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Angry Birds For Blackberry Update

Angry Birds For Blackberry Update

Angry Birds Space was released on the Blackberry platform a couple of weeks back, and has now been updated to version 1.1, with a new Fry Me to the Moon level for those poultry-catapulting addicts who’ve already completed the first two levels. The menu layout has been tweaked, and the ‘Coming Soon’ teaser image is [...]

Evernote Hand-written Note-taking

Evernote Hand-written Note-taking

The popular Evernote cloud note-taking service will soon be expanding its functionality after buying the Penultimate handwriting-recognition app. Evernote lets users save documents or notes in the cloud for later access using different devices, and has vowed to closely inttegrate the handwriting with its document storage capabilities. But the Penultimate HR app will continue to [...]

Blackberry Is Fastest Growing App Platform

Blackberry Is Fastest Growing App Platform

Research In Motion last week announced it was nearing the 100,000 application mark for its Blackberry OS and PlayBook App World stores. RIM ‘s VP of Developer Relations stepped on stage in Blackberry World 2012 in Orlando to quash rumors that devs were leaving the Blackberry platform. Not the case, said Alec Saunders, who said [...]

RIM Backtracks On Ending Sideloading

RIM Backtracks On Ending Sideloading

There was disappointment amongst Blackberry Playbook owners after a RIM executive declared the company intended to discontinue Android app side-loading on the firesale tablet. Now the same exec, Alec Saunders, has declared that side-loading will be supported indefinitely on Playbook OS and BB10, with RIM modifying the feature to keep pirates at bay. Side-loading is [...]

Playbook Android Sideloading Ending?

Playbook Android Sideloading Ending?

We recently reported financial trouble at RIM , and it seemed renewed interest in the cut-priced Blackberry Playbook might be the company’s saviour. It’s one of the best dual-core tablets out there, great display, good performance, but in the beginning was hampered by a poorly-equipped OS and its premium price point. Now that Playbook OS [...]

Army App Breaks Cover

Army App Breaks Cover

At last an Army app store has raised its head above the parapet, with the US Army announcing a its prototype Army Software Marketplace, a web-based app store which currently offers a dozen different training apps approved for use across the military. At the moment only iOS apps are offered, but Android apps will soon [...]

Microsoft Mocks Google

Microsoft Mocks Google

It seems Microsoft has launched a broadside at Google Apps, which attempts to provide alternative business software to the Microsoft Office suite. In a newly-released video Microsoft depicts a sleazy Google Apps salesman and warns that Google might suddenly pull the plug on any of the features offered in the same way it has killed [...]

Build An App Without Writing One Line Of Code

Build An App Without Writing One Line Of Code

There’s a massive swing in the development community towards mobile app development, and now novices can get involved using Infinite Monkeys app builder The Machine. It’s a self-service platform based on a drag-and-drop interface which doesn’t require anyone developing an app to write a single line of code, making it a great choice for small [...]

Facebook App update on Windows Phone

Facebook App update on Windows Phone

With this newest update FaceBook app ironed out few glitches and bugs. New 2.3 version brings new profile look, enhanced navigation, increased posting privacy and support for new feed filters. Also new in the Windows Phone is Groups. Now we can see who likes and dislikes what we write. Library of supported video formats was [...]

Android Apps – Multitask With Transparent Screen

Android Apps – Multitask With Transparent Screen

Transparent Screen is an Android app that is amazingly straightforward in principle – it simply lets you see where you’re walking by making the view from your camera the background image for the Android operating system. Thus you can surf or do anything else with your phone, like Tweet or check sales figures, while walking [...]