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You’ve gotta love how irrational we can be sometimes, as The Oatmeal poignantly illustrates. We’ll pay outrageous amounts for our toys and gadgets, yet when it comes to making good use of them (i.e. paying for high quality apps which make our phones more interesting and/or worthwhile), we’re outraged by their costs! Why? For starters,…
Anyone not on Verizon hurting for native VoIP on BlackBerry will want to check out this leaked beta of Skype Mobile. This is probably the closed beta that started about a year ago, and eventually graduated to full-time status. Carrier deals will probably prevent you from using this anywhere, but there’s always IM+ if you’re…
PapayaMobile is looking to get Android developers noticed. If you’re a developer, or even just a casual smartphone user, being overwhelmed with tens of thousands of apps makes it difficult to get attention or to pick out some decent apps. PapayaMobile has now launched Android App of the Day which–you guessed it–features new apps every…
Morgan Stanley is apparently the first Wall Street institution to launch an iPhone app, bringing its research to the interested (and select) clients. Although it’s free to download, Morgan Stanley Research for iPhone is made for institutional clients who have a valid Client Link account. If that’s on place, you will be able to use…
Thomson Reuters’ legal research system WestlawNext now has an iPad app for lawyers on the go. Apparently, iPhone’s tiny screen is not “good enough” for lawyers doing research, but the iPad is just perfect, hence the media/news company decided to try their luck with such a product [iPad app]. Available as a free download to…
Until now, Remember The Milk for the iPhone/iPod Touch was a “feature” available for the Pro users, only. Not any more as folks behind the wildly popular task management service decided to make their iPhone app available to the general public as well. Pro users still benefit from some special features like on-demand and automatic…
The Gowalla location-based social network has significantly expanded their previously flimsy BlackBerry app with the ability to add pictures to spots, keep track of virtual items, and of course check in to and share your favorite locales with Facebook and Twitter friends like usual. Gowalla differs from the current check-in leader, Foursquare, by offering a…
Earlier we reported that Bing has finally launched an Android application, but the only downside was that it was limited to Verizon customers. However, there was no solid word on whether it was exclusive to Big Red. It turns out it isn’t. Let’s not forget that Bing has a partnership going on with Verizon right…
Apple continues to be the leader in the mobile app space as Fortune said the company’s App Store has surpassed 250,000 apps in a little more than two years. Don’t get me wrong, the sheer volume of apps isn’t as important as the number of quality apps but having this amount of programs shows that…
If you’re tired of Android gaming being behind the Apple iPhone, you should be happy to know that Google is bolstering its mobile gaming portfolio with the purchase of SocialDeck. On its website, SocialDeck said, “We started this company with the goal of connecting friends through social games on all kinds of exciting new mobile…