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A company called Weyrich Enterprises released a mobile shopping application – Divalicious, which is said to bring more than 300 popular brands, comprised of almost one million items of apparel, shoes and accessories for women, men, children and infants under one roof. All that would be simple, but there’s more. The application also comes with…
Apple continues to try and keep other companies from using the term “App Store” and it just sent GetJar a cease-and-desist letter for using that term, according to the Wall Street Journal. Apple has been quite successful with its App Store, as it just recently reached more than 15 billion downloads and has been raking…
We’re getting a lot of indications that BlackBerry App World is due for an update to 3.0 soon, and now we have another screenshot of the device-side app portal to go with the first one we saw a few months ago. As you can see, Apps, Games and Themes will be at the top of…
In another sign that Zynga is taking the mobile space seriously, the social gaming company just announced it has purchased Toronto-based Five Mobile. As the name indicates, Five Mobile is well known for creating mobile apps and it will also give Zynga a nice foothold into Canada. The company said: Five Mobile, now Zynga Toronto,…
If you’re not completely in love with the built-in voice actions that Google provides for your Android handset, you’re probably using Vlingo right now. This voice control application is one of the best alternatives you can find today and it recently got the bump to version 3.0. So what’s different in Vlingo 3.0, you ask?…
Orange UK has teamed-up with Microsoft to offer free apps to its Windows Phone 7 users. Both pay-as-you-go and monthly paying customers will benefit from this offer, which will see the two companies giving away apps worth 70 GBP in July. Selected applications, ranging from travel to sports to games, will be offered through Orange…
Avon UK launched new applications as part of the marketing campaign for its new Advance Techniques Professional Hair Colour collection. The SuperStyler app is available for iPhone, Android and Facebook, allowing customers to instantly restyle their hair, try different styles and shades — all on a picture of themselves. There are over 50 hairstyles and…
Springpad has yet again updated its iOS app with few handy features like reminders, push notifications and alarms, home screen badges, “send to phone,” and more. Let’s start with reminders. This new feature allows you to create a reminder for anything you save to Springpad, from simple tasks and events, to other things like movies,…
The News360 app started off on iPad, offering a rich, categorized way of ingesting current events, and moved to the BlackBerry PlayBook, Android Honeycomb, and Windows Phone shortly after. Now they’ve shifted slightly off of tablets and are now available on Android smartphones running OS 2.2 and up. The layout is a little re-jiggered, but…
As rumored, Google Maps will now allow you to download map data locally to your phone, so you can still get detailed information even when you’re outside of coverage. Currently available in the Maps Labs, all you have to do is find a Place page that you intend to be visiting, go to the More…