May 18, 2013

Huggies App ‘TweetPee’ Detects Pee in Baby’s Diaper and Alerts Via Twitter (Video)

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*Baby business is big business! Every year, parents get more and more gadgets to help them with their little bundles of joy…and this year is no different. Huggies is introducing an app that helps mom and dad know when baby is wet and even how many diapers the baby has gone through. Right now, the [...]




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 [...]




Alicia Keys Launches New App Based on her Grandma

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*Alicia Keys this week releases a new animated app for children, titled The Journals of Mama Mae and LeeLee – a partnership with Bento Box Interactive. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] It features the relationship between a grandmother, based on Keys’ own Nana, and her granddaughter, based on Keys. The app is set in LeeLee’s [...]




Tell Friends How They Look with ‘Ugly Meter’ App? (Video)

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*This has to be the hands down best party gag ever. Picture it, you and your friends standing around taking pictures of people and testing their face for ugliness! Men can no longer use the excuse Jamie Foxx tends to believe women use … blaming it on the alcohol. He can simply walk up, scan [...]




Chec-Mate: An Ingenius Way to Check Your Mate … Before It’s Too Late!

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*You’re at the club  doing what people who go to clubs do. You know, just chillin’ and looking for Miss Right, but you would be content with Miss Right Now. Then, like magic, in walks the woman of your dreams. As she moves towards you from across the crowded room she moves so gracefully she [...]




Essence Launches Hot Hair Try-On App for iPad

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*Ladies? Wanna see how you’ll look with a certain celebrity hairstyle? There’s now an app for that. Essence has launched its Hot Hair Try-On app, which allows women to upload a picture of themselves and try on different hairstyles – for a price of $4.99. What was strictly an interactive addition to Essence.com is now [...]




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 [...]




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 [...]




Tyson’s New iPhone Game: Perfect When You’re ‘Drunk & Robbed by a Stripper’

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*For Mike Tyson fans who want to experience the era of his boxing domination – there’s now an app for that. The former heavyweight boxing champion- turned-reality show star has just launched a new iPhone game called “Mike Tyson’s Main Event.” At the South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSW) this week, game developer RockLive set [...]




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 [...]




Hoodgrown Magazine: The First Hip Hop/Urban iPad Magazine App Launches!

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*What started as a print magazine that ceased publication due to increasing print cost and decreasing advertising revenue has returned as the first hip hop magazine app to hit the Apple store. Spearheaded by Chris “Cartel” English and Lord Jamar (of Brand Nubian fame), the Hoodgrown Magazine app is now available for download in the [...]




Revolutionary New Jesus iPhone in Time for Christmas

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*Revolutionary new media company DV8 Media has released “The Life Of Jesus”, and epic, comprehensive mobile phone application dedicated to the life of the Christian savior. Containing cutting edge original video and audio productions, engaging interactive games, Christian-themed communication tools, and the full text of the New Testament, searchable and book-markable, The Life Of Jesus [...]