In our continuing series here on ReadWriteWeb, we round up some of our favorite new apps for smartphones (well, iPhone and Android) each month. With March having just wrapped up, we’ve listed some of the new apps that caught our eye over the past few weeks below.
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New Apps for Your iPhone and Android: March 2011 Edition
You might want to file this under the “perhaps this was obvious, but we needed another app to show us” category, but if you check in, Tweet your location and otherwise publicly broadcast your GPS coordinates for all the world to see on the Internet, other people can see where you are.
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Is Publicly Sharing Your Location Creepy? This App Thinks So
Ah, the frustrations of trying to access a map on your phone when you’ve got limited Internet connection. Well now you needn’t worry with ForeverMap
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No Wireless? No Worries. ForeverMap Gives You Offline Access to Maps
Several rumors popped up this week suggesting that Apple might push the release of both the next iPhone hardware and the next major iOS update from its usual summer release to the fall . In the wake of those rumors, which claim the announcement will coincide with a new cloud-based iTunes “locker,” it’s possible that Apple may use the extra time to integrate newer technologies, including Siri’s AI-based, voice-controlled searching, improved mapping, and possibly LTE compatibility into next-generation iOS and iPhone hardware. So far, it appears that Apple will end up focusing on Mac OS X Lion and updated cloud-based services which are said to integrate with Lion during its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in early June
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Rumor: voice-controlled, cloud streaming LTE iPhone this fall
The social network GetGlue is rolling out its largest release of the year today, with a redesigned website and iPhone app. That redesign, particularly in the case of the website, will help make it easier for users to check-in to various entertainment events. GetGlue is also adding a new category of content – the most requested one according to founder and CEO Alex Iskold.
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Checking In Off the Couch: GetGlue Adds Sports Check-Ins, Foursquare Integration
Akshay Patil became a software engineer at Google almost seven years ago. Now the product manager for Google Realtime , the Google tool to search Tweets and other real-time updates from around the Web, Patil announced this morning that he’s leaving Google to become the new Platform Evangelist for location-based social network Foursquare . That’s a huge coup for Foursquare and a sign the startup will likely put a major new focus on working with outside companies and services to build on top of the set of check-ins and tips it’s amassing about venues around the world, people who patronize them and their interests.
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Google Realtime Search Manager Leaves to Build Foursquare as Platform
Expert advice on getting the most out of Google’s other key players Google has a zillion other services.
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5 New Ways To Utilize Google’s Best Services
There’s new application launching here at the CTIA Wireless 2011 conference in Orlando, Florida: Gogobeans . The app is a digital locker of sorts for all your phone’s content – photos, videos, contacts, bookmarks, files, apps and more
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Gogobeans: Digital Locker and Sharing Solution for iPhone & Android
The CTIA Wireless Association announced this afternoon that it will add a new voluntary App Rating System to its list of industry guidelines. Participating app stores will allow parents to block access by children to apps rated suitable for adults only.
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This App is Rated R: Mobile App Stores to Institute App Rating System
If 2010 was the year of location-based services, then 2011 is certainly the year of group messaging. With a slew of new group messaging apps dominating this year’s SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, the big questions have been why now and why not Facebook or Twitter
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Group Messaging: Why Now?
Did you ever have to work on two computer systems at the same time? Maybe two systems placed next to each other on a computer desk, or a desktop PC and a mobile computer? Switching between both systems is not the most comfortable thing to do considering that you have to move either your body or the input devices to control the second computer system
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Input Director, Use Mouse, Keyboard On A Second Computer
As location-based services continue to spring up, it’s becoming increasingly important that these companies have access to correction location data. However, there’s no one place where developers can go to access or verify this data, and there’s no single database for location-based information
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Foursquare Launches Effort to Create a "Rosetta Stone" for Location Data
Keeping up with every tech headline is hard enough for anybody, let alone busy professionals. To help, ReadWriteBiz rounds up the week’s most important tech news and insights for small and medium-sized businesses.
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SMB Tech Roundup: Facebook Marketing Challenges, Plus New Tools From HootSuite and Gmail
With SXSW well under way in Austin, Texas, the servers behind apps like Beluga , GroupMe , Kik and FastSociety must be working overtime. After all, people like talking to their friends, right? In this same batch of apps, we’ve seen another phenomenon, though – apps that make it quicker an easier to talk to people you don’t know – and we have one big question: Do people really want to talk to strangers
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Do We Really Want to Talk to Strangers Based on Our Location?
There’s not exactly a lot of details on this one, but Business Insider discovered something of a surprise while touring Foursquare’s New York headquarters for launch of Foursquare 3.0. It turns out that the company is already testing out an NFC -based check-in system at its HQ, which lets those with a suitable phone (such as a Nexus S) share their location simply by tapping it against a blue dot on the wall. Unfortunately, there’s no indications on any plans to actually expand it beyond its own HQ, although you can bet that it’s pretty high up on the list of inevitable things or the company.
