We apologize: We’re betting that you don’t want to be reminded of tax season this early in the year, nor did you really wish for filing tax app. But Turbo Tax’s new app hopes to make the tedious act of filing taxes a whole lot easier, and since all of us have to embark on this terrible journey of showing Uncle Sam what is due to us (or …
Apps & Software
GoPayment Goes ‘Freemium,’ Gets Back in the Mobile Payment Game
Intuit’s mobile payment service, GoPayment, which allows users to accept credit card payments on their smart phones, is trying to swipe its way back into the spotlight this week by going “freemium.”
GoPayment is a downloadable mobile app that works in conjunction with a credit card reader to allow small businesses to accept credit …
Free PBS App Comes to iPhone, Streams Full Episodes
If you’ve been looking to get your NOVA fix on the go, you’re in luck.
Following up on the success of its free iPad app, which was unveiled in October, PBS is now offering a free iPhone app that streams full episodes. While the two apps are quite similar, the iPad does offer a slightly more extensive list of shows and episodes. Even …
Google Places: Google’s Own Local Recommendation App
Move over, Yelp and Urbanspoon–Google’s getting in on the local recommendation app action.
The company has come a long way from being just a search engine. And with this week’s release of its latest iOS app, Google Places, Google is moving ever closer to social network territory.
The free app, which is available now in the iTunes …
Google ‘Translate’ Voice App: In Goes English, Out Comes Spanish
Babel be damned. Google’s free “Translate” app for Android now includes a feature called Conversation Mode that does a pretty decent job of facilitating a verbal back-and-forth between English and Spanish.
Per Google’s blog post:
“In conversation mode, simply press the microphone for your language and start speaking. Google …
TV Networks Upset Over Comcast App
You’d think that Comcast would’ve learned from Google’s mistakes, but apparently not. The cable company’s new Xfinity TV app for the iPad is currently under fire from broadcasters and content providers unhappy with an app that streams their programs live or on-demand without their permission.
According to Mediaweek, a presentation of …
Amazon Releases New App To Help You Spend & Save, Big
Want to stay on top of the latest Gold Box deals from Amazon.com? Now, finally, there’s an app for that: Amazon today announced Amazon Deals, a free iPhone app that offers easy access to daily deals such as Amazon’s Deal of the Day or limited period Lightning Deals, as well as offering reminders and allowing users to share deals through …
Condé Nast Unveils New Approach To Magazine Apps
Condé Nast may have tried to break the iPad app market before, but a new release may suggest a new way of doing things for the well-known publisher. Instead of being a digital version of an existing print publication, new app Best of Italy: Condé Nast Traveler combines existing articles on Italy into a new, digital-only $4.99 …
App Of The Week: Kindle For Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7 owners finally have access to Amazon’s popular Kindle e-book reading app. It’s a free download from the Zune Marketplace.
The app features Amazon’s Whispersync technology to synchronize the page of the book you’re reading with other Kindle apps, the Kindle desktop software and the Kindle hardware reader if you have …
Build! Launch! Destroy! Angry Birds Toys Coming From Mattel
If a mobile game featuring birds with special powers that destroy the elaborate dwellings of their pig-like enemies has gotten too complicated for you, perhaps you’d like to try your hand at the analog version.
This May, Mattel will see how the masses take to the $15 Angry Birds “Knock on Wood” play set. As iLounge reports, the getup …
Consumer Electronics Show: 11 Tech Trends for 2011
The 2011 Consumer Electronics Show has officially drawn to a close. The biggest tech show around, CES covers over 3 million square feet of floor space and draws over 100,000 industry insiders to Las Vegas in early January every year to set the tone for what we can expect to see from the world of technology in the not-too-distant future. …
10 Mac Store Apps To Get You Started
The Mac App Store has finally opened, and that means we can stop worrying about making that trip to the Mac store just for a program just to find out it’s been backordered. There’s no waiting in line, just waiting for your internet connection to finish the download and your computer to install the product. Now that you don’t have to …
