Google mobile search now includes iPhone apps

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Published June 3, 2010 at 3:00 p.m.
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Google announced a new feature this week that lists apps in mobile search results. When searching for an app by name from your iPhone (it works with Android too, naturally), the top result is a link to the app's home in the App Store. In addition to the link, you get information like rating, publisher and price ... That's the idea, at least. I got limited results in my own testing. "Shazam Download" produced the expected result, but searching for Twitterrific didn't. I tried adding "download,"

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Windows Phone 7 Apps: Everything You Need To Know

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Published March 15, 2010 at 6:27 p.m.
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Windows Phone 7 Series: It's a thing! And it looks pretty great, so far. Last month's announcement, though, left a lot of questions. Questions which will be answered here, in Gizmodo's live coverage of Microsoft MIX 2010 keynote ... Constantly updating ... How exactly will multitasking work? What about those incredible cross platform game demos? Whither WinMo 6.x, and its devs? (And what's with this "Classic" and "Starter Edition" business?) What happens to the Zune? Will we see more hardware?

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Review: Shazam Encore for iPhone

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Published March 12, 2010 at 8:45 a.m.
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This paid version of the music-identification app delivers a number of features -- chiefly unlimited tagging of songs. It's a solid app, but unless you find yourself using it a lot or find the other features particularly appealing, the free version of Shazam will probably meet your needs ...

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Ford to offer iTunes tagging in their cars

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Published Jan. 2, 2010 at 1:30 p.m.
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Just as 2009 was ending, Ford announced that they'll be offering a new option in their cars for 2010: the ability to "tag" any songs you happen to hear on the radio for later purchase in iTunes. It'll be an option, so it won't come standard in the new Taurus you buy, but if you opt for the HD Radio, the stereo will have a "tag" button that will capture the information of whatever you're hearing, sync it to your connected iPod and then bring it up for purchase in iTunes the next time you're at

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Shazam rolls out paid Encore app, changes free app

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Published Nov. 9, 2009 at 3:00 p.m.
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Shazam, creators of the popular song-identifying app for iPhone, has released a $5 version with more features and introduced limitations for new users of the free app ...

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Shazam picking up investors, boasts 50 million users

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Published Oct. 20, 2009 at 10:30 a.m.
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Shazam is one of the first apps I actually used in context on the iPhone, and while we haven't heard much about the app since it debuted way back in the early days of the App Store, apparently the company itself has been blowing up, thanks to the free app. They've picked up a nice round of investment from venture capitalists, and the service itself now boasts over 50 million users (by comparison, Last.fm claims only 30 million, but they've gotten way more press than Shazam's service, including

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Is Motorola's Android Phone for Kids?

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Published Sept. 10, 2009 at 5:00 p.m.
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Today Motorola released its first Android device: the Cliq for T-Mobile. And while most Android comparisons run right to the iPhone, this thing looks more poised to steal teen approval from the Sidekick ... Inside, it sports the same guts as the G1, myTouch 3G, and the Hero: a 528MHz chip and a healthy 256MB of RAM. But the software suite, which Motorola has haplessly named MOTOBLUR, is all about time-wastery and social butterflying. The home screen is set up as a feed for Facebook, MySpace, and

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Gizmodo's Essential iPhone Apps: Fall 2009 [IPhone Apps]

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Published Sept. 4, 2009 at 9:30 a.m.
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More than a year after launch, there are 74,031 apps in the iPhone App store. Most of them are crap. Some of them aren't. Here are the 50 iPhone apps you actually need, all in one place ... Well, OK, if you count the overlapping apps—paid and free Twitter clients, neck-and-neck navigation apps, the jailbreakers—it's more like 56, but that's not the point, people : The point is, since the last time we corralled all the best of the best (barring our weekly roundups, of course), the iPhone

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Oh, by the way: July 13, 2009

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Published July 13, 2009 at 11:54 p.m.
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Here's some of the other stuff that happened in the wide world of mobile for Monday, July 13th, 2009: ... Samsung has released a new firmware for its i8910HD that enabled AAC audio while recording HD video. The problem? Right now, only Italian firmwares seem to be eligible for the update, which comes through Samsung's PC Studio app. [Via Softpedia] ... Excellent music identification app Shazam is now available on the BlackBerry Storm. And let's be honest, Storm owners need all the entertainment

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The Week In iPhone Apps: It's Never Too Early To Dance [IPhone Apps]

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Published June 26, 2009 at 6:20 p.m.
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iPhone 3.0 apps are still dropping fast and furious, left and right, cats and dogs, etc , but there's some reprieve for non-3.0 stragglers this week, too. Morning music? Personal broadcasting? Smug food habits? It's all here ... Locavore 2.0: An hefty update to an already decent app, Locavore 2.0 mixes social networking with its local, seasonal food-finding abilities. Since everything's got some kind of "social networking" feature nowadays, here's what that means: Facebook Connect provides

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