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Don’t be surprised if you see Waze on your big-screen TV soon, as the social traffic app has announced a partnership with 12 television stations to assist in real-time TV traffic reporting. In many ways, the partnership is a match made in heaven. Waze has over 9 million users who are reporting real-time traffic information…
The Zite app is coming to the iPhone and this social-news reader is facing an increasingly-crowded landscape. The Zite app, which is now owned by CNN, had previously been on the iPad and it provided a personalized news-reading experience with all the social and touch integration that you’d expect. You can have it pipe in…
Starbucks is killing it with mobile payments. The coffee chain can’t and don’t want to wait for the promises of NFC-based contactless payments and is using its own mobile app instead to make things happen. And its customers obviously love the idea, with some 26 million transactions conducted since the service launched nearly a year…
The YouMail app for Android has been removed from the Android Market after a complaint from T-Mobile was sent to Google, YouMail says. This could set a bad precedent for the Android Market. YouMail is a visual voicemail app to easily browse through, listen to, and even read voicemail messages. It recently passed three million…
We’re fans of the real-time opinion app Opinionaided but it will be going away. Well, at least the name will be going away as the company, as it will now be known simply as Thumb. You can go to Thumb-it.com to check out the rebranded company and app (don’t go to Thumb.com unless you like…
Apple posted its annual App Store Rewind, highlighting its picks for the best apps and games of the year, and at the top of the list for 2011 is the photo-sharing app Instagram. It’s been quite a wild ride for Instagram. The iPhone app of the year is a wildly popular photo-sharing application with great…
Amazon is running a promotion which will give you an additional 5 percent discount when you use the Price Check app to compare prices in stores and not surprisingly, the retailers aren’t happy with this. In a statement sent to GeekWire, the Retailer Association said that Amazon is already playing dirty and this additional promotion…
RIM’s RSS reader app for the BlackBerry PlayBook has had a tiny update to now let you haul in your news feeds from Google Reader. The update to BlackBerry News for the PlayBook will also let you manuall mark stories as read or unread, delete stories, as well as drill down into detailed information about…
If you signed up for the Box iOS app to get that free 50 GB of storage, you should be on the lookout for an update today because it will make your cloud-storage app better to use. According to the company, the new iOS app for iPhone and iPad includes: Video and Photo Upload: We’ve…
Amazon continues its assault on mobile, as it is now bringing its student app to Android and this will enable kids to potentially save on those pricey textbooks. The aptly named Amazon Student app will enable students to price-check textbooks by scanning the barcode and you’ll be able to buy it with one click. Using…