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GetJar, which touts itself as the world’s largest free app store, announced reaching an important milestone for its GetJar Gold program. The company has given away $1 million worth of free “premium apps” to its consumers since launching the program, with downloads of free apps increasing 5000% over the same period. New apps are added…
Evernote has updated its Skitch app with two important features. First, there’s cropping, allowing you to crop any image to be whatever size you like. As with any other action in Skitch, you can either use an existing image or snap a photo right from the application. The second new thing is support for smoother…
Speech technology company Nuance Communications enhanced its developer program, now called NDEV Mobile, which comes with new services that will “make it easier than ever for developers to voice-enable apps with Nuance’s industry-leading speech technology.” The newly restructured program now has three tiers — silver, gold and emerald — to give “more choice and flexibility”…
After about a year of offering a social network for beer check-ins exclusively through a web app, Untappd has finally made the switch over to native apps for iPhone and Android, enabling a bunch of new features. You can now attach pictures to your check-ins, for one. There’s also notifications for whenever someone gives one…
Popular news reader app Pulse will be released in the Windows Marketplace for Mobile this week. As I can’t check this, it may already be there, so you better search for “Pulse” to see whether the app comes up. You probably already know that Pulse is one of the most popular ways to keep up…
Country Music Television (CMT) is going for the Sprint users with a brand new Sprint ID pack, obviously tailored toward fans of the genre. The new CMT ID pack comes with access to CMT apps, widgets and third-party music applications, including: CMT Insider – comes with access to country music’s biggest stars with exclusive videos,…
Quora, a social Q&A service, has finally released its official iPhone app. Quora for iPhone lets users browse their activity feed, view questions, follow questions, vote on answers, add answers and add questions. It also includes a notifications feed, search functionality and the ability to manage your profile and view others. The social Q&A service app, added…
After flirting with unlimited music ID on Android for awhile, Shazam has decided to make the switch permanent, and are now including iPhone in the fun. As a part of the switch, they’re kicking off a contest. For every song you tag using their app until November 15, you have a chance at winning a…
Yesterday, Flickr announced its first Android app, bringing the same photo sharing features users have grown to love. Flickr for Android is available for Android 2.1 or higher devices, and is both a photo browser and a camera alternative app with photo filters — so it not only shares photos, but improves them as well. Android…
I’m a big fan of the Hipmunk service for finding flights and hotels and I’m very happy to see it launch an Android app that offers a similarly beautiful UI as the iOS version but with some added Android-specific features. If you don’t know Hipmunk, it is a visually-pleasing way to search for flights or…