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Having owned and used both Android and iOS devices the past few years, I was convinced that fewer people were paying for apps on Android Market versus the iTunes App Store for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Why? It was simple. Most new iPhone owners already had iTunes accounts that they used to purchase music…
Fring, the company behind the popular mobile VoIP (where V is both for voice and video) app, announced that it has closed C-round of financing. The company’s current investors participated, including North Bridge Venture Capital, Pitango Venture Capital and Veritas Venture Partners. Fring will use the new money to additionally invest in technology and bring…
Helsinki, Finland-based Hitlantis launched its iPhone app, providing independent artists and music fans a new way to find one another. The application features a zoomable map that highlights the artists attracting the most streams of their music with graphic bubbles filtered by color according to genres; by size, determined by the amount of plays received…
We’ve already reported about OpenTable’s milestones in the past. Back in May 2010, they announced hitting 3 million diners seated and then in November that figure jumped to 5 million. Now they announced seating its 10 millionth cumulative diner via OpenTable mobile products, who [diners] spent an estimated $400 million at partner restaurants! OpenTable’s press…
SPB Software is bringing its mobile clock/time app, SPB Time, to the Android community. The application — which is already available for the iPhone, Symbian and Windows Mobile — comes with few time-based features, including World Time, countdown and stopwatch timers, calendar, moon phases and of course the alarm clock. The last mentioned feature is…
Orange prepared an Android app for this year’s French Open. Available as a free download, the application is made to keep you in the loop with the latest tennis news coming from Paris. As such, the Roland-Garros 2011 app gets you real-time scores, video highlights, news, photos and a guide of the grounds for folks…
Back to the Future Episode 1 hit the iPad this past February with the follow-up Episode 2 releasing just this past April, and now, TellTale has announced the next episode in the Back to the Future saga has just been released on the iPad. Back to the Future – Episode 3: Citizen Brown takes place…
Ever since Dead Space was released for both the iPhone and iPad earlier this year, we’ve been singing its praises ever since. The game offered an experience as good as its console version and all from the comfort of your iOS device. The only downside is EA hasn’t done much in terms of new content…
As Microsoft starts putting up the shutters on their Windows Mobile app marketplace, a fresh browser-based store is in the works for the upcoming Mango release. The web store will host the usual fare, like reviews, screenshots, purchasing, searching, and parental controls. Marketplace apps can be shared via e-mail, Facebook or Twitter. Once you buy…
For awhile, mSpot has been storing music in the cloud and allowing users to stream it to their phones through a mobile app, but now that Google’s headed that way, they’ve stepped up their game. Today, mSpot now includes free streaming internet radio much like popular sources like Slacker and Pandora. The new radio button…