Fans of the popular BlackBerry Twitter app, UberTwitter, have a new sibling in the family. Today, the official UberTwitter iOS app launched in the App Store. With literally dozens of Twitter apps to choose between on iOS, how does UberTwitter stand out? That and more are just after the jump… I’ll start out by saying that the BlackBerry origins are glaringly obvious in UberTwitter. That is, it’s incredibly bare bones in the UI department. That’s...
Recall if you will, a few weeks back when Skype started cutting off third party services from using it’s API all willy nilly. Things have since died down. But now we have another developer(s) pulling the same stunt. Nimbuzz, a popular multi-account IM app, is removing ICQ support. What’s different from the whole Skype/Nimbuzz story, however, is that instead of improperly used APIs, ICQ is simply looking for some more money. On that note, ICQ wants Nimbuzz...
If you can’t get enough of the Angry Birds game, stuffed toys, or iPhone cases, Rovio CEO Peter Vesterbacka has something you’ll want to hear. Angry Birds is invading the PSN, Wii, and Xbox platforms. The announcement was made at the first annual Social Gaming Summit in London, England, and foretold of Angry Birds expanding to not only the platforms above, but into many new “forms”. Sounds pretty interesting. And I’ll admit, I’m an...
Beejive users: version 3.5.2 is now live! However, if you want to keep ICQ support, avoid updating for now. Besides new bug fixes, a few new minor features managed to sneak in including new message status indicators for sent messages, Bluetooth support added to Voicenotes, and the inclusion of .WAV files for increased cross-platform compatibility. However, one rather large feature that was removed from the latest update is ICQ. Now before a massive public outcry...
Video junkies on Android might want to rethink their device choice if the new YouTube app is one of the crowning jewels in their eye, for it has one big limitation — It requires Android 2.2 or later. Even though the latest estimates put Android 2.2 adoption at 30%, that still renders a huge swath of Android users ineligible. For the “winners” however, the new stand-alone YouTube app does have some new notable features: landscape and portrait viewing,...
