Crispapp has launched a Facebook Messenger application designed specifically for Apple gadgets. Facebook Messenger is essentially Skype for your Facebook friends. The application allows users to call anyone of their Facebook friends for free over VoIP.
The Facebook Messenger also lets you post pictures, view a friend’s wall, use emotions, browse message history, text chat via Push Notifications and add multi-tasking support from within the app.
The Facebook Messenger is available at a price of $3 and requires iOS 3.1.2 or later
The brilliant social news application Pulse has released a few extra features that were a long time in coming. Pulse now features six popular social media sites as sources: Reddit, Digg, Vimeo, YouTube, Picplz and Flickr. The application is pulling content from these social sites via APIs instead of RSS feeds.
It seems as thought these additions really draw away from the fact that Pulse was a great way of finding quality independent news sources.
“We wanted to experiment with social news, photos and videos — hence, we picked these initial sources. All these services have really neat APIs, and it literally took Charles [new team member Charles Chen] two weeks to get this up and running,” says co-founder Akshay Kothari. “Many more to come — stay tuned!”
7digital has partnered with Mobile Acuity, which develops mobile visual search technology. The new service will enable end users to discover music featured on CD covers, posters, billboards and “other visual advertising mediums” by capturing images with their mobile phones or other camera-equipped mobile devices, such as tablets.
A typical use-case is obvious: point your phone’s camera at a poster or magazine ad, snap a picture and get access to information about an artist or album with the option to preview and purchase a track download from a 7digital-powered download store, of which there are many.
Rovio Mobile has confirmed that Angry Birds will be coming to Windows Phone 7 devices very soon.
“We’re working on it,” said Rovio’s “Mighty Eagle” Peter Vesterbacka, when we asked him if and when Angry Birds will be available on Windows Phone 7.
Windows Phone 7 is currently facing a lot of competition, but a recent deal with Nokia means they will soon be challenging the really big players in the mobile space.
It will be interesting to see if Angry Birds will be free or a paid download on Windows Phone 7.
Foursquare has just announced that they will be translating their service into 5 new languages: Spanish, French, German, Italian and Japanese.
This announcement happened at the Mobile World Congress that is happening in Barcelona.
It is great to see that Foursquare is starting to focus their efforts on the major languages throughout the world and cater to them. I would have liked to see them open up in China, but I’m sure that is only a matter of time.
Cydia has started to be blocked by mobile carriers worldwide. Three UK, Three Ireland and China Unicom have all blocked access to Cydia’s servers from their 3G networks.
You probably don’t know, but three blocks a lot of websites including Warez and ****.
However now, they have also blocked Cydia and I have attached a photo too to show it but it works fine on wifi.
This effects all three customers contract or PAYG and also cannot be unblocked unlike **** with a pin, like Warez its blocked for everyone.
Im sure that Cydia users will be able to still use their iPhones, etc, on the these networks, but they will have to go home and use their Wifi networks to download the latest tweak.
It seems like Sonos is now on every controller and has a leading partnerships with up and coming music streaming startups (Spotify and Rdio). Sonos will now launch their own Android client which looks brilliant.
The Sonos Android app has the same features as most other Sonos controllers, but it has been mapped specifically to take advantage of the Android menu keys.
Sonos is bringing the Android client to demo at MWC next month, and the public release is set for the end of March.
Join.me is a great new screen sharing tool for Mac and Windows. You initiate a screen sharing session on your desktop and it will provide you with a unique code that others may use to view your desktop screen from their own computers.
Additionally, Join.me has a iOS app that can be used on iPads and iPhones.
The apps are free, incredibly easy to use and also supports text chat so you may not just watch the presenter’s screen while on the go but also interact with the meeting participants.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Yahoo will soon launch their own personalised mobile content play. This smart platform is expected to be launched at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Yahoo’s upcoming software will power a number of mobile applications serving content in several contexts. This is new tool would be available over the web, on any device, but is developed to cater mobiles platforms such as Android, iOS and other OS.
Google has launched the official Google Translate iPhone application. The new app has all of the features of the web app, plus some significant new additions designed to improve your overall translation experience.
Speak to translate – The new app accepts voice input for 15 languages, and—just like the web app—you can translate a word or phrase into one of more than 50 languages. For voice input, just press the microphone icon next to the text box and say what you want to translate.
Full-screen modeAnother feature that might come in handy is the ability to easily enlarge the translated text to full-screen size. This way, it’s much easier to read the text on the screen, or show the translation to the person you are communicating with. Just tap on the zoom icon to quickly zoom in.
And the app also includes all of the major features of the web app, including the ability to view dictionary results for single words, access your starred translations and translation history even when offline, and support romanized text like Pinyin and Romaji.
Cydia has started to be blocked by mobile carriers worldwide. Three UK, Three Ireland and China Unicom have all blocked access to Cydia’s servers from their 3G networks.
