Tag Archives: apps

What It Means When YouTube Gets Small, and Big

People are increasingly watching YouTube videos on cellphone screens, which could lead to new kinds of videos and advertising.
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Old AppleTVs Won’t Get Netflix, Or Any of the New Software [Appletv]

Ars got the official word from an Apple spokesperson: there will be no new software update for old AppleTVs. That means no sexy Netflix, though you'll be able to keep on buying movies and TV shows instead of renting. [ Ars ] More
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Battle of the Android Home Screen Launchers: ADW vs. LauncherPro vs. HelixLauncher [Android]

Many Android devices ship with a default home screen launcher that, frankly, kind of sucks. The good news? You can install a new launcher offering better shortcuts, more home screens, and extra configuration options. Here's the lowdown on the most popular options. More
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InCrowd iPhone App Turns Facebook Places Into An Animated Popularity Contest [IPhone Apps]

What good is the slightly annoying and creepy Facebook Places feature if you can't turn it into some sort of competition? Well, with the InCrowd iPhone app , you can do just that. More
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Have a Free Flight to Mexico With Your Taco?

Virgin America is the latest company to use location-based apps for marketing.
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Remember Hot Or Not? Now There’s an iPhone App For Meeting Those People [IPhone Apps]

Nostalgia's certainly getting a thorough kicking today, as iPhone users can now download the Hot Or Not Mobile app to "map out hotties close to you." Kind of like Grindr, the location-based dating service, only for people of all sexualities. More
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Microsoft’s Bing Awkwardly Gatecrashes Android’s Party [Android Apps]

Microsoft has spotted a gap in the market, offering an integrated search and mapping tool for Google's Android platform. That'll really come in handy, as it's the one area where Google is really lacking at the moment, isn't that right, everyone? The new Bing for Mobile Android App has launched for Android users on the Verizon network, offering the company's "infinite" image search tool, the "Bing image of the day" and another great Microsoft innovation—voice search. [ Bing Community ] More
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Pogue’s Posts: The Size of the E-Book Library Matters Less

Because both Amazon and Barnes & Noble offer excellent e-book reading apps for the iPad (for their own proprietary e-books), the small size of Apple's e-book library is essentially irrelevant.
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