Nuance is bringing its multi-modal FlexT9 app for Android to Europe with support for six languages, including US and UK English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. The FlexT9 combines various Nuance products like Dragon Dictation, T9 Trace, T9 Write and XT9, giving consumers ability to choose how they want to communicate with their friends and…
Rhapsody not happy with Apple App Store subscription fees
The Apple App Store subscription service may be a boon for newspapers and magazines publishers but not all content companies are happy with the 30% cut that Apple will be taking from subscription services on iOS. Rhapsody is already saying that it won’t abide by this fee and that it may have to drop iOS…
Hands-On: Yahoo! Livestand App – Web Content Built for Tablets
Last week, Yahoo! announced a new magazine-style app that conglomerated content from their own properties and select partners into one slick interface. We bumped into Yahoo! at Mobile World Congress, and got some time with the app up-front, and personally, I was pretty impressed. It`s got smooth transitions, a variety of channels for content, good…
Apple intros subscription service for App Store
Apple has introduced a subscription service for its App Store and this will offer app makers and publishers a way to reach the more than 100 million iOS users on a recurring basis through the App Store. The move will give Apple a 30% cut of subscription services sold through the App Store and it…
Another Android Malware found – Meet HongTouTou
It wasn’t that long ago when we got wind of the Geinimi Trojan Lookout Security spotted on Android, and it looks like they have found yet another. This one is called HongTouTou, and it finds itself repackaged in third-party app stores and forums in China. According to the Lookout blog, the HongTouTou, requests additional user…
Android Ice Cream Sandwich to bridge Gingerbread and Honeycomb
This won’t be much of a surprise if you’ve been following this space lately, but during a keynote at MWC, Eric Schmidt confirmed that the next version of Android will merge Gingerbread and Honeycomb together. After we heard that Honeycomb was indeed just for tablet devices, many people (including myself) thought that Google was consciously…
Camera+ 2.1 gets a boat-load of new features and improvements
Anyone who reads my posts here with any regularity knows I love photography, and the iPhone has been such an excellent camera because I always have it with me. Over the years, the quality of the iPhone’s camera has improved, and so have the apps that support it. Camera+ is definitely one of my favorite…
DoubleTwist allows Android users to stream media to Xbox and PS3
doubleTwist is an iTunes-like syncing program for Android, and we’ve seen the software go from a small program not many people have heard of to the go-to Android syncing solution. DoubleTwist is getting even better now with the ability to stream your Android phone’s media right to your PS3 and Xbox 360 thanks to a…
The Weather Channel for Android Updated to Version 3.0
Received a note earlier today from the folks at The Weather Channel. They wanted to let me (and you) know about an update to The Weather Channel app for Android. This latest release brings the app up to version 3.0, and a bunch of new features are included. Key enhancements include: Voice search now allows…
Research: Mobile apps use second only to messaging
According to a January 2011 survey by Zokem Research, mobile apps attract almost as much mobile device use as messaging, and exceed the totals for voice calls and web browsing. The study, commissioned by GSMA’s Wireless Intelligence, reveals that mobile apps are responsible for 667 minutes of use per user each month, almost as much…