Google announced on Thursday that 3D imaging is now available on the latest version of the Google Earth app for the new iPad, iPad 2, iPod touch and iPhone 4S. "With...
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Google Earth on iPad, iPhone Now Includes 3D Images, Guided Tours 0
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Instant translation: Jibbigo Spanish-English translator works in real time 0
October 30th at 8:13am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsCan you even imagine what it must have been like to be an early explorer? Like, you leave Spain or Portugal on some rickety boat, and arrive in the New World. Cool and all, but, outside of shooting everything in sight, how do you communicate with anybody? What, do you point to the sun and say “sol,” and expect the other guy to repeat “sol”? That can’t be an efficient way to learn a language, especially when it’s, you know, a very real clash of cultures. If only they had (drum roll, please) something lik...
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The Top 10 Travel Apps This Summer 0
June 24th at 2:51pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsEditor’s note: This is a guest post by Ryan Croft, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Croft Global Travel, a custom travel planning service and adventure operator based in Arlington, Virginia. For…
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The Week’s Best iPad Apps 0
July 15th at 10:00pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsAsk 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...
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Giftly, Glympse, and More 0
September 7th at 10:00pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsIt's Friday and what better way to celebrate than a deliciously fresh batch of the best iPhone apps of the week. We've got all kinds of tasty treats for you this time around, from a gift-giving tool to a trip planner, and so much more....
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Apps for a fun New Year's Eve 0
December 27th at 3:00am / Macworld / 0 opinionsNew Year’s Eve is only a few short days away, but if you’re still finalizing your plans, don't fret. With the right tools, planning a last-minute New Year's bash, finding a public event nearby, or even organizing transportation can be a breeze. Start the new year off without any stress—use these apps to ring in 2013 in style....
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Shopikon: Track Down Your Nearest Indie Shop 0
March 5th at 8:40pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThere was a time when you'd shop for things in person as opposed to online. Convenient. Which then made shopping in person pretty boring because, well, it's all the same crap everywhere you go. Then the same thing happened to the Internet save for a few "indie" sellers on Etsy and some hipsters on Kickstarter....
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UrbanWonderer Turns Your Smartphone Into a Tour Guide 0
June 8th at 12:05am / Mashable / 0 opinionsHistory buffs and urban explorers alike can get a sense of New York and its best sights, without having to read an entire guidebook. UrbanWonderer, the free iPhone and Android app created and narrated by licensed NYC tour guide Steven Craig Sickles lets you select from a variety of self-guided audio tours through the city.
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Social Travel Startup Minube Adds Real-Time Hotel Booking To Monetise Its Mobile Apps 0
August 13th at 6:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsSocial travel startup, Minube, which focuses on helping would-be travellers figure out what to do when they get to their destination, has added a real-time hotel pricing and booking feature to its iOS and Android apps. The new versions of the apps support hotel booking for more than 300,000 establishments in more than 40,000 cities, across 180 countries.
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Uber adds PayPal’s new mobile SDK into its iOS and Android apps to offer more ways to pay for rides 1
November 19th at 7:08am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsUber and PayPal have teamed up to integrate the payment system into the private car service’s mobile apps. Through this partnership, Uber customers can opt to pay through other means besides their credit cards. Not all users will be able to participate right now — it’s launching in five select markets: the US, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands....
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Spotsetter, A Social Search Engine For Places, Acquired By Apple 1
June 6th at 10:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsSpotsetter, a social search engine using big data to offer personalized recommendations as to places to go, has been quietly snapped up by Apple, TechCrunch has learned. The technology, which involves layering social data on top of a maps interface could be used to beef up Apple Maps with features competitor Google lacks.The deal, we understand, was mainly about acquiring the technology and…
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Wanderu Lets You Book Bus And Train Tickets From Your iPhone 1
February 12th at 7:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsWanderu, a travel startup that’s like a Kayak.com but for bus and train tickets instead of flights, is today making its service available for the first time as a mobile application. Launching first on iOS, the new app allows travelers to quickly find, price out, and then book tickets to their preferred destination, optionally saving their personal information along the way as well as…
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Lugg, An App For On-Demand, Short-Distance Moves, Raises $3.8 Million 0
August 26th at 11:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsWhile Uber, Lyft, and similar ride-sharing services can help you get from one place to the next, they aren’t practical for hauling your large purchases – like those from an IKEA shopping spree, or a sofa you found on Craigslist, for example. That’s where a service called Lugg comes in. If Lyft is like your friend with a car, then Lugg is like your friend with a truck.The…
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Uber just launched a brand new app aimed to help truckers 0
May 18th at 6:45pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsUber Freight is officially here.
