It appears that Skype’s most recent update for iPhone and iPad may have been overlooked by its QA department after the company was forced to submit an update for its iOS app to fix bugs that many users were experiencing just 24 hours after its last one....
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Skype Pushes iOS Update to Fix Microsoft Account, Calling Sign-in Bugs 0
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After 500px App Store flap, Tumblr update warns users of age-restricted material 0
January 31st at 8:31am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsiOS app developers are seemingly taking notice of the trouble picture-sharing app "500px" faced earlier in January, as App Store veteran Tumblr is now warning users of possible exposure to adult content with its latest update.
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Celly Raises $1.4M And Launches iPhone App For Emergent Communities 0
February 19th at 5:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsCelly, the mobile platform that allows anyone to create “emergent social networks” accessible from their phone or tablet, has raised $1.4 million in funding led by the Oregon Angel Fund (OAF). In addition, Upstart Labs, the Portland Seed Fund, and various other investors have joined the round. To complement the news, the company has also announced the release of its iPhone app to give more users access to its offering....
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Facebook unveils redesigned, cleaner News Feed coming to iPhone, iPad & Web 8
March 7th at 11:51pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsIn the coming weeks, Facebook users on iPhone, iPad and regular Web browsers will see a revamped News Feed designed to reduce clutter while becoming more colorful and visually stimulating.
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Messaging app 'WhatsApp' for iOS to become subscription based by year's end 0
March 19th at 4:51pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsPopular cross-platform messaging app WhatsApp is planning to eschew its current one-time purchase fee for iOS users, and move to a subscription model akin to how the title is distributed on other platforms like Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone.
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As The Smart Calendar Market Heats Up, Calendo For iPhone Doesn’t Want To Just Manage Your Calendar – It Wants To Fill It 1
April 17th at 9:43am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsIn recent months, the iOS App Store has filled with “smart” calendars like Sunrise, Tempo, and Cue, for example, but despite its name, a new Tel Aviv-based startup called Calendo isn’t trying to directly compete with these types of applications. Instead of better managing your calendar for you, Calendo wants to help you fill it by making sure that you don’t miss out on events you would have…
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Reach Network is an address book app for iOS that updates your contacts’ information in real-time 0
May 2nd at 2:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsManaging your address book on an iOS device has never been easy. The default Contacts app is robust on the iPhone, but updating profiles and user information is laborious. It’s far from seamless and often feels like a chore, similar to keeping on top of your email or calendar....
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Adobe Acquires Thumb Labs, The Creator Of Behance's Official App 1
May 22nd at 11:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsThumb Labs, the New York-based digital agency that developed Behance’s official mobile apps, has announced that it is joining Adobe full time to work with the Behance team. The terms of this deal were not disclosed, but Thumb Labs called it a “talent acquisition” — an acqui-hire, if you can stand the term....
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Drawing-themed messaging app Cubie introduces carrier billing for Android, as it nears 8m users 0
June 14th at 4:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsCubie, the drawing-themed mobile messaging app from Taiwan, has taken a big step to monetizing its service after it launched direct carrier billing for mobile payments in more than 40 countries worldwide....
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Vine Fights Instagram With Biggest App Update Yet 1
July 4th at 12:03am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsVine, Twitter’s six-second looping video-sharing app, has just launched some new features to the app, including a redesigned camera, categories for various vine genres, and the ability to revine people’s existing Vines. The update brings some much-asked-for features to the social network, and also improves users’ abilities to gain and following and get noticed within the app.
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Tumblr tells iOS users to download security update, change their passwords 0
July 17th at 7:49am / The Verge / 0 opinionsUsers of Tumblr’s iOS are advised to immediately install a new security update and change their passwords, says the company, following the discovery of a security vulnerability. (Passwords could be "sniffed" — intercepted on local networks — in some versions of the app.) A company representative told The Verge that "earlier today, Tumblr was notified of a security vulnerability introduced in our iOS app," and immediately acted to close it and notify affected users. iOS 7 will bring automatic app...
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Twitter Updates Apps With Photo Galleries, Improved Login Verification 0
August 7th at 12:06am / Mashable / 0 opinionsTwitter updated its iOS and Android apps on Tuesday, adding social context and photo galleries into search results, as well as several improvements to login verification. Now when you perform a search using Twitter’s mobile app, the menu will show how you connect, if at all, to other users whose tweets appear in results. See also: 10 Twitter Header Images Done Right Photo galleries also now appear in search.
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Six tips from Apple on how to create better app icons 1
August 21st at 7:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsThis is a guest post by Martin LeBlanc, the founder of IconFinder, a search engine for icons. You can follow him on twitter here...