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Foursquare tries out an NFC-based check-in system at its HQ
For those of you who were watching at 7 PM ET today as I was livestreaming the iPad 2 line and purchase process at the Aspen Grove Apple Store in Littleton, Colorado, I ended up buying a 32 GB white iPad 2 with AT&T 3G. The lines at Aspen Grove were longer for the iPad 2 than for probably any Apple launch I’ve seen at this location. I’d estimate that by the time 5 PM rolled around, there were 400 – 450 people in line
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iPad 2 first impressions: Steve Sande
How do you get noticed at the jam-packed tech extravaganza that is this week’s South by Southwest Interactive event in Austin, Texas? How about giving away free cars and flights around the world? A number of startups in the location tech market appear to be trying to one-up each other with bigger and better give-aways at the event
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The Fabulous Prizes of SXSW: Free Phones, Plane Tickets, Vacations & Cars
Yesterday location-based social network Foursquare rolled out a substantial upgrade to its platform. Foursquare 3.0 includes improved discovery, recommendations , and rewards for its users
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Foursquare Makes It Easier for Businesses to Offer "Specials" to Their Customers
Over the last year, I’ve worked in countless noisy coffee shops and dropped in to various co-working spaces. And I’m not alone
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Meet LiquidSpace: The Airbnb of Office Space
A little known fact about the Mac OS X Preview application is that you can use it to import photos and movies from your iOS devices to any place you choose that is accessible to Finder.
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iPhone and iPad Tips of the Week – Master Mac OS X Preview and Take Control of Your Media Imports
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Continued here: Exec, The YC-Backed Mobile App For Instantly Doing Your Errands, Raises $3.3M
While the upcoming Huawei myTouch may not be the phone at their top of everyone’s want list, it did just pass through the FCC on its way to T-Mobile store shelves in the near future. The FCC filing actually provides some details surrounding/confirming the phones specs as well including a 4″ WVGA display, 1.4GHz Qualcomm MSM8255T processor, 1GB RAM, 4GB internal storage, and a microSD card slot. Pretty much all the [read full article]
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Keep your eye on Wirefly.com tomorrow as they drop a nice little deal on the HTC One S for Memorial Day weekend. Beginning tomorrow, May 25th through May 28th, Wirefly is offering an extra $25 off their HTC One S pricing for T-Mobile. So what kind of pricing are you looking at — how about $125 for new activations and qualifying upgrade customers
Developers are uniting this weekend and putting a number of awesome Android titles on sale this weekend and if you’re a mobile gamer, you should be excited. They have a number of my own personal favorites including World of Goo, Canabalt HD, Anomaly Warzone Earth HD, Great Little War Game, Fieldrunners and more.
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We’re checking out IDC’s newest report for the first quarter of 2012 showing Google’s Android platform continuing it’s march toward global domination as its market-share climbs to 59%, with Apple a distant second at 23%.
Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann spoke this morning during his company’s investors call and said that a T-Mobile merger is still an option, though an outright sale is more than likely off the table.
Excerpt from: Autodesk Launches The Pen-And-Ink SketchBook Ink App for iPad
The rest is here: Big Apple Leads Millennial Q1 Device Ranks By Wide Margin: 28% For Brand, 15% For iPhone
On the heels of a Wall Street Journal report indicating Google is prepared to announce a variety of partnerships for their exclusive Nexus lineup of smartphones — comes news that these five devices will all arrive on November 5th. Remember, remember the fifth of November
Read more: Sonar Rolls Out “Here-Now” Mobile Social Network, Adds Status, Messaging, Notifications
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Some low-key news today as the T-Mobile Prism has already been available through the likes of Best Buy and Walmart since the beginning of May. Today does the mark the day however, that the Prism is available through T-Mobile owned retail stores as well T-Mobile.com. Interestingly enough, T-Mobile’s official press release back on May 2nd indicated the Prism would retail for $149.99 sans contract
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More: Target Rolls Out Shopkick Integration Nationwide
Read the original here: McAfee: Mobile Malware Explodes, Increases 1,200% In Q1 2012
See original here: 9M Users Strong, MapMyFitness Brings Check-Ins, Advanced Google Maps Integration To Fitness Tracking
Read more here: Betaworks Acquires And Relaunches Hownow, The Semi-Anonymous Hyperlocal Social Network iPhone App
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I wish I could say that you’re preparing to watch a twelve minute walk-through of a T-Mobile branded Galaxy S III, sadly that isn’t the case. Unfortunately, we’ve yet to see any of the US branded handsets appear in the wild but, this video courtesy of Tech65.com is a great 12 minute walk-through showing off plenty of Samsung’s flagship smartphone features. At the very least, you’ll have something to do for 12 minutes ..
Original post: Clueful Scans The Apps On Your iPhone, Tells You Which Ones Are Doing Naughty Things With Your Data
Read more: Appcelerator Partners With Geoloqi To Bring Location Services To Its 1.6 Million Developers
Read the rest here: Forget Those Scraps Of Paper, SnipSnap Lets You Save And Share Coupons From Your iPhone
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