Voting for the 2012 Webby Awards has come to a close and the winners have been announced. . . . → Read More: Google Wallet trumps SwiftKey in Webby Awards, Evernote brings award home too
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 It helps to be free on the fastest-growing mobile platform , but that shouldn’t draw all the attention away from Rovio’s latest announcement. It’s space-based reinvention of Angry Birds has now topped 50 million downloads in under 35 days, breaking its (and presumably everyone else’s) record for mobile game downloads. In Rovios’s own way, it recently thanked eager gamers for their consistent downloading support by slathering ten additional levels on both the iOS and Android version last week . . . → Read More: Angry Birds Space hits 50 million milestone, smashes it, crushes pigs in the process  Hot on the heels of a recent update for its Twitter app, BlackBerry users can now grab a refreshed version of everyone’s favorite check-in network. While there’s no news of the beleaguered phone manufacturer offering up free Butterfingers (yet), the geographical social app has cranked up the app’s load speeds and also transplants its notifications to your BlackBerry inbox. It’s all looking to be a pretty tasty NFC carrot to dangle in front of BlackBerry World attendees later this week in Orlando . . . → Read More: Foursquare adds NFC to its BlackBerry app, hopes you’ll touch base  It’s not like there’s any shortage of alternatives, but those sticking with the ooh-ficial Twitter app on iOS and Android woke up to a rather pleasant update today. Briefly, the company’s promising improvements to discover, search and notifications, with the new build allowing users to view “Activity” — described as a “stream of updates that shows which tweets are favorited or retweeted by the people you follow and which accounts those people follow or add to lists.” Search has also been made simpler in both programs, with the Connect tab allowing you to start typing the first or last name or username of the person you’re looking for and watching autocomplete handle the rest. Finally (and perhaps most importantly), notifications for Interactions are in place, enabling busybodies to know right away when a tweet has been retweeted or favorited. . . . → Read More: Twitter app update brings improved discover, search and notifications to iOS and Android  Twitter has now unleashed their latest update to Twitter for Android though, the verdict is still out on whether or not it's for the better. . . . → Read More: Twitter for Android updated with improved search, push notifications and new discover feature  The latest update for Skype has now landed in the Google Play Store and has some nice changes in it that may make you want to go and hit that update button. . . . → Read More: Skype updated with faster start up times, video bug fixes and newly styled messaging  I've long raved about the merits of Tripit for those of us who travel frequently. It's indispensable . . . → Read More: Tripit update now shows trips you’ve already taken  DirecTV’s still-in-beta “Everywhere” streaming package only arrived on the iPad a month ago , and now the company has updated its app for Android phones with access to the same set of video-on-demand streaming movies and TV shows for viewing wherever subscribers might be. . . . → Read More: DirecTV Everywhere brings streaming movies, TV shows to Android right now, iPhone keeps waiting  This may not be the UK operators first attempt at dipping its fingers logo into your pockets, but O2′s new mobile wallet does bring with it some de rigeur functionality. Taking a leaf out of Barclays ‘ book, the new app lets you send “Money Messages,” essentially text-driven money transfers to any phone number . . . → Read More: O2 UK launches new wallet service, helps you empty yours (video)  Move over, My Tracks — you’ve got serious company. . . . → Read More: Columbia’s GPS Pal app for Android and iOS logs your hikes, geotags memories (video) |
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