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DataMan Pro is an app for iPhone and iPad that allows users to stay on top of their tiered data plan by rigorously tracking how much data they use on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis to avoid those nasty overage fees. I was able to spend some time with it for the past week…
Two companies, uSpeak and BlueCaribu, prepared a neat infographic to show developers the basics of promoting a mobile app. Before the launch, developers should choose a good (unique and memorable) name, find their competitors and choose the right category to estimate the number of downloads and calculate their app’s strengths. Then they should make an…
The Blackberry 10 gold SDK release has revealed something interesting – RIM will integrate its latest platform with Evernote, the world’s most popular note-taking service. Evernote is placed as one of the so-called Notebook options listed under the “App Integration” heading, allowing users to organize “actionable and non-actionable items into separate folders or topics.” By…
Mobile apps stores had collectively distributed a cumulative total of 81 billion smartphone and tablet applications as of end-September 2012, 89% of which were downloaded from native storefronts that come with the device’s operating system. According to ABI Research’s senior analyst Aapo Markkanen, storefronts that the operating system vendors provide as part of the OS…
Since its debut, the Facebook application for Android has been met with much scorn. Not only has the application been buggy throughout its existence, but it’s also been excruciatingly slow at times. Finally, it looks as if Facebook decided to give a damn, and today updated its application to 2.0. The update brings a nice…
Apple has rounded up its list of the best iPhone apps and games of 2012. Every year Apple posts its list in iTunes, giving its pick for the best app of the year, best game of the year, and runner-ups for each. iPad apps get their own separate list, which we’ll also cover. Best-sellers are…
Flagging down a taxi in New York City can be a pain sometimes, so it’s no surprise that the Empire State is looking to ease the stress. A pilot program headed by New York City Taxi and the Limousine Commission announced today that it will vote on usage of a smartphone apps that’ll summon taxis.…
Yahoo has been hard at work lately with implementing so many new changes. Yesterday the large social company unveiled a new mail client for iOS, Android, Windows 8, and the web. Yahoo today has finally gave its popular photo sharing service Flickr some much-needed attention, by revamping the entire look of its iOS app. In…
Grokr is a brand new app that has garnered plenty of attention before it even hit the iOS App Store. Formed from a startup of the same name by founder and former CEO of McAfee Srivats Sampath, it’s what everybody is calling the Google Now of iOS. Its ultimate goal is to learn more about…
Google Maps now lets users take advantage of NASA’s cool ‘Black Marble’ feature that display a series of images showing what the Earth looks like from space once the sun sets. This feature is apart of Google’s new Earth at Night service, which the search giant announced today. The new service is a global view…