Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said in an interview with the Associated Press yesterday that paid apps like those found on the iPhone, Android and iPad could help financially troubled news organizations, but he didn't have anything positive to say about charging for content on the web.On the other hand, he's not optimistic about other micropayment plans wherein publications would charge ...
Since Twitter acquired Tweetie and rolled out an official iPhone client, the company has focused more and more on improving the mobile experience across all smartphone platforms.Twitter CEO Ev Williams wrote just now on the company blog that mobile usage of the site is up 62% since in just over four months, and 16% of all new TwitterTwitter users are ...
After releasing an iPhone app for its Bing search engine last December, Microsoft announced an equivalent Android Bing app today for Verizon users.
But since Android is much more deeply integrated into Google’s search and navigation offerings than the iPhone, the release of the Bing app honestly strikes me as curious. Who would actually use this thing? And is Microsoft doing ...
We review the new Netflix iPhone app which finally brings Netflix to the small screen and puts thousands of titles at your fingertips – literally.
As August nights get cooler, we begin begrudgingly counting down the remaining summer days. Once Labor Day passes, it's back to school time for millions.The best part of going back to school is clearly the shopping. Even though a new notebook can go a long way in preparing you for the new year, the iPhone also has a ton of ...
We hope you had a great weekend and that you have an even better work week. To help you get into the swing of things, we've assembled 16 helpful or entertaining stories from Saturday and Sunday to help you start your Monday on a strong information foundation.The big news this week was the rape accusations made against WikiLeaks founder Julian ...
Appolicious, the site that offers iPhone / iPad /Android app reviews and recommendations with a bevy of social networking tools, announced today that it’s launching a revamped Android site at AndroidApps.com (and a companion Android app), a new site dedicated entirely to Yahoo apps, and an improved search engine.
The company took hold of AndroidApps.com when it purchased the video app ...
In an effort to increase the security of its extensions and themes galleries, Google announced today that it will be implementing some changes. It will charge developers a one-time $5 fee to list their extension and themes, and it’s also introducing a new domain verification system.
The fee “is intended to create better safeguards against fraudulent extensions in the gallery ...
Back in May, we reported that Google was working on an app store for web applications, dubbed the Chrome Web Store. Now we have further details on the project.
Google spoke to gaming press at the Game Developers Conference Europe, where it unveiled further details on the mechanics of the store, and announced that it’s “most likely” expected to launch in ...
Today, Panasonic announced that they will add Twitter to the list of built-in web entertainment technologies on their VIERA CAST enabled HDTVs and Blu-ray disc players. The company already offers Skype, Netflix, Pandora, Fox Sports, Amazon Video-On-Demand, YouTube, Picasa, Bloomberg, and weather services on VIERA televisions with the IPTV functionality built-in. Panasonic’s VP of corporate development had this to say:
Since ...
This morning at Adobe's San Francisco offices, a few lucky press folks were told that some Android device users could be seeing AIR-built apps on their phones as soon as the end of this year.We've seen a few AIR-for-AndroidAndroid demos making the rounds, but it was good to hear from the horse's mouth, so to speak, that AIR for Android ...
Chris Vein is the Chief Information Officer for the City and County of San Francisco, and is responsible for setting the city’s technology vision and direction, ensuring the development and implementation of citywide standards, policies, and procedures, as well as running the technology “utility” department. Five months ago, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom stood with President Obama’s Chief Information ...
Peruse the apps Apple doesn’t want you to have with some of our favorite jailbreak apps for the iPhone.
Flurry, a mobile analytics and monetization company, has released an Android version of AppCircle, an app discovery tool.AppCircle, we're told by a Flurry rep, is basically a "massive cross-selling network among participating apps that use Flurry Analytics." It's also an intelligent recommendation engine similar to the one used by Netflix, iTunes Genius or Amazon.com. The recommendations come from within the ...
Engadget is following up on their previous story about an updated Apple TV set to hit the market as a $99 set top box, complete with iPhone 4 internals. Their new report details Apple’s supposed plans to rename the living room companion from Apple TV to iTV. It also sheds some more light on what everyone has rumored — iOS ...
Since Foursquare launched its API late last year, developers have been utilizing the service's massive store of geodata to create a variety of elegant apps. Weeplaces takes FoursquareFoursquare data to a whole new level, though. The app, built by the Movity team in one weekend, is a data visualization tool; once you log into Weeplaces with your Foursquare ...
Well it was fun while it lasted. The once famed Apple TV, the media device that never really found a strong enough niche to amount to the status of something beyond what Apple CEO once called a “Hobbyist device” is about to undergo a major shift in both focus and content.
According to Engadget, it looks like we will be seeing good ...
Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Alex Ahlund, the former CEO and founder of AppVee and AndroidApps, which were acquired by mobile application directory Appolicious. About this time last year, he gave us his picks of the best iPhone apps of 2009 up until then, so we thought we’d make it an annual tradition.
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We were surprised to see the heading “Try Before You Buy” when browsing the Apple App Store on one of our iPhones, but after a bit more investigation… we stopped being surprised. The new try before you buy feature is actually a collection of applications that have both a “lite” and paid version available in the App Store. If a ...
Today’s Apple controversy: Apparently, a recent mobile app patent filed by Apple is blatantly copying the home screen of an existing application — the local search app Where To — reports GigaOm.
The problem with that analysis? After reading Apple’s patent, which details methods for accessing travel services on portable devices, it’s clear that Apple isn’t intending to steal the app’s ...