The RealPlayer media client for Android has been updated with a bunch of UI tweaks, plus a new homescreen widget for playback control, support for saving and listening to playlists, options to change video aspect ratios. The nice thing about this particular update is that it was built exclusively based on user feedback. On top…
Trapster hacked – 10 million users at risk
If you have downloaded the Trapster app for the iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, you may want to take a few security precautions because your e-mail and your password may be in the hands of bad guys. In an e-mail to users, the company said it has been the target of hackers and it may have up…
Review: Push Panic on iPhone – Try Not To PANIC!
In case you haven’t noticed, casual games aren’t my cup of tea. When it comes to games, I usually enjoy games that include some kind of story, a lot of action, and the occasional girl in a string bikini. That’s why when I came across Push Panic, I didn’t pay attention to it at first…
Nuance opens up voice services to iPhone, Android apps
Nuance will release an SDK for its voice services and this could lead to a series of Android and iPhone apps that can leverage your voice. On its developer page, Nuance says: Our Dragon Mobile SDK is easy-to-integrate and accessible to anyone interested in enhancing their applications with speech input and text-to-speech output. We offer…
Opera State of the Mobile Web December 2010: Americans love to use Amazon.com on their mobile phone
Opera Software has just released their latest “State of the Mobile Report” that looks at how users of their Opera Mini web browser interacted with the internet. With Opera Mini, users type in a URL and then said web site is rendered on a server in some distant land, compressed by up to 90%, and…
John F. Kennedy gets a comprehensive iOS app 50 years after his inauguration
New York City-based historian and publisher Marc Schulman is about to launch a new iOS app dedicated to John F Kennedy. The application will hit the AppStore today on January 20th, 50 years after JFK’s inauguration as America’s 34th President. JFK History Maker – a Fifty Year Retrospective builds on top of the JFK HistoryMaker…
Telmap-powered MTS Navigator launches in Russia
Telmap announced that yet another carrier has decided to implement and offer their navigation solution. Russia’s MTS launched MTS Navigator, which provides full Russian language support and includes in-car navigation with 3D moving maps, voice guidance directions that announce street names, and a dedicated pedestrian mode. Additionally, user can also access to thousands of points…
You can now port your mobile number into Google Voice [Update]
Google Voice users, I have some good news and some bad news. Good news first: you can now port your existing phone number into Google Voice. Have you been giving out your actual mobile number to your closest and dearest friends, and dishing out Google Voice to minor acquaintances? Or have you been bouncing back…
Classic Dr. Seuss Title ‘Fox in Socks’ Now Available in the App Store
Dr. Seuss apps have been hitting us time and time again for iOS. The developers at Oceanhouse Media have been doing a fantastic job bringing many of these classic children’s books to life on our iOS-powered devices. Adding one more to this growing list of classics, Oceanhouse has just released Fox in Socks. The Fox…
eBay has strong fourth quarter with mobile in mind
The fourth quarter for eBay was pretty decent with $2.5 billion and the company’s mobile pushes are really starting to pay off. The company is really pushing its eBay app, as I’ve seen multiple buses in San Francisco advertising this with QR codes included. This appears to be paying off, as the company said the…