Monthly Archive:: May 2012
23 May 2012
Apps Rush: I’d Cap That, Line Surfer, Hambo, Ice Rage
I’d Cap That: It is a simple yet very engaging app. It lets you take pictures and capitalizes on the popular trend of snappish captions accompanying a photo. The app provides captions on a random basis, so the relationship between photo and caption is usually described as “irrelevant,” which in turn serves as a source
17 May 2012
Nielsen: 1 in 2 Americans own a smartphone; app downloads surge 28%
Consumers’ appetite for smartphones is booming as price points come down and features increase. If the latest numbers are to be believed, smartphone adoption now rests at 50.4 per cent of the overall mobile market in the United States. That means every 1 in 2 Americans are using smartphones than just plain feature phones –
10 May 2012
Facebook launches its own App Center to take on Apple and Google
Anyone with a smartphone is familiar with the concept of an “app store” – an online marketplace where users can browse, purchase and install applications to their devices. It was Apple, which pioneered the concept, but was soon emulated by Google, Amazon and Microsoft. The latest to jump on the bandwagon is social networking giant
03 May 2012
Spotify launches new app for the iPad – Get it now!
After months of speculation, Spotify, the insanely popular and rapidly growing music-streaming service, has released a dedicated iPad version of the app. It is available for free at the Apple App Store, but only subscribers to the service will be able to enjoy tunes from their tablet at $9.99 per month. It is the version
01 May 2012
Best Android apps of the month: Next Issue, Zeebox, TweetComb, Pocket (Free), DirecTV
Next Issue app: Next Issue Media, a joint venture between Conde Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp, and Time Inc, has come out with its Android tablet newsstand titled Next Issue, much the way like Hulu.com. Users can avail this service by paying $10 a month, to read the latest full issues of 27 magazines on