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Attention Canadian BlackBerry users! If you’re tired of punching out those long-winded messages while you’re away from your desktop… it looks like the folks at Nuance are here to rescue you. Earlier today, it was announced that BlackBerry Dragon for Email is now available in Canada. Awesome! With this free app, you can quickly and…
Electronic Arts had a good quarter and the results showed that the game maker continues to gain traction in the mobile world as it is the top publisher (in Western markets) for the Apple App Store and the Windows Phone 7 Windows Marketplace for mobile. It’s tough to really pinpoint what this means in monetary…
We all know that News Corp. is set to introduce The Daily digital newspaper app for the iPad tomorrow but it looks like The New York Times is working on a project called News.Me which aims to reinvent news reading on the iPad. Over at TechCrunch, Erick Shonfeld has been looking at an early version…
The iPad and iPhone have become a comfortable home to e-book readers like Kindle, but apparently from here on in, that’s only as long as Apple gets a cut of book sales. It’s been reported that Sony’s upcoming Reader app for iPhone is having trouble getting accepted into the iTunes App Store because their current…
While Kobo may not get the attention that the Kindle or Barnes & Noble Nook apps get, it has been doing some cool things. We covered its Reading Life social sharing features with the iPad and those features are now available on the Kobo e-reader iPhone app and for the iPod touch. The Kobo e-reader…
We saw a glimpse of the Poynt application running on the BlackBerry PlayBook at CES, but how would you all like an extra taste? Although the app is still a work in progress prior to the tablet’s launch, everything looks polished and functioning; just like the smartphone app for BlackBerry, you can look up people…
Hockey fans with an iPhone in-tow, take note. One of my absolute favorite sports news and scoring apps (ScoreMobile) has been updated with some killer new features with the hockey junkie in mind. New to the ScoreMobile app for iPhone (as of today!) is support for hockey push alerts. All you have to do is…
During the last week viewers in Germany could actively participate in a live TV show with nothing but their smartphone and the augmented reality browser junaio. The occasion was a live quiz of the popular German science show ProSieben “Galileo” and it was described as “just like having a TV set with a touchscreen.” Pointing…
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Treemail has hit the AppStore to make tree-carving more appealing to the 21st century. As you can imagine for yourself (and see from the image above), using the application you will be able to “carve” customized messages on a virtual tree, which may include love notes, initials, a favorite…
It’s that time of year when many people have either failed with their New Year’s diet or are pushing along with it and maybe getting a little bored. The new Fooducate iPhone app may become your best friend, as the barcode-scanning app can help people discover what’s really in their food and suggest healthier alternatives.…