If you love random knowledge the “How Stuff Works” app is perfect for you. This informative app, which is available for free in the iTunes and Android Market, is home to random information, quotes, quizzes and videos. How Stuff Works explains things like how lying works, how to cat proof your home, or how nuns [...]
NASA launched something other than a rocket this week when a new iPad app, NASA Visualization Explorer, arrived in iTunes. The free app is educational and gives an interactive experience to the user. It includes images, videos and information about NASA’s earth science research. The editorial team plans on releasing two new science features every [...]
Waze, a rather innovative social mapping and navigation company, announced a rather significant milestone – 5 million users. The company broke onto the scene over six months ago and rang up one million users in the past two months alone. Waze offers free apps for IPhone, Android and WIndows Phone 7 – even Blackberry and [...]
Business software-as-a-service provider Zoho has released two updates to its Zoho CRM product line in the Zoho CRM Mobile Edition and support for mobile Web browsers in Zoho CRM. That’s a lot of Zoho. The Zoho CRM Mobile Edition App, which is available in the Apple App Store and the BlackBerry App Store, enables user to [...]
Globoforce, a provider of SaaS employee recognition solutions, released a mobile application today which enhances how employees connect and shape a company’s culture. The Globoforce Mobile app enables managers and peers the ability to give, receive, approve and redeem recognition awards anywhere; rewarding performance and behaviors or that important events are remembered. The believe is [...]
Infostretch, a provider of mobile app development, testing, distribution and certification services, announced that its engineers have tested and certified over 30,000 mobile apps. InfoStretch is the certification authority for 5 out of top 7 app stores. The company’s certification services are powered by a mobile lab that houses over 2500 real mobile devices and a [...]
Children’s entertainment brand LazyTown recently announced a partnership with Panarea Digital to produce applications for children across mobile platforms. The apps will combine text, video, music and game content – encouraging a healthy and active lifestyle. “LazyTown is excited to offer children an immersive experience beyond the television and DVDs that promotes healthy living and [...]
Location-based “all-male” (gay and bisexual) mobile network Grindr has integrated Skyhook’s Location Engine in its Android app to augment the native location system in Android. The Grindr app offers users a display of who is immediately around them (through GPS) and lets them chat with these locals, trade “stats”, show photos and send instant messages. [...]
How many tasks and processes are running right now on your Android device? Who knows, but I bet it’s more than one. Apps fortunately abound for monitoring system performance, manage apps (thank the digital Gods for uninstallers) and tasks and generally just keep your stuff clean (performing optimally). Application Magazine has tested several Android task [...]
This past week Twitter rolled out a new version of Twitter.com for mobile devices. The Web app allows Twitter to provide a more consistent experience on any device. Twitter built the app itself for high-end touchscreen devices with advanced browsers that support web technologies including HTML5. The app enables users to scroll through their timelines, [...]