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 …
Apps & Software
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 …
eBay Mobile Sales Triple in 2010
According to eBay, online shopping on your computer is so 2009.
The company announced this morning that its gross merchandise volume in global mobile sales has tripled from $600 million in 2009 to $2 billion in 2010. eBay also added that its mobile apps have been downloaded over 30 million times in eight different languages and over …
CES: Voice Control Comes To Mustang With Ford SYNC Phone App
Ford announced Wednesday that it’s 2012 line of Mustangs would all come with its SYNC software system pre-installed, allowing drivers to control their entertainment consoles via the voice activation software of their smartphone with the SYNC Applink phone app.
At first, the set up seems deceptively simple: Just plug your phone into …
Apple’s Mac App Store Opens for Business With 1,000 Programs
Back on October 20th, Apple held a press event it called “Back to the Mac.” CEO Steve Jobs explained that the title referred to the company’s desire to take ideas that worked on the iPhone and iPad and bring them to its Mac personal computers. Today, it’s rolling out the most striking reflection of this goal so far: The Mac App Store, …
App of the Week: Garmin StreetPilot GPS for iPhone
Turn your iPhone into a Garmin GPS system for just $40 with the new StreetPilot app. It uses your phone’s data connection to keep maps up to date and provide real-time traffic updates so you don’t get caught behind a gaggle of mouth breathers rubbernecking a forlorn twin mattress on the side of the highway. It’s a mattress! You all have …
Skype Launches Free Video Chat App For iPhone, iPad
Trust Skype to come through where Apple fails: While the iPhone’s own FaceTime only works on WiFi, Skype today releases an updated app that will let iPhone users video chat on both WiFi and AT&T’s 3G network.
The app will also allow iPad and iPod Touch users to receive video calls, with those using the latest iPod Touch being able to …
App of the Week: Times Square Ball for iPhone and Android
Someday we’ll all look back on the Great Holiday Blizzard of 2010 and laugh. Some of us more maniacally than others. Those of us trapped in Minnesota until what seems like the end of time, especially.
“You’ll be on the next flight out,” says Delta. “It’s a sure thing,” says Delta. “Nothing we ever tell you is a sure thing,” says …