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With the economic crisis still looming, more and more people are turning to discounts. If there are no instant discounts and daily deals, some of you may want to try out rebates, which on the other hand are still hated by many. Prepaid cards made them slightly more bearable, but they still kinda suck, with…
TiVo has updated its mobile app for iPhone and iPod Touch, allowing users to search, browse, explore and share comments (via Facebook and Twitter) about their favorite programs all without interrupting the programming currently playing on their TiVo box. Of course, “standard” remote control capability also comes included, enabling TiVo owners to view, schedule and…
Has the Green Lantern movie and the upcoming Batman sequel got you thinking about comics? Or maybe you’re an old-school fan, gearing up for the San Diego Comic-Con? Either way, you’ll be happy to hear that DC has released an official comics app for Android powered by the well-established folks at Comixology. Individual issues for…
Following up on some significant updates for Windows Phone and Android, The Foursquare location-based check-in app for BlackBerry has been bumped up to version 3.0. The biggest changes are around user interface, with some new graphical category tabs, new layout for tips, and lots of other small tweaks. There’s also a new discovery engine to…
Google Plus, or Google+, is now available for iOS in the iTunes App Store. The social networking service, in which you divide up your friends, family and acquaintances into “Circles,” has taken off in the past few weeks and has even seen defectors from Facebook. When the service launched, we said that mobile users might…
Okay, to be fair, I’ve only been using the HP TouchPad for a week, so saying I couldn’t live with some of these webOS apps might be a little bit of an overstatement. In fact, I can say with some certainty that I would not spontaneously keel over and die if any one of them…
Quipster, the iOS app that wants to deliver a better way to check-in, is now updated with few new features including a Photo Canvas Page and new City Page. The former displays all the photos users upload while out on the town, whereas the latter shows trending places and events in real time. And that’s…
Zinio’s Android app, which has recently been unveiled for Honeycomb tablets, is no longer limited to select few markets. Rather, users from all around the world can now access and read various magazines from their phones and tablets. The application requires that your device runs Android 2.2 or higher, meaning pretty much any smartphone or…
Disney launched its first app for the Android platform – Winnie the Pooh: What’s a Bear to Do?, bringing one of the most popular children’s characters to a growing army of Android smartphone and tablet ownin’ parents. The interactive puzzle book app features professional narration in five different languages – English, French, German, Spanish and…
As some of you may know, I made the plunge and switched from Android to the iPhone a few weeks ago and I’ve been using the iPhone 4 as my primary device over the course of that time. While I definitely played with iOS on my iPod touch and iPad extensively, I was always an…