Entries tagged with “apps” from WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

At the BlackBerry Developer Conference, in the “Final 16” awards event,  judges awarded 7digital Music Store (by DevelopIQ) as the winner of the US$100,000 grand prize in the 2009 BlackBerry Partners Fund Developer Challenge. The free app lets users browse and buy DRM-free music.

Here are the top 3 BlackBerry App  winners.

• 7digital Music Store - (FREE) lets users browse the latest music charts, preview the latest tracks and discover, purchase and download high quality, DRM-free MP3 music directly to a BlackBerry smartphone. The software also comes with an integrated advanced media player that imports your existing playlists and music files.
• Fierce Towers ($4.99) is the first tower defense game for the BlackBerry smartphone. Control the field to stop the waves of attacking enemies as you place upgradeable towers around the field as you try your best strategies to stop wave after wave of invading enemies.
• Kik (FREE not available yet) lets users find, manage and play music files stored on BlackBerry devices.

The runner up in this year’s Challenge, Fierce Towers (by Nickel Buddy), receives a prize package valued at more than US$25,000. An on-the-spot honorable mention and US$5,000 prize was also awarded to Kik (by Unsynced). 

There are many free apps available for the BlackBerry Storm and BlackBerry Tour  our readers love the top free best app articles.

Droid from Verizon comes loaded with a 5 megapixel camera.  Once you take the photos, wouldn’t be nice to share them and edit them?

Adobe launched Photoshop.com Mobile for Android software. The Android application equips consumers with quick and easy image-editing tools, color adjustments and instant photo-sharing capabilities. Photoshop.com Mobile optimizes the camera-phone experience by allowing users to browse for their photos online and on their phone, directly from the application. The application is free and available at the Android Market.

Photoshop.com Mobile for Android offers essential, user-friendly photo-editing tools like crop, rotate and flip. The Soft Focus filter can be used to create a subtle blur effect, and for performing color adjustments such as exposure, saturation, tint changes and classic black-and-white.

Flixster updated to its popular Android app. Flixster 2.0 for the Android launched today, adding integration with Facebook Connect, a newsfeed for up-to-date friend ratings, and other enhancements.

Flixster offers an easy way to share your movie choices and meet-up with movie-going friends because it is a combination of movie information and social networking.

Using Flixster, you can find information about movies and showtimes, you can buy tickets using Flixster, you can search for theaters, find maps and even find restaurants.

You can also immediately share your reviews, ratings and opinions with friends and read what they have to say.

Flixster's mobile apps link with Facebook, so you can make movie plans with friends, share your opinions and read other users' reviews, blending "traditional" movie information with social networking.

Flixsterites are busy, on average, mobile Flixster users rate a movie every five seconds and stream 140 trailers per minute. The Android app is available in the Android marketplace. 

There is now free social-network sourced address book for Andriod from Asurion Mobile AddressBook. The app marries a user's mobile address book with social content and services. It offers easy customization to cut through the social media chatter and improve communications. Users can add content from leading social sites, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr, directly into their address book and tailor the types of updates they want from the contacts they want.

Features:

• MixIns - gives users a choice of the content and services they want to build to get a complete view of their relationships and drive their personal communications. Social networking feeds, photos, videos, games and more can be added directly into the contact views of the address book.
• Smart Contacts - allows contacts in the address book to be turned into mini-applications, giving users quick access to the services and information they need when on the go, such as directory assistance, local search, reservations and customer service.
• Instant Notifications - enables users to view updates from all of their social networks even before they open their address book via the Android notification screen. Users can customize the frequency and content of alerts to include different types of updates, from new photos on Facebook to new followers on Twitter.
• Simple interface - allows users to communicate with the contacts in their mobile phone from one place, with one touch, any way they choose. Users can tap to call, comment, text, tweet, post, email, IM or update their status, for example.

"Asurion Mobile AddressBook is a huge time saver," said Michelle Johnson, beta user. "I can get social media updates really quickly from my most important personal and business contacts without having to launch a dozen applications and weed through lots of data. It's a one stop shop for all my interactions. Best of all, with the new and constantly updated MixIn features, the application will grow with my social media needs."

Availability
Asurion Mobile AddressBook is available now and free of charge for any Android-powered phone. To download the application, go to: http://www.getaddressbook.com. AddressBook is also available for download at the Android Market. A video demo follows.

