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Verizon has just updated its V Cast Android app and the revamped music program now includes multiple ways to purchases music. The new Verizon V Cast Android app now ditches the DRM too, as you can purchase full tracks, ringtones and ringback tones without the restrictions. You’ll be able to purchase the three things individually…
Of all the social networks that have come and gone since I first dialed into the internet during the early 1990s, the one that makes the least sense to me is Foursquare. The premise is simple enough. You go to a location, whip out your mobile phone, and then it uses either GPS or cell…
ROUTE 66 is another GPS navigation services provider that used the Mobile World Congress to announce its mobile app offering. Called ROUTE 66 Maps + Navigation, it relies on TomTom’s maps and location content to deliver navigation solution for both drivers and pedestrians around the globe. Aside from “classic” features found in pretty much any…
ACCESS, which is best known as a company that both Palm OS (Garnet) from Palm, entered into a strategic alliance with Yahoo! to incorporate Yahoo! Search as the default search engine in the recently launched NetFront Life Browser in the U.S. and Canada. The new agreement between the two companies builds upon the previously announced…
Young Naturists America (YNA) launched its first iPhone app for nudist and “everyone who likes to be naked.” Called My Nude World, it’s made to connect users with more than 1,500 nudist destinations, clubs, resorts, beaches, as well as similar groups and organizations around the world. One (I ain’t gonna use “you” in this post,…
Have unusually large fingers that get in the way when surfing the web on your phone? Maybe you’re just lazy and don’t want to zoom into the page to hit that link. None of these? Either way, we bet you’ll like PadKite, a new Android application that acts like a mouse for your smartphone and…
Heads up Android users, PlayOn is now available in the Android Market. Now you’ll be able to stream Hulu, your Netflix Instant Queue, and many more channels right to your device! PlayOn gives you a 14 day trial to check it out, and reasonable payment options after the trial has expired. You can pay $40…
What can brown do for you? Well, if you live in Canada, brown can now calculate shipping rates, track shipments and more, right from your iPhone. Yes, as you can probably guess, the UPS Mobile iPhone App is now available in Canada. This is a welcome addition to the Apple App Store for Canadians packing…
If you’ve been looking at iPhone users with envy because you’re a Bizzy user but own an Android device, today is your lucky day. The recommendation is now available for the Google’s mobile OS, and it’s just as feature rich as its Apple counterpart. For those of you unfamiliar with Bizzy, it’s a recommendation engine…
We came away rather impressed with Google’s tablet-optimized version of Android, Honeycomb, but it looks like we haven’t seen everything. During a keynote at Mobile World Congress, Movie Studio was demoed, a slick video editing application for Android 3.0. Just like the rest of Honeycomb, there looks to be a lot of work put into…