Category: IPhone
The music identification app Shazam was one of the first must-have apps for the iPhone. Today, the company released one of the biggest updates in the app's history. Shazam for iPhone and iPod touch now sports an updated interface and support for fast-app switching in iOS4. The app now also features a new focus on music discovery outside of tagging. The new "Shazam Charts" highlight the most often tagged songs from 20 countries.Continue
Facebook is rolling out a new security allowing users to remotely log out of any Facebook session active on another device. If a user logs in to Facebook on a public computer or a friend’s mobile device and forgets to log out when they’re done, they can visit their Account->Account Settings->Settings->Account Security->Account Activity panel, and choose to end any active session.
This feature will help protect users from malicious strangers trying to hijack one’s account, as well as the somewhat common practice of mischievous friends editing one’s profile or making unauthorized communications.
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PlacePop, maker of a digital loyalty card iPhone app, released a Facebook app this week for monitoring activity in Facebook’s location product Places. It includes a Places activity feed for viewing the recent check-ins by your friends, a feature included in the touch.facebook.com and Facebook for iPhone versions of Places, but currently absent from Facebook’s web interface.Continue
As far as Web services go, Twitter is pretty easy to use. Fill out a brief profile, follow some people and go, right? Well apparently not. Developers at the company have been fretting over the fact that some people still think Twitter is "too hard" to use.
But the solution has proved easy. By simply releasing mobile apps named "Twitter," the company has seen a boost in new users.
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Part of the new iTunes 10 software, announced and launched yesterday, is a significant new social networking feature for iTunes called Ping. It allows you to comment on music, 'like' it a la Facebook, or rate it. Ping is also very similar to Twitter, in that you can 'follow' people and music stars. All of this happens inside of the iTunes application, either on your computer, iPhone or iPod Touch.Continue
Microsoft's new mobile OS has shipped to handset makers and will be appearing on phones in time for the holiday season, the company announced today.
The stage is set for Microsoft to either rock the mobile world with a mainstream alternative to the iPhone and Android platforms, rebounding after a string of failures a la Bing, or flop in its attempt to catch up after "missing a cycle."Continue
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