June 18, 2013

New ‘Around the Way’ App Allows Users to Locate Black Owned Businesses

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*This is the app you conscious shoppers have all been waiting for. Find the local black-owned businesses on your iPhone with Around the Way. Developed via a partnership between a New York-based company and Washington, D.C.-based mobile app development firm, the new tool locates the nearest black-owned businesses, no matter where you are around the [...]




My Love/Hate Relationship With the Samsung Galaxy Nexus

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*My Love/Hate Relationship with the Samsung Galaxy Nexus…. Over the last few months, I’ve struggled with an internal battle that seems to haunt me every time I have a second of free time. What is the best phone on the market right now? Of course this is very subjective, what works well for one doesn’t [...]




Google Creates New Android Glasses that Change Ads Forever

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*With all the technology available, the future still looked a lot more advanced in Blade Runner and Terminator than what those movies proposed of the 21st century. Those flicks left the promise of flying cars and lasers replacing guns by now. But, one company is up to the challenge of bringing us into the 21st [...]




No Joke: New App Developed Alerts Loved Ones ‘I’m Getting Arrested’

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*Repeat offenders, alcoholics hitting the road, lead foot folks, Occupy protesters and anyone else being hassled by the man are jumping for joy with the latest application for their phones. The whole point of having a cell phone is to be able to contact someone in case of an emergency.  But now the new app. gets the [...]




LA’s KTTV Introduces ‘Michael Jackson Trial App’

Alberto Alvarez (L), one of Michael Jackson's security guards, receives a bag of sodium chloride from defense attorney Edward Chernoff as he testifies during the Dr. Conrad Murray involuntary manslaughter trial at the Los Angeles Superior Court on Sept. 29, 2011 in downtown Los Angeles

*Looking to follow every nook and cranny of Conrad Murray’s involuntary manslaughter trial? Well now there’s an app for that. The “Michael Jackson Doctor Trial” app, already No. 1 in iTunes’ news app store, comes with live streaming video from the courtroom and much more – all courtesy of Fox’s Los Angeles affiliate KTTV. The [...]




Rush Card Gets a New App Amidst Pre-Paid Card Controversy

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*Businessman and Hip Hop mogul has come up with something new … the Rush Card Android and iPhone app. “The Android and iPhone apps are yet another channel we’ve provided to members to help them manage their money on the go,” said Ram Palaniappan, President of RushCard. “Since many of our cardholders are using web-enabled [...]




Michael Vick, Humane Society Team to Oppose New Dogfighting App

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*Michael Vick and The Humane Society have joined forces to oppose an Android game that simulates dogfighting, encouraging users to feed, train, water and fight virtual canines. Vick, who went to jail for financing a dogfighting ring, said the app “Dog Wars” sends the wrong message to children. “I’ve come to learn the hard way [...]




Android is Top Smart-Phone Platform in US

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*Google’s Android mobile operating system has finally flown past Apple’s iOS and the BlackBerry OS to become the most popular smartphone platform in the US. According to new statistics released by research firm Nielson, Android now dominates with over 29 per cent of the US smartphone market followed by Apple’s iOS and Research in Motion’s [...]




Apple Developing (Cheaper) Anti-Android iPhone

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*Apple Inc. is working on new versions of the iPhone that are aimed at slowing the advance of competing handsets based on Google Inc.’s Android software, according to people who have been briefed on the plans. One version would be cheaper and smaller than the most recent iPhone, said a person who has seen a [...]




Enhanced App Available for Jay-Z’s ‘Decoded’ Memoir

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*Music mogul Jay-Z released his memoir “Decoded” in November, and last week Random House Digital Inc. rolled out an enhanced app-version of the rapper’s story. Within “Decoded by Jay-Z,” available for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, users are given a glimpse of the artist’s story and personal take on the making of his music. The [...]




Don’t be Scurred, but Your Apps Are Watching You

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*Beware! Your smartphone is not always your friend. In fact, as the Wall Street Journal’s headline so aptly puts it, “Your apps are watching you.” An investigation by the Journal surveyed 101 popular smartphone apps for iPhone and Android models and found that 56 of them secretly transmitted the phone’s Unique Device Identifier (UDID) to [...]




Google Unleashes the New Nexus S

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*Google is back and they’re ready to keep the technological soap opera going with their new Nexus S.  The first time they tried the android phone they didn’t have the greatest results. But according to the buzz, the Nexus One has been greatly improved with their new offering, Nexus S.  After what many called a [...]




Video: Antoine Dodson New Pitchman for Sex Offender App

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*Antoine Dodson, who became famous when his sincere-yet-theatrical anger over his sister’s attempted rape was Auto-Tuned and placed over by a catchy beat, is now a pitchman for a new smartphone app that tracks sex offenders. Donning the red bandanna and tank top that he sported in the news clip-turned-”Bed Intruder Song,” Dodson appears in [...]




iPhone Users Like More Sex

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*If you have an iPhone, you are probably horny. Yeah that sounds wild right. Well according to a new, possibly useless study, iPhone users are more sexually active than Blackberry and Android users. (more…)




InSYnC: Android

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*What’s up Gadgeteers, this week we are going to focus on our attention on Android, probably the best Operating software available at the moment, unless of course you’re an Apple fan, and then you might have a different opinion. What is Android? Android is Google’s’ software for smartphones that is based on open development. This [...]