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As a part of the announcement of the BlackBerry Bold 9900 this week, RIM showcased a preloaded augmented reality app that we’ve seen on other platforms called Wikitude. Since the 9900 is the first BlackBerry to include a magnetic compass and the right display overlay software, it’s the first to support AR apps. To give…
The Adobe Connect Mobile iOS app has just been updated to the 1.5 version and it includes an optimization for tablets and two-way video chatting. If you’re not familiar with the Adobe Connect Mobile iOS app, it’s a business collaboration tool that lets you connect for meetings. The big feature is the two-way video conferencing,…
Research In Motion has just updated its Twitter and Facebook apps for the BlackBerry smartphones and this includes improved user interfaces and a few new features. If you recall, the Facebook, Twitter apps were built with the help of RIM itself, so these have deeper ties into the operating system than some third-party programs. This…
You nature lovers out there should definitely check out the LeafSnap iPhone app because this is basically an electronic field guide for identifying trees. The really neat thing about this is that it will let you snap pictures of leaves to identify a tree. I tested out the LeafSnap iPhone app this morning on my…
The Samsung Infuse 4G was given an official release date and price yesterday and we have been playing with it for a few hours and were surprised and happy to see that AT&T is allowing users to sideload apps. That’s a first for AT&T and I get the feeling that Amazon has a lot to…
Tegra 2-optimized games are not as plentiful as we would like to see at the moment, but we’re assured that more will be on the way in due time. One such game that’s soon to land in the Tegra Zone store is Pinball HD, and it’s quite stunning to play. One may not be completely…
Loopt Qs, the new service launched by Loopt we talked about few weeks ago, is now live in the SF Bay Area and will be gradually expanded to other parts of the country. To get your city to the list, simply demand it from this page on Loopt’s website. What’s Qs again? It’s a new…
ING DIRECT updated its iPhone app with the Bump functionality, allowing its Electric Orange Checking account customers to conduct Person2Person transactions. As a result, users can simply Bump two iPhones to securely send money to one another. In order to start the transfer, Electric Orange customers enter a dollar amount into ING DIRECT’s mobile Person2Person…
Google Earth has been a joy to use on the iPad but the search giant has finally optimized the app for its own Android Honeycomb tablets. As you can see from the video below, it’s quite a sight to behold. The Google Earth Honeycomb app really feels like a desktop experience, particularly with the power…
We were digging the Taptu iPad app a few weeks ago because the news reader with a social twist had a pleasant user interface with strong functionality and we’re happy to see that it is finally available for Android Honeycomb tablets. The Taptu Android Honeycomb app offers the same basic functionality as the iPad version,…