Amazon Updates Kindle For Mac App With Support for "Book Extras", Print...
We just noticed that the Kindle For Mac app has been updated with support for some new features. Here’s a List of What’s New in Version 1.8.1 (via iTunes App Store): Support for Lion, including Lion’s...
View ArticleBritish Library Launches iOS and Android Apps for Upcoming Exhibition
From IntoMobile: In an effort that seems designed to reach modern smartphone users, British Library is launching mobile apps for iOS and Android devices for the upcoming exhibition. Titled “Royal...
View ArticleCool Award Winning Apps! Winners of National Library of Medicine Software...
Congrats and kudos to the winners and those receiving an honorable mention. From the Official NLM Announcement: The library’s software development challenge, Show off Your Apps: Innovative Uses of NLM...
View ArticleElsevier Announces Winners of "Apps for Science" Challenge
Yesterday, we posted a list of the winning apps from the National Library of Medicine Software Development Challenge. Today, word from Elsevier that they’ve announced the winners of their “Apps for...
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New Statistics From Pew Internet: Apps Downloading Almost Doubles in Two Years
Direct to Complete Report (HTML) ||| PDF Version (33 Pages; PDF) From the Overview Portion of the Report: The share of adult cell phone owners who have downloaded an app to their phone nearly doubled...
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A New App For iOS: Flow Powered by Amazon (Augmented Reality/Image Recognition)
From an A9 (Amazon Subsidiary) Info Page: Flow uses both barcode and image recognition to continuously recognize tens of millions of products (books, DVDs, CDs, video games, or millions of packaged...
View ArticleAward Winning App Concepts: Elsevier Announces Winners of Apps for Library...
Let’s end the week with more contest winners! We’ve posted award winning apps from the National Library of Medicine and from the SciVerse apps contest (links below) over the past few days and now we’ve...
View ArticlePublisher's Weekly Releases "Best Books of 2011" Web App
Direct to PW Best Books of 2011 Top 10 Overall Plus, best titles in the following categories: Fictions Mystery/Thriller Poetry Romance Sci-Fi/Thriller/Horror Non-Fiction Children’s Picture Children’s...
View ArticleA New Browser Extension: Evernote Clearly (Makes Web Pages, Articles Clean...
Direct to Evernote Cleary Web Site (Currently Available Only for Chrome) From an Introductory Blog Post (and Video) With one click, Clearly hides all distractions from blogs and articles, allowing you...
View ArticleRecently Launched: Smithsonian Institution Mobile Guide Apps (iOS, Android,...
From the Smithhsonian Web Site: The mobile guide to visiting the Smithsonian, built collaboratively with our visitors. Discover what to see and do, search our collections, access podcasts and other...
View ArticleEBSCOhost App Now Available For Android Devices
From EBSCO: EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has released an EBSCOhost Android app ensuring that Android device users can quickly and easily take full advantage of their premium EBSCOhost database content from...
View ArticleThe Right Stuff: Heavy Duty Real-Time Airline Flight Tracking Tools
INFOdocket co-founder Gary Price has written a roundup of several flight tracking apps and web sites that provide access to real time info. The post was published on Search Engine Land (where Gary is a...
View ArticleWolfram|Alpha Releases "Lawyer's Professional Assistant" App
“Lawyer’s Professional Assistant” is the latest app release from Wolfram|Alpha. W|A mobile apps (iOS*) provides a variety of tools and features from their main database packaged specifically for...
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New: A Large Collection of Mobile Web Stats and Charts (Mobile Web in Numbers)
An large and impressive compilation of stats and charts from the folks at Royal Pingdom. You’ll find statistics and charts in the following categories: Smartphones Mobile Data Mobile Web Browsing...
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Google Targets Flipboard With New Currents App, Released Today for iOS and...
From Gigaom: Google is getting into the personalized news-delivery app game with Google Currents, a new product available Thursday for Android and iOS devices. Currents is in the same wheelhouse as...
View ArticleBooksellers Are Not Happy With Amazon's Price Check Promo Tomorrow
From the American Booksellers Association: “This week Amazon.com announced that customers who go into bricks-and-mortar stores on Saturday, December 10, use the company’s smartphone price check app on...
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Articles on the Go: Emerald Launches iOS App
From Emerald: Emerald Group Publishing has announced the launch of the Emerald app. Providing access to almost 100,000 articles from Emerald journals, the Emerald App also allows users to synch their...
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New Statistics: The Rise of Smartphones, Apps and the Mobile Web
Via the Nielsen Wire: Nielsen’s State of the Media: The Mobile Media Report (Q3 2011) provides a snapshot of the current mobile media landscape and audiences in the U.S… Key findings: The majority of...
View ArticleSTM Publishing: Springer Launches SpringerLink Mobile App for iPhone
From the Announcement: It is free to download from the iTunes App Store providing access to the science platform www.springerlink.com containing articles and chapters from over 2,000 peer-reviewed...
View ArticleThe Economist Group Launches 2012 Election App For Tablets
From MediaPost: The Economist Group is launching Electionism, a free HTML5 Web app for tablets, including iPad, Samsung Galaxy and Kindle Fire. It culls content from The Economist and CQ Roll Call,...
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