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Facebook’s New Mobile Test Framework Births Bottom Tab Bar Navigation Redesign For iOS 5, 6, & 7 0
September 18th at 11:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsFacebook lost its ability to “move fast and break things” when it switched its apps from HTML5 to native. But it’s got its mojo back. Today it announced a big iOS 7-style app redesign featuring bottom-screen “tab bar” navigation built with an advanced native mobile testing framework. Facebook knew to ditch the pull-out navigation drawer by testing different interfaces in 10 million-user batches.
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Find making decisions hard? Crowdsource opinions using Tiinkk instead 1
October 15th at 5:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsIf you value having the opinion of your friends and family at your disposal whenever you need it, or maybe you struggle to make decisions about the little (or big) things in life, then you might want to check out Tiinkk....
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First-look: Tweetbot 3 for iPhone revisits a classic 2
October 25th at 9:02pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsWith iOS 7’s release, there’s been a rash of app redesigns going around. The latest to get a celebrity makeover is Tapbots’s Tweetbot, one of the most prominent Twitter clients for Apple’s mobile platform. The new version, Tweetbot 3, has been released as an entirely separate app for the iPhone—meaning a new price tag for existing users and new customers alike....
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Twitter for iOS and Android now let you search for news stories, pictures, and videos 0
November 20th at 2:09am / The Verge / 0 opinionsTwitter is adding new search features to its Android and iOS app today that'll make it easier to discover just the type of content that you're looking for. Both apps will now offer the option to search for only pictures, videos, or news stories, where previously they could only search through usernames or entire tweets. Searching through a mass of tweets could be a bit easier now too — depending on what you're looking for — as you'll be able to search through all tweets in the new update, rather than...
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15 Underrated Apps Every Entrepreneur Should Use 2
December 7th at 6:45pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsWhether you have a tech question or a fashion concern, there's probably an existing app that can help you out. But frankly, with all the apps out there, it's easy to get stuck with the same icons on your home screen -- and never so much as click on the newer ones that would benefit your business most. See also: 10 Must-Have Tools for Entrepreneurs That's why we asked 15 successful young entrepreneurs to share their go-to yet underrated app of choice.
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Jelly, Biz Stone’s New Q&A Platform, Uses Images To Find Answers 0
January 8th at 1:23am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsJelly, a new question-and-answer platform from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, is coming out of stealth today. The app, available on both iOS and Android worldwide, will go head-to-head with the likes of Quora and go a step further, incorporating features like visual imagery to steer people to getting better answers from within and outside their network.
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Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week 2
February 8th at 3:10am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsSIt's the end of a long week and the beginning of Winter Olympic madness. Don't let your smartphone or tablet get left behind—turn it into a gold-medal productivity star, or the olympic village of time-wasting games, with our favorite new apps. AndroidBeats MusicSBeats Music is a promising new take on streaming music—it's curated by real human beings, not emotionless algorithms. Try the sentence mix option, where you type in your mood and what you're doing and get a mix in return. Now out on Android,...
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5 Anonymous Apps That Help You Embrace Your Inner Jerk 3
March 1st at 2:30am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsS...
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Opinion-Sharing Platform Knotch Launches A New Website And Updated App 0
April 24th at 9:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsSince downloading it six months ago, Knotch, which lets people share their opinions on a wide range of topics using an 11-color "feeling thermometer," has become one of my favorite apps because of its strong community. The startup launched a redesigned version of its iOS app today, along with a new website called Knotch.It.
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5 Travel Apps to Help You Get the Most Out of Summer Vacation 3
June 4th at 8:05am / Mashable / 0 opinionsThese travel-recommendation apps will help you choose the best options on the road.
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TaskRabbit's new app brings you help on demand 1
July 10th at 4:09pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsLast month, we wrote about TaskRabbit's decision to blow up its old auction-house model in favor of a new, more Uber-like system for getting labor on demand. Today the company is moving ahead with that plan, rolling out new apps for iOS and Android that let you hire movers, house cleaners, handymen, and other assistants. The new app lets you hire help, securely chat with the person you've hired, and manage payments in a single place. "Taskers," as the company now calls its contractors, will use a...
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Peter Molyneux brings Godus to iOS, Yelp gets Bing Translator, Foursquare adds personalization 0
August 7th at 10:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsiPhone and iPad owners can now use Apple's mobile devices to play God with the release of Peter Molyneux's Godus, read business reviews in different languages with Yelp's new built-in Bing translate capabilities, and receive personalized recommendations with Foursquare.