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We're down to day 11 of Apple's 12 Days of Christmas, the second to last day. Today's freebie is a single and video from Canadian pop star (from Mission, BC), Carly Rae Jepson. The single "Almost Said It" is from her recent album with the same name, released in December. The free video is her...

Apple has updated their free App Pick of the Week and this time around it's the game Blueprint 3D. The game features over 300 levels with 11 themes: Each level begins with a mysterious clutter of seemingly chaotic dots and lines. Underneath all the chaos, however, lies a beautiful blueprint image waiting to be uncovered....

Day 10 of Apple's 12 Days of Christmas offers up the culinary app, The Photo Cookbook - Quick and Easy (regularly priced at $3.99). This app shows you how to make meals in an easy way as simple images elegantly displayed show you exactly what to do. Every recipe starts with a photograph of all...

Day 9 of Apple's 12 Days of Christmas is a single from English indie pop group, the xx. The free track is Sunset (Jamie xx Edit) along with two videos from the album Coexist, released this summer: Angels (Live in Tokyo) and Chained. The band was formed in 2008 and consists of: Romy Madley Croft,...

AllThingsD reports the latest update today to Facebook Messenger for iOS will introduce voice messages within the app, allowing users to send voice clips to friends, up to one minute long. What makes this update extra special is Facebook will be testing VOIP calls in this update, exclusively in Canada (yays): Also particularly noteworthy: In...

Have you every dreamt of managing a team of super heroes? No, me neither, but Middle Manager of Justice is a fun game. As the middle manager, you have a number of responsibilities. You hire super heroes, then prioritize their time between fighting crime, training, and other tasks. Also, you upgrade the office with new...

Rovio announced this morning the company experienced a huge Christmas season for game downloads. During Christmas week (Dec. 22-29), the company experienced 30 million game downloads, with 8 million alone on Christmas Day: To top it all off, we had 30 million downloads during Christmas week (December 22-29) and, on Christmas Day, over 8 million...

Although the App Store has been heavily criticized by many, it has won ABI Research's Competitive Assessment of mobile application storefront (via CNET), pushing Google Play into second place, while Microsoft's Windows Phone app store ranked third. (more…)

Zynga's popular game Words with Friends has received an update to allow more competition for players that have signed in without Facebook. These users can now challenge their Facebook friends to play. Plus, there is now better support for the iPhone 5 as the app now takes advantage of the faster A6 processor. What's New...

Cross platform messaging giant WhatsApp has announced on Twitter it reached a new milestone for total messages processed in one day: 18 billion. Those messages were sent on New Year's Eve and totalled 7 billion messages inbound and 11 billion messages outbound. The discrepancy between inbound and outbound messages is due to the nature of...

Last year's holiday week has raised the bar for both app developers and manufacturers. As Flurry reports, we've seen record device activations on Christmas day, and record app downloads as well, but this has risen yet further during the week between Christmas and the New Year, which recorded the highest device activation and app downloads...

Day 8 of Apple's 12 Days of Christmas brings us two singles from California native pop star Ke$ha's latest album, Warrior, which was released at the end of November. Up for grabs are tracks "Only Wanna Dance With You" and "Past Lives". You can click here to download the free songs. Let us know what...