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Waze, the maker of popular free social GPS and traffic apps for iPhones and Android devices, recently unveiled its plans to bring its rapidly growing social mapping software to the cars later this year. Today, the company has announced that its social navigation and traffic service has hit the 20 million users landmark (via Business Insider). The firm is...

This weeks's App of the Week is a big one. One of the most popular franchises on the iOS platform is Angry Birds, and this week Angry Birds Seasons is free to download in the App Store. Angry Birds exploded on the iPhone and since its release, it has spawned three additional spin offs: Angry...

In a blog post yesterday, Kaspersky Lab expert Denis Maslennikov wrote his company was contacted by Russian mobile phone company MegaFon to report a suspicious app. The app in question is called “Find and Call”. “Find and Call” is currently available on both the App Store and Google Play. My search of the App Store confirmed...

The epic battle between Apple and Google continues, as the latter released its Chrome browser in the App Store last week. Which will emerge victorious in the battle for iOS browser supremacy? Our review will attempt to answer this question, after testing and using Chrome for the past week. Upon launching the application for the...

Google has updated their iOS app, Google Places and is now called Google+ Local. Added to this update is speech recognition, an improved interface and Zagat reviews. The speech recognition is quite good and my verbal requests for things such as “Japanese Food” and “Coffee Shops”. I did manage to find a bug in the...

For those in Toronto, you can now get engaged with the Crimestoppers program via your iPhone. The organization has launched a new free app to enable citizens to submit tips anonymously, protected by the Supreme Court of Canada. According to an interview with the Canadian Press: Const. Martin Douglas, Toronto Crime Stoppers youth and social...

BBCanada, the first and largest Canadian B&B (Bed & Breakfast) website on the internet, announced the launch of its iPhone app yesterday after providing 17 years of service to thousands of locals (via MarketWatch). BBcanada's website has millions of visitors and with its new iOS app, thousands of B & Bs in Canada are now available...

PayPal's popular iPhone app has just received a major update that introduces a brand new feature i.e the ability to add credit cards and debit cards to an account just be taking their photos, along with some bug fixes and UI enhancements. There is also a new 'Profile' section that allows users to manage their payment...

Each week Starbucks offers a "Pick of the Week" card, which has a promo code to download something from the App Store or the iTunes Store. It could be a song, an app or game, or a video. This week we get a TV episode. If you pick up one of the cards from Starbucks...

Electronic Arts has a history of reducing the price of their apps around holidays and this Fourth of July is no exception. Normal the newest titles aren’t put on sale but this time around every iPhone and iPad app is 99 cents or free, as announced on their blog: This Independence Day, add more games...

  I've always said that it is the apps that make the iPhone what it is, and I'm sure many of you will agree. Apple has created an amazing piece of hardware, but without the apps, the iPhone would be pretty useless. The iPhone, of course, is mainly used for communicating. In our fast paced lifestyles, we...

This weekend when my girlfriend and I were discussing ways to improve our communications, I naturally suggested we look to the App Store. A quick search provided me with a few different options. I have a preference for free apps so I proceeded to install some of the more promising candidates. Finally, I installed on...