and video-sending over Wi-Fi or 3G. There are some added optimizations for devices running on an NVIDIA Tegra 2 chip,…
Super-popular file manager for Android, ASTRO, has been updated yet again to allow users to customize their experience. In other words, this handy app now supports themes each of which brings differently colored icons. Personally I’m not a big fan of themes — more often than not I keep the default look and feel of…
As part of Apple’s announcement that the Mac App Store reached 100 million downloads in less than a year, a small portion was dedicated to some interesting iOS statistics. The company announced that the iOS App Store has passed 18 billion downloads, a number that manages to make the Mac App Store look deserted. Additionally,…
Nielsen just released some stats on Android app usage over a single month, and you might be surprised to hear that though Google apps dominate the top 10, one outside app has manage to wedge itself into the number two spot. After the Android Market (which is an understandable first destination for smartphone owners), the…
After releasing its app for iPhone and Android smartphones, Expedia.com updated the two applications to make them work on tablets, too. When running on a tablet, Expedia Hotels takes advantage of the extra screen estate, providing more information at glance. Users get to research and book more than 130,000 hotels, via “intuitive design, lush graphics,…
Sky has launched a new mobile application for Android users – Sky Sports Live Football Score Centre. As you can imagine, this handy app is made to serve all your sports information needs, offering live scores, tables, stats, results, plus Sky Sports News Radio for picking up live commentary of proceedings around the leagues. The…
Amazon has recently updated its Kindle app for Android with few important features. Perhaps most notably is the support for PDF documents, allowing users to have a single app for all their reading needs. But wait – it’s not that cool actually. You see, when you read PDF file in the Kindle app, you can’t…
A month ago I told you about Fuugo’s Android app. Now I decided to give it a try and see whether it can actually keep me entertained while on the go. To my surpsise (cause I’m not a big fan of watching video content on a mobile phone) – it’s pretty slick, easy to use…
YouMail has returned to the Android Market after previously being yanked out because of a T-Mobile complaint. While there were some concerns about why it was pulled, it turns out the story is more complicated than maybe YouMail was trying to portray it. Yesterday we reported that the app had been removed because T-Mobile said…