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As promised after their last update, Foursquare for BlackBerry has added integration with BlackBerry Messenger 6. Of course, BBM 6 isn’t released yet, but we’re expecting it to go live today. Enabled by the BBM Social development tools, this feature will let you update your BlackBerry Messenger status with your last check-in, share badges to…
Intuit launched QuickBooks Mobile for Android, allowing more than 4 million small businesses using QuickBooks Pro, Premier and Online to access their data while on the go. Using the new application, SMBs will be able to create estimates, manage and create invoices, view customer details and more all from their mobile phone. The application automatically…
Nokia’s Ovi Store now has more than 50,000 apps in the catalog, with more than 6.5 million downloads per day taking place. That’s up from the previous count of 48,000 apps and 6 million daily downloads. Despite the solid growth, the Finnish company has a lot of catching up to do to reach the heights…
Facebook’s iPhone app is consistently in Apple’s list of the top 25 free applications download, and for good reason too. The social network has over 750 million active users, there are push enabled notifications so you don’t miss a thing, and who wouldn’t want to check up on their friends when there’s a few minutes…
As part of its strategy to make the entire world its playground, Apple is expanding the AppStore reach to additional 33 countries. In total, the Cupertino giant now allows users from 123 countries to buy apps and games from iTunes. The new countries included in this batch are: Algeria, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Azerbaijan,…
CNN has been super active in the mobile space, offering its app for many major platforms, including iOS, Android and Symbian. What’s more, they have special applications for modern tablets, whether they run iOS (iPad) or Android Honeycomb. All said we were not surprised when they announced hitting 10 million downloads. Here are the words…
So far we’ve seen quite a few app suggestion services but apparently that doesn’t stop other companies from entering this market. One such company/service is AppGrooves, which thinks its technology will crack this nut. And honestly, they may be onto something. Using a “Hot or Not” concept, their “original machine learning algorithm” learns what kind…
Autodesk launched SketchBook Pro for Android tablets, allowing artists and designers to draw and sketch from the comfort of their brand new Honeycomb device. According to Autodesk, this professional-grade paint and drawing application is made to “transform your tablet into a powerful digital sketchbook.” Of course, that doesn’t mean you’ll turn into next Picasso, quite…
Yesterday an early build of the Android app player leaked for the BlackBerry PlayBook, and though it’s not quite ready for prime-time, the daring and adventurous are welcome to check it out. RIM has warned against using it, but if you’d like to throw caution to the wind, we’ve got full instructions on how to…
This patent thing is getting out of control. Lodsys, which has been going after app makers over in-app purchase patents, is acting like one of those dastardly pigs and is going after the Angry Birds maker Rovio. Rovio has seen more than 300 million downloads of the game throughout the world on multiple platforms and…