The LG Vu, and LG Shine are very popular feature phones but not much has been written about the best free apps for these fun phones. The LG Vu has 3G and great TV capabilities, now you can enhance your LG Vu with these free apps. We rounded-up reviews of LG VU, and LG Shine apps and found these free apps for your enjoyment.

Best Browser
BOLT Browser - This PC-like browser has proprietary compression, navigation and rendering technologies. BOLT enables users to find and read information quickly and easily. Built in J2ME and able to operate on phones of all types, BOLT can work on an estimated 3 billion phones already in the market.

Fun Goodies/Lifestyle
Feel-Goodies - this free feel-good app can really made your day. Filled with inspirational uplifting sayings, Feel-Goodies, can give you a quick lift in the bank line or the "bored room." This app has been featured as one of our J2ME Apps 2Day.

Social Networking, News & Photo Sharing Apps
Snaptu - is free service filled with apps that work on the LG Vu and LG Shine that requires internet access.  Snaptu provides iPhone-like applications to almost every mobile phone.  Although the service is geared toward people in the U.K. and Europe it has many free ad-supported apps for facebook, Picasa, Flikr, Twitter and Soduko.

Due to pressure from offended women, Pepsi has taken the "Amped" score with more women app off the iTunes shelves.

The "AMP UP Before You Score" a free application promoting PepsiCo's Amp Energy drink and was dubbed a "road map to success with your favorite kinds of women." The portrayal of women was sexist and included stereotypes.

In a statement, the Pepsi said removing the iPhone app was the "most appropriate course of action" after listening to "a variety of audiences."

It divided women into 24 categories. When the user identified the kind of woman he was trying to score, the app provided "a cheatsheet on the stuff she's into, with lists, links and some surefire opening lines."

What's even worse if the user got lucky, the app let him keep a "Brag List," with names, dates and other details and then suggested users to "flaunt it," by sharing the lucky women list with friends via e-mail, Facebook and Twitter.

This shouldn't be confused with another Score Mobile app sponsored by Budweiser, that show sports scores.

Google has updated Google Maps for mobile for BlackBerry to 3.2. The new maps for BlackBerry includes layers You can view many layers of information on your map at the same time. Layers make it easier and more useful to find and interact with geographic content, like public transit, traffic (with incidents!), local search results, Latitude friend locations, Wikipedia and more.

You can also see your own My Maps content as a layer on Google Maps for mobile. And finally, multiple layers can be combined at the same time to give you a content-rich view of what's around you.

Layers make it easy to view various types of information on your map and are especially helpful in situations when you're traveling somewhere new. For example, you can turn on the Wikipedia layer to read entries about nearby places, then use the transit lines layer to help map out a route. Or you can use the My Maps feature of Google Maps to create a collection of places you're planning to visit on your trip and then use Google Maps for mobile to access it from the road. You can also turn on the Google Latitude layer to see your friends' locations.

Pearl Jam is offering a bootleg app for the BlackBerry Tour.  We wonder why it wasn't for the BlackBerry Pearl then users could say my "Pearl is jammin'."

This is the start of of Pearl Jam's bootleg program for mobile devices. They're starting out small, with the new Pearl Jam mobile bootleg app available Verizon BlackBerry Tour customers, only.

Is life getting you down and you need a quick lift? Get this free BlackBerry app from Aproprose, Feel-Goodies. Launch the Feel-Goodies app and you will be reminded how wonderful you really are. One of our readers pointed out, “it’s a simple app for complicated people.”

A satisfied user is quoted on the Feel-Goodies website as saying, “The Feel-Goodies app demonstrates why the word “app” is in h-app-y.” 

There’s something endearing about this cellular caffeine for self esteem. Click through to get compliments that negate the negatives and position yourself in the positive. This app is not only a game shifter for mobile apps but an attitude shifter too.

Currently, there is only the free version of Feel-Goodies, while a paid version with a year’s supply of Feel-Goodies is in works. You can send a link or SMS, your BFF for her to get a free Feel-Goodies app right from within the application. Wireless and Mobile News was fortunate to get a first look at an app that can’t go wrong.

Epocrates Essentials is now avaialble for BlackBerry smartphone. BlackBerry smartphones are one of Epocrates' fastest growing platforms with more than 20 percent growth among U.S. physicians in the past quarter. For a $159 annual fee, medical professional can get easy access to reference information.

