WIndows Phone gets more iPhone apps; Vine and Path confirmed

Microsoft has confirmed that it has snagged Twitter video app Vine, and social network app Path for the Windows Phone platform.The two new apps, one announced at the Nokia event in New York and the other confirmed by Jo Harlow, VP in charge of devices at Nokia, to Pocket-lint in an interview, signal yet more apps that are slowly coming over...

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Free iPhone apps available for App Store anniversary

Popular apps for the iPhone and iPad, some of which usually go for up to $20, are being offered for free in Apple's online App Store, in conjunction with the store's fifth anniversary.Popular games are in abundance on the list, with 'Infinity Blade II,' 'Where's My Water?' and 'Tiny Wings' among them.The steepest discount appears to be Traktor...

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New iPhone apps worth downloading: Paltalk Video Chat, Congress by Sunlight ...

Discover new people with your interests across the street and across the world with chatroom app Paltalk, which supports thousands of chat rooms and sports both text and video chat capabilities. We've also got a great app for making informed decisions about your government: Congress by Sunlight Foundation, an app full of information about...

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Five years in: The ten most influential iPhone and iPad apps yet

Given the ubiquity of mobile apps, it's a jolt to realise that Apple's App Store is only five years old.In 2008, just 500 titles were available at launch, but developers soon got on board, fashioning careers out of making and selling apps and games to iPhone and iPad users. Within a few months, 100 million apps had been downloaded. In under...

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IFTTT comes to iPhone with a crisp app featuring native Photos, Reminders and ...

The digital glue service IFTTT is finally launching an iPhone app and it brings with it a set of new channels specific to Apple's platform and a lovely mobile platform for both building and using its automated actions. The app is rolling out now to users around the world and it's a well designed and thoughtful implementation of the Web service...

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IFTTT's new iPhone app taps into Contacts, Photos and Reminders (hands

IFTTT has been around for a couple of years now as an internet service that lets users customize connections between different apps and devices. The name stands for If This Then That, which encapsulates the idea behind it -- users can create automation Recipes that combine a Trigger (the 'This') that'll result in an Action (the 'That')....

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Popular iPhone and iPad Apps Free Before App Store's Anniversary

It's a good day to go app shopping.A number of the most popular paid iPhone and iPad apps are now available for free in a promotional offering before the fifth anniversary of Apple's App Store. Wednesday will be five years since the app store was launched.Barefoot World Atlas, a beautiful interactive atlas app typically priced at $4.99,...

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