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Google releases Orkut for Android with live folders, photo uploads, and notifications

Orkut is now available on Android phones using version 1.6 or higher. Google today announced that its social networking website now has an official Android app to keep Orkut friends connected through mobile devices. I’ve never used Orkut because the site never really took off in the U.S., but Orkut is still popular among Brazilians and [...]

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Zillow launches new Android real estate app

Zillow.com, “the leader in mobile real estate” will be launching a US real estate searching app that uses GPS to pinpoint consumers position and provide information about local homes. The application shows an aerial view  of home price estimates, homes for rent, homes that were recently purchased, and much more. Zillow says that their iPhone [...]

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HootSuite for Android balances heavy features and light loading times [Video app review]

Swift was my favorite Android Twitter app last fall, mainly because it was among the fastest and easiest to navigate. However, I needed multiple account support to make it my full-time choice. Swift’s developer, Sebastian Delmont, has since added multiple accounts and a long list of other features to Swift – only he’s done it [...]

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Gowalla releases official Android app for #SXSW smackdown with Foursquare

Gowalla Android users can rejoice in the fact that Gowalla 1.0 is now available in the Android Market. Though a beta .apk has been circulating over the past few weeks, Gowalla released the official Android app for their check-in service just in time to duke it out with Foursquare at South by Southwest. Both Gowalla and [...]

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Recognizr matches faces to database and shows social networking links

Place your phone’s camera over someone’s face and it brings up links to their social network profiles? Yes, it’s possible in TAT’s Recognizr prototype. When a user focuses their device’s camera on someone who has been entered into the app before, a series of user-defined icons will hover over a live image, providing quick links [...]

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Associated Press “Today in History” reminds users of historic events and puzzles (App Review)

Michael Jackson burned his hair while filming a PEPSI commercial on January 27, 1984. I know this because I was born the same day and have been quick to inform people that a historic event took place on the same day Michael Jackson burned his hair (see what I did there?). I also know because the [...]

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ZAGAT TO GO brings the powerful ZAGAT restaurant guide to Android phones

Hungry? ZAGAT TO GO is ready to remedy the situation. Fresh on the Android Market, ZAGAT TO GO is a premium application that taps into 45 ZAGAT guides for restaurant ratings and reviews. Much like the popular iPhone app, the Android version of ZAGAT TO GO uses location and user desires to filter through its [...]

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Address Book is the next step in Android contact & communication management

Streamlined communication is the future of digital interaction. While the list of ways we communicate– calls, text, email, Facebook, Twitter – are sure to increase, there will be a need to centralize those communications. Asurion Software has joined the fray of companies looking to make the future now with its new Android app Address Book. Address [...]

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EXTRA! EXTRA! Associated Press’s “AP Mobile” is a great Android news app

Through cooperative agreements with some of the world’s largest newspapers and television networks, the Associated Press supplies much of the news items that you’re likely to come across in a given day. With its new AP Mobile Android app, those stories can now be piped directly to your Android device. AP Mobile delivers the hot-topic news [...]

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Android has an app for kgb (the answer service, not the Soviet agency)

Is it me, or are those kgb commercials freaky? I can handle some creepy guy asking for help in figuring out his girlfriend’s bra size, but the one with two teens trying to feed their dad hamster milk is just plain weird. The Knowledge Generation Bureau will be answering more bizarre questions now that it has [...]

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