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T-Mobile has launched a free app called Bobsled that was recently updated to allow for free calls from your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to landlines in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico over WiFi or 3G. The app requires a Facebook account to login. Once connected, you will have access to all your Facebook...

Yesterday we noted the upcoming release of the latest iOS app from Activision, Call of Duty ELITE for the iPhone. The app allows existing CoD players to manage their multiplayer progress from right within the app. The app is now available for download in the App Store. Here's the iTunes description: Immerse yourself in Call...

Android 4.0 devices such as Galaxy Nexus feature a cool Face Unlock mechanism allowing users to unlock their phones simply through face capture. But now, the same Face Unlock technology has been ported to iOS, thanks to an app created by Romanian developer Webcode, as reported by Engadget (via Boio.ro). However, this currently only works for unlocking FaceUnlock app which...

It's only natural that the world's fastest-selling entertainment product would make its way to the already bustling App Store in one way or another and tomorrow, the Call Of Duty Elite app will get more than a few downloads. The "Elite" online counterpart to the immensely successful franchise offers the ability to create teams, track...

"Chat Your Way, ChatON!" This is what Samsung is calling its latest venture to compete with Apple's iMessage and frankly speaking, its not a bad attempt. ChatON is a cross platform instant messaging app (available on the US App Store) which allows users of iOS, Android, Bada and Samsung Feature to communicate with each other for free....

Instagram has announced photos shared to Facebook will now automatically appear in a new album and full-sized images will show up in your news feed: The photos will appear full-sized in the News Feed along with the caption that you’ve added to the Instagram photo, and a link to the image’s public URL. This change...

Update 1: Congrats to the following winners of TrapCall trials (check your emails!): - Tim - Derrick Rockwell - Belsim70 TrapCall is from TelTech Systems, and first made headlines in the U.S. with its initial free blocked call unmasking service. The company has now officially expanded its service outside U.S. borders to launch today in...

Flurry, the world’s leading mobile application analytics platform, has released their holiday season app store download data with some interesting revelations. Flurry finds that the last week of 2011 saw 20 million iOS and Android activations and 1.2 billion applications downloaded over what’s being dubbed the holiday “power week.” That number represents a %60 increase...

More and more cable companies are offering iPhone apps to allow customers to control their PVRs. The Telus Optik TV remote was released last Fall, and was eventually updated for iOS 5 last October. However, customers still reported issues with the app crashing incessantly even with the iOS 5 update. Just yesterday, Telus released a...

Rovio Mobile’s Ville Heijari has told AllThingsD that the total number of downloads for their three games i.e Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio, touched a whopping 6.5 million on Christmas Day setting a new record for the multi-platform smashing hit franchise. Even more interesting to note is that this number approximately equals the total number of smartphone...

Vancity Credit Union recently launched their iOS banking app last December. Available for the iPhone and iPad, the fee download enables registered online banking customers to everyday banking activities, such as checking balances, transferring funds, paying bills, and send INTERAC e-Transfers. Upon launching the app, the same online banking login is all that is required...

Update, 11:47AM PST, Jan. 2/12: The app is no longer free, but was free at the time of publishing more than 13 hours ago. Apple's pick for the 2011 iPad app of the Year, Snapseed, is currently free in the App Store. The universal app also works on the iPhone and iPod touch with a...