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Well, at least we know the Yelp team follows politics, as the latest iPhone app update includes a little joke at the expense of Rick Perry, who is vying to be the Republican presidential nominee and had a cringe-worthy moment during last night’s debate. Perry, who has been struggling in previous debates, had a brain…
We’re fans of the Taptu app for getting your news, so it’s nice to hear that it will be bringing out three new apps for the just-announced Nook Tablet and the Nook Color. The Taptu Fashion, Taput Food and Taptu Lifestyle apps will bring customized news aggregation experiences to the Barnes & Noble tablets, pulling…
Finnish company Axel Technologies has obviously been busy in its Labs, and has cooked up some cool new TV and video applications for consumers to use: Fuugo Video 1.0, which is available as a free download from the Android Market and fuugo.tv, aggregates various content services, such as Break.com and YouTube, making it easy to…
Google has announced that they’re ceasing support for their dedicated BlackBerry Gmail app in favour of working on working on their web apps. While you’ll still be able to use the app if you’ve already got it installed, it won’t be available for download after November 22. It might be easy to cast this as…
We told you PayPal is working to add P2P (peer-to-peer) NFC capabilities to its mobile apps and voila – the new Android version is here, enabling mobile money transfers without bumping (though that method still works). Of course, you’ll need an NFC-enabled device like the Google Nexus S or the upcoming Galaxy Nexus in order…
Shazam is teaming-up with Delivery Agent to allow its users not only to identify TV shows they’re watching, but also to purchase products related to the Shazam-enabled show directly from their Apple iOS or Android mobile devices. As a result, users who “Shazam the show” will be presented with the TV show-specific storefront operated and…
Charlie Miller cleverly identified a unique security flaw in iOS recently and it cost him his membership to the iOS Developer Program. Miller is an iOS security researcher and he created an app called InstaStock and submitted it into the App Store in September. On the surface, it allowed users to track their stocks, but…
From time to time, I like to spotlight apps that I’m digging lately but the truth is, I’ll generally stop using them after a week or so unless it has something really valuable to offer. I do have a core set of apps that I use every single day and these are the ones that…
The world’s largest social network has acquired the mobile app developer Strobe and this should lead to an even stronger HTML5 Facebook experience on your mobile devices. According to GigaOm, Strobe focuses on getting mobile apps built with HTML5 and the Stobe team (one guy, essentially) confirmed the deal on its blog and laid out…
T-Mobile is teaming-up with Yelp to preload their mobile app on select Android smartphones, including the Samsung Exhibit II 4G, T-Mobile myTouch and T-Mobile myTouch Q. But that’s not all, T-Mobile customers get a customized version of the application that comes with some additional features like advanced filters that make searching for a business easier…