Apps

There's no point in fighting it. Technology is working its way into the lives of digitally native tots earlier and earlier, and it might be a more positive evolution than...

If iPhone apps like iFart and iBeer strike your fancy, then you might want to check out iSteam, the app that makes your photos all steamy - literally. With iSteam just...

There is a lot of mobile ad inventory out there and sometimes brands can’t be sure where their ads will appear. Just like on the Web, automated ad placements can sometimes turn up in the darndest places. Take a look at the Pampers ad at the bottom of this screenshot for a popular app called 300+ Sex Positions. It is an ad cross-promoting Pamper’s own Hello Baby app. The copy reads: “Discover the wonders of babys development with Pamper’s Hello Baby app.” Hello Baby, indeed. The Pampers app approp...

You’ll likely remember a few months ago when we wrote about a service called Mombo that sourced your Twitter friends to find movie recommendations for you. Essentially it would find…

We're sure the first thing you'll want to do when you get that new iPad home is give the 2048 x 1536 Retina Display a workout. With that in mind, Apple has curated a section of the App Store especially for apps that have been updated with full high resolution support, like Infinity Blade II. Here are a few of the more notable inclusions; we'll be adding to this list as more updates come in. Note: it appears that not all the apps in Apple's "Great apps for the new iPad" section actually have Retina...

It's not exactly the 600-channels-of-live-TV-Holy-Grail we caught a glimpse of a few months ago, but Verizon's new iPad-optimized FiOS Mobile app lets subscribers set DVR recordings and change the channel. With a big virtual version of their remote. Mmmmk.

Ask a Nomad: For travelers of the world, there's always questions on what to do, where to eat, what's the best place for this, for that. It's endless! Ask a Nomad is an app where you can ask locals and other world experts on anything you'd like to do anywhere you go. The idea is to connect you with like-minded people to sift through the tourist traps and discover the reason why you're in such and such city or country. Above France: Like their previous collaborative effort, Dreams of Burma, National...

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. SlideIT Keyboard (Android Market) Previously $5.99, now 99¢. SlideIT Keyboard for Android is an app that rethinks the idea of typing. Avoiding the traditional route of "tapping" letters to form words, users can "slide" their finger from letter to letter instead. What results is a fast and easy way to type text on your Android device, no tapping required. Get it for 99...

I don't know if you guys heard, but Apple announced a new iPhone this week. But the apps of the week stop for nothing. Like cheap healthy food? Like fashion? You've come to the right place....

Legendary game designer Peter Molyneux, creator of classics like Black & White and Fable, has taken his first foray into mobile today with Curiosity, an app for iOS and Android devices that asks the world as a collective whole to come together and work on solving a central problem. But Curiosity is more about playing with expectations than end goals, in a way uniquely suited to mobile devices.

Hulu on Tuesday released a its long-rumored iOS application for the iPhone and iPad, but the free software requires a $9.99-per-month subscription to Hulu Plus, currently available as a "limited preview."

That didn’t take long—within hours of Apple’s Tuesday announcement of the iPad mini, accessory makers began announcing products that would go perfectly with the new device. Here are a few that landed in our in-box in the first couple days, as well as the other new iOS accessories we saw this week....

Inspire Pro, a popular painting app for the iPad, got a facelift this week with an update that introduces a plethora of new features. But instead of just telling iPad users about the update, app developer KiwiPixel instead touted the changes at a live art demo at Macworld/iWorld....

Fans of The Big Bang Theory can rejoice: CBS joined the iOS age on Thursday, releasing its own app to stream the network’s shows to the iPhone and iPad—a move that comes just as the broader television industry prepares to finally start counting “cord-cutting” TV watchers as part of its official viewership numbers....

Let’s hang out sometime.” We’ve all probably lost count of the number of times we’ve uttered the phrase, or something similar to it, and never actually followed up on it. While we can chalk many of those instances to a bit of insincerity, a new iPhone app called Ketchup wants to help you actually follow through with your friends....

Apple’s App Store recently hit its 50 billionth download. Since its launch in July 2008, the store has been the go-to place for mobile apps. To this day, mobile developers often choose to release their apps here first. Popular from the start, just seven months after the App Store’s launch, the store surpassed one million third party apps, many of those free.

Video — as Instagram’s recent launch, Yahoo’s would-be and actual acquisitions, and others’ new content initiatives show — is a hot property today, with more people than ever before consuming video online, and advertisers scrambling to catch that wave. While Google’s YouTube is by far the biggest player in this space, video — like the medium itself — is a moving target that will see a number…

Google Maps is the most frequently used mobile app in the world, according to GlobalWebIndex data on global smartphone users in Q2 of 2013. The top three apps after Google's popular mapping tool are Facebook (44% of smartphone users), YouTube (35% of users) and Google+ (30% of users). See also: Use These 10 Apps During Downtime Statista's chart below tracks the 10 most frequently used smartphone apps in the world, based on percentage of smartphone users that have used the app in the past month.

Amazon has updated its Instant Video streaming service for iOS to enable users to stream content to Apple TVs via AirPlay for the first time....

Two years ago, NASA engineer Mark Rober blew YouTube's mind with a video of his Halloween costume: a hole in his chest. Or at least it looked like a hole in his chest. In fact, it was an optical illusion made possible by two iPads, a little duct tape and a lot of ingenuity. Well, you won't believe what he's been up to since then....

Now that the Xbox One has finally hit the market, one of Microsoft’s visions has almost come true. For years, the company has been trumpeting its long-term plan to have ‘three screens and a cloud‘ for its flagship products, but until recently it had failed to deliver due to ageing devices (the Xbox 360), disjointed teams and products that fell short of what consumers wanted (Windows 8)....

Let's get this out of the way up front: I was prepared to dislike Jelly after its reveal. After all, when Twitter co-founder Biz Stone described the new startup as experiment designed to "make the world a more empathetic place," - yes, a mobile Q&A service - it's hard not to roll your eyes. And if you look at some of the usage in Jelly's first days, it's at least equal parts enlightening and…

Two noteworthy new updates hit the App Store on Wednesday as television and movie database IMDb added TV listings and the ability to check titles' Amazon Prime ability, while Nike's Nike+ Move gained a number of localizations and stability improvements.

Back at this year’s WWDC, Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney got up and demoed Epic Zen Garden, an impressive upcoming iOS 8 game which used Apple’s new Metal technology to great effect. Leap forward a few months, and the free game has finally…