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We have yet to see many compelling Android applications made with Adobe’s Air yet, but a new app called Skytunes might just change our perspective on that. Skytunes is a new Android app that allows you to listen to your home music collection from your PC to your phone from anywhere. There are a few…
If you’re sporting an Android phone with version 2.1 on it, you may have been a little annoyed that the new YouTube application update didn’t initially make it to your particular version of Android OS. Luckily, the guys over at XDA have worked some magic and made the updated available to 2.1 devices! In order…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but your mobile phone could soon become your wallet. This has been bandied about for nearly a decade but PayPal is taking some steps to actually make this happen within months, instead of years. I spoke with Laura Chambers, senior director at PayPal Mobile, at the X…
The great picture-sharing application for Android, Pixelpipe, has had a small upgrade to version 2.2.2 which includes the ability to resume interrupted uploads. As soon as the app opens again, the upload will resume right where it left off. Wireless connections aren’t what you’d call a permanent or consistent thing, so this is a particularly…
Amazon wants to make it easier for you to spend your cash from your iPad and the company has released a new shopping app called Windowshop. Amazon already had an app for the Apple iPad but it wasn’t really optimized for the big beautiful screen. It was essentially just the iPhone app with a few…
PayPal is making a very big push in mobile payments today with a number of announcements, and one is a partnership with VeriFone. The two are teaming up as VeriFone becomes the first to partner with PayPal for mobile payments, and will join the dev ecosystem for the development of new apps. According to PayPal:…
Nokia Internet Radio, one of the most used Symbian S60 apps, is finding its way to the Series 40 feature phone platform. Still in beta, the application allows users to browse through tens of thousands of stations, which are organized by genre, language and region. Alternatively, you can also search for the specific station if…
As part of its efforts to promote the new Bada platform, Samsung is offering free games and apps to the new owners of the latest Bada smartphones, including the Wave 525, 533, 575 and 723. Among the titles users can download without paying a dime, there are FIFA 10, Tetris Refresh, Spore Creatures, Assassin’s Creed…
OpenCloud, a technology firm that sells hardware and software that enables operators to deploy services on the cheap, has commissioned a survey, performed by research agency Loudhouse, on 1,000 mobile users in the UK. The results are not what you would typically expect if all you rely on for an accurate depiction of the mobile…
coresystems, which is the world leader in next generation apps and solutions in the SAP environment, announced that it will bring its coresuite mobile solution to Windows Phone 7. Based on Microsoft Silverlight, coresuite mobile is touted to be “just the right solution” for business customers looking for a mobile ERP solution for their smartphone.…