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Smile! ooVoo video chat apps hit iPad and Facebook

ooVoo has been popular on iPhone and Android for a while, allowing people to video-chat with up to 12 different people on a variety of different devices. Today, the app received a major update which makes it compatible with iPad too, providing up to four simultaneous HD video chat streams to users. ... Full Article »

May 22, 2012 9:40am

Facebook snaps up social gifting app Karma

Facebook is very busy. The social networking company just had its initial public offering on Friday, made news earlier this month when it paid $1 billion for social photography app Instagram, and just acquired another notable app: Karma (also available on Android). The announcement of the acquisiti ... Full Article »

May 21, 2012 8:08am

Facebook rolling out a new app for managing Facebook Pages

Wednesdays and Thursdays see a lot of buzz about new apps. To get a jump on the big launches of the week, which mostly happen Wednesday night into Thursday morning because of the way Apple’s charts work, journalists keep an eye on the iTunes App Stores for New Zealand and Australia, because they g ... Full Article »

May 17, 2012 12:20pm

KLIK iOS app can recognize friends before you even take their photo

A new app called KLIK by Face.com has a clever trick up its sleeve. Point your iOS camera at a person and it has the ability to recognize them and tag them before you’ve even taken the shot. According to Liz Gannes at AllThingsD, the app was developed by Face.com in Tel Aviv. Face.com already off ... Full Article »

May 10, 2012 12:43pm

Facebook announces app store for iOS, Android and web users

The rumors of a Facebook app store were true, it appears, as the company has announced an app-pushing portal that will be accessible both by mobile users and by those on the web. But earlier talk of Facebook pushing HTML5 apps to Apple’s iOS platform and thereby circumventing the iTunes App Store ... Full Article »

May 10, 2012 7:38am

Can Viddy beat Instagram?

The hunt for the next big app never ceases. Everyone on the high seas of the tech world is an unquenchable Captain Ahab looking for the next Moby Dick. Except, when they actually find their white whale and spear it, they immediately want to find another one. The hot new pick to be the next big app l ... Full Article »

May 6, 2012 8:00am

Facebook Messenger coming to iPad with new app

Facebook’s popular and extremely useful Facebook Messenger has only been available on the iPhone so far, but a new report says that the Internet-based messaging app is making the leap to the iPad. As 9to5Mac reports, there’s currently a beta version of Facebook Messenger that the social network ... Full Article »

May 2, 2012 7:35am

Bearish Apple analysts follow long line of app doubters

Wall Street analysts who foolishly downgraded Apple before another monstrous earnings report this week are not the only ones who should eat a little crow. It may seem surreal to think about now, but it wasn’t too long ago when some of the smartest tech industry commentators and executives were di ... Full Article »

April 27, 2012 11:27am

Did Instagram “jump the shark”? Apple’s Schiller sure thinks so

Even though Instagram was named App of the Year by iTunes in 2011 (despite being released in 2010), at least one senior Apple executive has soured on the iconic photo-sharing application that was acquired for approximately $1 billion earlier this month by Facebook. Phil Schiller, Apple’s SVP of M ... Full Article »

April 20, 2012 7:47am

Wavii iPhone app not intuitive, requires Facebook

If you aren’t a Facebook user—or you don’t want to connect yet another app to your account—step away from the new Wavii app for iPhone and iPod Touch. To use Wavii, a Facebook account is required, but the reason why isn’t entirely clear. Wavii claims to help you find only the news you wan ... Full Article »

April 18, 2012 12:30pm


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