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It took forever to get here – nearly as long as multitasking — but soon you’ll be able to neatly organize all your apps into folders right on the iPhone. There’s no need to launch iTunes, either. Just drag and drop apps on top of each other to automatically consolidate them into one folder.
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Thu, April 8 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
We’re hearing that iTunes will be implementing Facebook Connect support in the near future, allowing users to share some of their recent purchases with their friends on Facebook. We’re still gathering more details, but it sounds like this could happen quite soon.
It certainly adds up. Over the last few weeks, iTunes has been [...]
Tue, April 6 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Yahoo has built a number of applications for the iPhone (and even a custom one for the iPad already), but with all the buzz about location-aware services they haven’t yet felt the urge to optimize its own Upcoming service for the mobile platform.
Enter developer Nik Fletcher, who has spent about a year developing one dubbed [...]
Sun, April 4 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
With all the talk about Google and Amazon versus Apple, both Internet companies have been quick to release custom applications for the latter’s freshly launched iPad device.
Amazon.com had already introduced its Kindle app for iPad, and over the weekend added a second one to the stable: an IMDb (Internet Movie Database) app (iTunes link).
The Amazon.com [...]
Sun, April 4 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
We had some fun yesterday for April Fools day, fake-covering the launch of the New York Times iPad app by replacing some words of an article in the paper published back in 1996 upon the launch of its first Website.
Now, the company has introduced its iPad app for real. It’s free and both advertiser-sponsored [...]
Fri, April 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
YouTube EDU, the video portal’s collection of university and college content contributed by schools around the world, launched a year ago today. To commemorate the occasion, the YouTube team has shared some stats about the initiative.
Since launching, YouTube has grown to include content from 300 colleges and universities, spanning 10 countries and seven languages. [...]
Thu, March 25 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
WorkSnug, an augmented reality iPhone app that is setting out to connect “mobile workers” (that’s everybody now, right?) to the nearest places to work in major cities, is now live in New York and San Francisco. This follows launches in London and Barcelona.
To kick-start a process to reach scale they’ve used volunteers and app [...]
Fri, March 19 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
SXSW Interactive is now over. While a clear winner in the “Location War” has yet to be determined, the truth is that many of the location-based services won, as all of them got a huge amount of exposure over the past week. And look for that trend to continue in a big way, as Apple [...]
Thu, March 18 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Zimbalam, the digital music distributor from Believe Digital, launches in the US today.
The service lets artists submit and distribute their music through 25 of the most popular music platforms, including Apple’s iTunes and Spotify, in addition to “several hundred additional stores worldwide”. This makes Zimbalam the largest music distribution network as measured by number of [...]
Fri, March 12 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Over the last six months, doubleTwist, the iTunes alternative that lets you manage your music, videos, and photos, has really been stepping up its game. In October the company integrated an Amazon-powered MP3 store, allowing users to download and sync their music directly with any of hundreds of compatible devices, much as they would with the [...]
Wed, March 10 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
