I aired some grievances with Spotify’s mobile app just before the service launched in the United States last July, and the company’s PR department quickly scolded me. The software I tried was just a preview based on the U.K. service, they said, so it wasn’t nice for me to write a full review. Nonetheless, Spotify’s mobile apps haven’t gotten much better since then. Let’s revisit what’s wrong.
OMGPOP’s new game Draw Something is only five weeks old and it’s already been downloaded 20 million times. Right now it’s the number one free app for Android and the number one paid and free app for iOS.
Good news for Android users who love faux-vintage photos: Instagram’s Android app is nearing completion.
Meet Amber Case: She’s a cyborg anthropologist, questioning the ways we interact with computers, and the founder of Geoloqi.com — a second-generation location based service that uses geo-fences to redefine the concept of “checking in”
A strange thing happened during the announcement of Apple’s new iPad on Wednesday: For a moment, CEO Tim Cook stopped talking about his company’s products, and started dissing Google’s Android operating system.
Google has something to boast about at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Last year, it used the event to announce that its Android Market had accrued an impressive 150,000 apps. Today, the company announced that the number has tripled.
Thanks to the state of California, smartphone apps will soon have to tell you in advance what they plan to do with your personal data.
Whether you’re looking to load up a new iPhone or simply expand your collection, here’s our 2012 list of download-deserving apps.
Haven’t you heard? Nobody just watches TV anymore — you have to be playing with a smartphone or tablet the whole time. So while you’re “watching” the Super Bowl this year, here’s a list of apps you can use.
We’re still some distance from a world where online streaming of content can truly challenge the dominance of television, but recent figures suggest that the number of households in the U.S. with at least one television actually fell in 2011. Are we finally seeing the long-awaited beginning of “cord-cutting”? And if so, what are people cutting their cords in favor of?
Now anyone with a smartphone and some dusty old formalwear can crash a nearby wedding with Crash Corsage, an app that cruises couples’ wedding websites to give you all the info you need to fake it inside.
