App Store

The latest Starbucks App Pick of the Week is Doodle Truck 2, which retails for $0.99: Everyone’s favorite trucking series rolls back into the App Store! Day or night, rain or shine, real truckers are always ready to truck, so pick up your load and deliver the goods! Just remember to buckle up, because it’s...

So you are a developer with a great idea, a laptop and some money, and you want to optimize your app to function well on the majority (let's say 80%) of the connected mobile devices currently in use. How many different models you need to support? 156, Flurry's recent study reveals. (more…)

The Starbucks Canada iPhone app was updated yesterday with an easier way see your available rewards, store directions via Apple Maps, improved brightness and some bug fixes. With its integration into Passbook last October, paying for coffee has never been easier with your iPhone. Currently there's a Starbucks promotion where you can get $5 free...

Fongo Inc. has today announced the launch of Discount Phone app for iOS and Android, in collaboration with Discount Car & Truck Rentals, the largest Canadian-owned car and truck rental company. The free mobile app is targeted at cutting costs for travellers by offering unlimited free mobile calling and texting to landline and mobile phones in Canada. Discount Phone makes...

Google Maps for iOS has received its first major update. The new features include the ability to search your Google contacts if you're signed in, plus there is now the ability to search for local places by tapping on tabs (restaurants, coffee, bars, attractions). You can also now choose between Kilometres or Miles for your...

With both Apple and Google offering more than 700,000 apps in their respective storefronts, the app market is booming. Customers are estimated to be spending, on average, roughly two hours a day in the company of mobile apps, which pushes up the global revenue of app stores by 62%, reaching the $25 billion mark, according...

Twitter has announced today TweetDeck for iPhone (and Android/AIR versions) will be discontinued in early May to concentrate development on modern, web-based versions of TweetDeck: To continue to offer a great product that addresses your unique needs, we’re going to focus our development efforts on our modern, web-based versions of TweetDeck. To that end, we...

Chrome for iOS has been updated today to include easier access to your tab history by tapping and holding on the back button, but the ability to share web pages via Messages: What's New in Version 25.0.1364.86 • Long press on the back button to quickly access any page in your tab history • Share...

The Starbucks App Pick of the Week is Brian Cox's Wonders of the Universe, an app that regularly retails for $5.99. This app features over 2.5 hours of BBC video from the Wonders TV series (Wi-Fi required) and over 200 in-depth interactive articles to let you tour the universe. This app was part of App...

Tanmay Bakshi is an app developer who has created a math app to help students learn their multiplication tables. What makes him special is he's only 9 years old, a student from Great Lakes Public School in Brampton. Because he isn't 18 yet, the app is under his father's name (Puneet) in the App Store, reports Mississauga.com (via...

Evernote has issued a service-wide password reset as a precaution for its entire user base this morning after it was discovered hackers had attempted to access secure parts of their servers. The infiltrators were able to gain access to user information such as usernames, emails and encrypted passwords. According to the Evernote blog: In our...

The Future Shop and Best Buy iPhone apps have received an update today with some new features. You can now utilize Reserve and Pick Up within the app (some orders within 20 minutes), plus also view items that quality for free same day shipping. Also, this version prepares the app for an upcoming update that...