Mobile

Have you ever been happily driving down the road, listening to your favourite tunes, only to have your karma shattered by a careless driver cutting you up or flashing you to get out of the way? If you’re anything like me, you’ll shout and scream or gesticulate wildly and for what reason? To…

If you have a Windows Mobile device and you are a Twitter user, then you may have heard of an app called TinyTwitter. Many people say that TinyTwitter is already one of the best applications for using Twitter on their mobile phone, but now it’s even better than before! A recent update to…

For those of you using Windows Phone, your only option for a dedicated Foursquare mobile application so far has been Wimosquare, still in beta. But now, there’s a new Foursquare client in development, reports Pocketnow, who spotted the mention of the app over on the XDA-developers forum. …

In case you haven’t heard, Windows Mobile has been rebranded. The term “Windows Phone” is now the name for all devices formerly called “Windows Mobile.” Along with the new name, the phone is about to receive a whole new look, too. At a recent Microsoft event, there was a demo given that showed off…

AT&T recently launched a new child locator service called FamilyMap which lets parents track down their children’s location by using their cell phones. Unlike some of the GPS-enabled mobile social networking/tracking applications, FamilyMap doesn’t require the user (the child) to input their…

Hulu, are you listening? A company called Clarity Consulting has created a gorgeous Hulu app concept for the upcoming Windows Phone 7 OS to show off how a media-rich application could look on the new devices. (They also have a Yelp concept app, a news app and an NBA tracker, too). According to a…

The Windows Live Messenger service is now available through Nokia’s “Messaging Chat” application, software that comes pre-installed on select Nokia phones. Within this application, you can chat with friends, maintain buddy lists, update your status message, and even have multiple conversations at…

Bing is going to release a World Cup badge on the location-based mobile “check in” service Foursquare which can only be unlocked by those who follow the Bing account on the service, reports TechCrunch.  To earn the badge, Foursquare users have to check into local hotspots like bars,…

The Bing app for Windows phones has just been updated with new features, the most exciting of which is an improved navigation feature that now offers turn-by-turn directions. For owners of Windows 6.x phones, the Bing Maps component of the app can now guide you to your destination, complete with…

The popular multi-platform mobile application Trapster is now coming to Windows Mobile devices. The app, originally launched as a crowdsourced tool for delivering speed trap alerts to lead-footed drivers, taps into its connected community of users to report live speed traps, red light cameras,…