Tweet Apple in October announced that iPhone, iPad and iPod users had downloaded over 18 billion applications from the iTunes App Store since the service launched in 2008. The company recently released its iTunes Rewind 2011 lists, counting down some of the most popular content of the year. The annual recap looks at Apple’s favorite apps across 21 categories,
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Tweet The revamped Gmail for desktop is slowly rolling out to users, and like its Google Reader and Gmail app for iOS cousins, it has a few problems. Aside from aesthetic complaints about the fields of empty white space, the new Gmail has some functional problems, too: Some things are distracting; some are annoying; and some just don’t make sense. Below
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Tweet On Monday, researchers at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Businessreleased a report confirming that Facebook is good for the economy. At least, its apps are. The study, led by Associate Professor of Information Systems Il-Horn Hann, found that Facebook apps have contributed at least 182,744 new jobs and $12.19 billion
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Tweet The ever-popular Apple iPad, with its wide, high-resolution screen, is a great device for watching video (better than the tiny iPhone, anyway); and yet the options for video discovery are surprisingly limited, given how tailor-made the iPad seems to be for media consumption of all kinds. Sure, you’ve got YouTube for your standard viral
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Tweet Google has launched a teaser site and invitation request form for Photovine, its newest entry into the social media game (you may have heard it launched a Facebook competitor that is in high demand so far). Details on the Photovine landing page are scant, but it appears that it will work something like this:
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Tweet Following a leak Wednesday about a possible upcoming photo-sharing app for Facebook, TechCrunch claims that Facebook’s next big endeavor, internally known as “Project Spartan,” will establish a new mobile web app platform that could help the social networking giant gain independence from Apple’s App Store. Unnamed sources told TechCrunch that Facebook’s new platform will
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Tweet Excellent Article From huffingtonpost The Internet is outgrowing search engines. So says Mark Johnson, CEO of Zite, an iPad app that labels itself a “personalized magazine” delivering news stories tailored to each users’ interests, reading habits, and preferences. As the amount of information online continues to expand at its breathtaking pace — there are
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