Epocrates' top-ranked software is used at the point of care to support clinical decisions from diagnosis to treatment. Beyond the free drug prescribing and safety information, the enhanced Epocrates Essentials suite introduces new content and features to the platform including:

• Thousands of in-depth, peer-reviewed disease topics developed in conjunction with the BMJ Group, publisher of the British Medical Journal
• Hundreds of diagnostic and laboratory tests for interpretation and diagnostic support
• Hundreds of brand name OTC drug products with drug interactions
• More than 600 alternative (herbal) medicines
• Infectious disease treatment guide with empiric and specific treatment recommendations.
  

There is now CBS News application for the iPhone and iPod touch. The free application delivers breaking news, video, and instant access to Twitter feeds on hot topics from CBS reporters, as well as users from around the globe. The new app also offers dedicated sections for each of CBS News' award-winning shows, featuring full-length episodes on-demand and access to CBSNews.com original programming. The application is available now from the App Store.

BRIDES magazine launched BRIDES Dressing Room, the first ever wedding dress locator of its kind on a mobile device. The current version if for the iPhone.

In the BRIDES Dressing Room, users will browse a variety of wedding and bridesmaid dresses, and sort by silhouette, designer or price -- then check availability, and schedule an appointment with a local bridal shop for consultations and fittings. Users of the BRIDES iPhone app can also email a photo of a wedding gown or bridesmaid dress to friends to get their feedback. BRIDES is the first magazine in its category to launch a mobile application.

Functions of the BRIDES iPhone app include:

• Search by style.
• Location awareness within 50 miles.
• Concierge calls to stores for appointments.
• Maps to nearby stores.

The Weather Channel Mobile is offering a fre new ad-supported version of its popular weather appor BlackBerry smartphones. The Weather Channel for BlackBerry includes features such as GPS-based Location Tracker and interactive radar maps.  The expandable banner advertisements support the free app.

BlackBerry Weather Channel app offers current conditions, hourly, 36-hour and 10-day forecasts to help customers plan their daily and upcoming activities. Customers can share severe weather alerts, current conditions and forecasts with friends and contacts via e-mail or text message directly from the application.  Integration with the BlackBerry calendar and address book allows customers to check weather for daily appointments as well as stored contacts.

Known for its precise weather data, The Weather Channel for BlackBerry application continues to offer consumers accurate, localized weather data through enhanced features such as the proprietary TruPoint technology that provides detailed conditions within two kilometers of a customer's location, a convenient home screen temperature indicator that turns red when severe weather threatens, and the option to save and nickname favorite locations.

BlackBerry Tour, Bold, Pearl, Curve and 8800 BlackBerry users can now look up words

with a special Dictionary Thesaurus App form Dictionary.com either from the app or writing or reading emails. Also included in the announcement is the news that people with extensive vocabulary are  las⋅civ⋅i⋅ous . This article has been titivated by the thesaurus.

They claim that the Dictionary.com application is the only free gratuitous  dictionary and thesaurus app currently available for BlackBerry smartphones. It provides users with more than 500,000 words, definitions and synonyms interchangeableness, audio pronunciations, spelling suggestions and Dictionary.com's popular Word of the Day for both English and Spanish.

The new BlackBerry dictionary app also allows users to instantly access a definition or synonym while reading or drafting email electronic mail, a feature unique to the Dictionary.com experience on BlackBerry smartphones.

Several of the features included in the Dictionary.com app were designed to meet the specific professional needs of BlackBerry smartphone users, helping them get essential information on the go. The relevance of the application is underscored by a recent study that revealed 54 percent of people believe a person's vocabulary is crucial to being successful in business. Not to mention, a mastery of language can have after-hours benefits. More than 12 percent of those surveyed said they find a person with an extensive vocabulary sexy.

BlackBerry Storm users who like to connect the dots can now get a free game to play on BlackBerry Storm touchscreen smartphones. The free app of the day from Tafasa is called "Dots."

The way the Dots game app works is that you start with an empty grid of dots, players take turns, adding a single horizontal or vertical line between two unjoined adjacent dots. The player who completes the fourth side of a box earns one point and takes another turn.

