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Jealous of BlackBerry Messenger? Grab WhatsApp for Free Right Now

BlackBerry Messenger is one of the biggest advantages to BlackBerry smartphone ownership, and one which makes other phone users a little jealous.  Although we’ve heard in the past RIM may bring a BBM app to the iPhone App Store, nothing has appeared so far.  There are however, several cross-platform messenger applications available, all of differing [...]

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Skype Challenges FaceTime, Introduces Video Calling

If you had little interest in video-calling before Apple’s own FaceTime service was introduced with the iPhone 4, we’d be surprised to hear it changed your mind.  Good software and decent enough quality couldn’t hide the fact it was seriously limited, thanks to Wi-Fi only connections to other iPhone 4’s or Macs. Now, after a surprisingly [...]

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Check-in with Google Latitude on the iPhone

After a false start last week, Google Latitude is now available for the iPhone.  If you’re not familiar with it, Latitude is a location service along the lines of Foursquare and Facebook Places, and is available for most of the major mobile operating systems. The main difference with Latitude is background updating, so all your [...]

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Watch Out Skype, Here Comes Viber!

Out today is a new VoIP app for the iPhone named Viber, which by the sounds of the press release, is about to change the game.  It’s free to download and offers free calls over both Wi-Fi and 3G, to any other Viber user in the world.  What makes it interesting is how it has [...]

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Google Voice iPhone app now available in App Store

Google Voice is back in the App Store more than a year after Apple first began removing Google Voice apps in July 2009. Third-party apps like GV Mobile and GV Connect were re-admitted in September, but there’s now an official app from Google to load onto your phone. Android has had a fully-integrated Google Voice app [...]

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App Store Welcomes Google Voice Apps with Newly Open Arms

Google Voice has had to travel a rocky road on its way to what we presume is absolute App Store acceptance this time.  Apple decided to remove GV Mobile and other similar apps from the App Store over a year ago, and although GV Mobile lived on in the Cydia Store, an official Google Voice [...]

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Google Mobile Push Here Now, Google Googles Coming Soon

An update for the Google Mobile app went live yesterday, bringing with it Push notifications for both Gmail and for Google Calendar.  About time, many will be saying, as although there have been other apps and an Exchange work-around to enable such a feature for a while, Google have taken their time to add feature [...]

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Looking to Invade Some Privacy? Call Recorder App Will Help You Out

Although the ability to record telephone conversations made with the iPhone has been around for a while, thanks to the likes of Recorder, the service wasn’t available outside of the USA.  This has now changed with the release of Call Recorder, a UK-only call record service. Developed by Sundial Telecom, a provider of ‘hosted telecom services’, [...]

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Skype Adds Multitasking Support, Scraps Payment Plan

Skype, the popular VoIP application, has been updated to version 2.0.1, bringing with it a very helpful new function; the ability to run in the background when using iOS 4.  This means that regardless of whether your iPhone is active or locked, if Skype is running you’ll be able to receive calls and messages through [...]

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Fring Remove 3G Video-Calling Option

No sooner had it arrived than Fring take it away again!  The iPhone 4’s forward facing camera gives the option of using Apple’s own FactTime service, but universal communication app Fring announced last week that their most recent update would also provide two-way video calling.  Even better was the news this would be available via [...]

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