If you own an Apple iOS product and you’ve not downloaded around 75 apps, you’re really not pulling your weight. Apple has announced that it has pushed out its 15 billionth app since launching the app store in June 2008, just a month after announcing 14 billion downloads at its Worldwide Developer’s Conference.
With more than 200 …
Amazon just upped the ante in the cloud music wars (oh yes, that’s a thing now) by announcing some enticing new offers and features for its Cloud Drive service.
Cloud Drive, you’ll remember, is Amazon’s version of iTunes. You pay your fee and get to keep all your music on Amazon’s servers. Listening to stuff is as easy as clicking a …
Facebook is holding a press event at its headquarters in Palo Alto on Wednesday, July 6th. It’s invite-only, but I’m among the invited, and I’m inviting you to attend our live coverage, starting at 1pm ET. I’ll blog the news as we learn it, right here and at technologizer.com/facebookevent.
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Foursquare continues to roll out new tweaks to improve its interface, making this latest addition—a new notification system that “goes beyond the check-in”—available to Android and web users first. The service is available today.
Which is, weirdly, a bit contrary to the New York-based company’s typical behavior; in the past it’s …
My iPad is bursting at the seams with wonderful applications. If I had to pick just one of them as the romantic ideal of what a tablet app can and should be, it would be Flipboard.
This “social magazine”–which brings together stuff from Facebook, Twitter, and the entire Web into a wonderfully browsable package–simply …
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
The desire to compete with Apple is widespread among many companies in the tech sector. The problem is that very few, if any at all, are well …
You heard that right, folks. The must-have app for every smartphone platform, Angry Birds, is finally available for Windows Phone 7.
Not only is it available, but it hit the Windows Phone Marketplace “a few hours ahead of schedule,” according to the Windows Phone Blog.
“Ahead of schedule” being a relative term, of course.
When …
If you’re a regular use of Facebook. you may have noticed the disappearance of a number of applications across the site in the last week or so—including Social Interview, Photo Effect and God Reads—and be wondering what’s going on. It’s been officially explained as part of a widespread operation responding to complaints of an …
Does being cut off from the outside world give you the heebie jeebies?
It’s summertime, which means it’s time to hit the boarding gates of the nearest terminal and get out of town. And if you’re going somewhere exotic that requires you to dig your passport out (hey, Mexico still counts), you may be wondering what life is like when the …
Hacker group LulzSec has struck again, this time targeting Arizona law enforcement by releasing thousands of pages of confidential documents and communications presumably acquired in a security breach. Among those documents are several that show law enforcement’s special interest in the iPhone and other smart phones.
One document, …
Television companies may not have decided upon the ideal way to stream content to the increasingly popular app audience just yet, but they may at least be taking a step closer to coming to some kind of consensus on the subject. Or, at least, not suing each other about it.
Viacom and Time Warner Cable have agreed to put their current …
Last night, Apple removed the controversial “The Third Intifada” app from its App Store, just one week after it first went online. The free app provided news about forthcoming Palestinian protests as well as pinpointing other anti-Israel articles and information on the web. Some of the activities it highlighted demanded violence …
