New York: A new smartphone app will help you transition your old paper photos into the digital age. Called ShoeBox, the free app lets you use your iPhone's camera as a photo scanner. The iPhone app launched last week. An Android version is coming soon. ShoeBox comes as social media giant Facebook is preparing to launch its new "timeline" feature. Timeline essentially turns user profiles into an online scrapbook for...
10:23 AM, Nov 03, 2011
California: Yahoo has begun to distribute an iPad magazine that illuminates the Internet company's ambitions and the chronic hiccups that have thrown its fate into doubt. The free magazine, called Livestand, has intriguing potential because its software can be customised to pull a deep pool of content from Yahoo's website and other participating publishers to cater to each user's interests. But the magazine didn't arrive until Wednesday, well behind Yahoo...
10:01 AM, Nov 03, 2011
Dubai: Pilgrims headed to the holy city of Mecca now have a new Blackberry application with a range of useful tools to help them better understand and perform the rituals of the pilgrimage. Developed by Asgatech, a BlackBerry Alliance Member, the application is available as a free download on BlackBerry App World. It supports six different languages Arabic, English, Turkish, Farsi, Urdu and Bahasa and has videos and detailed text...
09:53 AM, Nov 03, 2011
New Delhi: Welcome to our iPad edition. With this, the entire CNN-IBN experience is now available on the world's top-selling tablet, the Apple iPad. A completely free app, it can be downloaded from this page on iTunes. With this app, people around the world can now watch CNN-IBN live on their iPad, enhanced by the unique user experience that the device offers. Not just that, they can also watch the...
07:48 AM, Nov 03, 2011
Hong Kong: A new mobile app enables travelers to plan trips with a little help from their friends. The app, called Trippy, links the users with friends in their social networks who have information on a particular city, either through living, studying, or traveling there, who can offer recommendations. "We're in a less is more time now. If you want information on Tokyo, there are a thousand different sites, each...
10:02 AM, Oct 18, 2011
Toronto: An offer of free games, translation software or other apps to compensate BlackBerry users for last week's prolonged outage left Research In Motion investors cool on Monday, and the shares fell 6 per cent. RIM declined to say if it would need to amend its earnings forecasts to account for the cost of its promise to give $100 of free apps to every BlackBerry smartphone user. RIM is also...
08:35 AM, Oct 18, 2011
New Delhi: Women in Delhi, will soon be able to fight off potential attackers with a push of a phone button that will alert not only friends, family and police but also sound an alarm on their social networking websites. One in every four rapes in India occurs in Delhi, police say, with reports of women being bundled into moving cars and gang-raped before being dumped on roadsides, giving the...
12:49 PM, Oct 14, 2011
Dubai: The average user now spends 9 per cent more time using mobile applications than the internet, a regional expert in mobile apps development and marketing has said, quoting mobile apps analysis firm Flurry. Shadi Hasan, the Managing Director of Flagship Projects, a leading mobile apps developer in the MENA region, said in June, 2011, users spent an average of 81 minutes daily on mobile apps, compared to 74 minutes...
11:40 AM, Oct 10, 2011
New York: It's not surprising, perhaps, that a game based on a sewer-dwelling alligator named "Swampy" ranks as the top paid app for iPhones and iPads. What's surprising is that the game is a product of Walt Disney Co. Swampy is the title character on a quest to stay clean in a low-cost, mobile video game called "Where's My Water?" that Disney hopes will lead to a turnaround of its...
10:39 AM, Oct 05, 2011
New York: Apple, which revealed a new app Tuesday that lets users create and mail greeting cards with their iPhones, might want to consider crafting its own condolence card for traditional greeting card companies. A brief mention the $2.99 app that lets people design and send greeting cards through the postal service sent the stocks of greeting card companies tumbling. Scott Forstall, Apple's senior vice president for iOS mobile software,...
08:56 AM, Oct 05, 2011
Tiruchirapalli: Chennai-based EdServ, India's largest mobile-based education service support company, has entered into an agreement with Nokia, the largest manufacturer of handsets in the world, to offer educational content on Nokia smartphones worldwide. "Nokia has approved our HumThum apps for hosting in Nokia's Ovi apps store and the apps are now available to run inside all Nokia smartphones," EdServ Chairman and CEO S Giridharan told PTI here today. "This tie-up...
11:54 AM, Sep 28, 2011
Bangalore: Atrinsic Inc said the streaming application for its popular Kazaa digital music service is now available for download through Apple Inc's app store, sending its shares up 67 per cent in heavy volumes. The Kazaa music app would be available for free download on Apple's best-selling iPhone and iPad products, New York-based Atrinsic said in a statement. "Kazaa mobile will be available on more and more devices in the...
09:55 AM, Sep 21, 2011
New Delhi: Google has announced the release of its Google Wallet application that can enable phones to make payments. The app is being initially offered on Sprint's network in the US for Sprint Nexus S 4G phones. Google had first announced the app in May 2011. Google Wallet enables users to pay with their Citi MasterCard credit card and the Google Prepaid Card, which can be funded with any existing...
12:53 PM, Sep 20, 2011
New York: Google's Wallet is getting thicker. The company is adding Visa, American Express and Discover to its payment system, which aims to make cellphones the credit cards of tomorrow. Google Inc. on Monday said it has licensed the right to add virtual "cards" from the three payment networks to its Wallet application. MasterCard Inc., the other major payment processor, is already part of the project. The Wallet application Google...
07:50 AM, Sep 20, 2011
Sydney: Passengers who watch movies during flights but fail to watch it till the end because the plane lands can now avoid the disappointment as Australia's Qantas airlines is offering a first-of-its-kind download facility. Qantas will next month start trials of the 'Q Streaming' application, which allows people to download movies and other content to iPads on one of its Boeing 767s, The Australian daily reported. The airline will initially...
02:57 PM, Sep 17, 2011
Helsinki: Irish startup Tethras on Friday rolled out a translation service aimed at helping mobile application developers target non-English speaking users. The service will initially be launched in the United States for Apple's applications but will later be expanded for other mobile platforms and geographies, Tethras said. Wireless application sales, which have surged since Apple entered the mobile industry, are expected to reach $9 billion this year, compared with just...
01:28 PM, Sep 17, 2011
New York: If you want to manage all of your money and all of your monthly payments in one convenient online place, you're pretty much out of luck. You can pay bills with some services, manage your budget with others and organise your financial planning with still another set of programs. But if you want one system where you can auto-pay your cable bill through your checking account, review your...
04:33 PM, Sep 16, 2011
San Francisco: Apple Inc. has removed a mobile app, called "Jew or Not Jew?", from its online App Store in France. The app let users consult a database of celebrities and public figures to determine if they are Jewish or not. Its removal follows a complaint from a French anti-racism group that threatened to sue the iPhone and iPad maker. The app, "Juif ou pas Juif?" in French, was selling...
01:12 PM, Sep 15, 2011
