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If you thought this was how Angry Birds would look like if it ever made the leap to BlackBerry, guess again. Smarter Apps has released an unabashed knock-off called Angry Farm, where, like the original, you aim and slingshot various animals at precariously-constructed buildings in an effort to collapse everything on top of the hapless…
Some screenshots of the next version of Facebook for BlackBerry have snuck out, revealing a handful of new features. The most prominent among them is Chat, something users have been missing for ages, resulting in a slew of third-party apps filling the gap. Facebook 2.0 for BlackBerry also tidies up the user interface, enables you…
Barnes & Noble has updated its NOOK Android app adding in few of the user-requested features. Version 2.5 comes with a new library grid view, wish list facility and download progress meter, along with “other improvements” — I assume they talk about performance improvements. And that’s just a start. This spring, the giant book retailer…
Somehow I always knew this day will come – a mobile app will be able to replace a human translator. Of course, we’re talking about technology that’s far from perfect, but then again this is definitely one of those situations when you’re better with something than nothing. The application is called SpeechTrans Ultimate and it…
PayPal announced another (free) update to its iPhone app. The new version (3.2) comes with the so called FundRazr feature, allowing users to create and manage campaigns to raise money while on the go. Integrated with Facebook, the function enables easy sharing of campaigns with friends and family members, who on their end can then…
The popular photo-sharing service Instagram has just opened up a real-time API, so we can look forward to a new generation of apps which put photos front and center. On its blog, the company breaks down the benefits of the Instagram real-time API and it says the main advantages are: 1) Users of the developer’s…
Dab smack in the middle of Mobile World Congress last week, Google released an update to their relatively new Reader application for Android. There’s now an unread count widget, so you can see how much catching up you have left to do (though I’ve personally given up on keeping any stream down to zero). There’s…
Today Shape Services has launched an Android version of their iOS app, iDisplay, which turns Android handsets and tablets into secondary monitors for computers. I’m not sure how useful this would be for smartphones, but for tablets, especially big ones like the Motorola Xoom that just came out today, it would be perfect. iDisplay needs…
For all of the flak Apple gets for charging a 30% cut of regular iPhone app purchases, in-app purchases, and subscriptions, they apparently don’t pull in much actual profit. CFO Peter Oppenheimer said at an Apple shareholder meeting said “We run the App Store just a little over breakeven,” after fielding a question about how…
Mozilla has once again updated their Firefox for Mobile browser, this time to version 4 beta 5. It’s available for Android 2.0 and higher devices as well as Nokia’s Maemo running N900. The change-log promises speed improvements in page rendering, startup time, scrolling, and it should also take up less RAM, though Mozilla does recommend…