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A five-year-old Bristol (UK) boy has spent more than £1,700 (roughly $2,555) in less than 15 minutes by playing a free game on his parents' iPad. Apple has informed the family they will refund the money. (more…)

Last April, Astral Media confirmed they planned to launch HBO GO to Canadians in the Fall, but now it has arrived in the form of the free app The Movie Network GO for iOS. This app allows existing TV subscribers to watch over 1,200 titles and 1,500 hours of content from HBO Canada, The Movie...

Remember those reports saying mobile monetization is led by iOS? The reason why iOS makes more money is because all free apps in Apple's App Store collect more data than free apps available from Google Play, which raises privacy concerns, suggests a recent Appthority report (via Macworld). (more…)

This week's free App of the Week from Apple is Weathercube, regularly a 99 cent download and previously featured as part of the 'App Store Best of 2012'. This neat weather app (seriously, how many do we really need?!) brings your weather in an interactive and fun way. By using a variety of swipes, pinches...

Google pushed out a neat YouTube update for iOS users: Now the app features a "send to TV" functionality, which enables the app to send video out on an automatic connection to a television set that supports the open protocol. (more…)

As scheduled, EA has released Real Racing 3 for iPhone and iPad today as a free universal download in the App Store. While the game is initially free to play, there are some limitations on what you can do with the freemium version. Nonetheless, the game packs some of the best looking graphics on a...

Winston is not just another news app, it’s a personal assistant that reads you the latest news headlines and updates from your social feeds. Winston's content is broken up into channels. There are general channels, such as Technology and Business, there is a Briefing channel that has some content from all of your channels, and...

When Canadian Jordan Satok was 17 years old, he created an app called AppHero, dedicated to personalized iOS app recommendations. Their 2.0 launch which features a new interface, a powerful text summarization engine to tell you in plain English what apps do instead of sifting through PR speak, and also push alerts when apps you might...

Last month, Amazon optimized its MP3 store for iOS devices allowing iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users to browse and purchase digital music from Amazon’s 22-million song catalog via mobile Safari. Today, the company has released its Cloud Player app for the iPad, updating the iPhone only version to a universal binary. The new Amazon Cloud Player...

Adobe has finally released an iPhone friendly version of the Photoshop Touch app, which is now available for download on the App Store. Similar to its iPad counterpart, the app offers core Photoshop features like layers, advanced selections tools, adjustments and filters. Photoshop Touch for iPhone is currently selling for US $4.99 on iTunes. Photoshop Touch for iPhone...

This week's Starbucks App Pick of the Week is the universal app Living Earth - Clock and Weather. Regularly $1.99, you can now grab it for free from your local Starbucks. This app can provide live clouds from near real-time satellite cloud data, updated every 3 years. This can allow storm chasers to keep up...

The Globe and Mail iOS app for news has been updated to support videos on the iPhone and iPad, plus push notification alerts for breaking stories. Also, the app now features higher quality images than before and also support for their interactive multimedia features. For iPhone 5 owners, galleries now work in landscape orientation, plus...