Chad Ochocinco Takes Over the iTunes App Store with “MadChad” Game
Chad Ochocinco, Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver, partnered with Rock Software to release the iOS game “Mad Chad.” It became available for download today and has already become the top paid app in the iTunes App Store. As Adam Fusfeld of BI puts it, this “further cements Ochocinco’s status as the most web-friendly athlete.” He is [...]
Read MoreGoogle Voice App Comes to iPhone
It’s been a long hard road full of twists, turns, Apple, Google, and the government. Finally, iPhone users can rejoice and install the free and official Google Voice app for iPhone. According to TechCrunch, it was well worth the wait: Yes, the app is real, it’s approved, and it should be live at this link. [...]
Read MoreKik Provides Free Real-Time Texting Across Android, BlackBerry & iOS
Kik is a messaging application and service for Android, Blackberry, and iOS devices that allows for free texting across all three platforms. The service re-launched about two weeks ago and quickly jumped from 0 to 1,000,000 users: What an incredible couple of weeks. We re-launched Kik Messenger 15 days ago with 0 users, and at [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 11-05-2010
Sharp Launching 3D Android Handsets in Japan 3D is all the rage in the entertainment industry. It follows that the mobile devices we have started carrying around all the time would head in the same direction. Sharp will be launching two 3D handsets in Japan based on the Android operating system. The biggest drawback, of [...]
Read MoreSkyfire Burns Up the App Store, Quickly Fizzles Out.
Skyfire was to be the solution to a major setback (as some see it) with Apple’s iPhone. It is the first iPhone browser that supports videos designed for Flash Player. Note the careful wording here. Skyfire does not actually support Adobe Flash, but does some slick back-end work that allows the iPhone to play embedded [...]
Read MoreFacebook Takes Location to the Next Level
The initial launch of Facebook Places seemed pretty tame. They added a location check-in feature that was similar to the way the existing photo-tagging features work. Some users got into it, but it hasn’t seem to have made much of a splash. As part of this launch, we saw Foursquare, Gowalla, MyTown, and Yelp stand [...]
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