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American Express is teaming with Foursquare for some location-based mobile money services that will be debuted in Austin next week at the South By SouthWest conference. According to the report: Under the arrangement, AmEx customers can register their cards in the Foursquare system to get access to special offers from merchants who are also Foursquare…
Philo, a social check-in app for television shows, recently announced custom rewards for those watching Two and a Half Men. There are four stickers all told: Tiger Blood, Goddesses, Winning, and Charlie Sheen. How you win them is a bit of a mystery though… It doesn’t look like it’s a straight-up “check in this many…
Shortly after Google launched Android back in October 2008 with the G1, new versions of the platform were released, followed by custom skins and interfaces. This led to strong criticism against platform fragmentation, and it has haunted Google and and its mobile OS ever since. However, when Android 3.0 Honeycomb was released, the search giant…
The only fitting response to Nintendo ragging on smartphone gaming is to release an N64 emulator on Android, isn’t it? Yongzh has recently released N64oid on the Android Market, complete with transparent on-screen controls (with the option to use the accelerometer as the analog stick for tilt control), or you can configure hardware controls, ideal…
Smith Micro Software is bringing its SendStuffNow application/service to Windows Phone 7 devices. If you’re not familiar with the service you should know that SendStuffNow is a cloud-based managed file transfer service that ensures the secure delivery of files too large to send via email. In addition to Windows Phone 7, the application is also…
Field & Stream outdoor magazine is going for the iPhone users in partnership with mobile app publisher Zumobi, which will also launch an Android application in the near future. The new app brings the latest news, tips and advice from the magazine to the on-the-go readers. Zumobi’s fancy interface makes sure everyone can easily navigate…
Catch.com, the note-taking service that wants to find its space in the increasingly competitive note-taking market, launched Catch Pro, the premium version of Catch Notes. $5 a month or $45 a year gets you 1GB of new content per month, voice notes sharing capability and support for file attachments. If there were no for Evernote…
Back in 1991, there was a video game called Another World (or Out of This World as it was known when it was released in the US) that revolutionized the gaming industry with its cinematic effects, graphics, and cut scenes. At the time, games have yet to reach a maturity that Another World did as…
A couple of weeks ago, NBA Jam was released and it literally blew my socks off. Seriously – I have no idea where the socks I was wearing that day went and they were my lucky rainbow socks with individual toes. That’s besides the point as another big name sports game has made the jump…
Twitter for iPhone, perhaps my favorite Twitter app on iOS, has just received a healthy update that includes a number of new features and bug fixes. The first thing you’ll notice when you jump into your timeline is the trending topics bar. It’s a bit obtrusive and ugly, but if you’re big on trending topics,…