A mobile messaging application called Inbox Messenger, which combines user privacy features with a minimalist design, has raised $3.9 million in seed funding, the company announced today. The investment, though higher than the average seed round, comes from a group of unnamed angel investors and is designed to help the company grow its engineering and product teams, expand its customer…
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Inbox Messenger Raises $3.9 Million For Its Design-Focused Private Messaging App 1
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Skype Now Supports HD Video Calling On Your iPad 4 0
August 12th at 6:24pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsThe Skype app for iPad has today been updated to introduce support for HD video calling — but there’s a catch. The feature is only available on the fourth-generation iPad with Retina display, and not any of its predecessors, or the iPad mini.
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5 Emergency Apps to Download Before Hurricane Sandy Hits 0
October 27th at 3:12pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsHurricane Sandy will make landfall on the East Coast within the next few days. If you've got a smartphone, you can quickly, easily and cheaply turn it into part of your...
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Molecules for iOS review: This interactive science book brings learning to a whole new level 1
January 8th at 4:42pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsWhen the iPad made its debut in April 2010, the first Touchpress app—The Elements: A Visual Exploration—was right there with it. The app was actually an ebook in disguise, with stunningly beautiful and interactive 3D illustrations, and it seemed almost perfectly designed to rebut skeptics (and there were many) who believed tablets could only be niche gadgets. Elements truly showed us the iPad’s potential as a vessel for rich, interactive experiences that wouldn’t be the same on the iPhone or even on...
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Automattic releases WordPress for iOS update with native Reader, better account management, and more 0
August 15th at 1:08am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsAutomattic has released an iOS app update for its popular WordPress blogging platform. With version 3.7, users will have a native WordPress.com Reader, better account management, and more....
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Onavo Count for iPhone Watches Your Bandwidth Usage, Saves You Money on Overage Fees 1
October 31st at 3:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsiOS: Onavo Count, our favorite data usage tracker for Android, is now available for iPhone users looking to avoid hefty overage fees from carriers who are all too eager to add them to your bill....
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How iPhone health gadgets could change what 'see your doctor' means 1
January 18th at 7:25am / Mashable / 0 opinionsFrom a gadget that helps identify when a child has an ear infection to FaceTime sessions with real doctors for $49 a pop, your iPhone can help.
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Startups Apparently Do Not Care That Android Is Better 3
August 17th at 2:23am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsIn a must-read post for the tech industry, Twitter experience designer and serial startup founder Paul Stamatiou writes: “Android is Better.” His op-ed serves as something of a wake-up call for the industry, where developers building the next generation of mobile applications still heavily prefer the iPhone, not only as their personal smartphone of choice, but also as the launch platform for their…
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Top 5 Apps Your Kids Will Love This Week 0
November 11th at 5:04pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsIf you’re getting in the mood for the holiday season, A Charlie Brown Christmas is one app that both kids and nostalgic parents are sure to en…
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Microsoft Outlook debuts as free download for iPhone, iPad 0
January 29th at 7:31pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsMicrosoft on Thursday released its long-awaited Outlook client for iOS, giving both iPhone and iPad owners the ability to access a unified view of email calendar, contacts, and attachments.
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Pulse updated with option to preview sources, better search results, and new curated recommendations 0
August 21st at 9:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsLinkedIn today announced an update that makes it “easier than ever” to read and find sources on Pulse. You can download the new version now directly from Google Play and Apple’s App Store....
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Money-Saving Apps for Black Friday 0
November 18th at 6:20pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsBlack Friday comes once a year and for most of us, once is enough. The sleep-sucking mega shopping day has morphed into a major shopping weekend. With…
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ESPN for iOS becomes a universal app for iPhone & iPad with new look, iPhone 6/+ support 0
February 12th at 7:51pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsESPN's official application for iOS was given an overhaul on Thursday, becoming a universal app for iPhone and iPad, gaining support for the larger displays of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, and also getting a fresh coat of paint.
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You can now set up Chromecast on your iPhone or iPad 0
August 27th at 7:09pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsGoogle has just released a Chromecast app for iOS, an app that's both incredibly basic but also pretty crucial. Essentially, the new app lets you set up and manage your Chromecast device, something you couldn't do from an iOS device before. Users had to use a standard computer or an Android device to get it functioning online, though you could still able to stream media from iOS to the Chromecast. It's essentially the same as the Chromecast Android app that Google released alongside the device back in...
