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Five days ago AllThingsD reported Facebook was set to launch a competitor to Snapchat, an app that allows users to send self destructing messages to friends. That has now come to life as Facebook has just announced the release of Poke, a new messaging app for the iPhone: With the Poke app, you can poke...

Apple's free App of the Week is Marvel's Avengers Initiative, a winner of of IGN's People's Choice Award, which is part of the reason why the app is now free (it coincides with Apple's weekly pick it appears). The game comes in at a 1.54 GB download and is optimized for the iPad mini, Retina...

If you looking for a new way to find news and media in over 40,000 topics, you should take a look at Zite, which has recently been updated to 2.0.  Everyday Zite analyzes millions of articles it finds online, then it sorts them into topics for you to explore. You can find the new Explore...

Instagram has released an update just prior to the shutdown of iTunes Connect for the holidays. This new version introduces a new filter called "Mayfair", adds Facebook iOS 6 integration, more languages support and the ability to share photos from any album, plus some bug fixes. What's New in Version 3.4.0 - Instagram is now...

Just a quick note the RedFlagDeals.com iOS app has been updated to support the taller screen of the iPhone 5 and better compatibility with iOS 6. Also, with Boxing Day looming only six days away, the newly added Flyers section will make it even easier to keep track of those deals. What's New in Version...

Google has shared some quick tips for newbies trying out Google Maps for the iPhone. The app looks great but some of the gestures take some discovering to figure out. One of the best features about the app is how the swiping up on info sheets include Street View previews and relevant search info for businesses...

With the emergence of popular bookmarking services like Pocket, does anyone still use Delicious? The company was acquired by Yahoo! in 2005, fell into despair, and sold to AVOS Systems (run by the co-founders of YouTube) in 2011. Just over a week ago, the Delicious blog announced the release of their official iPhone app. Delicious...

Pocket has become one of the most popular services to save articles or links for reading later. Last year, the company was known as Read It Later but was rebranded to Pocket. The company has posted their 2012 year in review and they have experienced some incredible success: 240 million 'saved to Pocket' instances from...

Electronic Arts is definitely getting festive again this year, as they have announced a massive holiday sale. Every iOS title for either the iPhone or iPad has been discounted to $0.99 or free: Join the festivities with the Big Holiday Sale. Over 99 of EA’s best mobile games are just 99¢ – or FREE. This...

Although Google's Eric Schmidt is convinced Android is winning the war against iOS -- and looking at the Android user base, Tim Cook has reason for concerns, especially if his strategy is to widen the iOS user base -- but the picture looks different when looking at the developers’ bank accounts. (more…)

If you've been waiting for WhatsApp Messenger to go on sale, it's currently a free download in the App Store. If you haven't used WhatsApp, it's a popular and powerful cross platform messaging app that will allow you to communicate with friends who also have the app on Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and Symbian devices....

Kids Help Phone recently asked for ideas to include in their mobile app and the idea for a 'Stress Buster app' won. The idea has gone from its initial sketch stages to a finished app that allows youth to contact professionals for help over the phone or live chat, as announced earlier today: The Kids...