Entropy Digital and Bauer Media have announced the launch of Empire Movie Guide for iPhone – offering iPhone and iPod Touch users to have the full Empire Magazine experience – pulling together over 9,000 exclusive reviews from the world’s biggest movie magazine. The launch represents the second in a strategic rollout process for Bauer Media, who have…
Buzzd Comes to Android
The venue-rating application Buzzd has found its way to Android, allowing you to see which restaurants, events, and clubs are getting the most interest in your neighbourhood. GPS integration lets you see what’s happening nearby, and a smooth user interface lets you quickly submit a thumbs up or thumbs down. Buzzd is slightly zippier than…
Background Check App for iPhone does exactly what you think it does
Ever wished you could run a quick background check on an acquaintance or an upcoming blind date? The free DateCheck app, which recently hit the iPhone, can help you do that, but it isn’t something we’d call “reliable.” Today, we have a new option for background check – the new Background Check App for iPhone…
NPR News is live on the Android Market
Just as expected, NPR has taken their NPR News app from the iPhone AppStore to the Android Market today. Like its iPhone cousin, the Android version of the app serves up news articles, streams live NPR radio broadcasts, plays past shows and podcasts. And, thanks to the more open Android platform, NPR’s Android app allows…
Random House iPhone-izes its bestselling authors
The Random House Publishing Group has collaborated with Mobile Roadie to launch iPhone apps for its bestselling authors. Right from the bat, the two companies released apps for three New York Times bestselling authors: Steve Berry – published by Ballantine Books, is the author of such novels as The Charlemagne Pursuit, and The Templar Legacy,…
Yelp for Android Updated with Photo Uploading
A tiny update for Yelp’s Android client is including some handy features, like logging into your account, uploading photos right from mobile, and sharing business info via SMS, e-mail, and Facebook. Yelp for Android was launched just a few short weeks ago, but it sounds like they’re gung-ho about bringing it up to speed with…
iPhone game maker Tapulous rakes in $1 million per month from AppStore
The AppStore is like the new American Dream. It offers the promise of million-dollar successes to small developers without many resources. The reality of the AppStore, at least nowadays, is that it’s too crowded and most up-and-coming apps will never see the light of day as them compete with established developers cross-promoting their own apps.…
Fennec Browser “Days Away” from Launch
Firefox’s official debut on mobile is mere “days away”, according to Jay Sullivan at Mozilla. If you’ve been following the string of betas for Windows Mobile and Maemo 5, and the rumours of Android and iPhone apps, you’ll know what Fennec is all about. The status of the latter two have changed a bit, especially…
iPhone Twitter Client ‘Twittelator Pro’ Updated to Version 3.5
The uber-popular iPhone twitter client ‘Twittelator Pro‘ has been updated, and is now at version 3.5. The number of feature enhancements and bug fixes is too long to list here, so hit up the break for all the details. Some of the cooler updates in the new version of Twittelator Pro include support for Twitter…
Opera: State of the Mobile Web November 2009: 41.7 million users viewed 18.8 billion pages
Opera, the browser vendor based in Norway, has released their latest “State of the Mobile Web” report, based on Opera Mini usage. The top 10 countries using Opera Mini are: Russia, Indonesia, India, China, Ukraine, South Africa, United States, United Kingdom, Vietnam and Poland. In November 2009 Opera Mini had 41.7 million users who viewed…