That certainly didn’t take long. Less than a week after OMGPOP dethroned Zynga with its Draw Something app taking over the top spot in Apple’s App Store and Google Play, Zynga has just purchased the game developer for $180 million. The deal also includes another $30 million in employee retention payouts. Draw Something is a [...]

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It’s official. Draw Something is the new king of the hill when it comes to gaming apps, beating out Zynga‘s app juggernaut Words with Friends. For several months now, it’s seemed as though Words With Friends was unstoppable in the social gaming realm. Everyone you know was probably playing it at some point. Just over [...]

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Popular online education portal the Khan Academy has just released its free iPad app that lets you download videos for offline viewing, access interactive transcripts of lectures, track your course progress, and access more than 2,700 videos on subjects ranging from science to history. “It doesn’t matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, [...]

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There’s some shocking news you need to be aware of today if you’re a cell phone user. An investigation has revealed that your Facebook smartphone app is accessing your personal text messages. Facebook admitted reading the text messages of smartphone users who had downloaded the social networking site’s app and said that it was accessing [...]

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The guys over at NimbleBit are a bit upset with Zynga, and it looks like they have a right to be.  You see, NimbleBit came out with this little iPhone game called Tiny Tower.  Perhaps you’ve heard of it? The game was picked by Apple as iOS Game of the Year.  The game also has [...]

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Apple has just released its annual iTunes Rewind, which highlights the most popular content available in the App Store over the past twelve months. This year, the big winner was the photo-sharing app Instagram, which Apple named “iPhone App of the Year” for 2011. As such, the app will be featured prominently in the App [...]

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Looking for an easier way to track your calories and food consumption?  Look no farther than the new Meal Snap iPhone app. MealSnap lets you snap a photo of your food, then the app spits back an approximate calorie count based on the photo. The new app was developed by DailyBurn, a fitness social network [...]

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There’s a new smartphone app raising eyebrows because it allows you to see photos taken by complete strangers.  Why isn’t anyone doing anything about it?  Well, that’s kind of the whole point. The new iPhone app “Color” is a location-based, photo-sharing app allows users to view all of the pictures being snapped by total strangers [...]

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Get ready to do your part for Planet Earth. Earth Hour 2011 will be held this Saturday, March 26, from 8:30 – 9:30 p.m. A Nobel Peace Prize winner and a model for Victoria’s Secret are just a few of the big names set to join millions of people around the globe in switching off [...]

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Allen Wright is a Del Campo High School senior, a cadet for the Citrus Heights Police Department, and a future U.S. Marine. He is also the creator of the “Note to God” iPhone app, an app that helps users send their prayers to God.  Ironically enough, Wright is now most in need of those prayers. [...]

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Want to impersonate a police officer?  There’s an app for that…but I don’t recommend you use it unless you enjoy spending time in jail. Alexander Welch, a 21-year-old man from Idaho, has been charged with unlawful exercise of the function of police after using an iPhone app that flashes red and blue lights in trying [...]

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Sinning too much? There’s an app for that. A Catholic bishop in Indiana has approved “Confession: A Roman Catholic App”. The app is made by a company called Little iApps. For just $1.99, Catholics can use their iPhone to help examine their conscience as an official part of the sacrament of reconciliation. From the official [...]

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