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Top 5 Apps Your Kids Will Love This Week 2
November 25th at 2:41pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsThis week's apps have a theme: temporal and spatial relations logic puzzles. Flip through the gallery above to see which of the apps -- filled with mazes, puzzles and more...
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Stylus-maker Adonit jumps into software with iPad app 0
February 24th at 7:05pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsAdonit's first iPad app is all about creating ideas.
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Bang With Friends returns to iOS as the modestly named Down 0
August 30th at 12:09am / The Verge / 0 opinionsBang With Friends has finally returned to Apple's App Store after being removed in May, but it's doing so on much more modest terms than it came in on. The hookup app, which anonymously connects people through Facebook, is changing its name exclusively on iOS to the more ambiguous "Down," likely referring to the primary action that users do on it: press a big, red button that reads "down to bang" to signify which friends they're interested in. Bang With Friends has also reworked that button to simply...
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Fantastical Lands On iPhone With A Calendar App Tailor-Made For Mobile Schedule Management 0
November 29th at 4:54am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsThe iPhone’s Calendar app is pretty good overall, and that’s something that even Fantastical creator and Flexibits co-founder Michael Simmons admitted to in an interview regarding the launch of Fantastical for iPhone today. But “pretty good” also means there’s plenty of room for improvement, and that’s where Simmons and co-founder Kent Sutherland saw opportunity.
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You Should Play: Rob your friends and protect your stash in King of Thieves 0
March 6th at 9:30am / Macworld / 0 opinionsThis challenging platformer-puzzler hybrid tasks you with stealing gold from built-in dungeons and dungeons designed by other players. The catch? Other players will steal from you, too.
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When FuelBand fails: Human for iPhone simplifies the daily workout 1
September 4th at 5:09pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsIn 2006, Renato Valdés Olmos weighed 320 lbs. "Dude, you will die of heart disease or worse before your 30th birthday," he admitted to himself before embarking on a massive effort to lose 150 lbs over the next three years. Olmos succeeded, no thanks to fitness gadgets, only a few of which existed at the time aside from simple pedometers. Today, wearable technology is all the rage, like the Nike+ FuelBand and apps like Moves that live inside your phone — but Olmos is convinced that there's an easier way...
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YouTube Hits The iPad With iOS App Update, Now Tailored To iPhone 5 Screen, Too 0
December 5th at 2:23am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsGoogle has updated its YouTube app with a new version that supports the iPhone 5′s larger screen, and also brings the native app to the iPad for the first time since the built-in YouTube app was removed as pre-installed software in iOS 6. Google has been on a tear with app updates today, issuing a new version of Gmail earlier today, and this one also brings significant back-end improvements to…
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Star Wars trading card app puts Episode VII's new characters in your pocket 0
March 12th at 9:00am / The Verge / 0 opinionsYet again, Han Solo has been imprisoned inside a flattened rectangle. At least this time it's not carbonite â the smuggler is joined by a raft of Star Wars characters old and new as trading cards in Topps' new iOS app, Star Wars Card Trader. The app allows users to collect, trade, and display official Star Wars trading cards, replicating every card released since Episode IV's release in 1977, and adding eight new cards for characters who will appear in the upcoming Episode VII for the first time....
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Games for the weekend: Junk Jack X 0
September 6th at 12:00pm / GigaOM / 0 opinionsForage for materials, hunt for food, and fend off enemies in Junk Jack X, a survival game for iOS.
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Kabam Takes Strategic Investment From Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 0
December 11th at 7:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsKabam, which is behind iOS hits like Kingdoms of Camelot and The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-Earth, just took a strategic investment from Warner Bros. Entertainment and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. We don’t know the terms of the deal, but it follows a recent partnership between the two companies where Kabam took Lord of the Rings intellectual property and parlayed that into two different…
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SlideMail Is An Intelligent Email App For The Rest Of Us 1
March 20th at 5:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsA new email application launching today called SlideMail is designed to help those of us with bad email habits sort through our inbox, while also intelligently organizing our messages and alerting us to important meetings and other events. While other email apps focus on presenting power users with a “priority inbox” containing their most important emails, SlideMail’s take is…