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 One year ago, one of our favorite webOS Twitter client – Carbon – launched into the App Catalog for webOS smartphones. That was a different time, and the past year has been full of twists and turns for webOS , enough to give any mobile developer the chills . . . → Read More: dots & lines discontinues webOS versions of Carbon and Graphite Twitter clients  HP Pivot was so unique in its application that it ended up a finalist in the 2011 Digital Magazine Awards . . . . → Read More: webOS Nation community stepping up to fill in the void left by Pivot  If a consumer mobile fad comes and goes, and you don’t play consolidation musical chairs, what do you do next? This is kind of what happened to Kik, a Canadian startup that took off with the explosive growth of its messaging app last year. Amid the hype around messaging, Kik raised $8 million in funding from RRE Ventures, Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures . . . → Read More: How Kik Survived The Group Messaging Wars And Built A Sweet Mobile App For Controlling TVs  Freemium visual voicemail service YouMail never forgot their roots — they first launched in late 2007 with the mission of making visual voicemail available to the masses, but soon focused their attention on what was then the market-leading smartphone platform: BlackBerry. I don’t need to tell you that RIM’s fortunes have changed since then, but the YouMail crew dutifully updated their BlackBerry app even though registrations from users of that platform began to dip. . . . → Read More: After Three Years, Visual Voicemail Service YouMail Calls It Quits On BlackBerry  If you think the iOS app ecosystem is big now, as it pushes some 600,000 apps available for iPhone and iPad, just imagine how big it could become if Apple made good on this newly filed patent application titled “Content Configuration for Device Platforms.” The application describes a way for non-developers to create iOS apps using a simple, graphical interface. Whoa . . . → Read More: Apple Patents A Tool Allowing Non-Developers To Build Apps  Leaf , a Cambridge-based startup, is aiming to make the experience of paying in a shop more modern with paperless receipts for customers and transaction data in the cloud for merchants. Backed with $1 million in seed funding, the company just kicked off an alpha with more than a dozen merchants in Boston. It enters a super competitive and complicated space with many other players like PayPal, Intuit, Square, which has its own Pay With Square service, and Stockholm’s iZettle. . . . → Read More: With $1M And An Alpha, Leaf Aims To Overhaul The Payments Experience For Local Merchants  The first thing that popped into my mind as I interviewed Suzy Bureau about her Columbus Ohio Startup project called The ManCard was “ This is all wrong. We should be shooting skeets, or tearing out drywall or fly fishing — anything but sitting in a coffee shop drinking lattes .” Despite the emasculating surroundings our conversation continued as the ebullient Ms. Bureau described the app she and her compadres built and submitted in a single weekend . . . → Read More: Startup Team ManCard Spreads The Testosterone  Well, here’s an app that’s actually practical. Cloud Photos (for iOS) is a newly launched mobile camera replacement app which automatically uploads photos to Dropbox , as soon as you snap the picture. The idea here is that you can use the app to save space on your iPhone’s disk drive, as it allows you to save photos directly to the cloud instead of the iPhone’s Camera Roll . . . → Read More: Cloud Photos Automatically Uploads Photos To Dropbox, Saves Storage Space On Your iPhone  It might only be April, but the Angry Birds are already preparing for summer, with the launch of a new update to the original app for Android. . . . → Read More: Angry Birds updated with 15 new tropical levels  Fetchnotes is a promising, lightweight note-taking app for list makers and idea-havers which looks deceptively simple. But that simplicity is actually one of Fetchnotes’ key selling points. . . . → Read More: Fetchnotes Launches A Simple, Cloud-Based Note-Taking Service (That Twitter Users Will Love) |
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