The latest Sprint ID pack launched by the carrier, Relay ID, is made to allow anyone who has difficulty hearing and members of the deaf community to more easily use their phone. Available on select Sprint ID-capable Android smartphones, the bundle includes voice mail transcripts, visual and vibrating alerts and readable captions, among others –…
SCVNGR, American Express team for paperless deal redemptions
If you’re like me, you’re kind of a cheapskate and have been amazed by the wave of Groupon-like services that have sprouted up but the redemption process can still be kind of a pain. The team at SCVNGR has teamed up with American Express to deliver a solution which may solve that problem. You’ll be…
Google Goggles for Android Updated with Personal Notes
Google Goggles, the neat image recognition and search application for Android, has been updated to version 1.4 with a couple of new features. The big addition is notes that you can add to your search history. This means when you take a picture of something to scan, you can add any additional context you might…
Vevo Music Video App Coming Soon to BlackBerry PlayBook
Those of you into music, and more specifically music videos, will have probably heard of Vevo. They offer over 25,000 free legal Flash-powered music videos, namely on YouTube, thanks to partnerships with Universal and Sony. Some welcome news out of BlackBerry World last week was that they’re going to be launching a PlayBook app to…
Xobni for BlackBerry Updated With Native Address Book Sync
Over the course of BlackBerry World last week, Xobni, a popular e-mail inbox management app (coming soon to Android and iPhone), updated to version 2.0.28 with a giant heaping fistful of new features. For starters, free users can now enjoy limited daily universal searches (a feature previously held back for premium customers). There are also…
Unsubscribe for BlackBerry Fights Smartphone Spam
One app to make its debut at BlackBerry World last week was Unsubscribe. They’ve been getting cozy with desktop e-mail through Outlook and Gmail since late last year, and are now moving into mobile starting with BlackBerry. While any decent e-mail-based marketing not caught by your built-in spam filter will offer an “unsubscribe me” link,…
8coupons’ iPhone app rocks half a million local deals, augmented reality view
8coupons, which is said to be the largest consumer portal for local and daily deals, is going for the iPhone users with a new, free to download application. Equipped with over half a million live deals, 8coupons’ app apparently has the greatest concentration of deal volume in every zip code in the U.S. However, you…
SuperBodies iOS app shows the inner marvels and physicality of elite athletes
SuperBodies is a new iOS app, made for anyone interested to peek inside the body of peak performers at the “limits of human endurance.” The official pitch goes like this: With cutting-edge 3D animation and original video, the SuperBodies mobile app allows users in a game play format to peel away the human skin, revealing…
MapQuest becomes the first turn-by-turn navigation Android app to deploy Skyhook’s Hybrid Location System
Skyhook, the company behind the technology that makes GPS navigation more precise, announced a deal with AOL-owned MapQuest to embed its Core Engine into the MapQuest Android app and deliver an “enhanced navigation experience on phones.” If you haven’t heard of Skyhook before, you may wonder how their technology is better than the “regular” A-GPS.…
The Astonishing Tribe Launches Scrapbook App for BlackBerry PlayBook
Back at Mobile World Congress, RIM’s new Sweden arm, The Astonishing Tribe, showed us a few apps that demonstrated the graphical capabilities of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. One of them, though not exactly pushing the 3D boundaries of the device, did show what some simple imagination could accomplish. Scrapbook let you take locally stored images…