App Store

Tonight Apple has quietly updated its App Store search results within iOS 6 beta. Search results on both the iPhone and iPad now show a large tiled card view, in which MacRumors notes is influenced from Apple's recent acquisition of the app discovery company, Chomp. Moreover, the availability of Genius recommendations are now available in...

The City of Toronto has announced it has awarded Hailo Network Canada its first taxi license, a move that has granted the first app-based taxi company to get licensed in Canada. Hailo originally debuted in London but is now making its debut in Canada via Toronto first, later this year. The app markets itself as...

Audiobooks.com is one of the largest websites on the internet providing unlimited audiobooks to its customers for just $24.95 a month and they just got even better. In a press release earlier today they announced their new global iOS application and Android application. You can download these applications free of charge on your device, but to...

Every week Starbucks updates its 'Pick of the Week' promo, alternating between songs and apps. This week's song choice is the single 'Prairie Girl' by the Regina-based band Rah Rah. The band currently has a new album being released on October 2nd, 'The Poet's Dead', and this is your chance to get at the newest...

Flipboard is celebrating its two year anniversary and has posted an infographic describing its achievements in the past 24 months. The social magazine first debuted for the iPad, but later introduced support for the iPhone last December. The notable stats point to 20 million users, with 3 billion 'flips' per month, 1.5 million users daily...

FreshBooks, the leading cloud accounting service for small business owners based in Toronto, Canada, has today released a new iPhone app designed specifically to cater the needs of small businesses owners, assisting them in running their business on-the-go (via Ottawa Citizen). The new FreshBooks iPhone app works anywhere and focuses on features like expense management, P&L reporting...

After surpassing 10 million messages handled per day, WhatsApp Messenger has been updated today with encryption for all messages send over WiFi and mobile networks. The team noted in twitter they had implemented "encryption for some time now," but this latest update makes it publicly stated. Other new features include a better message forwarding picker...

Dropbox has now enabled 2-step verification for accounts, which is similar to what has been available for Google Accounts for a while now: Two-step verification is an optional but highly recommended security feature that adds an extra layer of protection to your Dropbox account. Once enabled, Dropbox will require a six-digit security code in addition...

For film buffs, the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) iPhone app was released yesterday. The app is an interactive guide to this year's TIFF and provides screen times, locations, film descriptions, trailers and more. Here's the full list of features: • Complete list of films with screening times and locations, searchable and sortable by...

For those interested in time lapse photography on your iPhone, the app Lapse It Pro is free for the weekend, as part of a promotion to celebrate their one year anniversary. Here are the features: POWERFUL AND UNIQUE FEATURES: ? Capture stunning shots using the camera Full Sensor ? Blazing fast render engine supporting up...

Remember when we told you two weeks ago that the Google Search application would receive an update bringing Siri-like functionality? Well, it's still coming, Apple is just having a hard time approving the application. As you may have heard, the voice assistant functionality in Google Search has been seen as a huge improvement over the...

It's a new week and that means another free app Pick of the Week from Apple. Last week, we saw the puzzle game iBlast Moki HD go free, and today the new pick is IncrediBooth. The app is regularly priced at $0.99: A Photo Booth in your Pocket - Awesome Photo Strips Anywhere! Show up...