Angry Birds may be old news (and frankly, a bit long in the beak) but that doesn’t mean Rovio Mobile is going 100% with their latest hit, “Amazing Alex”, and leaving their original hit in the dust. According to The Next Web, Rovio Mobile will be launching another specially themed Angry Birds game dubbed “Angry Birds Heikki”. The only thing we know at this point is that there is an (obvious) heavy emphasis on racing as well as some kind of...
The popular social networking/discovery app, “Roamz”, that we looked at back in March is coming to Android! Beginning right now, Android users can enjoy finding and sharing (Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare) the world in which they live. The local-specific Roamz iOS app was pretty entertaining for us and think the Android version will no doubt win over a loyal following, too. Besides the great social/local discovery features, we have to give the Roamz team...
There are many things we’d love to see changed in iOS; the lockscreen, springboard, folder management, app management, UI colors, and plenty of other small areas could use some freshening up. New paint is always a good thing. And while there are what seems like an infinite amount of iOS concepts/tweaks floating around the internet, only a small percentage ever make it to a stage that we’d consider as good enough for Apple to legitimately “adopt”. One...
Google and Apple may not be the biggest of friends, but that doesn’t mean Google can ignore their frenemy in Cupertino. Supporting iOS is a very important thing for Google to do, as while many people may eschew their in-house mobile platform, there is still plenty of cash to be made in online services spread across platforms. Today, the company pushed out their new 2.0 (2.0.0.5888 exactly) update for Google+ for iOS. And wow, what a change it brings. Every ounce of...
Popular multi-platform, multi-IM chat app, Nimbuzz, is wondering down a new road today with the announcement of their “Chat Buddy Developers Program”. The program, combined with the opening of Nimbuzz’s messenger API, is a move by the company to better cater to 3rd party companies and help them gain access to a claimed 90+ million Nimbuzz users. A few of the companies whom Nimbuzz has already worked with include Twitter (tweeting within Nimbuzz),...
