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‘App Economy’ Has Created Nearly 500K Jobs Since 2007

One of the big buzzwords in the 2012 election has been, of course, "job creators" (with the very existence of said group a matter of intense debate), but it seems if you buy and use a lot ... continue

Mobile Apps Quickly Lose Appeal Once Installed [Survey]

Purchasing a shiny new Smartphone comes with the option to install a bunch of shiny new apps and while users are purchasing those apps at a rate of billions of dollars each year they often skimp out ... continue

“If I Die” App Posts Your Final Message to Facebook After Your Demise

It's probably the rare person in this social media age who has not wondered what would happen to their Facebook and Twitter accounts in the event of their unexpected (or perhaps, more sadly, expected) death. What would people ... continue

Apple TV Hacked to Run iOS Apps [Video]

An enterprising hacker has managed to coax the $99 Apple TV set-top box into running full screen iOS apps. Steve Troughton-Smith's hack lets users run iPhone and iPad apps on a big-screen TV at an eye-massagingly lovely 720p ... continue

Apps aren’t the big money maker everyone would have you think they are

Angry Birds aside the mobile app market is often touted as being the next big money maker for developers and since all we hear is how people are getting all these apps on their mobile phones and ... continue

Apple Files For “In-App Purchasing” Patent, Looks To Shut Out Competitors

Apple on Thursday filed a USPTO patent request for "In-Application Purchasing." The patent request appears to cover most app store functions currently available on the market, allowing users to purchase content from outside sources while inside another ... continue

Android users safe from crashing NASA satellite thanks to an app for the phone and tablet

We've been kind of following the coming Chicken Little moment when the UARS satellite comes crashing to earth, the only problem is that we have no clue as to where that final moment will happen. As Dan Evon ... continue

Facebook Apps Create 182,000 New U.S. Jobs Worth $12.9 Billion

The U.S. jobs market may be bleak but such is not true for the App Economy. A research from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business said that the proliferation of Facebook and ... continue

So, there’s a Moleskine app for iPhone and iPad…

I'm not quite sure how to feel about this one. On one hand, it's a cool idea to flesh out the ubiquitous designer/writer standard issue Moleskine out for technophilic traditionalist who use the devices. On the other, Moleskines ... continue

“Last Night Never Happened” deletes your drunken Facebooking so you don’t have to

Ever posted an embarrassing tweet, check-in or Facebook status update while under the influence of alcohol? Ambien is actually a notorious offender here (given its tendency to drop your inhibitions while not affecting your speech or grammar), but ... continue

Foursquare 3.0 has even more nifty features, deals

Foursquare's blog has a new post about updates to the worldwide location-based check-in game with Foursquare 3.0, leading off with some upgrades for businesses, but then getting down into what we all really want from Foursquare- specials. Aside ... continue

Apps to rule the world [Infographic]

I have reservations about the long term usability of the whole apps thing that we are seeing advancing like a tsunami in our increasing mobile oriented world whereas people like Robert Scoble suggest that without a solid ... continue

Bless me father, for iHaveSinned: New iPhone ‘confessional’ app

iPhone users, your list of excuses to skip Confession on Saturdays just got a little bit shorter. Despite some relatively progressive stances for Christians on positions such as science and evolution, the Catholic Church gets a lot of ... continue

Gowalla hooks up with Foursquare, Facebook Places

Gowalla announced an upgrade to their service today, integrating the app with its two biggest competitors. Also on the docket is integration with Twitter and Tumblr, but Gowalla 3 is only available for iPhone until January. (iPad, Blackberry ... continue

Guess who trademarked “There’s an App for That”?

Back on December 2009 it appears that Apple applied for a trademark for their famous ad tagline "There's an App for That" and word out today is that they have been granted the trademark for it. Here's that ... continue

Literally the most awesome iPad app ad you will ever see

Without a doubt this has to be one of the best ads going for iPad apps. I could go on and on about it but seriously just watch it and then tell me if I'm not right. continue

Create a “Fringe” app and win big

I have to say that Fox's sci-fi show Fringe is one of my favorites however I'm not sure how some mobile app is going to do anything for the show. However I'm not Fox or AppNation and ... continue

Apple show once more it has a warped sense of what is disgusting and pornographic

Sure, news about Apple taking down, or refusing to include apps in its iPhone App Store because they are deemed as being of questionable moral standing but their newest take down borders on gatekeeper stupidity. While I am ... continue

Steal back your Foursquare mayorships with WhenWillIBeMayor.com

Foursquare is one of those things people either love or hate, usually quite vocally either way. Many people not playing the game get annoyed at the constant Twitter updates from Foursquare-playing friends, but if you're playing, you might ... continue