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MTV’s WatchWith iPhone app is designed as a co-viewing second screen experience, delivering complimentary and additive content to fans of the popular MTV shows. Available as a free download, the application curates the social conversation on Twitter and Facebook, while also connecting users with the stars of their favorite MTV shows such as Jersey Shore,…
Apple has gone a long way from January 9, 2007 when the first iPhone was officially announced. During the years, the Cupertino-based company introduced updated versions of its smartphone and at the time I’m writing this, the iPhone 4 is still selling pretty darn well. Not in huge volumes, but the reason is that the…
An anonymous VP at AT&T has indicated that the iPhone 5 will be launched in early October, and employees should “expect things to get really, really busy”. That’s a slight push back from the mid-September timeframe that was previously expected, but no doubt iPhone loyalists will be able to hold out for a few more…
The last Foursquare update was a bit more significant than just in-line picture sharing, as it turns out. The pioneer in location-based social networking has expanded their check-in service to include more than just physical locations. Now you can check in to events that are only going within a set timeframe, with custom UI elements for…
Apple is reportedly in talks with China Mobile to bring the iPhone to the world’s largest carrier and Reuters is reporting that Steve Jobs is leading the negotiations personally. Negotiating with carriers is generally not something you’d expect Apple’s CEO to handle but this shows just how important China Mobile could be for the iPhone.…
We’ve covered id Software’s RAGE in the past, even going as far as reviewing it and singing the game’s praises anywhere we go. There isn’t a better FPS experience on the iOS platform than RAGE and we are extremely happy to report id Software has made the game completely free to download for the next week.…
In early 2010, Apple purchase mobile advertisers Quattro Wireless for $275 million. It was a big move in response to Google’s rising threat in the mobile ad space. A few months later, Apple turned it into its own mobile app advertising unit – iAd. Today, we learned that Quattro co-founder and head of iAd, Andy…
Google has just opened up its Photovine iPhone app to the masses but the photo-sharing app has a surprising lack of Google in it. That’s both good and bad. The Photovine iPhone app was made by the Slide team, which has been acquired by Google and operates somewhat independently. The app had been live before…
Last week an infographic made by The Economist was floating around on the internet that we didn’t cover because … hey, there’s only so many inforgraphics you can shove in people’s faces before they get bored, right? Anyway, one of the key pieces of data in said graphic was that of the $178 worth of…
According to an anonymous source who spoke to Engadget, AT&T recently installed some 4G LTE equipment inside an as yet to be identified Apple Store. Said equipment pumps out LTE goodness at 700 MHz, which is no surprise, but also on the AWS bands that AT&T said it would use once their acquisition of T-Mobile…