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This App Lets You Chat With Nearby Users…And Call Them On The Phone

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Palo Alto-based Who’s Near Me Live, abbreviated as WNM Live, is a two-year-old company that’s found moderate success by launching first on Windows Mobile and Windows Phone, before porting its mobile app to the iPhone, where it arrives today with a more limited feature set. The service, essentially a location-based chat similar in some respects to the newly acquired Yobongo , now boasts 400,000 users across its mobile, web and Facebook applications combined. . . . → Read More: This App Lets You Chat With Nearby Users…And Call Them On The Phone

WiFi Rules, OK? Only 6% Of iPad Sessions Come From Cellular Networks

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There has been some anecodotal evidence about how WiFi is by far the most popular way to connect on a tablet, but some numbers out from Localytics spell out just how little traffic is coming from 3G (and now 4G) networks on the most popular tablet of all, the iPad from Apple. Using data from apps that run on its mobile analytics platform, Localytics says that in the last week, since the introduction of the new iPad, only six percent of all sessions on iPads were coming from cellular networks, with the rest coming from WiFi. . . . → Read More: WiFi Rules, OK? Only 6% Of iPad Sessions Come From Cellular Networks

Angry Birds Space won’t land on Windows Phone, Redmond gets no stars

While no doubt swathes of Android and iOS users have experienced massive productivity slumps since Angry Birds Space came out this week, Windows Phone owners will be left staring at their spreadsheets. Peter Vesterbacka, chief marketing officer, at Rovio has told Bloomberg that there are no plans to release the latest iteration of the popular time sink on Microsoft’s mobile platform . . . → Read More: Angry Birds Space won’t land on Windows Phone, Redmond gets no stars

Nokia releases Play To beta, updates Music app for Windows Phone

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To follow its announcement of updated Nokia Drive, Maps and Transport apps (and not to forget Creative Studio ), the firm in Finland now has two more servings of software to crow about for its Lumia lineup — okay, no more alliterations. We promise . . . → Read More: Nokia releases Play To beta, updates Music app for Windows Phone

App Review: AccuWeather for TouchPad

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Editor's Note: Everybody give a warm welcome to our newest writer, one Sharon Copeland! She's a force of nature in the webOS community, though you probably know her as TeckieGirl from the webOS Nation Forums and Twitter, and now she'll be bringing her ways to the webOS Nation blog! In the northern hemisphere of our blue marble it's now springtime, and what a spring we've had so far. . . . → Read More: App Review: AccuWeather for TouchPad

Astraware Casino comes to TouchPad – it’s Vegas on your tablet

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We here at webOS Nation associate Las Vegas with one thing: the agony and ecstasy of CES. The rest of the world associated Vegas with blackjack, slot machines, craps, and roulette (plus a different layer of sundry activities not mentionable on this blog) . . . → Read More: Astraware Casino comes to TouchPad – it’s Vegas on your tablet

Google acknowledges Gmail app may be flickering, says fix is on the way

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We've gotten a bunch of reports from you fine folks today regarding your Gmail apps causing a screen flicker, and being unable to get to your inbox. . . . → Read More: Google acknowledges Gmail app may be flickering, says fix is on the way

Updated Kindle Android App Supports KF8 Files (Which Means More Pretty Pictures)

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Amazon’s Kindle team seems have had their hands full these past few days — a Retina Display-friendly update was just pushed to the iOS App Store last week, and now the Android version is getting a nice little bump too. One of the biggest additions to this build is support for Amazon’s relatively new KF8 ebook file format. . . . → Read More: Updated Kindle Android App Supports KF8 Files (Which Means More Pretty Pictures)

Discovr Unveils People Finder App, Helps You Surface Interesting People On Twitter

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Discovr, the company behind what’s still one of my all-time favorite mobile app discovery tools , Discovr Apps , is out today with a new application for finding people. Not surprisingly, it’s called Discovr People . The startup, which also has apps in the Music and Movies verticals, is not trying to compete with the trendy “ambient location”/ people-stalking apps hitting the scene as of late (like Highlight, Sonar, Glancee, Banjo, etc.), but instead is providing more of a Twitter-based people finder, not unlike the Berlin-based Flockofbirds app . . . . → Read More: Discovr Unveils People Finder App, Helps You Surface Interesting People On Twitter

Home Is Where The Mobile Game Is: 96% Play Games In The House, 53% In Bed

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The magic of mobile games is that they can be played anywhere, but it turns out that quite a lot of us are more than happy to play them when not on the move, according to a new survey from mobile entertainment portal MocoSpace . . . . → Read More: Home Is Where The Mobile Game Is: 96% Play Games In The House, 53% In Bed

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