There’s no love lost between Microsoft and Google, but that’s not going to stop the Windows-maker from creating an app for Android. The Tag Reader is available now for free in the Android Market and it scan Tag barcodes and display information about it on the handset. This can include videos, details, a phone number,…
AT&T’s myWireless for BlackBerry Allows Mobile Payments and Usage Monitoring
AT&T’s myWireless App has found its way to a variety of BlackBerry models, allowing you to pay your wireless bill, check plan options, and monitor voice and data usage by mobile. A similar app is already available for the iPhone, so it’s not entirely unreasonable to expect it to land on other smartphone platforms, like,…
Facebook for webOS Updated: Friend Search, Inbox, Events, and More
Those of you expecting a new version of the Facebook application for your Palm Pre or Pixi will be happy to hear that it has arrived and is ready for downloading. The old app did little more than let you post updates, pictures, and check your friends’ news feed, but this update promises a heck…
Verizon Wireless’ app recommendations are all about spring, multiple platforms this week
The Big Red is continuing with its app recommendations. This week, however, they are tackling multiple platforms, not just webOS and/or Android. Here’s what they got: For webOS devices (Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus): Baseball Fans – The $3.99 app gives customers access to the latest news, videos, stats, standings and scores for all…
AppShup is an SMS app store for emerging markets
SMS GupShup, Asia’s 25 million user-strong mobile social network, launched an app store called AppShup to promote and distribute SMS applications. Here’s how it works (their words): The system requires developers to have only a basic knowledge of any programming language, understanding of web applications and familiarity with JSON and XML. Developers can use the…
Ultrabrief: Opera Mini 5 Beta, written as a native Windows Mobile app, released today
Opera Mini, a 3rd party browser that uses remote servers to compress websites before delivering them to your phone, started out as a Java application. It actually still is, but that’s slowly starting to change as of today. Opera has just launched Opera Mini 5 Beta [read my review here] as a native Windows Mobile…
twiddish is a mobile social network for U.S. diners
A company called StewartSoft is launching a social network and mobile application for iPhone/iPod Touch for diners across the U.S. – twiddish. The service (and the accompanying mobile app) is made to allow people to discover the best and worst restaurant dishes through user-generated photograph-based dish reviews. Basically, it’s a Twitter-like micro-blogging service with images…
Google Gesture Search now available for Android 2.x devices
Google has really been churning out their own apps lately. It seems that Goggles, Shopper, Buzz, Earth, appeared relatively quickly one after the other, and now we have Google Gesture Search hot off the shelves. If you’ve used any of Google’s applications for Android, you’ve probably noticed that they work rather well, even for a…
WhosHere, the iPhone Social Networking App, passes 1 Million Users
WhosHere, which was apparently the very first Social Networking app for the iPhone to let you meet and interact based on proximity, has passed one million users. The WhosHere’s user community now extends to more than 150 countries, with users sending millions of free text messages and images per day. WhosHere managed to achieve many…
iPhone Gets Google Buzz App – Buzzie
Google’s status and multimedia sharing service, Buzz, launched with a dose of Android support, and now thanks to a third-party application called Buzzie, it’s available on the iPhone. Buzzie enables all the features you would expect, like reading posts from those you follow, posting geotagged updates yourself, checking the local Buzz, commenting on and Liking…