Pinger, the makers of the texting free and talking free apps, has launched its Textfree 1.2 for Android with Facebook Chat integration. Textfree by Pinger is the texting/instant messaging app for iOS and Android devices that provides the users their personal texting number with unlimited texting and IM for free. All you need is a data connection for free chat with other Textfree users on their mobile devices or on the web.
The Flixlab team has been hard at work, spending years on R&D to put together a brand new social video creation and sharing platform, which launched this morning. The new platform will let you share footage with your friends to put together the ultimate video of an event, created not only from footage that you shot, but from all the best footage shot by your friends who are attending the event.
Are you tired of circling around the block and walking a mile back to your destination? Streetline now has the solution for smart parking with its iPhone/Android based app, Parker. Parker shows you the available parking spaces with their exact location, using live information from sensors. Parker also shows you where convenient parking lots and garages are.
Dropp, by Sense Lab, is an amazing new app at the Apple app store that lets users add location-based message and photos to a place to be read by friends and other users. Leaving a Dropp is very simple, all you have to do is open the app, use the map and leave a text/picture message at your current location. Its like leaving a message capsules at a particular place having no time boundaries.
Mobile apps for LinkedIn, Netflix, Foursquare and Square have been found to significantly lack in security precautions according to an evaluation conducted by ViaForensics. The evaluation revealed that apps for these services do not adequately store user passwords, which are kept by the apps without proper (rudimentary) encryption. This basic flaw in the apps has put the users of these apps at a risk of financial or identity theft.
Long-awaited Swype’s tablet keyboard for Android has been released. The keyboard comes with the same slide-to-type functionality famous on Android phones. With slide-to-type you don’t need to tap individual keys, instead you simply have to trace your finger along from one key to next and Swype smartly figures out what you are trying to write. Those who have tested the beta release on their Honeycomb tablets are calling it a dream combination.
T-Mobile USA has released an Android app called More for Me, to aggregate daily deals based on location from different sources including the established social couponing company LivingSocial. The app feature discount deals across a variety of categories, including health and beauty services, outdoor activities, clothing offers, concert tickets and a lot more.
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Google Maps now tops the most used apps in UK with 6.4 million users using it to find their current location and destinations, according to a research by comScore and GSMA mobile data records. Yahoo is second in place with 3.6 million users for its weather app. Facebook is very close to yahoo with 3.5 million connected users and it is expected to take the second place soon.
With half a billion apps mounting in Apple store, finding the right app is a real challenge. Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, brings an app discovery solution to easily search for Apple iPhone apps. Bing introduced a new app for iPhone that provides search capability and recommends other relevant iPhone apps.
The latest version (v1.1) of Winamp for Android is out with even more free music, additional language support and SHOUTcast (internet radio stream) support for Android (2.1 OS and above). AOL introduced Winamp 1.0 for Android a few months ago and it has turned out to be a huge success with over 4 million users. Free streaming and downloads were one the main selling points for the music player.
