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Panoramic photos, love them or hate them, are a pain in the ass to make yourself. What with all the stitching work you need to do in Photoshop, it’s a real drag. Nokia has made this easy now with their “Panorama” application, which was built in to devices like the Nokia N86 8 MP and…
If you’re like me, and use your iPhone for gaming perhaps just a little too much… Sega has a nifty little deal on right now for a ‘limited time’ (I have a love/hate relationship with these offers… love the deal, can’t stand it when I don’t know the end date!). At any rate, if you’re…
The good folks at Discovery Communications dropped me a note a little earlier letting me in on some solid news. They’ve launched an iPad optimized version of Discovery Education, available right now at mobile.discoveryeducation.com. It’s solid news for sure, but what does it mean? I’ll tell you. Discovery Education services (now accessible via the iPad)…
After the updated iPhone app, Waze is following up with a new Android client which now too comes with driving groups support. There are already more than 5,000 groups to choose from (created by the iPhone users) as well as the option to create your own driving group. In addition, Waze 2.0 for Android also…
During the recently ended Mobile Entertainment Live!: The Music App Summit, Billboard announced the winners of its first-ever Music App Awards. The winning apps, which were narrowed down from a pool of three finalists in each category, were as follows: Best Artist-Based App – I Am T-Pain, Smule Best Music Streaming App – MOG Mobile,…
It’s only been a couple of days before the Skype application escaped the shackles of Verizon, and was released for all Android 2.1 phones, and now there’s a hack to enable 3G calling. Unlike the Verizon’s version, the application didn’t allow for 3G calling, but now it’s become a reality thanks to a hack. Some…
Just yesterday, James reported Capcom will be releasing an app on the App Store called “Capcom Arcade.” The app will bring many Capcom classics, such as 1942, Ghouls ‘n Ghosts, and Street Fighter II to the iPhone platform. But that wasn’t the only Capcom related news to recently hit the intertubes. It looks like Capcom…
It’s CTIA time as you know, and Swype is using the event to share some cool figures with the media. 2010 was a successful year for the company and their text input technology for the touchscreen smartphones. Here’s what they got: 20 Swype-enable devices launched or announced across 50 countries including such popular models as…
It looks like Gameloft’s Modern Combat series might have some competition in the FPS Army ring as EA Mobile recently announced they’re bringing one of their best-selling from one of its most beloved franchises, Battlefield Bad Company 2, to the iPhone platform next month. Battlefield Bad Company 2 for the iPhone will offer 14 single-player…
Vlingo’s voice control application for Android has expanded their SafeReader message dictation feature by now offering outbound communication too. Once paired via Bluetooth, you initiate the app by saying “Hey, Vlingo,” after which you can read out text messages and e-mails, which are then read back to you to confirm sender and accuracy. When texts…