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13 Branded iPhone Apps That Enhance Their Company's Products 0
September 12th at 12:44pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsBranded mobile apps come in a variety of types -- they tend to focus on entertainment, utility or product enhancement. Entertainment and utility apps don't necessarily...
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Tripline releases a new app for travel 0
February 4th at 8:12pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsTripline is a traveler’s app that combines the powers of Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and its own tools to create an interactive itinerary of past and future trips that users…
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Google Earth 7.0 for iPhone and iPad brings all-new 3D imagery for select cities 0
July 26th at 7:26pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsGoogle Earth 7.0 has just hit the iTunes App Store bringing with it those all-new, stunning 3D maps that the company showed off last month. Of course, the highly-realistic 3D imagery goes head-to-head with "Flyover" in Apple's new maps in iOS 6, but since that operating system isn't available for anyone but developers at the moment, Google Earth is your only option. The new imagery is only available in Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, Geneva, and Rome, but Google promises that it will add more cities...
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Daily App Deals: Get Piano Notes Pro for iOS for Free in Today’s App Deals 0
April 6th at 9:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThe 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. Piano Notes Pro (iTunes) Previously $2.99, now Free. Piano Notes Pro for iPad will help you to learn how to play the piano strictly from your iPad. Whether you are beginning to learn how to play the piano, are a long-time piano teacher that needs an aid to help teach, or even a piano veteran that wants to practice their craft, Piano Notes Pro will improve your skills...
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Jumio’s Credit Card Scanning Netswipe Technology Pops Up in Travelocity’s Hotel Deals App 0
October 3rd at 9:00pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsJumio, the computer vision startup backed by $32 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Eduardo Saverin and others, is today announcing the first travel application to integrate its Netswipe technology. The app involved is the recently launched Hotel Deals by lastminute.com from Travelocity, which now allows users to hold up their credit card to their phone’s camera in order to pay at…
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4 Features Every Brand's App Should Have 0
January 18th at 4:51pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsJoe Chernov is the VP of marketing for Kinvey, a mobile back-end as a service startup in Cambridge, Mass. Joe joined Kinvey from Eloqua, where he served as VP of content marketing. The Content Marketing Institute named him "Content Marketer of the Year" in 2012. For brand marketers, the mobile app is becoming the new website.
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Planes, trains and automobiles: Waymate unveils its ambitious travel comparison app 0
April 22nd at 2:22am / GigaOM / 0 opinionsPresenting a clear comparison of multiple local and long-distance transport options by price and duration is no mean feat. But Waymate has even greater ambitions, allowing trip booking from within its service.
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Mobile App Postagram Now Lets You Send Photo Postcards For Free, Sponsored By Brands 0
July 3rd at 8:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsPostagram, the mobile app from Sincerely that turns your photos into postcards you can mail from your phone, just received its first big update in over a year, with the most notable change being the addition of free postcards. Previously, users would pay 99 cents to mail these personalized cards in the U.S., or $1.99 to ship worldwide, including the cost of postage. But now the company is…
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10 apps that would make every smartwatch a must-have device 0
September 11th at 4:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsSmartwatches are similar to smartphones and tablets. Gorgeous hardware is of little use to people unless it’s coupled with brilliant software. Pre-installed apps can be a good foundation, but most users want their favorite third-party services such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram....
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Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week 0
December 28th at 3:10am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsSWell, one holiday week has drawn to a close, and another is nearly upon us. Frankly, that means a slow-ish week for apps. And yet! There were still some notable newbies to the app scene. Download these babies and let your phone feel as bloated as you do.Multi-Platform UpdatesTranslateSPowered by Translate.com, this free Android & iOS app accepts written, spoken, or photographed input, translating in over 75 different languages. The best part is the community translate option, where logging in through...
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How to spot birds, planes, and maybe even a superhero with your iPhone 1
August 16th at 8:07pm / GigaOM / 0 opinionsThere are things you can see and things you can’t see when you gaze up into the sky. With a little help from an app or two, you can identify all of them.