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Vringo, the company behind video ringtone services we covered for few times in the past, launched its Facetones product on GetJar. Available as a free download, the application creates an automated video slideshow using your friends’ photos on Facebook and then plays this video slideshow each time you make or receive a phone call. Not…
INQ decided to top let all Android smartphone owners get their social apps, which up until this point were available only for INQ-based devices like the INQ Cloud Touch. The company launched three apps in the Android Market: People by INQ – which lets you keep track of your top Facebook friends based on Facebook’s…
TomTom has started testing its iPad app and is looking forward to launch it at some point in the fall. While we don’t have the exact launch date, we do know it won’t be released as a separate application, but the one that will work both on the iPhone and iPad. Of course, when started…
Since it’s the Friday before a long weekend, I thought I’d take a little time to share some of the apps that I’m digging. As I mentioned in previous posts, these apps aren’t necessarily new or cutting edge but these are the ones I wind up using and clicking more often. I do tend to…
Well, another third-party Twitter app bites the dust as popular Twitter app Twidroyd is no more. It appears that the group over at UberSocial have combined forces with the Twidroyd team for their own release of UberSocial in the Android Market. For years, UberSocial has been called one of the best Twitter clients for iPhone…
It looks like postcards are the new hip thing in mobile technology, as a new app company lets you use your iPhone to create and send postcards while you’re out and about. Postcard On The Run does exactly what the title implies: the iPhone app will let you use your phone’s camera to create postcards…
As part of its “It Can Wait” campaign, AT&T launched a new app called AT&T DriveMode, helping curb texting while driving. Available as a free download for BlackBerry users — with other platforms to follow shortly — the application automatically sends a customizable reply to incoming texts, calls and emails, notifying the sender that the…
On the heels of the Garmin software announcement, we have another navigation company unveiling the updated offering. It’s NAVIGON, which is owned by Garmin and which unveiled few details about its upcoming apps for iPhone and Android smartphones. The new applications, set to be released later this fall, rock several neat features, including: New map…
SPB Software keeps bringing its SPB Shell 3D UI software to new platforms. After Android, the company is going for folks with Symbian^3 smartphones such as the Nokia N8, C7 and E7. If you’ve been reading our previous articles on SPB Shell, you know it replaces the phone’s default homescreen with a 3D interface from where users…
Alaska Airlines updated its iOS application, bringing few neat features to the mix. The most significant new feature is the ability to check in and access your mobile boarding pass within the app, removing the need to carry any paper on your trips. Moreover, you can use Alaska’s app to track flight status and boarding…