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If you want to know what a phenomenon looks like, just take a look at the Angry Birds franchise, as Rovio just announced that the pig-killing game has been downloaded more than 200 million times across all platforms. That’s an astonishing number for any game or program and it shows that the Angry Birds franchise…
The PayPal Android app has been pretty handy to keep track of your account but the app is now receiving an update to keep it on par with its iPhone rival: the ability to snap a picture of a check and have that deposited into your account. We first saw this feature for the iPhone…
The Zaarly iPhone app is now available to the wider community and this provides a platform to get people to do things for you in exchange for money. Get your head out of the gutter, as this is aimed at menial tasks that you either don’t have time to do or just don’t want to…
TuneWiki, an excellent social music player that has seen a couple of hardware preloads, has updated their Android app with a significant UI overhaul and a few new features. There’s a new SongBox that lets you see what your friends are listening to as they’re listening, for one. TuneWiki will also detect if there are…
During the recent Google I/O conference, Evernote demoed its upcoming app for Honeycomb tablets. We don’t have all the details, but from what we’ve heard – it’s going to be an awesome app. As you can see from the image above, Evernote for Android Honeycomb tablets comes with a UI which is very similar to…
Everyone digs apps these days so we were not surprised when we heard that just one week after Barnes & Noble released an “app enabling” software update for NOOK Color, the ebook reader owners downloaded more than one million apps! The top five paid NOOK Apps are Angry Birds, Drawing Pad, Solitaire, Aces Jewel Hunt…
Don’t you just love reading stories where small are successfully competing with the big, established companies. One such small guy is mobile navigation and location app publisher Navmii, which recently reached 2 million users, only 6 months after launching Navfree, its free navigation app for iPad and iPhone, and 12 months after the launch of…
Samsung is reportedly teaming-up with Chinese internet giant Sina over Samsung Apps. Under the plan, Sina’s affiliate 1000CHI Software Technology will take responsibility for Samsung’s app store in the world’s fastest growing economy. From what I’ve understood, Sina will be working with developers to help them make and/or port apps to platforms Samsung supports —…
The Apple iPad and other tablets have the potential to be strong business tools but you’re going to need to get the right software on there. That’s where the Office2 (Office “squared”) HD 4.0 Suite may come in, as the productivity suite for the iPad has just added Powerpoint capabilities. While this isn’t the only…
Last year, Square-Enix announced it would be releasing the 2007 PSP version of Final Fantasy Tactics with all of its enhanced CG movies and additional characters and jobs to the iPhone on September 15, 2010. The game’s release date came and went and we didn’t see Final Fantasy Tactics in the App Store. We were…