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American Airlines wants to make it easier for you to travel and the company has just released an app for the Apple iPhone which will also include a mobile boarding pass capability. It’s not the first airline to release an Apple iPhone app, but the American Airlines app allows you to book and check-in for…
A Playstation emulator has been something that many Android users have been wanting for some time now, and now that PSX4Droid is now available in the Android Market, that wait is over. With this handy little PS emulator for Android, you can get your fill of PSone games right on your phone! The emulator may…
Following up on its craft and trade update last month, the location-based check-in game for iPhone, MyTown, has just become a little more interesting. Instead of just checking-in to real-world businesses and claiming them as your own in an online game of Monopoly, you can now use your phone’s camera to scan barcodes and check…
Citi said it has fixed a privacy bug in its Apple iPhone app but snafus like this could hurt mobile banking’s prospects with the mainstream. The Citi Apple iPhone app had a flaw where the customer’s account information was stored on the device. The bank has updated the app to fix the flaw and reportedly…
The Thumbplay music service has updated their Android app so even if you’re out of wireless coverage to stream music, you can cache particular songs locally on your phone to listen to whenever you want. Thumbplay still syncs up with your desktop and web collection wirelessly, and offers iTunes playlist importing and a music discovery…
It seems like only yesterday that Google Maps got updated for Android handsets, and each update has been bringing handy new features, but it’s being updated again with newer goodies. Last time, on version 4.3, we saw the addition of public transportation schedules, which was a big help for those of us that live in…
Flickr’s iPhone app, launched in September, has been updated to version 1.2 so you can upload HD videos taken on the iPhone 4’s 5 megapixel camera, and share posted pictures to Twitter. Additionally, the app takes advantage of iOS 4’s new multitasking abilities, letting you upload stuff in the background while you’re doing something else.…
My absolute favorite iPhone Twitter client, Twitterrific, was updated recently. The update brings us up to version 3.0.1, and packs the standard batch of bug fixes, along with timeline shortcuts and enhancements for iOS 4. Here’s the breakdown straight from the developers: New Features Timeline shortcuts (all iPhones) Tap avatar to view profile Tap &…
A quick one here for all of the BlackBerry users out there. If you like to ‘tweet’ on the go, the very popular Twitter client ‘UberTwitter‘ was recently updated to Beta 8, and is available for download. No official changelog has been made available as of yet, but from what I can tell there’s a…
Flipboard is a new iPad app made to turn your beloved tablet computer into a social magazine. It does that by mining the hundreds of millions of web links posted each day on Facebook and Twitter. Your “job” is to enter your Twitter and Facebook logins and let the app do its magic. It will…