Square Enix has been giving a lot of iPhone love as of late and it looks like the iPhone lovin’ isn’t going to stop any time soon. The company is set to release two very big older titles on the iPhone platform, Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of Lions & Secret of Mana. Final Fantasy…
HootSuite for iPhone Updated with Push Notifications
HootSuite’s Facebook and Twitter app for iPhone has been updated to include push notifications (pop-up, audio, or vibration) whenyou either get a reply, retweet, direct message, or when there are any new tweets on your home timeline. The update also includes new localizations for Arabic and Korean, as well as a few UI tweaks, like…
Telus Teams Up with Poynt for Live Agent Assistance
Poynt’s location-based reference app for BlackBerry is getting an impressive new feature thanks to Telus. If you have incomplete or absent results when doing a business search, you can launch a phone call to a live service rep who can look up more information for you and update the Poynt database. Details right now are…
E3 2010: Ultimate Spider-Man: Total Mayhem Announced for the iPhone
Is your spidey sense tingling for some total mayhem? It looks like Gameloft has gotten their hands on another Marvel property to turn into a game on the iPhone as they released a trailer for their upcoming title, Ultimate Spider-Man: Total Mayhem. The game isn’t set to any of the recently released films, instead they’re…
T-Mobile Android app adds task killer
T-Mobile wants your Android device like the myTouch 3G Slide to run smoother and it has added a task-killing functionality to its My Account application. The “Tune-up” feature will try and kill unused services in the background for Android devices with the 2.1 version of the software and below. In theory, this could make the…
Pandora for iPad gets its first advertisers: Starbucks, Lexus and Budweiser
Pandora announced first advertisers for its iPad advertising platform – Starbucks, Lexus, and Budweiser. Each of the brands/companies prepared a campaign that features rich video, audio and interactive capabilities. Pandora’s advertising solutions allow companies to hyper-target consumers by gender, age, location, the type of music they like and time of day. Advertisers can take advantage…
Kindle for iPhone/iPad hits version 2.1
Amazon has recently updated its Kindle app for the iPhone/iPod Touch and the iPad. The universal app (works on all iOS devices) comes with several important enhancements, including: Addition of bigger fonts and more font sizes on iPad Easier and faster navigation between home and archived items on iPad Search inside the book (iPhone only,…
Thrillist gets an iPhone app
Thrillist is out with its “local lifestyle” iPhone app, which at start is sponsored by Bacardi’s new Torched Cherry flavored rum. If you’ve visited the Thrillist website, you can guess for yourself what their app is all about. If you haven’t, here’s a snippet from the press release, explaining the app instead of me: A…
Ovi Maps updated with location-aware hotel booking in the US and UK
Ovi Maps got a cool new update for spontaneous folks living or travelling to the US and/or UK. Nokia’s maps app now rocks a location-aware booking feature, allowing users to search for hotels nearby and reserve a room right on the spot. The functionality is added in cooperation with Expedia and comes on the heels…
Orb Live launched for iPad, Android
Orb Live, the application that allows users to access their media files from their mobile device, has been launched for the iPad and Android smartphones. As you may know, Orb Live communicates with Orb MyCast, which is a personal media server application installed on your home computer, to allow you to access your media while…