Crowd sourced traffic data from Waze, a company that Google acquired earlier this year, is now included in the official Google Maps application for iPhone and iPad.
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Waze realtime incident reports now appear in Google Maps for Apple's iOS 0
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This App Helps You Find Business Travelers Near You 0
November 15th at 10:14am / Mashable / 0 opinionsIf you travel a lot for business, making friends while you’re on the road isn't easy. Mobile app Here on Biz attempts to make your traveling experience a little less...
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HeartThis Lets You Shop All Your Favorite Stores From Just One App 1
February 5th at 6:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsA new mobile application called HeartThis wants to make shopping across multiple retailers more convenient for smartphone users. The app, which is making its official debut later today on stage at StartX’s Demo Day, puts over 330 stores in one place, allowing you to buy from places like Dillard’s, Nordstrom, Kohl’s, J Crew, Target, and many more, as well as see if there…
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iPad Animation App Loop Captures The Fun Of Making Doodled Flipbooks 2
August 23rd at 9:43am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsRemember turning the corners of your class notes into flipbooks with a sequence of tiny drawings? iPad app Loop recreates the glee of watching your doodles come to life by making it easy to create frame-by-frame animations.
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Can't Find a Parking Space? This App Can Help 0
November 21st at 10:01am / Mashable / 0 opinionsUrban regions enjoy density. It's what makes for serendipity -- running into someone you know in a crowd of strangers is all the more meaningful. It can also make certain...
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Nike targets sneaker fanatics with app that mixes commerce with content 0
February 18th at 5:45am / Mashable / 0 opinionsNike's new SNKRS app merges ecommerce and written content to deliver a social network-style sneaker shop.
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Twitter rolling out new conversations UI for Web, iPhone and Android 1
August 28th at 11:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsTwitter has revamped the way it displays conversations on the Web, iPhone and Android by adding a vertical line to indicate the tweets are connected and displaying the tweets in chronological order....
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Polar App is the Ultimate Tool for Indecisive People 0
November 27th at 6:59pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsIf you tend to be a pretty indecisive person, you might want to give Polar a try. The app, which was released on the iPhone earlier this month, lets users quickly set up...
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Gmail for iPhone levels up with interactive notifications 1
March 5th at 10:45pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsReplying to emails from Gmail's iOS app just got easier.
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Staycation, all the apps I ever wanted 0
August 31st at 5:02pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsLabor Day is the greatest weekend of the year—the entire point of the holiday is to have an extra day to take it easy. And while the airports and highways will be jammed with people trying to squeeze in one last trip of the summer, to truly take it easy you don’t have to go far from home. It’s time for a good old-fashioned staycation. These apps can make sure you have a great one without sweating too much over the planning....
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7 Apps You Don’t Want To Miss 2
December 1st at 5:18pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsIt can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you're in luck -- here's our app roundup.
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Instagram will now let you upload photo sets, but only if you're a brand 0
March 4th at 1:00pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsSince it launched, Instagram has been a way of telling a story with a single, square-shaped image. The Facebook-owned company may have expanded to video and time lapses, but its heart remains in those singular, postcard-style pictures. That changes today with the introduction of (gulp) "carousel ads" â photo sets of up to four pictures that you swipe through, Tinder-style, while thumbing down your feed. Instagram says the move comes in response to advertiser requests for ways to tell sequenced...
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iPhone Apps of the Week: The Converted, Flickr, Blackbar, and More 0
August 30th at 6:00pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsIt's Friday night, and you know what that means: we've got a fistful of apps for you and your iPhone. Which is a lot like a fistful of dynamite, without the explosions. A fistful of dynamite apps! Yeah!...
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Amazon's Kindle app for iOS updated with X-Ray for books 0
December 6th at 9:49pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsAmazon has released a new version of its Kindle app for iOS, which has been updated with X-Ray for books. The feature — which had been exclusive to Kindle hardware until it was introduced for textbooks on iOS in late October — provides a useful graph that highlights all mentions of characters, places, and concepts throughout the entire book. For more information on a given topic, X-Ray points you to Wikipedia and Shelfari, Amazon's literature-focused community encyclopedia. After marketing X-Ray as a...
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Facebook Introduces Free Friend-To-Friend Payments Through Messages 3
March 17th at 10:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsWhen you chat with friends about settling debts or splitting the bill, Facebook doesn’t want you to have to open another app like PayPal or Venmo to send them money. So today it unveiled a new payments feature for Facebook Messenger that lets you connect your Visa or Mastercard debit card and tap a “$” button to send friends money on iOS, Android, and desktop with zero fees.
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Yahoo's Screen App for iOS Lets You Channel Surf on Your iPad 1
September 9th at 9:50pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsYahoo wants to make browsing its mobile video content feel more like channel surfing on the old-fashioned tube. The new iOS app out today should help....
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BrainNook For iPad Makes Learning Language & Math As Fun As Club Penguin 0
December 13th at 6:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsBrainNook, a social, educational gaming site for children grades 1 through 5, is today expanding to the iPad with the debut of the first in a series of apps from the company. These apps will focus on teaching children math and language skills, but have the goal of being as entertaining and engaging as other popular kids’ virtual worlds, like Moshi Monsters or Club Penguin.
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Yelp adds outdoor activities, florists, nightclubs & more to direct booking options 1
March 25th at 8:31pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsYelp this week introduced five new business categories users can transact with via its website and mobile apps, including outdoor activities, florists, nightclubs, spas and salons, and even legal advisors.
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Photoshop Express gets new filters, Chrome iOS learns pronouns 3
September 13th at 11:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsAdobe has updated its Photoshop Express app for iOS, giving it new filters and increased capabilities, and Google has tweaked Chrome for iOS to give it better search functionality.
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Holiday gift idea: Neat Cloud, Neat Mobile for post-PC scanning 4
December 15th at 1:47am / GigaOM / 0 opinionsThe Neat Cloud service differs from other cloud services like Evernote because of its complete solution and ease of use. Like Apple’s marrying of hardware, software and services, Neat provides the scanner, the software, the cloud service and mobile app making it a true all-in-one solution. …
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Lust List: This bag’s for the dogs, plus more great stuff for gear hounds 0
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Infinity Blade III hits App Store hours before iOS 7 debut 0
September 18th at 11:11am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsDeveloper Chair Entertainment on Wednesday released the third installment of its massively popular Infinity Blade series which made a surprise appearance at Apple's iPhone event last week.
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TumblPad: Tumblr Finally Releases Its Native iPad App With Better Navigation, Landscape And Markdown Support 2
December 20th at 7:43am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsNow that Tumblr’s blackouts are behind it, the company is back to focusing on its product, particularly its mobile one. A growing channel that, by the way, recently helped propel the blogging platform over 20 billion monthly page views. While Tumblr updated its iOS app with the most recent in November to improve user experience, speed and engagement on the iPhone by making the app “native” — i.e.
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Contentious 'After School' returns to App Store, '1Password for Mac' gets time-based two-step verification 0
April 7th at 11:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsThe controversial high school messaging app After School has returned to the iOS App Store after a fourth-month ban, while 1Password for Mac has been updated with a time-based two-step verification system, and Adobe's Reader app for iOS has been rebranded and relaunched under the Acrobat DC flag.
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Thunderspace syncs with your fan to add ‘real’ wind to the thundery weather soundscape app 0
September 19th at 5:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsBack in July, we brought you news on Thunderspace, a stereoscopic 3D soundscape of thundery weather for iPhone, from the creators of popular weather app Haze....