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AOL has acquired the photo-sharing app Hipster for “low seven figures,” according to TechCrunch and this may signal the decline of the photo-sharing app boom. For those who don’t know, Hipster is an iOS app which lets you send “digital postcards” via your phone. This could then tie into your Facebook feeds for sharing and…
Firemint’s Flight Control has been an absolute smash hit for the company and has paved the way for the its future library of equally awesome games like Real Racing 2 and Spy Mouse. That’s why when I heard Flight Control was receiving a sequel that is taking the tried and true addictive gameplay mechanics in a…
According to AllThingsD, Google just scored a pretty significant hiring of the entire Milk team, including the services of Diggnation founder Kevin Rose. The terms of the deal is reported as an acqui-hire type deal, as the search giant plans to give Kevin and his staff of eight a major part in leading Google’s continuing social efforts…
The wait is finally over! Samsung’s Galaxy S II, arguably the hottest selling Android device of 2011, is now getting updated to Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system. To put this into some perspective, Google announced and demoed ICS in October 2011. The Galaxy Nexus, the first ICS device, hit…
Along with any new Apple product, you can expect the wizards at iFixit to tear the thing apart for our pleasure and that’s exactly the case with the new iPad. The folks over at iFixit have torn apart the new iPad and revealed all of its secrets. iFixit says the rear panel looks nearly identical…
YouMail has announced its unveiled its simplest solution yet to block unwanted phone calls from telemarketers, robots, and the like. The two apps from YouMail in the Google Play Store, Visual Voicemail Plus and WhoAreYou, now incorporate the ability to “ditch” a phone number entirely with a single tap. WhoAreYou and Visual Voicemail work together…
It’s hard to believe it but the Amazon App Store is now celebrating its one-year birthday and you know Amazon is going all out by offering multiple free and discounted apps. When the Amazon App Store opened a year ago, it was a neat way to get a free premium app a day. Other than…
Congress had already poked Apple about its mobile app privacy policy following the Path debacle but the company’s response apparently wasn’t good enough, as the government is demanding that Apple answer a few more questions. To catch you up to speed, when it was found out that the Path app uploaded your contacts to its…
Two years ago (February 2010) ST-Microelectronics and Ericsson created a joint venture appropriately called ST-Ericsson. The goal they set out to achieve was to sell an integrated solution to handset vendors that consisted of an application processor, a graphics processor, and a complete wireless stack. Now last month I published a report highlighting the fact…
It’s been a while since I’ve switched to the iPhone full time and it’s mostly been a great experience but I still think that the standard e-mail client is kind of a mess, particularly for Google-backed accounts. The folks at Sparrow are trying to fix this with a new iOS mail app and while it’s…