Everyone’s favorite government agency, the Internal Revenue Service, has launched its own mobile application. The IRS’s new iPhone app Released last week to iPhone and Android users, the free IRS2Go provides a few tidbits of information that could make April 15 a bit less stressful. Those of us fortunate enough to qualify for a refund …
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Given Apple’s well-known preference for keeping things close to its chest, you might not think Twitter’s an ideal fit, but that hasn’t stopped it setting up an official Twitter account for the App Store. Sadly, it hasn’t turned it into a hilarious character like the spoof iTunes 10 icon from last year. Instead, @AppStore encourages people to “follow us for …
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Developer Samuel Blanchard has coded a Game Boy emulator in Silverlight that runs on Windows Phone 7 smart phones. The question is whether you’ll ever be able to use it. One of Windows Phone 7‘s strengths is gaming, thanks to Microsoft throwing its Xbox Live weight behind its new smart-phone operating system. What it’s missing, though, is Game Boy games. …
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It’s been well over a year since Adobe first rolled out Photoshop Express, an iPhone app with basic image-editing and online storage features. Yesterday, the company took the wraps off Photoshop Express 1.5, bringing a couple of much-needed features to the app and a couple of minor improvements. For starters, Photoshop Express now lets you capture photos right within the …
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When the Black Eyed Peas shoved a Daft Punk-esque rocket up Dirty Dancing‘s theme tune for their single The Time, it was deeply horrifying. The silver lining is it’s now spawned one of the more nifty music apps for iPhone and iPad. The app is called BEP 360, and it’s just gone live on Apple’s App Store. At its core …
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If you’re feeling a bit like George Costanza in the Seinfeld episode “The Wallet,” chances are you have a few too many scraps and cards stuffed into your carryall. Luckily, we live in the digital age, where much of the information you need to keep on your person can be stored in your mobile phone. For example, for those of …
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Remember the Dynatac? You’ve come a long way, Moto. CNET Though it battled a crowded field, Motorola emerged from CES 2011 as the clear winner in wireless. Its Xoom tablet won CNET’s Best of CES award; it introduced the dual-core Droid Bionic and Atrix 4G; and its laptop dock was the most innovative smartphone accessory we’ve seen in a long …
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Love it or hate it, there’s no denying Apple manages to remain ahead of the curve when it launches its new smartphone each year. (Credit: Apple/CBSi) The iPhone 4, for all its “Antennagate” woes, delivered a higher resolution screen than any other phone in the market at the time, introduced a backside-illuminated image sensor to its camera and managed to …
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Research In Motion will soon debut software that can segregate the personal from the professional. RIM Set to launch in two months, the BlackBerry Balance software will be able to separate personal e-mail, apps, and other content from those used on the job, Jeff McDowell, RIM’s senior vice president for business and platform marketing, said in a Reuters interview published …
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Though the App Store has several methods for keeping track of the newest and most noteworthy Apps, Apple has decided that a dedicated Twitter account would further promote some of its favorite applications for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Screenshot by Joe Aimonetti/CNET The @AppStore account has just been verified by Twitter as officially as the first post, “Welcome to …
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Sony’s new Music Unlimited service will be getting iPhone and Android apps to allow people to listen to their cloud music collections on the go, the company has announced. It’s contrary to expectations that Sony might restrict the service to its own devices, such as Sony Ericsson phones, Walkmans, the PlayStation 3 and Bravia TVs. “When you provide these services, …
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As anyone who has bought one can tell you, the cost of a smartphone is more than just the initial price of the device. You also have monthly payments to deal with, for voice minutes, text messages, and of course, data. You can choose to either be frugal if you can squeak on by with the bare minimum or you …
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The Samsung Forte should end up as MetroPCS’s first LTE smart phone. Flickr New details have emerged for what appears to be MetroPCS’s first LTE smartphone. Previously known by its model number, the Samsung SCH-R910, the Android-based handset made its first appearance only two weeks back. Based on a recently uncovered Flickr photostream, the phone looks like it will carry …
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Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei is suing Motorola, claiming the American company will illegally transfer its trade secrets in the proposed sale of its wireless business unit to Nokia Siemens. Huawei filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Illinois. The company seeks to stop Motorola employees and information associated with Motorola’s UMTS and GSM equipment businesses from being …
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If you never had the pleasure of playing World of Goo on your PC, Mac, or Wii, you missed out on one of the most original and endearing games in recent memory. Now you can get Goo to go: World of Goo just landed on the iPad. The question is, how does it compare with its desktop and console counterparts? …
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