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This was a huge week for new smartphones, as HTC showed everybody’s what’s up when it comes to Android superphones with the introduction of the HTC Desire HD and the Desire Z. But HTC wasn’t the only one bringing the heat, as the world’s largest handset maker used its Nokia World conference to unveil some…
Following up on the ability to search local contacts and e-mails, the Google Mobile App for BlackBerry will now scan through cloud content from Google as well. Messages from your Gmail account, contacts stored there, and anything saved in Google Docs will also be accessible when you launch a search. Google Search is usually the…
We knew it would only be a matter of days, but a Google Voice native app has been approved for the Apple iPhone. To be clear, this isn’t the official version from Google, as it is called GV Connect but it should enable you to have full access to your Google Voice account on your…
U.K users will now be able to show off where they go, as the Facebook Places location-sharing service has now gone live. As you may be aware, the world’s largest social network is implementing check-in services. The goal of Facebook Places is to let you share your location with your friends in the hopes that…
If you’ve been too distracted by Fruit Ninja on Android to notice that the Angry Birds beta has a received an update, direct your attention back to the Rovio game for a moment, won’t you? No, you won’t actually find new levels, but performance enhancements and bug fixes can be found throughout. From my experience…
Just because they are in the process of being acquired by RIM, DataViz doesn’t want to abandon iOS users. As a matter of fact, the company launched the new version of its popular mobile office suite, Documents To Go, for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Version 4.0 brings two important feature upgrades: Revamped user…
DistinctDev launched an iOS Lite version of its hilarious brain-teasing app – The Moron Test. Having generated over 50% of its paid downloads from the Lite version on Android, the company is trying to repeat the success with the iUsers. During the first two months in the Android Market, The Moron Test Lite has been…
Shooger, a mobile coupon platform with more than 100,000 local and national deals from 50,000 merchants, updated its iPhone app with support for barcodes, both standard and QR codes. However, it’s not something you and me as consumers will benefit from – this update is made for merchants who will be able to scan the…
GameFly, which is U.S.’ largest video game rental subscription service, released an updated version of its GameCenter app for Android. There are two major feature upgrades included in this release – ability to manage queue from the app (so called GameQ) and support for hi-res devices (i.e. with WVGA screens). In addition, we’re hearing there…
One of the big selling points Apple promised with Game Center when it released was the ability to play online multiplayer games either against our friends or anyone else through matchmaking. Game Center has been available through the iOS 4.1 update for 2 weeks now, but game developers are still playing catch up supporting all…