Path Lands in Trouble Again — This Time for Spamming Users’ Contacts with Texts

Path Lands in Trouble Again — This Time for Spamming Users’ Contacts with Texts

Private social networking app Path has landed in a privacy mess again as it has been found that the startup is spamming users’ contacts with text messages in an attempt to increase its userbase.

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Reeder For iPhone 3.1 Update Brings Feedbin And Local RSS Support

Reeder For iPhone 3.1 Update Brings Feedbin And Local RSS Support

Reeder for iPhone, one of the most popular RSS clients has been updated to 3.1.

Reeder 3.1 brings support for Feedbin service, which is an alternative for Google Reader. As you probably know by now, Google has announced that it will be shutting down Google Reader on July 1st.

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Popular ‘Read It Later’ Service Instapaper Sold to Digg Owner Betaworks

Popular ‘Read It Later’ Service Instapaper Sold to Digg Owner Betaworks

Marco Arment, developer of Instapaper, a popular and one of the first ‘read it later’ service for the iPhone, has announced on his blog that he has sold a majority stake in Instapaper to Betaworks.

Last year, Betaworks had bought Digg, the social news website and also owns bit.ly, and Chartbeat.

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LinkedIn Contacts Aims To Provide a Smarter Way To Manage Your Most Important Relationships

LinkedIn Contacts Aims To Provide a Smarter Way To Manage Your Most Important Relationships

LinkedIn has just released a new product called LinkedIn Contacts, which it says is “a smarter way to stay in touch with your most important relationships.”

It’s an interesting take on how to manage your Contacts. It syncs with all your address books, emails and calendars, so that you can easily access details of your last conversations and meetings via the contact’s profile.

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FedEx Mobile Update Lets You Schedule The Delivery, Sign For Packages And Lots More

FedEx Mobile Update Lets You Schedule The Delivery, Sign For Packages And Lots More

FedEx has just released an update for its iOS app, which brings some interesting new features and improvements such as the ability to schedule the delivery, deliver to another address, sign for a package etc. right from your iPhone and iPad.

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Twitterrific 5.2.1 Update Brings Notification Badges, Favstar Support And Lots More

Twitterrific 5.2.1 Update Brings Notification Badges, Favstar Support And Lots More

The Iconfactory continues to roll out new features, improvements and fixes for Twitterrific, one of the popular Twitter clients in the App Store.

Twitterrific 5.2.1 brings notifications badges, Favstar support, Twitter trends and lots more.

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AppShopper Returns to the App Store in the Form of a New App

AppShopper Returns to the App Store in the Form of a New App

Last last year, Apple removed app tracking service AppShopper’s iOS app from the App Store over violation of section 2.25 of the review guidelines that forbid App Store clones. The service has now come back to the App Store in the form of an all new app named “AppShopper Social” that, as you might have guessed, uses social features as a way to distinguish itself from the App Store.

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Yahoo’s iPhone app Updated with News Summaries Using Summly’s Technology

Yahoo’s iPhone app Updated with News Summaries Using Summly’s Technology

Yahoo has today updated its iPhone app with a bunch of new features, including the ability to generate short summaries of news stories based on natural language processing algorithms. The technology behind the feature came via Yahoo’s recent acquisition of Summly, the iOS app that did pretty much the same thing.

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TweetDeck iPhone app to Stop Working from May 7

TweetDeck iPhone app to Stop Working from May 7

The TweetDeck team has posted an update on its blog informing users that TweetDeck for iPhone, Android and AIR will stop working from May 7th, as a part of its refocusing on webapps. Since these apps weren’t updated since quite sometime, they still rely on v1.0 of Twitter’s API which will soon be shutting down.

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Yahoo Releases a Gorgeous Weather App for iPhone [Video]

Yahoo Releases a Gorgeous Weather App for iPhone [Video]

As expected, Yahoo has released an all-new weather app for the iPhone. It’s gorgeous.

The key part of the app besides the weather of course, are photos from Flickr, which change based on the location, time of the day and the current weather condition.

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