The game ends when no more lines can be placed. The winner of the game is the player with the most points. All you have to do is click on the space between adjacent dots to add a line connecting them. Enjoy the fun graphics and unlimited number of move undos while you improve your skills against the computer or defeat your friend!

Features of the Free Dots App for BlackBerry Storm

Play against Computer or another Person.

Undo moves an unlimited number of times.

Fun graphics.

Privus Mobile, the first Caller ID solution for Windows Mobile smartphones, recently released a free upgrade to its Windows Mobile app that gives user caller name lookup on phones in addition to its enhanced Caller ID services and made the service available though Microsoft new mobile marketplace.

The updated Windows smartphone application now allows new and existing subscribers to receive the name registered to any phone number by simply inputting the number in the new, easy-to-use caller name lookup interface as well as receive the name associated with all incoming calls on the device - not just the names of incoming callers already in the phone's contact list. Over the past few months, Privus Mobile released similar updates for its BlackBerry and Android applications.

Windows Mobile users can download the update from inside the Privus Mobile application. Those interested in purchasing Privus Mobile can download the complete application with a 10-day free trial on their devices through Privus Mobile's mobile site at www.privusmobile.mobi,

Privus Mobile is also available through Handango, the free trial version lasts 10 days, service starts at $4.99 a month.Save 25% on all smartphone apps at Handango with code BACKTOSCHOOL

Adobe introduced Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone app. It gives iPhone users the ability to fix/edit photos, adjust color, make special effects as well as 2 gigabytes of photo storage which can store up to 1,500 photos.

Photoshop.com Mobile provides consumers a convenient way to edit photos, apply effects and share images instantly with friends - all with the flick of a finger. Seamless integration with users' free Photoshop.com accounts enables photo sharing and data back-up, saving them valuable space on their iPhones. The application is available free of charge at Apple's App Store.

Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone provides a way to view photos with full-screen previews and edit images with gesture-based editing. Users can transform their photos with essential edits like crop, rotate and flip. Users can correct and play with color by adjusting the saturation and tint, enhancing the exposure and vibrancy and converting images to black and white.

The new BlackBerry Messenger 5.0 is so popular ,it reportedly crashed RIM's servers. It's been called one of the greatest updates so far.

With BlackBerry Messenger for all BlackBery Devices including BlackBerry Storm, Curve, Bold and Tour  your friends are only a BlackBerry Messenger message away whether you want to make plans for the night or ask a quick question. You can chat and share funny stories, pictures, videos and more with individual contacts or groups of friends instantly. It like instant messaging,  with bar codes and social networking groups.

This new version of BlackBerry Messenger includes barcode scanning for PIN exchange, BlackBerry Messenger chat via SMS, the ability to create groups, back-up and restore of your contact list (on our servers - no more desktop backup required!) and the ability to customize your display picture.

GetJar announced the top 20 Apps on the GetJar free mobile apps platform. The Winner is Facebook Mobile,  followed by Google, and Nimbuzz.Top 20 Apps on GetJar USA

Top 20 Apps on GetJar USA

1. Facebook Mobile -social and community.
2. Google -information.
3. Nimbuzz - email & IM.
4. Change Ringtone - music.
5. eBuddy - email & IM.
6. Opera Mini 4 Web browser.
7. mig33 - social and community.
8. Yamee email & IM.
9. qeep Games games.
10. Bluetooth File Transfer FULL - productivity.
11. Flirtomatic - email & IM.
12.  Playphone - entertainment.
13. Google Maps for mobile featuring Latitude maps.
14. Nulaz social and community.
15. Opera Mini 5 beta Web browser.
16. Snaptu- information.
17. Dictionary - education.
18. Evan-mp3-Player - music.
    
19. YouTube Web.
20. RockeTalk email & IM.

Okay, you Macaholics, who prefer BlackBerry smartphones to the "i" word, your day will come on this Friday, when BlackBerry Desktop Manager will be available for Macs.

BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac users will be available for free download from www.blackberry.com/mac on Friday, October 2 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. If you like, you can register online today for a notification when it is ready to download. Until then they suggest you use PocketMac for BlackBerry.

The new BlackBerry Desktop Manager software gives Mac users  a way to sync data from Mac applications like iCal, Address Book, Microsoft Entourage and others, as well as add and remove applications, schedule automatic backups, encrypt backup files and install software updates for their BlackBerry smartphone.