A popular TV show and movie discovery app just got a major update during CES that adds social components to its already full-featured cable listing arsenal.
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Peel Personal TV Show Guide (free) is an app that changes the way you watch TV by gathering your personal preferences (more…)
All images shot by you and your friends are saved to the same roll for everyone to enjoy.
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The Hipstamatic D-Series camera app announced today offers a new way to tie photos and social networking together.
Synthetic, developer of the popular retro-image iPhone app Hipstamatic, have enjoyed plenty of success in the iTunes App Store since the app was released two years (more…)
discovered Apple ‘s future plans for iOS in a patent published yesterday.
The Apple patent outlines a “persistent overlay” feature, Magic Mouse and Trackpad support for the iPad, and a new IDME (“ID Me”) social networking feature.
published by US Patent and Trademark Office outlines a lot of exciting potential features for Apple ‘s iOS, though they seem directed at the
.
First of all, we have “persistent overlay.” It’s an effort to maximize (more…)
and Android users consume data. While the initial influx of
almost crippled AT&T’s network, Android users later on surpassed their iOS counterparts in data consumption.
A subset of data consumption is the usage of social networks, which constitutes a large part of daily internet activity on a smartphone.
,
, analysed the social activity of more than 100,000 iPhone and Android users over a period of 30 days, and came with the following results (more…)
Google has enhanced its Google+ iPhone app with some of the same features recently unveiled on the social network’s Web site.
Google tweaked its Google+ iPhone app with several new features.
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Related stories:• Hands-on: Google+ app on the iPhone • Google+ arrives on the iPad, iPod Touch• Google opens its social network to all
The revamped Google+ app (more…)
for iPad and Android.
Flipboard offers an innovative and exciting way to read news content on the iPad and has been one of the popular iPad apps in the App Store. It was also one of
.
I heard from someone working with Google that Google is working on a Flipboard competitor for both Android and iPad. My source says that the versions he’s seen so far are mind-blowing good.
It sure sounds like Google is storing up quite a few social announcements. (more…)
When news of Beyonce’s pregnancy broke on MTV’s VMAs this week, Twitter traffic hit a record 8,868 tweets per second, suggesting that even passive TV watching is becoming a social event. That convergence could get a kick-start via a partnership announced today between satellite TV giant DirecTV and a social-media startup called Miso.
Miso has developed an iPhone app that has the capability to “know” what (more…)
was released to developers, people have been able to find a bunch of unreleased features deep inside the
file system. It started with the revelation of the
and has now moved on to a couple of new social features.
In the earlier release, (
), there was evidence of Apple planning to include “Find My Friends” feature that would provide MobileMe users with real-time location data of their friends. Subsequently, folks at 9to5Mac have come across (more…)
iTunes Ping allows you to follow your favorite artists and friends just like Twitter but to discover the music they’re downloading, listening to and talking about.
“iTunes is the number one music community in the world, with over 160 million iTunes users in 23 countries, and now we’re adding social networking with Ping. With Ping you can follow your favorite artists and friends and join a worldwide conversation with music’s most passionate (more…)
One such announcement is the next generation iPod nano. Several sources have pointed out to the possibility for the new iPod nano to become significantly smaller than the current model. According to Shaw Wu from Kaufman Bros., Apple has been sourcing components for a new iPod nano model that could come without a clickwheel. Wu indicates that this could be one of Apple 's strategies to turnaround the sales of iPod nano that has seen a slowdown in (more…)
