Starting Thursday, April 8th, BMW will released their Roadside Assistance application to almost 20 Android phones, the iPhone and to many Blackberry devices as well. This may not be as interesting as the Touchstone being hacked into a BMW, but it’s much, much, more useful. When a user registers, all information, such as VIN, GPS,…
Canadian Museum of Civilization Launches BlackBerry Tour Guide
Any tourists here in Ottawa, Ontario will want to check out the new BlackBerry application for the Museum of Civilization. It offers two 40-minute audio tours with extra visual aides, maps of the gorgeous four-storey building, and movie times for the domed IMAX theatre and other events hosted there. It’s too bad that the other…
SPB TV comes to iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad
SPB Software is bringing its SPB TV software to Apple’s mobile platform. In other words, by installing the application, you can enjoy any of a number of available public TV channels in more than 20 languages on your iPhone, iPod Touch and/or iPad. We’re talking about a free, ad-supported app that will certainly keep you…
Evernote updated to sing along the iPad!
Evernote said it will support the Apple iPad and they delivered on the promise. The new version of the application is a universal binary that will run on all iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad devices. As you can guess for yourself, the iPad version comes with a revamped interface that takes advantage of a larger…
American Express launches its iPhone app
American Express is catching up with the rest of the industry. These days, everyone’s about iPad, but not American Express – they’ve just released an iPhone app, hinting us they are not on the cutting edge of technology, unfortunately. To be fair, they already had mobile website up and running and even SMS alerts, but…
TNS Technology: Mobile content and apps get increasingly popular in China
Like people in the Western hemisphere, Chinese mobile users are getting excited about apps as well. According to a recent study by TNS Technology, when asked to choose the single most important factor in their next purchase, 32% of Chinese consumers chose Content and Applications as their first choice, narrowly behind the brand of handset…
Amazon Goes Live with Kindle App for iPad
If the iPad is indeed ‘revolutionary’, could it somehow spell the end for Amazon’s Kindle? I mean, sure, the awesome ‘e-ink’ tech built into the Kindle is great for reading… But when you pop open a book on the iPad with it’s full color beauty and head-turning effects… do you really care about e-ink anymore?…
PAC-MAN for iPad Arrives from Namco
The iPad seems just right for certain applications. Browsing the web? Uh-huh. Reading books? Sure. Managing your calendars, yep… Board games? A definite yes. Classic ‘cocktail table’ and ‘retro’ video games? 100% YES! With that in mind, enter PAC-MAN for iPad from the developers at Namco. You get what you expect with this one. All…
The Onion launches free iPhone app
The Onion has launched its official iPhone app, sponsored by Jack Link’s Beef Jerky. The application presents the award-winning news, analysis and attention-grabbing headlines all Onion fans, myself included, love. Among the things you’ll be able to enjoy while on the go are Onion Radio News, Onion News Network video, sports, opinion editorials, statshots, infographics…
Toshl expense tracking app is web connected and I love it for that!
I guess we all agree it’s a good practice to keep track of your expenses. There are quite a few mobile apps that allow you to do just that, but there is one problem all of them have – what happens when you switch phones or even platforms? The data from you previous phone is…