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So you’ve got yourself a Google+ invite and now you may want to share some photos from your iOS-based device, whether it’s an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. The official Google+ app is still not in the AppStore (at least it wasn’t while I was writing this post), but there’s a workaround method to share…
Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman explained how powerful smartphones and the app explosion can be, as he said the first Yelp app on the iPhone in 2008 fundamentally changed its business. Prior to that app, users could be directed to Yelp via Google searches or could go directly to the site to learn about the latest…
Summify, the service that creates a periodic summary of the most relevant news stories from your social networks, launched an iPhone app. According to the company’s “official blog post,” the goal was to create an application that would deliver a “beautiful user experience and make it easy to consume the five or ten stories that…
Just a few weeks after the last one landed, Apple iOS 5 beta 3 is now available to developers and it brings a few new features. The major new things in iOS 5 like the notification bar and the Twitter integration came out with the original beta and the second one brought things like WiFi…
For those of you who rely on PayPal, especially on the iPhone, you’ll be glad to know that the mobile app for the iOS smartphone has been updated. PayPal has been listening to customer feedback, and brings the following updates to the mobile app: All app features displayed on one page Transaction history details are…
Android fans, I have some bad news: I finally crossed over to the dark side this weekend and got an iPhone 4 to be my main device. My two-year upgrade came up with Verizon from the original Motorola Droid and I decided that it was finally time to pull the trigger and become a part…
Over the years, I’ve owned more smartphones than I care to count. From BlackBerry to webOS to Android, I’ve had just about every platform in my pockets – often two or more at a time. However, there was one smartphone and platform that has remained with me regardless of the other devices I’ve carried –…
The Apple iPhone has had many uses in the medical industry, and it looks like it will continue to make advances in the field as MIT researchers have just developed a way for the smartphone to detect cataracts. The CATRA system, developed by the Camera Culture Media Lab at MIT, is an iPhone attachment that…
You’ve probably seen FaceTime and think how cool it is. Contrary to popular belief mobile video calls were not invented by Apple and pretty much any 3G phone sold out today (at least in Europe and Asia) comes with that capability. It doesn’t even have to be a smartphone – many 3G-enabled phones can do…
A company called Weyrich Enterprises released a mobile shopping application – Divalicious, which is said to bring more than 300 popular brands, comprised of almost one million items of apparel, shoes and accessories for women, men, children and infants under one roof. All that would be simple, but there’s more. The application also comes with…