It was back in February of 2008 when we first wrote about StyleTap. At that moment, the Palm OS emulator for iPhone was still an experimental thing. Then, at the end of May of the same year, they said the application will be released soon — who knew that by “soon” they meant two years?…
AT&T WorkBench for iPhone is made to connect to AT&T’s cloud (Mobile Enterprise Applications Platform)
AT&T unveiled a new native iPhone application for enterprise users – AT&T Workbench, using which businesses can “easily provision, deploy and control enterprise web applications for work in a highly-secure, reliable and manageable fashion.” As an integral part of AT&T MEAP (Mobile Enterprise Applications Platform — essentially AT&T’s cloud), the application provides: Role-based deployment of…
JiWire’s Wi-Fi Finder iPhone app now in version 2.0
JiWire announced that their popular Wi-Fi Finder iPhone application is now in version 2.0, allowing users to find and connect to any of a number of hotspots in JiWire’s network from their beloved device. Among the new features included in the updated version, we highlight: Ability to share your location with friends via Facebook and…
Verizon announces Skype Mobile application for select 3G phones
As promised, today Verizon Wireless and Skype announced Skype Mobile, an application that allows customers to call any of the 500 million customers for free. It was at Mobile World Congress that Verizon and Skype announced that they were joining forces, and now we the announcement of the goods to be shown Starting Thursday, the…
TextArrest stops the kiddies from texting while driving
The just-released TextArrest app is trying to stop kids from being distracted by their phones while driving. We had a chance to look at this app and web portal at CTIA last night and it allows parents to disable their kid’s phone’s ability to make calls, text message, instant message and browse the web while…
iPhone and iPod touch get the djay Remote App
algoriddim has today announced the release of djay Remote, an app that turns a user’s iPhone or iPod touch into a fully-fledged DJ controller. Wirelessly syncing with algoriddim’s djay software on the Mac, djay Remote enables users to mix and play their iTunes music, whether they’re mingling with guests or mixing it up on the…
U-Verse app will bring TV to your phone
During a keynote session at CTIA Wireless Tuesday, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said the company will be releasing an app that enables U-verse customers to remotely manage their DVR, view programming schedules and watch recorded video on the handset over WiFi. It’s a cool move that’s not completely unexpected – rival Comcast recently updated its…
Twitter for BlackBerry Update List Leaked?
The official BlackBerry Twitter client has been in a pseudo-closed beta for over a month now, and many are antsy to get their mitts on the final product, both those who haven’t tried it and those who are using it and want to see what’s updated. Luckily, this awkwardly-translated list of supposed feature updates gives…
Nuance copy and pastes Swype’s new touch screen input method, they’re calling it “T9 Trace”
Swype showed the world a new way to input text on touch screen devices. Rather than pushing buttons on a soft keyboard, one simply had to touch the screen once, on the first letter of a word, and then drag their finger across the screen to the other letters in said word. Once you lift…
Shazam hits 1 million downloads in Nokia’s Ovi Store after 7 months; 1.5 million in 2 months on App Store
Shazam, the music service that allows users to identify what song they’re currently listening to by way of recording a short sample and then sending it to a remote server for processing, has just announced that they’ve hit 1 million downloads via Nokia’s Ovi Store since making their application avilable in store in August 2009.…