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Shopping apps are nothing new, but New York City-based Consmr has a grander vision beyond price comparisons: to inform consumers with an in-depth library of product reviews for things like health, groceries, beauty, and baby items. Think of it like …
You just can’t stop those wily jailbreak hackers. Today new software has been released that will fully jailbreak almost any iOS device running the latest iOS update, including the iPhone 4S and new iPad.
Hackers from the Chronic Dev Team …
Zynga unleashes hordes of undead in San Francisco and New York City to promote its upcoming game Zombie Swipeout. Leave your shotguns at home, folks -- they just want to hand out popsicles and walk around.
Video game rental service GameFly jumps into mobile publishing and plans an independent Android game store later this fall.
A month after Google introduced its multi-browser tab opening functionality for Chrome Beta, the new feature already set to make its debut in the stable release of the browser.
The new feature lets you manage open tabs across different computers …
CrowdStar is announcing today that it is partnering with China’s Tencent and South Korea’s Gamevil to expand its mobile gaming business into Asia.
Burlingame, Calif.-based CrowdStar recently scaled back its investments in Facebook games, but the company plans to invest …
Mobile app development nowadays seems to be be following a fairly regular pattern: Create an infectious iOS app, wait until it gets insanely popular, then launch an almost identical version for Android.
And that’s exactly what Smule is doing with …
After releasing a major update to its iPad app last month, CloudOn is today bringing its Microsoft Office virtualization technology to Android tablets.
And, going alongside support for cloud storage services Dropbox and Box, the company also announced that it …
An early release of the Android version of social news reader app Flipboard has leaked out for anyone to install on their own devices — diminishing an exclusive Samsung scored to debut the app on its new Galaxy S III …
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Apple released the latest update to its mobile operating system, iOS 5.1.1, today. The update fixes a few minor issues pertaining to the camera as well as a bug in the iPad.
Specifically, the update makes the high dynamic range …
Android accounts for 61 percent of all smartphone sales, according to data published today by NPD Group.
That number is trailed by the 29-percent stake claimed by iOS devices, and RIM and Windows Phone are nowhere close.
These figures for …
There’s a reason why so many developers feels iOS users are more valuable than Android: Apple is killing it in mobile gaming with 84 percent of all mobile gaming revenue in the US.
“When analyzing Apple’s successful monetization, there is …
Nearly 60 percent of iOS developers don’t break even with the apps that they create and market, according to a recent study by App Promo.
While we hear a lot about blockbuster hits like Draw Something or Angry Birds Space, …
UC Berkeley’s idea of dorm life probably consists of noisy roommates, unwashed linens, half-eaten cups of Ramen noodles, and maybe a few electrical outlets to power a laptop.
The university is making freshman student Derek Low go back to those …
CrowdStar, which is shifting from social to mobile games, has raised $11.5 million in a recent round of funding. At the same time, the company will lay off a couple dozen of its Facebook game developers.
These changes are a …
Apple’s senior vice president for iOS Scott Forstall took advantage of Apple’s high stock price last Friday and sold 64,151 shares worth around $38.7 million.
The stock sale (PDF) relieved Forstall of around 95 percent of his Apple holdings, Fortune’s …
The Pebble smartwatch has been a runaway success story for Kickstarter’s crowdfunding model, with almost $8 million pledged for the project so far. Now Runkeeper, a popular app for measuring and tracking your fitness, is joining in on the fun …
Inkling’s digital publication platform helped textbook makers move to the iPad. Now, the company is setting its sights on travel with the launch of Frommer’s Day by Day travel guides for the iPad and iPhone.
Travel has traditionally been one …
