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Today Google launched an Android app for their popular Docs service, letting you access, create, edit, and share your cloud-stored spreadsheets and documents while on the move. The search and collections functions let you quickly find particular documents, and the home screen widget gives you quick access to starred documents, initiating a photo upload, or…
After oversubscribed beta, Fring is officially launching the world’s first free mobile group video service! The new capability is available for iPhone and Android smartphone owners, allowing up to 4 friends to video call each other at the same time. Of course, you’ll need a decent mobile connection (3G/4G or WiFi) to make this happen,…
RIM has just added another company to the BlackBerry family: Tungle.me. These guys do a simple productivity app lets users offer a variety of meeting time slots that invitees can pick from on a web-based calendar. It looks like RIM is gearing to upgrade the functionality in their native productivity apps, seeing as not long…
We’ve been keeping a close eye on Gameloft’s “Order & Chaos Online” and with good reason. The game resembles Blizzard’s insanely popular World of Warcraft and that’s a very good thing. A good number of our editors have lost sleep over finishing just one more quest or raiding with our guild mates and we can’t wait…
GetJar has just unveiled a major revamp of its mobile website and the world’s largest independent app store is going to integrate some social networking features thanks to Facebook Connect. If you don’t know GetJar, it’s a large app store which provides tons of free apps to BlackBerry, Java, Android and other smartphones and feature…
Hey, do you remember Viewdle? We saw them at Mobile World Congress showing an app that would locally store facial data of your friends so that your phone’s camera would recognize them. In that particular case, Viewdle’s app would let you pull up social networking information associated with them, like Facebook profiles, LinkedIn pages, or…
TomTom is teaming up with Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products add Home Simpson’s voice to its iPhone app, marking the first time a celebrity voice has ever been available for mobile phone based GPS. Not sure whether you’ll hear Homer’s famous “D’oh!” when you miss the right turn, but you can expect to hear Homer…
A company called iStartApp is working on a new app called FileXChange that will make file transfer between different platforms easy. You may be thinking that transferring files with Bluetooth already does the job, but that may not be good enough at least until the new specification of Bluetooth is widely adopted, allowing for faster…
Amazon is facing some legal heat from Apple of the use of the word “app store” but it is using an unlikely piece of evidence to get the lawsuit tossed out: Steve Jobs. Amazon is trying to get the lawsuit tossed out because it believes that the term “app store” is generic and shouldn’t be…
TweetDeck for iPhone users have a few new features and goodies to look forward to with version 2.0. It’s iOS 4 compatible, which means graphics will look clean and pretty on a retina display. It’s also much more customizable than before, and arranging your columns are a bit easier with pinch gestures, too. For better…