The Wolfram Alpha is maybe the app to answer all your questions on math problems, weather, food, medicine, finance, wordplay – you get the idea. You think of any free-form search query (however obscure they may be), and you’d probably get the answer. This iPhone app however, is not that easy on the pocket though. [...]
“Rewritten from the ground up with a fast and powerful new core”, Tweetie has come a long way from its predecessor. Now, with Version 2.1, developers added support for Twitter’s new retweet, as well as lists and geolocation services. Version 2.1 also adds support for Twitter’s new spam reporting API, has new video options, option [...]
Posted on November 04th, 2009 in Tech News
With just 552 apps when it was first opened less than two years ago, the App Store now boasts 100,000 apps according to an announcement by Apple. “The App Store, now with over 100,000 applications available, is clearly a major differentiator for millions of iPhone and iPod touch customers around the world,” Philip Schiller, Apple’s [...]
For people who are always sending out stuff and is stressing out themselves over the state of their packages, this app is for you. UPS released late last week their free iPhone app that will let you manage your shipments. UPS Mobile lets users track and nickname shipments, find UPS service locations via GPS and [...]
After receiving much criticism for stereotyping women, PepsiCo announced that it will remove the application “Amp up before you score” today, according to the Associated Press. If you haven’t heard about this controversial iPhone app, it promises men to “score” with stereotyped women with pickup lines”suitable” for each class. Women are classified into stereotypes such [...]
Apple sent some emails today containing good news, especially to developers. In-app purchases are now being permitted in free apps. Why is this good news? You can now download, say, a news content app which will allow you to test out the interface and content without shelling a few bucks. Then if you decided that [...]
Well, it isn’t surprising to find useless, unusual, and sometimes offensive apps scattered around the market, and they usually go by without a buzz. But when an international company develop that kind of app, well – that’s a different story. PepsiCo Inc., as part of their marketing strategy for their Amp energy drink, has released [...]
Yup, the days of having to put up with Facebook Lite (the mobile version of Facebook) is long over…for Google Android users that is. Although Facebook Lite was uhm..okay, navigating it can be a great feat and the app had VERY limited features. The new Facebook App, released Tuesday for Google Android, solves all this [...]
This news wouldn’t be that interesting if not for the fact that the European digital music app has features that are very similar to Apple’s own iTunes. And since Apple is known for rejecting apps that duplicate the features already found in their own stuff, people are wondering. Spotify Mobile allows users to purchase or [...]
In a formal response to the Federal Communications Commission inquiry, Apple told the FCC that it did not reject Google Voice and is in fact still studying it. Google Voice, a VoIP service lets users set up one phone number and like their other phone numbers to it. It can also control which phones to [...]
