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Adobe Flash Player 11

| FREE | Adobe Systems

Wimonews App Rapport: Adoble Flash Update, Netflix, Poison, Nook, Hullo Mail, iOS Printing and Eating - WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS - WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

Today, we launch a new feature to be published on Saturdays, "Wimonews App Rapport."  We will develop a deeper rapport with new apps and updated apps for iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Android an' Droid smartphones. Adobe Flash Player 10.3 More Flashy Adobe has released Adobe Flash Player 10.3 for Android, BlackBerry Tablet and HP webOS.  The smartphone version offers performance improvements, virtual keyboard text input, sleep timer, and out-of-memory management.  Tablets running Android 3.1 get hardware-accelerated H.264 decoding and the ability to show text and Flash animations on the same page. Android an' Droid Movies The Netflix app for Android lets you watch TV shows and movies streaming for subscribers of Netflix unlimited.  You can resume watching where you left off on your TV or computer.  Browse movies and manage your Instant Queue directly from your phone.  Due to digital rights management, the app only runs on the Nexus S, HTC Incredible, Nexus One, Evo 4G and G2. IPhone Poised for Poisoning Prevention California Poison Control System launched a free iPhone app, "Choose Your Poison," now available at the Apple app store.  A Spanish version is also available, but the user's phone must be set for Spanish.  The game is fun, interactive, and underscores an important poisoning prevention message - that medications can easily be mistaken for candy. Nook for Android eReading app update offers an optimized library grid view with enhanced book margins and line spacing, as well as an improved shopping experience, and more.  The new app features are available for popular 7-inch and larger tablets using Android OS 2.1 and higher (Honeycomb). Android and iPhone Office Group Contracts with DejaOffice - DejaOffice offers a new grouping feature to organize contact data.  You can sort contacts by category, company name, city, or ZIP code.  Business users who travel a lot will especially Read More

UberSocial for Twitter

| FREE | UberMedia Inc.

Android an' Droid App Update Twidroyd 5 with Previews & Muting - WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS - WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

Twidroyd has updated Twidroyd to Twidroyd 5 with preview, browsing without sign-in, link shortening, timeline muting, and more theme for this super Twitter app. New features of Twidroyd include: Twidroyd 5 enables users to tag photos and tweets with more precise geolocation information than exists in native Android through Skyhook Core Engine positioning. Twidroyd is currently available in two versions.  The free version is a fully-featured Twitter client, including postings, mentions, direct messages with threaded view, integrated search, list viewing, URL shortening, geolocation support, multi-language interface, and background notifications. The Pro version is available for $3.99 and adds multi-account support, full-list support, three desktop widgets for viewing tweets on the device's home screen, native bit.ly support, and other advanced features.  The app is available in Android Market. Read More

Rhapsody

| FREE | Rhapsody International Inc.

Android App in Sprint Zone: Rhapsody Android @ $9.99 Month Unlimited Music - WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS - WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

20 Jan 2011 Rhapsody announced that its Android app is now available in Sprint Zone.  The Rhapsody Android app is a premium on-demand music service that gives users access to more than 11 million full-length songs and exclusive editorial content, including reviews, videos, playlists, and recommendations from Rhapsody's music experts. Subscribers can download all the music they want to their Android phone for $9.99 a month and take it with them everywhere: in the car, on a flight, at home, or at the gym. Rhapsody users can create playlists, run multiple apps, play music while sending an email, and even listen to music offline (such as on a plane or subway).  Sprint subscribers using Rhapsody on Sprint's 4G network can download 10 tracks in 30 seconds or an average 50-song playlist in less than five minutes - a task that would take more than 20 minutes on a 3G network. The Rhapsody Android app makes it simple to find and discover new music by track, artist, album, genre, popularity or recommendations by Rhapsody's editors and other music lovers.  Subscribers can listen to anything and everything in the catalog, as often as desired. After a free trial, users pay only $9.99 per month plus applicable taxes to listen on an Android phone, computer or home audio system.  Rhapsody is also available in BlackBerry App World and GetJar. Read More

Goby

| FREE | Goby Technologies

Android an' Droid App: LBS Go Goby Yourself with Things to Do - WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS - WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

The Goby Android app is now in Android Marketplace, it helps users go out and find activities and things. Their website claims "Goby is an inspiration engine all about exploring things to do with your free time, from this weekend's adventure to your next week off." The Goby Android App has over 350 categories of things to do, from hiking and caving to restaurants and galleries. It covers every city, town and region in the United States with geo-location at star. The result lists complete with photos, maps and phone numbers. Goby also gives users the ability to share things to do through Twitter, Facebook and email  More features will be added  to allow people to create, edit and share Goby content.  Read More

BioWallet Signature

| FREE | mobbeel

Android and Droid Apps: BioWallet Android Uses Your Signature Instead of Long Passwords - WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS - WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

BioWallet Signature is a safe wallet that allows you to store all kind of sensitive and confidential information. You can store: user/passwords, bank accounts, credit cards, photos, videos... anything you want to protect and keep safe (and hidden from everyone else!) Your information will be stored as records. You can also use it as the safest way to access your preferred services (e-mail, bank accounts and LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter).)With this system, users won't have to memorize long and complicated passwords, neither use the same simple password for everything; BioWallet will remember them for you. The Explorer portion allows the management of all your sensitive information using folders to organize it. The data is stored in different types of records: notes, credit cards, bank accounts,websites, email accounts, documents. To start using BioWallet you must first sign up or register in the system. Android  an' Droid  Apps Articles: Read More

Tax Answers

| FREE | H&R Block

Tax iPhone, BlackBerry and Android Apps for Tax Help and Filing in a Snap (CA only) - WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS - WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

You may have noticed people are losing sleep and grumbling while they are attempting to get ready for tax time.  Filing online has become common place but what about filing from a mobile phone? Many of the IRS and tax websites use Flash and are too large for a small phone screen. iPhone owners who want to file will have it easier, but only in California. SnapTax is an IPhone app that allows CA residents with simple returns to e- file a federal and state return right from their iPhone in minutes. Instead of entering W-2 forms by hand, users can take of photo of the forms. SnapTax uses optical character recognition (OCR) software to allow you to prepare and e-file federal and state returns entirely from your iPhone. It's simple.  In fact, you can file your taxes in just three easy steps:  Snap a photo of your 2009 W-2 with your iPhone. Get your maximum refund by answering a few simple questions. Review your tax information, then e-file - all within a matter on minutes. It's for simple returns only in the State of California.  TaxSnap costs $9.99, which includes federal and California state preparation and e-file.   o get the most out of SnapTax's innovative OCR capabilities, TurboTax  recommends using it on the iPhone 3GS.  - a calculator that helps taxpayers get an estimate of what their refund might be so there's no surprises come April 15. If you didn't keep good track of your mileage in previous years, you can use the GPS in your iPhone to do it for you.  isa mileage tracker that uses Google Maps and the iPhone's GPS to keep accurate, detailed records of each driving trip. BlackBerry users can save receipts with Tax Receipt Shoebox  application helps with improved billing and expense tracking. It Read More