They're the services turning your physical location into valuable data — and using that data to offer you a variety of services. Love them for their convenience or hate them for their invasion of privacy, geolocation applications are making a big push for your attention. And after a year of very public privacy failures from services such as Girls Around Me, Highlight and Skout, the industry and consumers are both looking for clear-cut winners.
Parallels, the company known for its virtualization software, rolled out a new iPad app and subscription service on Tuesday called Parallels Access that promises to run both Mac and PC programs on Apple's tablet with near-native performance.
It’s Black Friday time once again, and with it comes the usual mad rush to grab the very best hardware and software at bargain prices....
What's red, white and romantic all over? Valentine's Day. The sappy holiday is approaching fast, and there are millions of ways to prepare for it. Whether you're single, in a relationship or just love celebrating love, we've scoped out 12 useful and fun apps that'll make the holiday bright. See also: 11 DIY Valentines to Make Your True Love Whether you use a movie app such as Flixster to see what's playing in theaters, or you create a sweet, customized card with Red Stamp, these apps will help.
More than two years after coming to Android, an official Google Analytics app is finally available for the iPhone.
Remotely accessing your computer with your iPhone just got a lot easier.
Stripe, a service that companies can use to accept payments, has a new way for businesses to track purchases and user activity — an iPhone app.The new iPhone app does basically everything its existing online dashboard does, but brings it to an interface more suited for a mobile device. Businesses can also set up notifications for whenever a payment or purchase is made or set up a…
So it's almost the new year, and you want to start being more organized and productive, right? Well we've put together a list of great iPhone apps to help you manage your...
Bolstered by arrival of the 3GS, launch of in-app purchasing and push notifications, the iPhone apps of 2009 have become richer and more robust experiences. Across 11 categories, here were this year’s standouts.
There are many VNC apps for the iPhone, all ranging in price, features, and approach. Our favorite is Screens because it makes your desktop actually easy to use on a touch screen, offers a secure connection through SSH tunneling, and provides a setup-free option should you not want to mess around with your router. Platform: iPhonePrice: $20Download Page Screens is great because it's not only a very capable and useful VNC client, but also makes full use of multitouch. For example, you can remotely...
The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. Photaf Panorama Pro (Android Market) Previously $1.99, now 99¢. Photaf Panorama Pro for Android makes and displays HD panoramas easily using your phone or tablet's orientation sensor, and can set your panoramas as live wallpapers. Get it for 99¢. (via Apps-aholic) iOS iOS Android Windows
As you may have heard, daily deals giant Groupon is diving into the red hot mobile payments space, effectively launching a new product suite to help merchants process credit card…
The days of rushing back to your desk just so you can set up or join a conference call are over....
GoDaddy, the web-hosting and domain registration giant, is taking one more step into the world of mobile, and another into offering small businesses a one-stop shop for all of their online activities with a freemium sweetener. Today, it is announcing the acquisition of M.dot, a startup that has developed an iOS mobile app that lets users create mobile websites from the app itself. Financial terms…
A couple of weeks back, we brought you news on Speek, a startup setting out to disrupt the conference call market with simplicity and WebRTC. And today the service lands on Android....
Apple released iOS 7 on Wednesday, and debuted a huge visual overhaul along with it. Heavily textured backgrounds and dark colors are out, while soft gradients, thin sans-serif fonts and bright, bold hues are in. After looking at apps designed for iOS 6, Apple's latest operating system immediately seems out of place. Fortunately, many developers spent the better part of the summer preparing their apps to look at home on iOS 7.
Loop, a startup that makes it easy and quick for retailers to collect feedback from customers, has released version 2.0 of its iOS app. The most important change probably isn't a product feature, but the fact that Loop is ready to start charging. With Loop (which I tried out in May), it's easy for business to put together a survey with a few questions, and then to display that survey on an iPad…
CloudMagic, the makers of a personal search app which in February changed direction to become a search-focused email application instead, is out this morning with a significant update. The company is introducing a new feature called “cards,” which let you do more with your email messages, by allowing you to complete workflows in your inbox. These could include things like updating a…
Cotap, a startup founded by former Yammer executives Jim Patterson and Zack Parker that launched last year with the premise of becoming a “WhatsApp for the workplace“, is today unveiling a new build of its product, and a wider remit. Cotap is going beyond mobile messaging and moving into file sharing, with integrations with Box, Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive; adding…
SugarCRM, a CRM and open source rival to Salesforce, has made an acquisition to help the company raise its game on the mobile front. It has acquired and is shutting down Stitch, a startup co-founded by ex-Salesforce execs that created a mobile-first platform and iOS app for salespeople to proactively follow and close deals.News of the sale has not been publicly confirmed but Stitch issued…
Bug fixes.”“Jam packed full of Super Amazing Things.”“Every 3 weeks, we polish up the Pinterest app to make it faster and better than ever.”“To make our app better for you, we bring updates to the App Store every 2 weeks…Every update of our Facebook app includes improvements for speed and reliability. As other new features become…
If you've ever returned from a business trip with a stack of business cards, you've no doubt wondered -- as you're manually typing in all those names, phone numbers...
TNW Quick Hit FotoNote is a super cool app for the iPhone and iPod touch allowing one to convert an image to electronic text using optical character recognition (OCR). Hits:…
