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For those of you who haven’t been graced with the Car Home application that’s now pre-installed with many Android phones these days, you now finally have a chance to see what you’ve been missing out on. Car Home application is now available in the Android Market for free, of course. The Car Home app gives…
Well, that didn’t take long. The Apple TV has been jailbroken and you can look forward to getting around some of Apple’s restrictions. That’s right folks, we should see some apps on the device soon. Prior to the introduction of the Apple TV, there was speculation that it would be a full iOS device which…
Android users in the U.S. have been rather spoiled now with access to the Android Market, not realizing that other parts of the world don’t have access just yet. Google says that it is continuing its global expansion of the Android Market so that others can get apps for their handsets. Countries included are Brazil,…
Toktumi has once again updated its iPhone app Line2 to further sweeten the deal. The main new thing of this release (version 3.0) is the introduction of carrier-grade texting, allowing users to have a single app for both low-cost phone calls and texting. As you may know, Line2 offers users unlimited VoIP calls for just…
Gap has partnered with mobile entertainment agency Skyrockit to bring its Casting Call contest to moms and dads on the go, in the form of an iPhone app. The application is obviously called Gap Casting Call, and it makes it super easy for parents to enter their children (ages 10 and under) into the contest.…
Layar may go for the Samsung Wave (Bada) smartphone users, but metaio wants its share of the Symbian action… During the recently held insideAR augmented reality conference in Munich, Germany, metaio unveiled and even demoed junaio for Symbian. The popular AR app was caught running on the brand-new Nokia N8 smartphone, though we still wait…
After Handmark, Samsung has scored another mobile app publisher to support its Bada platform – Netbiscuits. Actually, Netbiscuits is not a publisher per se, they are the “development and publishing platform for mobile web sites and apps” and they will allow its users to get content on Samsung Bada smartphones, Samsung Wave (S8500) included. Samsung…
DJ wannabees, you ready to scratch? If you have a BlackBerry handy, now you can… Because Activision has launched DJ Hero Mobile for BlackBerry! Well, truth be told, the game has been available for about a month how, but somehow we missed it! In DJ Hero Mobile for BlackBerry it’s up to you to scratch…
HP has made a commitment to the Palm community and webOS fans since its acquisition of the smartphone maker, and it looks like it’s doing something special for developers, too. We recently got an e-mail that on November 20, there will be a webOS Developer Day in New York City. Any webOS developers in the…
I’m a big fan of mind mapping and I love MindMeister, the web-based service that allows multiple users to collaborate on mind maps. They already have a mobile app for the iOS-powered devices and now they’ve updated their iPad application in an effort to “close the gap between mobile and browser based MindMeister functionality.” Here’s…