Tag Archives : app

Nokia has launched an iOS 6 maps alternative named Nokia Here mapping application, for iOS devices running iOS 4.3 and up, the iOS version has the same features  which are seen on Nokia Windows Mobile OS like nearby places discovery, but there are also crucial components like transit direction that aren’t present in Apple’s  Maps app.  Features: • Map views – Pick the map you need from map [...]

Kindle for the Web Amazon has announced ‘Kindle for the Web’ beta, which allows book samples and snippets to be read directly from a web browser without any Kindle software. Customers simply click the “Read first chapter FREE” button on a book product page on Amazon or on other websites, and the first chapter will open within the web page. Customers can change the font size [...]

Facebook Page Browser Facebook has officially launched a new feature for helping users discover Facebook Pages, the tool is called “Page Browser,”and  was briefly available to users earlier this month. Page Browser suggestions are tailored based on pages users previously ‘Liked’, and following a new Page simply entails clicking on its icon. Users can search for the pages based on “Country” [...]

GV Mobile Yes, its happening – Apple obviously has buried its hatchet with Google Voice based apps. After allowing GV Connect, a  U.S. $3 native Google Voice app for the iPhone yesterday GV Mobile + will now make it reappearance on App Store. Sean Kovacs, developer of GV Mobile + confirmed this good news on Twitter that the app is coming soon, and has promised to make it free for the night [...]

TweetDeck Hugely popular social media management tool TweetDeck which lets you access your Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare accounts from a single application now arrives on Android. Tweetdeck on Android is much better than its version on iPhone (unlike, other apps which generally have superior iPhone and inferior Android apps) Android users get more features than are currently available on the [...]

App Store Apple’s App Store just opened up a “Try Before You Buy” to lets users test drive a limited selection of apps before buying them. The new section could be accessed from  under Features, go to features and select Free on the App Store,  the new section serves only to highlight the free  edition of apps which  only contains the freemium, “lite” or ad-supported versions of apps [...]

Google Maps Google had launched a new version of its Maps app for Google’s Android platform. Google has given half-a-dozen upgrades to Google Maps on Android in as many months. The update gets Google Maps a new logo, and   the Navigation features got more stronger and powerful with  a dedicated ‘Places’ icon which  allows users to quickly look up nearby places and is clearly [...]

Android Market Android is growing fast, we knew that, but, this fast – Android Market is now home to more than 100,000 apps and has surpassed 1 Billion downloads. Simply superb. Google has not officially confirmed this but AndroLib has revealed that the Android Market is now stores  more than 100,000 apps.They also claim that more than 1 billion apps have been downloaded from the store. [...]

App Store on an iPhone Last week saw fraud occurring in the iTunes system, when  a rogue developer had somehow managed to snag 42 of the top 50 sales positions in the App Store’s “book” category with seemingly bogus content. There was some correlation between those suspicious sales and word of an increase in iTunes account fraud. This week the scam seems to hit Travel apps, [...]

The highly anticipated turn-by-turn navigation application for iPhone, TomTom, is finally out. You can find it in the App Store at the hefty price of $100. This is not very cheap and some people might think of it as too expensive. Not to mention that there is another app that is carrying the same features for just $35. However, the new app truly deserves to be more expensive! TomTom delivers 3D GPS [...]