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Verizon V CAST Best Top App Winners: Car Locator, Color Connect, Smarter Alarm & Call Control
Verizon announced the winners of its V CAST Power Your Apps contest, and Car Locator won $50,000, 200% of their app revenue for the first year, and a free trip to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The other winners won $10,000 and a featured spot on V CAST Apps.Lifestyle Winner Car L…
Windows Phone App 2Day: TripAdvisor Advises Windows Phone Travelers
TripAdvisor has been a valuable source to Wimonews editors when visiting Las Vegas for CES and CTIA. We were able to discover where the trucks parked at one hotel so that we could ask to stay away from the big rig noise makers. We were also able to get enough information about one noisy …
HTC News – Windows Phone 7 App: HTC Compass Magnetizes Directions
If you have a Windows 7 Phone and get lost, here's a compass app for you. HTC created the HTC Compass for the HTC Arrive that arrived earlier list month. HTC Compass is in the Windows Marketplace and uses Bing maps to generate walking directions.It acts like a magnetic compass. You…
Sprint BlackBerry and Android App: Total Equipment Protection
Sprint announced a new application called Total Equipment Protection App for BlackBerry and Android that helps smartphone users locate a lost smartphone, remotely wipe data, remotely lock, erase contacts and backup data. "Anyone who has lost a phone knows that their personal information …
WHERE U AT? Android & iPhone App Update: Share Perfect Places with Friends or by Bumping Phones
WHERE introduced Perfect Places friend location recommendations. This new feature recommends nearby places for users to go by matching relevant similarities in friend's tastes. The WHERE blog claims that the feature will end endless emails strings. Perfect Places is powered by WHE…
Android an’ Droid App Update: V CAST Music with Bundled Discount
Verizon Wireless has updated its V CAST Music app for Android smartphones. V CAST Music now brings full-track songs, ringtones and ringback tones together with discounted bundles.The new version of V CAST Music, available on Android smartphones running Android 2.1 or higher, lets customers …
Free Windows Phone 7 App: ArcGIS App for Windows Phone 7
Microsoft Windows Phone 7 users can access sophisticated mapping capabilities on their phone with the ArcGIS for Windows Phone app. ArcGIS for Windows Phone lets you find, use, and share maps as well as deploy GIS data and functionality on Windows Phones. The free ArcGIS app can be down…
Apple App Store Appceleration: Ten Billion Apps Downloaded
Yesterday, Apple apps downloads reached ten billion. The 10 billionth app, Paper Glider, was downloaded by Gail Davis of Orpington, Kent, UK. Davis won the $10,000 iTunes gift card as the prize.The App Store offers more than 350,000 apps to iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users in 90 countri…
Android App in Sprint Zone: Rhapsody Android @ $9.99 Month Unlimited Music
Rhapsody announced that its Android app is now available in Sprint Zone. The Rhapsody Android app is a premium on-demand music service that gives users access to more than 11 million full-length songs and exclusive editorial content, including reviews, videos, playlists, and recommendations…
Pay for Coffee with iPhone & BlackBerry App: Starbucks Card Mobile App
Starbucks will accept mobile payments in all U.S. company-operated stores on BlackBerry smartphones, iPhones and iPod touches. Customers can download the free Starbucks Card Mobile App and then pay for Starbucks tabs via the app. More than one-third of U.S. Starbucks c…
Android an’ Droid App Update: YouMail Now FaceBooks and Twitters
YouMail has updated its free Android Visual Voicemail Plus app with social networking, auto-mapping and expanded Caller ID features. The application now allows users to share voicemail, not only through e-mail or text messages, but also by posting them directly to Facebook and Twitter. …
iPhone Android an’ Droid App: SnapTax Snaps W-2s & Free Answers from TurboTax
There are now iPhone and Android apps from TurboTax maker Intuit, called SnapTax, for filing your taxes directly from your phone. TurboTax claims that it is so easy it is magic. SnapTax uses optical character recognition (OCR) to enter W-2 information, and it shows a running tally of the …
Android App Update: TeleNav GPS 6.2 for AT&T
TeleNav GPS Navigator has been updated to 6.2 for Samsung Galaxy S Samsung Captivate, Sony Xperia, HTC Aria, and Motorola BACKFLIP (Running Android 2.2). New features include expanded Speech Recognition, Quick Search, Multiple Route Suggestions, enhanced local search content with more listin…
Android an’ Droid App Update: Google Translate for Android with Conversation Mode
Google has updated Translate for Android with a new Conversation Mode and features to make the app easier to interact with. Improvements include drop-down boxes to help select the languages you want to translate from and into, an improved input box, and cleaner icons and layout.Conversation…
iPhone, Android an’ Droid Apps: Wireless Access to Public Library Books
OverDrive, distributor of eBooks, audiobooks, and digital content to libraries and schools, has released apps for iPhone and Android that enable users to download library eBooks and audiobooks directly, for the first time. The free iPhone and Android apps include a "Get Books" feature that guide…
iPhone, Android an’ Droid Free App: Time Square Ball for New Year
If you love the excitement of Times Square at midnight but don't love the cold, you might want to download the latest Times Square Ball app for Android or iPhone. The app will let see your face on the Toshiba Vision sign at the center of the celebration directly beneath the Times Square Ball.T…
Vlingo iPhone Android & BlackBerry Searchers Like Pizza, Coffee, Tron, Harry Potter, N.Y. & Miami
Vlingo, the maker of Virtual Assistant voice commands for phones, announced the most popular actions of 2010. There are Vlingo apps for Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Nokia.Text messaging was the Vlingo top function. Users are using Vlingo for buying movie tickets, findi…
Android an’ Droid Beta App 2 Try: tryda People, Biz, Reverse Lookup App
The second release of tryda (Beta) is now available in the Android Market for Android smartphones for free. The tryda app lets users look up phone numbers, reverse search by address and phone, and short code. Tryda claims that tryda (Beta) is one of the best and fastest ways to find business…
iPhone, BlackBerry, Android an’ Droid App Update: Viper SmartStart Finds My Car
Today must be car app day because after the City of Los Angeles sanctioned a parking space finder app, Viper has added car finding to its app.Directed Electronics announced the availability of a new feature on its award-winning Viper SmartStart that allows users to pinpoint exactly whe…
Android Sprint 4G Apps Winners: NASA Images, Say What?, Recipe Search, Facebook Upload & Mediafly
Sprint, with partners WIRED, Reddit and Ars Technica, announced the winners of the Sprint 4G App Challenge today. Submissions were based on four criteria - creativity, intuitive navigation, functionality and design. The judges' panel was composed of product an…
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