App store analytics company Distimo announced the public beta launch of Distimo Monitor, a free app store analytics tool for mobile developers. The new service collects all relevant statistics about mobile applications across all app stores and provides developers with a comprehensive dashboard that includes the total daily downloads, revenues and rankings worldwide of their…
SimpleGeo allows developers to make their apps location-enabled
A company called SimpleGeo has recently launched SimpleGeo location services infrastructure to allow developers to make location-aware applications. The ready-to-use infrastructure (libraries and SDKs) makes it easy and cost-effective to add geo-aware features to apps. For instance, using the SimpleGeo iPhone SDK, developers should be able to make an augmented reality interface in dramatically less…
Apple iPad AppStore demo video
The Apple AppStore has added a new section to its virtual store shelves to accomodate the iPad. In the process, Apple has birthed an entirely new genre of mobile apps. There are now thousands of iPad-specific apps to complement the hundreds of thousands of iPhone apps that will help you generate fart sounds, calculate tips,…
Ustream + iPad = Random streaming video to your favorite tablet
By now it’s clear that one of the iPad’s most interesting uses is going to be watching video of all kinds. Be they TV shows downloaded through iTunes or movies sideloaded onto the onboard memory, Apple is pushing the iPad tablet as a media consumption device rivaled only by super high-end smartphones like the HTC…
Smule’s Magic Piano turns your iPad into a… magic piano
There are apps on the iPhone that allow you to make all kinds of music. There are DJ music-mixing apps, beat-making apps, and even apps that turn your iPhone into an instrument. But, those apps have been limited to a fairly small screen. Well, with the iPad launching in less than 24 hours, we’re starting…
Digg gets Android app
A few weeks after its successful iPhone app, the good folks at Digg have released a native Android app of the popular news aggregate site. “The Digg Android app has been designed for an ideal mobile Digg browsing experience on an Android phone,” Digg said on its blog. “You can browse and digg stories and…
Check out the new Motorola Droid ads
The latest advertisements are out for the Motorola Droid and it eschews the balls-out nature of the launch ads and focuses on the apps and multitasking. The one above talks about the Android Market and shows how you can listen to Slacker Radio while reading an e-book at the same time. You know, third-party multitasking…
IntoMobile’s iPad App Survival Guide: Gamer Edition
It looks like we’re officially at the home stretch for tomorrow’s release of the Apple iPad as we’re now within 24 hours of its release. If you’ve taken the plunge and are counting down the hours until its release, this may very well be the longest couple of hours you’ve ever felt in your life.…
Google intros iPad-ready Gmail web app
I actually think the iPad’s native Mail application will be pretty satisfying but we all know Google makes the best Gmail clients, so it’s a good thing the search giant has introduced a web app specifically for Apple’s tablet. While you’ll be able to get Gmail through the Mail’s IMAP protocol, Big G is making…
Old media hits the iPad
It’s not that big of a surprise but two of the monsters of the newspaper industry, the New York Times and USA Today, have released apps for Apple’s iPad. The Grey Lady hasn’t gone all out yet, as it only released a free app called Editors’ Choice which contains two pages of the best stories…