The Times has been working with the personal media company TigerSpike to launch a new iPad app for their monthly science magazine – Eureka. Designed as a special interactive edition of the magazine, the application features video, audio, interactive elements, psychometric tests and rich content based on the science of sport. In terms of the…
TekTrak Pro is a cheap GPS tracking service for the iPhone
An LA, California-based company called TekTrak launched an affordable and easy to use GPS tracking service/app combo for the iPhone users. Available for just $4.99 a year, TekTrak Pro allows iPhone owners to access their device’s location information from anywhere as often as they like from the tektrak.com website. With TekTrak, you can not only…
Androidzoom lets you search the Android Market from your computer
While we’re still waiting on Google to come up with an online Android Market – which will eventually happen – some sites are already beating the search giant to it. Androidzoom is one such site and it will allow you to search and send links to install apps from your computer to your phone. The…
Kik Messenger app blows past 1 million users
There appears to be a strong demand for the ability to circumvent the carriers for quick messages, as the Kik Messenger app for the Apple iPhone, Android and BlackBerry has just surpassed 1 million users in only a few short weeks. The Kik Messenger app is downloaded to your Apple iPhone, Android or BlackBerry and…
Apple introduces ‘Hall of Fame’ apps
Looking for Apple’s most popular apps for the iPhone and other iOS devices? When you pop into the iTunes store, you’ll see a new section called “Hall of Fame,” and in it you’ll find 50 popular and noteworthy apps like Angry Birds and Dragon Dictation. Apple says that two years since the app store’s release,…
Skyfire for iPhone to open ‘batches of downloads for new users over the coming days’
When Skyfire for the iPhone finally hit the iTunes app store, it nearly brought the browser’s servers to its knees. It was sold out in the sense that it couldn’t continue selling because of server capacity. So much for thinking that people didn’t really care much about whether Flash content could be displayed – one…
Men More Prone to Use Mobile VoIP Apps Than Women – Study
A rather interesting study on voice over IP usage by Harris Interactive has revealed that men are more likely to use VoIP mobile apps for international calling than women. 31% of male (versus 19% female) respondents said they were more likely to make calls through computer software, and 10% (vs. 2%) said they’d make the…
Opera Mobile 10.1 hitting Android next week
If you’re an Opera fan and you’re using an Android then we have some good news: the Opera Mobile 10.1 beta will be landing next week with multiple new features. Unlike the Opera Mini browser, Opera Mobile doesn’t have to use proxy servers to deliver web content to Android devices, as it uses a Presto…
Good Housekeeping @Home hits the AppStore
Zumobi keeps pushing new apps to the iOS device users and their latest work is a result of collaboration with Good Housekeeping magazine. The new application is called Good Housekeeping @Home App and it’s available free of charge for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad owners. There are six content/functionality areas included in the app:…
Nozbe’s iPad app updated again; Productive! magazine goes native on Apple’s tablet
Nozbe has once again updated its iPad application, this time bringing some features that are not even available on their web-based service. The update adds two new views — “Unread Comments” and “Delegated Actions” — both of which sound useful to me. Of course, the company said these views will also hit the iPhone/iPod Touch…