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I’m dashing through Finland checking out its mobile tech scene (disclosure: Finnfacts paid for my trip) and I stumbled across a few, cool apps. The WildChords iPad app has the potential to be a big hit because this music game can help you learn how to play guitar by using your Apple tablet. The WildChords…
Bungie, the game developer behind the world-renown Halo franchise, has released their first iPhone app, called Bungie Mobile. Halo: Reach fans will be able to track their stats (including progress towards commendations), follow friends, and keep up to date with the latest Halo news. There’s also talk about some kind of online swag bag, which…
Last night, RIM launched a distinctly different kind of app from their usual business/productivity fare. Avatar Builder lets you make a custom likeness of yourself to use in stuff like BlackBerry Messenger, or anywhere else you want some obnoxiously-exaggerated caricature of yourself online. Separate apps are available for male or female avatars, each with a…
Before search engines were invented there were these things called internet directories. Think of them as websites with an endless stream of links meticulously categorized by people who were paid to judge and sort all the websites that were being created during the mid to late 1990s. We all know where this story goes, at…
Sony launched an Android app for its Qriocity-powered Music Unlimited cloud music service. Available as a free download, the application requires that you subscribe to the Basic or Premium plan to be able to access the catalogue of more than 7 million songs on a streaming basic. Basic plan allows users to listen to personalized…
A bunch of pictures have leaked outlining a new Facebook app for iPhone that shares and views pictures on the gargantuan social network. From the looks of things, there are going to be some features borrowed from newly-popular photo-sharing apps like Color and Instagram. Geotagging, facial recognition, filters, likes, comments, sharing full sets, HDR support,…
Typing and using your hands to do things these days is becoming overrated, and it seems Nuance is making sure we have more than one way to do fingerless input. Just today the company announced a new service for the PC and iPhone that enables a new kind of voice-based text input. For the PC,…
Shazam, the pre-eminent music ID app for Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Symbian, and Windows Phone has completed their first corporate acquisition, and have waste no time in integrating its features. LyricPlay syncs up with music as you’re listening to it, and shows you the words to the song in a sharp and animated format. The new…
Lookout had another announcement with the introduction of its new Safe Browsing feature in it mobile security app, and that’s a new partnership with Sprint. Sprint Android users can now download the Lookout application from the Sprint tab found in the Android Market, or Sprint Zone. Lookout is easily the best mobile security application out…
Android does a pretty darn good job with sharing your pictures natively, but if you want to send an awesome picture to more than one social network, you’ll have to do it one by one. While this isn’t that hard of a task, those who are very connected and love to share pictures to their…