Applications

A beta version of BlackBerry World 3.0 available to betazone testers. The new version of RIM's application store has been revised heavily, and features home screen search, social media. The home screen search let you quickly find what BlackBerry app, game or theme you're looking for. Here you can also flick between app summaries, screenshots, and…

Launchpad Control is a free application on OS X that will assist you in cleaning out the unnecessary apps in your Launchpad and the app just check off which apps you don’t want to see .Launchpad is a great feature but it lacks some ease in the modification department and if you’re not able to get rid of the apps you don’t use, it’ll stay a…

BlackBerry App World hits one billion downloads and it took a smidge over two years for the company to claim the milestone. A number of factors have likely led to the relative snail's pace in the BlackBerry storefront, including the outfit's rocky relationship with developers and the company has begun a video series that allows seasoned RIM…

A recently uncovered Apple patent filing shows the company has looked into using more advanced physics metaphors in a mulitouch environment to replace the traditional virtual desktop and user can make an intuitive, physical gesture with a first device, which can be detected by one or more onboard motion sensors. The plan to connect devices also…

Foursquare has re-released a new version of its popular “check-in” app that’s been completely revamped for the Windows Phone 7 platform. The troublesome program was pulled due to lacking features and a rather sub-par user experience, leaving mayors everywhere unable to verify their credentials for hard-earned discounts.

Windows Phone Marketplace now populated by 25,000 apps and Google's Android, albeit having an overall market share lead, remaining stagnant, and Microsoft's WP7 operating system managing just one per cent of handset sales. Microsoft's dead Windows Mobile operating system still has nine per cent market share and there's no reason to expect it'll…

Apple has what is clearly the top tablet on the market with the iPad and here are more than 100,000 iPad-specific apps on sale in the App Store. It took Apple 452 days to surpass the 100,000 iPad app mark to land at 100,161 dedicated iPad apps and the milestone comes a little over a year after Apple unveiled the original iPad. The AppStore is now…

Skype has announced an updated version of its Skype for Android app, Skype 2.0, which bringing Skype Video Calling to the currently fastest growing mobile OS and with the new version users can make and recive free -to-1 video calls over Skype between their Android phone and other Skype contacts on the iPhone, Mac, Windows PCs and even TVs. The new…

Mobile app use trumping web browsing for the first time and time spent with mobile apps per day per person reached an average of 81 minutes compared to 74 minutes on the Web. This growth in mobile app usage, clocking in at a 91% increase year-over-year has come primarily from more sessions per user per day, but mobile apps haven't always been more…

TiVo Android and iPhone apps in the works, Season Passes soon at your fingertips and Android build will target tablets first and smartphones later, perhaps even a merged edition once Ice Cream Sandwich crawls from the freezer. This version of TiVo will soon make recording season-long reruns of The Hills even easier for those living within iOS or…