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Skobbler has recently launched an offline mapping app for the iOS-powered devices – ForeverMap. The application relies on the OpenStreetMap as well as the company’s own compression technology to provide users with offline access to stored maps for any region in the entire United States. ForeverMap isn’t the first mobile app to rely on OpenStreetMap…
Good news for the fans of the work of Oprah Winfrey as the April edition of her iPad magazine has hit the AppStore. Like the previous issue (and other iPad magazines for that matter), this one also goes beyond text content, featuring embedded video, interactive animations and links to purchase featured products. The main theme…
We thought that it couldn’t get much better than ADW Launcher EX and its slick 3D transitions, but SPB Shell 3D may possibly be the best home replacement app for Android if you’re looking for a lot of eye candy. SPB offers up a truly 3D experience, with loads of customization options available. There are…
The debate on why there are so few women in the field of science and technology rages on, but Google is being proactive and is teaching young girls in New York City how to develop Android applications. In Google’s New York office, a group of high school girls with little or no coding experience are…
If you’ve been wanting to develop some hot apps for the new HP TouchPad with webOS 3.0, now is your chance to get started. The webOS 3.0 SDK is available now for you devs who are in HP’s Early Access Program and want to get cracking on applications early. If you’re currently a webOS developer…
With all of the negative publicity Tiger Woods received in late 2009 over his promiscuous lifestyle that saw a number of sponsors dropping him, it’s good to see EA Sports kept him on as the Tiger Woods PGA Tour cash cow has yet to see a decline every year it’s released. This marks the second…
Mobile video collaboration service provider FuzeBox announced multi-party HD video conferencing, as a major update to web conferencing product Fuze Meeting. The updated application/service now rocks an improved user interface, support for all major smartphone, tablet and computer operating systems, as well as additional multimedia sharing and annotation options. iPad 2 and an array of…
There’s a rumour floating around that RIM’s co-CEO Jim Balsillie spoke in Toronto yesterday and announced that BlackBerry Messenger and “other services” would be coming to iPhone on April 26, followed-up with a new notification system for BBM on iOS in the summer. The fact that the rumour originated from some random dude on a…
Visual news app for the iPhone and Android, Pulse News, has been recently updated with new features and other tweaks that make the app faster. Without further ado, here’s what version 2.0 brings: Three times more sources – instead of 20, now you can select up to 60 news sources across five customizable pages. Moving…
XXL Magazine launched its iPhone app, featuring six functions such as a hip-hop news feed, lifestyle trends, “Where They At?” geo-tracker for finding friends, some “special Twitter functions” and the ultimate hip-hop trivia. Moreover — and this is where it gets really interesting — there’s the so called “Ready or Not” part using which consumers…