mobile phone apps

Facebook mobile users triple this year

ITworld staff — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:19:29 -0500

Facebook said that use of its mobile products has tripled since the beginning of the year and the popularity of some features has surprised the company.

Best (free) mobile Twitter apps

ITworld staff — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:20:14 -0400

Whether you employ Twitter for work, play or a combination of the two, there's a mobile Twitter app that's best for you. Which app that may be depends on your smartphone platform. Check out the following seven mobile Twitter apps for a look at your options.

The 10 best Google Android applications

ITworld staff — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:32:52 -0400

Late last year, Google announced that it would give $10 million worth in prizes to software development companies to develop innovative and useful applications for their open source mobile Android platform. Roughly nine months later, Google has announced the winners, and the applications it has selected help users do everything from calling their nearest taxi cabs to comparing sale prices at different stores to calculating their carbon footprint.

How to print iPhone text messages

ITworld staff — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:09:57 -0400

Among Ecamm Networks' $20 PhoneView's many features (including using your iPhone as a storage device when connected to your Mac, copying the iPhone's music, videos, and photos to your computer; and viewing and editing the iPhone's notes) is that it allows you to export the phone's SMS messages as text files, which you can then print.

Cocktail recipe apps for the iPhone

ITworld staff — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:02:16 -0400

There are 5 cocktail database applications now available at the App Store. The best of the lot allow users to create and manage a list of favorite drinks, e-mail or text message recipes to friends, and feature about 5,500 recipes between them. But all suffer from flaws that the developers would do well to remedy in future releases.

iPhone apps for travelers

ITworld staff — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:31:41 -0400

Downloadable applications from Apple's iTunes App Store can turn your iPhone into a helpful traveling companion. As of this writing (early August, 2008), the App Store's Travel category includes foreign language translators, currency and weight/measure converters, a smattering of guides to municipal transportation (such as one for London's Tube), and Frommer's city guides for New York and San Francisco.

Vetting the App Store approval process

ITworld staff — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:28:16 -0400

The App Store has been with us for a month now, and, by many measures, it's a roaring success. Still, that's not to say there that the App Store has achieved perfection in just 33 days of operation. There are plenty of areas for improvement, with the most pressing issues centering around the process in which iPhone applications win approval from Apple and wind up for sale at the App Store.

Jobs confirms iPhone application 'kill switch'

ITworld staff — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:53:57 -0400

Last week's news that Apple had incorporated some form of application blacklist into the iPhone 3G certainly got people talking. While the purpose of said blacklist wasn't apparent, there was still quite a bit of argument over whether or not an application blacklist was a method that Apple should be employing.

Apple removes 'stabbing app' for iPhone

ITworld staff — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:51:27 -0400

It is unclear how Slasher, a 'stabbing game' for the iPhone, became available in the App Store as Apple claims every game featured on the App Store must be checked by Apple to ensure it does not infringe its terms and conditions.

Bugs & Fixes: Items that disappear from the iPhone

ITworld staff — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:42:02 -0400

Since fixing MobileMe flaws is all the rage these days, this week's post tackles the problem of vanishing contact and calendar events synced to your mobile device via Apple's online syncing service. And I'll also turn my attention back to smart flash drives, the subject of last week's post.