Apps

While the iPhone and its more than 300,000 applications are forever changing how we interact with handheld devices, Apple’s (AAPL) iconic smartphone is no longer the only game in town. Full Story »

In today's Fresh Android Apps, learn how you can sync and play your computer's music library onto your phone, grocery shop with confidence, trick your friends and avoid getting inked with a potentially embarrassing tattoo. Full Story »

Halloween is this weekend, so we’ve found a few apps to help get into the spirit of things. Check out our price cuts on a game that pits you as a sniper rifle against a horde of Halloween monsters, and another that lets you virtually carve a pumpkin. Full Story »

Today’s Fresh Apps are really useful in specific instances, but if you find yourself at one of those times – attending the Daily Show and Colbert Report’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in Washington D.C., or attempting to rid your brain of an annoying song – you may find these apps invaluable. Full Story »

PayPal is paving the road to mobile money’s future, with a number of platform and payment announcements this week. It’s no wonder PayPal’s Android app was a top performer. Also, Yahoo! also added two new fantasy league apps to the Android Market, just in time for basketball and hockey season. Full Story »

Recently, there has been a surge of children's books applications for the iPad, each offering something unique. Bookster (free) offers simple audio, text and illustrations, with the option to record your own voice to narrate the story. It's a great application for children to have fun with, while, at the same time, teaching them how to read. Full Story »

Life.com organizes photo galleries, not much else Full Story »

Today, Google launched Place Search, a section of its search engine intended to help users find out more about locations. The web service is a compliment to Google’s Android app called “Places,” which uses GPS and Google Maps to help smartphone users find local restaurants, businesses, bars, attractions, hotels, ATMs, Gas Stations, and whatever else they happen to search for in the app. Google added Places to Android devices as part of its Android 2.2 Froyo OS update a couple months back. Full Story »

Here at Mashable we love a good zombie. The grosser, the better. We imagine a few of you out there feel the same way, so we've scoured the App Store to find the best zombie-themed casual games available. Full Story »

Khoi Vinh, former design editor for the New York Times, is not impressed with the progress magazine app publishers’ have made in their early start. In his blog, Vinh’s main area of contention with magazine apps is that the majority of them aren’t doing anything innovative, instead relying on recreating their print versions for the iPad. “If publishers continue to pursue the print-centric strategies they’re focused on today, I’m willing to bet that most of them will fail,” he says. Full Story »

On Thursday at the 2010 PhotoPlus Expo, onOne Software announced and previewed Perfect Photo Suite 5.5, the newest update to its series of Photoshop plug-ins for the Mac, and a new iPad-only version of its DSLR Camera Remote iPhone app. Full Story »

Android phones will soon become a lot more suitable for business, as important control features come to Google Apps. Full Story »

DENVER - This season, there's more to technology on the ski slopes than the new shapes in skis. Full Story »

Mobilizing enterprise apps is nothing new, yet beyond e-mail and a few other horizontal applications, it's still a niche market. But combining the cloud with the newest generation of smartphones is just starting to change that. Full Story »

Speculation that Apple is in talks to drop carrier distribution and sell the iPhone directly to consumers is circulating the Web this morning. GigaOm first reported the rumor, claiming that European sources know Apple to be in the process of creating a SIM card that can hop from carrier to carrier, potentially enabling users to purchase iPhones from the Apple Store (including the online store) and use the App Store to choose from among available GSM carriers. Apple is allegedly partnering with SIM card manufacturer Gemalto to develop the technology. Full Story »

Twitter on Thursday unveiled its official app for Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform. Full Story »

Amazon is expanding its Kindle app to yet another device. The company announced Thursday that its software will be the first e-reader app available for the forthcoming Windows Phone 7. Full Story »

Martha Stewart is well known as a business magnate, television host, author, and insider trader, but did you know that she also bakes a mean batch of cookies? Full Story »