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While it’s no secret that I now use an iPhone more than I did before, I still have a soft spot in my heart for Windows Phone 7. With the app marketplace booming, I thought I’d take some time to tell you the 10 Windows Phone 7 apps I can’t live without. I honestly can’t…
If you’ve ever played Flight Control or Real Racing, then you’re familiar with the work of mobile game developer Firemint. That’s why we were all excited to hear they were finally moving on to a new IP which was called Agent Squeak when it was announced back in March. Since then, Firemint has kept mum…
Evernote for Android has just been updated with a new tablet interface, and the ability to create rich text notes. Surprisingly, many of these new features hit the Android version first, and will become available for iOS soon – it’s usually the other way around. Evernote users on the Android platform, especially for those using…
RIM’s mobile software portal, App World, is now enjoying 3 million downloads daily, and has recently hit the 1 billion download mark after chugging along for two years. When talking about numbers, it’s hard not to compare App World to the iPhone App Store which recently passed 15 billion downloads, and reached 1.5 billion just…
Only few hours after Google officially announced the new/upcoming Android Market, the APK file was leaked. The information comes from the Twitter user @Eminembdg who was nice enough to release the application to the general public before the search giant officially does so. In that sense, I assume this may not be the full version,…
A smartphone can be a powerful tool for organizing your time. In this article I’ll try to explain how to use an Android-based device to easily keep up with your tasks and appointments. It doesn’t have to be hard and cumbersome, quite the contrary… Before we start I presume you use Google services, including Google…
After six months of public beta, a company called MDP Mobile launched its Smart Places Android app, allowing users seamless use of Facebook Places along with 2-click or automatic check-ins. These two mixed together plus a little magic, and the new application delivers real-world social networking through notifications when friends check in nearby. Smart Places…
While it’s easy to assume that everyone has a smartphone and can browse the web with ease, there are still millions (or billions) or people around the world still on a feature phone. Facebook wants those users to be able to poke each other too, so its Facebook for Every Phone app makes it easier…
We all know that NFC is the next big thing and that mobile payments will lead the charge, right? Well, if you ask Square COO Keith Rabois, the technology is overrated for real businesses. “I think NFC is a technology in search of a value proposition,” Rabois said during the MobileBeat 2011 conference. To be…
It’s tough to go to a restaurant or any public setting and not see a parent hand their kid an iPhone or iPod touch in order to keep them quiet, so I guess it was just a matter of time before someone decided to use iOS to create a baby monitor. The Evoz app has…