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We’ve just heard word that the Facebook app has been downloaded more than 100 million times from GetJar and this marks an important milestone for both companies. For GetJar, this just shows how much it is growing, as the company just had 50 million Facebook app downloads a few month ago. By many accounts, GetJar…
For many people, this is the season for shopping until you drop and eBay is trying to help you survive the shopping season with a new Apple iPhone app. The eBay iPhone program finally takes advantage of the fact that the online auction site purchased RedLaser a few months ago and it integrates the barcode-scanning…
Your Apple iPad is quickly becoming an excellent remote control and TiVo will soon have an app out which will let you control your Premiere DVR boxes. This isn’t the first or last remote control app we’ve seen, but the TiVo iPad app has some added visual flair which may make it stand out. As…
Even with some of the Black Friday deals out there, Amazon can sometimes still offer a lower price than brick-and-mortar stores. With the new Amazon Price Check iPhone app, the online retailing giant is trying to give shoppers more options for checking out prices on the go. The Amazon Price Check iPhone app is sort…
Here’s one for the once die hard Doom fans. The game that brought first person shooter genre to the mainstream now has a live wallpaper app for Android, allowing you to bring all those memories with you, no matter where you happen to be/go. The free to download wallpaper is not only cool and entertaining,…
Chillingo is teaming-up with “branded and lifestyle app developer” VEEMEE to bring “Bear Grylls: The Bear Essentials” to the Apple AppStore. The application will obviously feature the renowned adventurist and survival expert as he shares his survival skills with the iOS device users. Included in the app are films, photos, illustrations, quizzes, quotes and interactive…
A company called Flixoft is out with an iPhone app called Grocery Gadget – Shopping List. I’m sure you can figure out what’s it all about from the name of the application. However, you would be wrong to think it’s yet another shopping list application. Don’t get me wrong – I love Shop Shop, but…
Apple, looking to do the same thing to the newsroom that they’ve done to the music industry, is teaming up with Rupert Murdoch and his company News Corp with the goal of delivering a new iPad only newspaper called the Daily. According to the Guardian this announcement will take place by the end of this…
Palm’s webOS may or may not take off now that the once prestigious company is under HP’s wing, but one thing is certain: applications make or break a platform these days. The technology press love citing large numbers, whether it be the total number of apps available, apps downloaded, devices activated, whatever. Big numbers make…
Have you ever wanted to measure your heart rate using your iPhone? I know I haven’t. However, if you’re of the opinion that you may get some mileage out of a heart rate monitor on your iPhone, keep reading. Heart Rate from CMG Research is a new entry into the App Store that… well, it…