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Apple set another record for its iTunes App Store when it finally hit the 15 billion download mark. Just six months ago, the store hit 10 billion downloads where a lucky woman was given a $10,000 award from Apple for being the 1o billionth download. To date, Apple has the most prolific and successful app…
Being green is all the rage these days. Buy organic food, recycle the beer cans left over from your house party last night, switch to LED lightbulbs, all in the name of showing your friends that you care about something other than your favorite reality television show. Nokia’s looking to ride the eco-friendly phenomenon by…
Imagine if you opened up iTunes one day and instead of having to purchase every song you wanted to listen to you could just double click on a track and it would instantly start playing. That’s Spotify. It’s a service that many in Europe have been enjoying since it launched back in October 2008 and…
If you like to go to sporting events or music shows and StubHub is typically your first stop, an official application is now available for Windows Phone 7 devices. With StubHub for Windows Phone 7, you can search for tickets and buy and sell them while you’re out and about. If you use PayPal or…
Foursquare has been busy lately, first with their updated Windows Phone app, and now a new notification system for their Android app. Now you get a little blip in the top-right of the screen letting you know when friends comment on one of your check-ins, Facebook friends join Foursquare, when you’re ousted as mayor, or…
While we’re waiting for offline Navigation, Google Maps for Android has been updated with a different nav-related feature: stop-by-stop info for transit. Sounds extraneous, considering Mr. Bus Driver already has a pretty good idea of where he’s going, right? Right, but you still need to know where to hop off. Transit Navigation, not only can…
Facebook just made a big announcement that it would be teaming with Skype to provide free, one-to-one video calling on the world’s largest social network but you won’t be able to use this feature in the mobile apps yet. The Facebook Skype video calling service was the major feature of today’s announcement but it also…
It’s that wonderful time of year when the weather gets warmer, the days get longer and people generally seem to be much happier. Yes friends, it’s summer time and we’re here to help you make the most of it. Over this series, we’ll take a look at how smartphones, apps and accessories can maximize your…
RIM has sent out a mass e-mail to BlackBerry developers to help them prepare App World 3.0. At the same time, they’ve given their web portal a significant visual upgrade, presumably the first step in the transition process. The e-mail instructs developers to update their app profiles to include a short one-sentence description, as well…
Bloomberg wants to be among the first companies to support the growing army of Android tablet owners. Hence they’ve launched a new app called Bloomberg for Tablet, which obviously is tailor-made to take advantage of the big screen modern tablets offer (and is in that sense different from Bloomberg’s “regular” Android app). However, it’s not…