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We have great news for those of you who use Windows Phone and happen to be obsessed with the phenomena that is Sphero. The popular robotic ball that is usually controlled by an iPhone or Android handset will soon have a Windows Phone 8 app as well. The way the application works is through Bluetooth, which allows most phones…
Google keeps expanding the list of countries that work with Google Maps Navigation, and their latest effort is to reach users in Mexico. The free turn-by-turn navigation has been launched in beta, bringing voice-guided directions in English and Spanish. Voice search is also there with the ability to look for nearby businesses and other points…
NVIDIA’s Tegra platform is something that most tech geeks have been acquainted with for some time now, and early last year the company introduced Tegra Zone. Tegra Zone was, and still is meant to be your one-stop shop for finding the best games that have been optimized, and sometime exclusively released, for Tegra processors. Recently, the Tegra…
If you quickly beat all the levels of Angry Birds Star Wars, which wasn’t terribly hard to do, then you have an update waiting for you. The update to the massively popular game bring 20 new levels for you to take a stab at. The description of the new update reads something like this: It…
Latest Distimo Report looks at the first month in business for the Windows Store and compares it to other app stores. As you probably already know, Microsoft launched its store to allow users to easily download and update software on the system. This is already common practice on all mobile phones, with one main difference:…
By the end of this year, revenues accumulated by the global mobile application market will pass the $30 billion milestone with that figure including money made from pay-per-downloads, in-app purchases, subscriptions and in-app advertisements. According to new Market Data from ABI Research, this is nearly double the amount that had been reached by end-2011. The…
Again, we have more apps submitted to Appscovery. To have your app shown in this weekly wrap-up, make sure your listing is clear, nice to read and has images. We love promoting such app listings. Here’s what’s been going on during the last week at Appscovery: Sock Puppets Animation App iHolland – 235 interesting facts…
As smartphones and tablets have become the norm, more and more of us rely every day on mobile applications. From your favorite weather tracker or news app to Angry Birds, developers all around the world are hard at work bringing new and innovative applications to mobile devices. But what are the tools that enable developers…
Netflix for Android just received an update that offers up a brand new video player and some new features along with it. The previous player on Netflix did the job well enough, but it was pretty bare bones. The new player has been updated with bigger buttons for volume control, and you’re now presented with…
Skype’s new version 3.0 of it’s Android app has put tablet users square in it’s sights. The new Skype update is optimized to bring a more functional version of Skype to tablet users. Along with the normal features of Skype such as video calling, sending and receiving instant messages, sharing pictures, and making calls to…