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Toyota Motor Sales wants to ride the emerging augmented reality wave and is using junaio’s technology to beef-up its mobile apps for iPhone and Android devices. The sales arm of the giant car maker is also relying on Japanese virtual pop-star Hatsune Miku to get some love for its work. The end result is Miku…
Let’s face it – most people flock to the Android Market, prompting third-party app stores to innovate to attract users. Amazon knows this and as part of the marketing strategy for its Appstore, it is running a neat campaign, offering users a $2 Appstore credit in exchange for a single tweet. In order to take…
Not too long ago we wrote about Gowalla going in a whole new direction, with its well-established check-in app to be dramatically changed for both iOS and Android smartphones. Well, that time has finally come, as the update has just rolled out to all handsets. The new update goes beyond just the usual check-in process; instead it…
While it’s hardly as interesting as Timeline, Mr. Zuckerberg announced at F8 the introduction of verbs when it comes to updating your status. The new feature sure doesn’t sound all that much but it may be perking up the ears of the creators of apps like Miso and GetGlue. GetGlue and Miso are popular applications…
At the F8 conference today, Facebook announced a new feature for its online social network, both on the web and on mobile. Timeline now puts your personal history on Facebook into a lengthy, graphically-rich interface. You can highlight major events, drill down into smaller events, and filter what’s shown so you only see one kind of…
The controversial yet awesome lookin’ Beautiful Widgets app is now available for free through recently launched GetJar Gold (which offers paid apps for free). The application that is usually available for about 3 bucks comes with really fancy (HTC Sense-like) clock widget, clock and weather widget, weather widgets, date widgets and toggle widgets with skins/themes…
Provider of mobile and location-based family safety solutions Location Labs launched Safely, touting it as the next generation of personal security software services that “enhance the safety of millions.” The new offering is actually a suite of services that leverages the widespread adoption of Location Labs’ mobile technology, which is being pre-loaded on millions of…
Remember those days when Kazaa helped searched for your favorite artist through its file sharing site? Well, the most popular peer to peer music piracy service just announced its brand new iPhone app. If you’re a musician out there, need not worry, because this app is far from what Kazaa used to represent. There isn’t any stealing going…
Adobe announced Flash Player 11 and AIR 3, both of which will be publicly available in early October. The new versions are made to enable the “next generation of immersive apps across platforms including Android, iOS (via AIR), BlackBerry Tablet OS, Mac OS, Windows, connected TVs and other platforms.” Among the new features included, we…
If end users can have their app stores, why wouldn’t developers get the same treatment? Appcelerator thinks this is the untapped market and has decided to do something about it. They used the CODESTRONG Developer Conference to launch its Open Mobile Marketplace, allowing ISVs and cloud providers to sell software and solutions across multiple mobile…