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We’ve all heard about sexting and how children should be protected against that. Really it’s not easy to do that while not impeding on their privacy. Enter Protext Mobility, which AmberWatch Safetext made to do just that. What’s more, the application/service goes beyond sexting, helping parents protect their children from other potentially dangerous mobile activities…
Google Goggles, the application that uses pictures to search the web received an update and its new version 1.6 enhances the camera on your Android-powered phone. This is the first significant update since its addition of personal notes a few months back. The 1.6 update promises to make your smartphone’s camera “smarter” with this new opt-in feature…
It’s been almost two weeks since Halbrick released their latest game, Jetpack Joyride, onto the iOS and I absolutely CANNOT stop playing it. It’s not because I have no other games to play, because I have a ton of games I need to be playing. There’s just something about it that makes it completely addictive…
A study conducted by Nielsen showed the top 20 Android apps by gender, and to nobody’s surprise Facebook, Google Maps and Gmail were the most used among U.S. owners 18 years and older (if you don’t count the Android Market app itself). In order for Nielsen to establish the “active reach” of each app, the…
Good news for the Verizon Wireless customers as the carrier announced a deal with Chomp to provide an integrated search function for apps in the newly redesigned Verizon Apps. As a result, users should expect to get much better results, even on queries that has nothing to do with the app’s name — Chomp’s proprietary…
Some people call Angry Birds the Mario of our generation. Unlike Nintendo however, the folks at Rovio don’t have multiple franchises that they can reboot every few years to milk money from their rabid fan base. It’s odd because the Angry Birds game, which first launched in December 2009, hasn’t changed in the slightest bit.…
Formspring has released its official iPhone and iPod touch app into the App Atore. We knew it was coming eventually, it was just the matter of when, but now it’s here, we’re glad to see that it’s looking good. Everything you’d expect in a mobile version of Formspring is in this app. It has ask…
Posterous is updating its iPhone and Android apps today with support for a new creation called Spaces. In a nutshell, it’s exactly like Circles in Google+. Essentially, you can group all of your friends and family on Posterous into different groups (or “spaces”) so you can control who sees specific content you post. Now you…
Dolphin Browser is no longer an iPhone app only – the new HD version has been released, providing iPad users with better web surfing experience. Obviously, the new application takes advantage of the big screen Apple’s tablet rocks, while keeping its core functions like webzine RSS feeds, sidebar and gesture-based browsing. In addition, Dolphin also…
About 10 days ago we told you about the AT&T DriveMode, the carrier’s mobile app that makes sure drivers keep their hands behind the wheel. Now Sprint has launched a similar offering, which too starts to work when the phone detects any kind of movement faster than 10 M.P.H. Once started, user can only access…