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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...

Instagram has announced it has surpassed 100 million active users per month, after launching its photo network back in October 2010, as written by co-founder Kevin Systrom (they hit over 10 million users in less than year): Now, nearly two and a half years later, over 100 million people use Instagram every month. It’s easy to...

According to some industry sources, Apple’s App Review team is now rejecting apps that are using cookie tracking methods, referred to as “Safari flip-flop” or “HTML5 first party cookies”, as an alternative to UDID for tracking application usage, reports TechCrunch.  Ever since Apple made changes to UDID usage in 2011, developers have been trying various alternative methods for tracking application usage, with cookie...

Rovio today has announced it will launch a new animated cartoon series, Angry Birds Toons on March 16th and 17th, another venture for the company to market itself and to reach a younger audience: Angry Birds Toons is an all-new animated series that throws the doors to Piggy Island wide open! For the first time...

Shazam, a fun and engaging app, today unveiled that it has seen a tremendous growth over recent months, with the company reporting more than 300 million users worldwide. (more…)

The Oscars take place tonight so here's a related story about how a $1.99 app saved the Oscar-nominated film in the Documentary Feature category, "Searching for Sugar Man". CNN Money tells the story: The $1.99 app used by director Malik Bendjelloul was 8mm Vintage Camera, to help him finish the film as he ran out of...

Sportsnet has announced the release of a completely redesigned Sportsnet Mobile iOS app for iPhone and iPad, available for free. “The Sportsnet Mobile app is a must-have for all sports fans that need to access content on-the-go, putting information and entertainment at their fingertips,” said Pary Bell, Vice President and General Manager, Rogers Digital Media....

Facebook has updated its iOS app to include larger and easier buttons to like, comment and share posts within your news feed. The improved button is much easier to tap compared to before, when users had to carefully tap text to perform actions. Below is the full change log of what's included in this update:...