Foursquare updated their Android and iOS apps with a new "super-specific search" today. The new feature allows users to make search queries at a more granular level, through a range of filters such as price, open timings, whether any of your friends have been there before, etc, making full use of Foursquare's huge amount of user check-in data. The app can also understand natural language queries, which seem ...

Intel's foray into mobile chipsets hasnt really been as successful as some other mobile chip makers like Qualcomm and NVIDIA, atleast since Windows Mobile was around. Apparently the company had a huge missed opportunity back in the day though, one that would have easily propelled the company all the way upwards. Intel CEO Paul Otellini, who steps down today, admitted that Intel missed out on getting their c ...

One thing that happened at Google I/O earlier this week that we didnt get the chance to talk about yet, was the new Google Hangout experience. Previously Hangouts were just video conferences or video chats between you and a group of people, but now the service has been updated to basically replace Google Talk (which it does on Android devices), and brings in video elements as well as photo sharing, emoticon ...

  SEGA have today released a re-mastered edition of the original Sonic The Hedgehog game onto the iTunes App Store and Google Play Store. Entitled Sonic The Hedgehog v2 it is a brand new re-master of the original SEGA Megadrive (Genesis) game with improved controls, faster frame-rate and Game Center support. Futher improving upon the original iOS version of the game this new v2 edition features a 'save ...

Angry Birds Seasons for iOS and Android got a nice little update today, bringing in a huge "Abra-Ca-Bacon" episode with lotsa levels. The description goes: What's in this version: Abra-Ca-Bacon! It's a beautiful spring night, and the bad piggies have learned some magic tricks -- and the first one is making the eggs disappear! Not to worry, the Angry Birds have some tricks up their sleeve... like the all new ...

LevelBit has today announced that its cartoon horror styled side-scrolling shooter Jane Wilde will be available to download from both the iTunes App Store and Google Play Store later this month. The game, which is set in the Wild West, see's heroine Jane Wilde as she takes on the undead in over 30 zombie infested levels, futhermore the game also features a Survival Mode whereby it challenges players to see ...

BlackBerry has just announced that BlackBerry Messenger, the company's once-popular proprietary instant messaging client, will be launching on iOS (version 6 and later) and Android (version 4.0 and later) as a free app in "summer 2013". Support for basic messaging and groups will be implemented first, with other features such as voice, video and screen sharing to arrive later in the year. ...

Adobe announced that they will be ending development of their Creative Suite software, at their MAX conference in Los Angeles today. The company will instead be focusing exclusively on their Creative Cloud service, and as a result has rebranded their applications with a new CC moniker. The new apps will be rolling out from June 17th, 2013 but there will also be new iOS apps coming along as well. Last year, ...

Instagram for iPhone and Android got an update over the weekend, bringing in some much-wanted features along. The app now supports photo tagging, so that you can tag any of your friends in a photo, similar to the way it works on Facebook (which happens to own Instagram). You can add friends or any accounts that you follow, such as a sports team, tv show or restaurants, etc. Only the person that takes the ph ...

Ellen DeGeneres just released a new party game for iOS called "Heads Up" based on the card game that the popular talkshow host plays on her own show. Heads Up is a simple word guessing game where your friends try to get you to say the word that's on the screen of your iPhone or iPad which you raise to your head (so that you cant see it). It also uses the front facing camera to record your friends trying to ...

Angry Birds Friends, a Facebook-version of the popular bird-flinging game has been released for Android, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad today. The description goes: Play Angry Birds with your friends... wherever you go! In this FREE new game, you can use your phone to challenge your Facebook friends for the title of ultimate pig popper and bird flinger! Play in weekly tournaments with your friends and see if y ...

Vine for iPhone just got a neat little update to version 1.1 today. The update brings along support for the front-facing camera, which you can use by tapping the icon in the lower-left side of the app's viewfinder. There's also now support for mentions, so that you can tag people with the @ symbol, just like on Twitter, which isnt a suprise seeing as how this is Twitter's new service/app after all. What's N ...

A couple of weeks ago, a leaked promo video indicated Google Now, a much-praised feature of Android Jelly Bean, was coming to iOS. And today, Google decided to make it official, updating the Google Search app for iPhone and iPad, which brings Google Now functionality in to the app. The app looks and feels almost exactly the same as the Android version, though the iOS version displays fewer cards apparently ...

Gameloft's Iron Man 3 game was released for Android, iPhone and iPad today, coinciding with the movie's release around the globe. The game is based on Tony Stark himself and allows you to fly around the city in an endless runner meets on-rails shooter styled game, fighting your favourite bad guys from the comics, such as Crimson Dynamo, Ezekiel Stane, Living Laser and the mighty M.O.D.O.K. All while trying ...

"Every day, more pictures are taken with the iPhone than anything else." That's the line Apple uses in their new Verizon iPhone commercial, which puts the focus on the camera and shows people using the iPhone camera in a variety of situations and places. All in classic Apple style. Here's a hand-recorded version of the commercial until Apple or Verizon puts up a better quality version: the video right from ...