Mobile game developer Gameloft has launched a new app store for its Android titles. It’s called Gameloft Live, and if that sounds a lot like Xbox Live, there’s good reason. Like Xbox Live, the new Gameloft app isn’t just a store for buying and downloading games. It’s also a social hub that lets you send messages or chat with your friends, invite them to play… Read more »

There’s a new beta version of the official Twitter app for BlackBerry, and it adds support for multiple Twitter accounts. Now if you have a personal account and one for work, you can login to both from your BlackBerry smartphone using Twitter 2.1 beta. The app is available as a free download from the BlackBerry Beta Zone. Twitter 2.1 beta supports up to 4 Twitter accounts at… Read more »

It’s been about three months since Google launched the Google+ social network, and today the company is removing the beta label. Anyone can sign up for the service. Google also launched a few major updates today, including some new features that are available in a web browser and a few that are available on mobile devices. The biggest change for mobile users is support for… Read more »

Flipboard, a popular social news-magazine app for iPad, is planning to add books, movies and TV content to its ‘pages.’ The company will also be launching an app for iOS devices with smaller screens son. Currently, Flipboard offers content from various magazines like the Economist and Rolling Stone, while hosting customized news-feeds via Facebook and Twitter. How Flipboard will include books in your personalized feeds… Read more »

Research in Motion has launched a new subscription-based music service called BBM Music. The good news is that at $5 per month it’s one of the cheapest music subscription services available for any mobile device, and there’s a strong social element that allows you to hear the songs your friends are listening to. The bad news is that if you don’t have many friends you… Read more »

Popular online note-taking service Evernote has acquired popular Mac-based image editing and sharing service Skitch. Eventually Evernote plans to offer Skitch to users for free across a variety of platforms. The company is starting with Android. A new Skitch app showed up in the Andorid Market today, allowing you to snap a photo or grab one from your phone and make some quick edits before… Read more »

While Facebook, Google, and others battle it out in the social network space, LinkedIn has largely cornered the market on a specific niche: social networking for professionals. LinkedIn provides a platform for users to connect with business colleagues, former coworkers, and others to form business networks, see what their contacts are up to, look for job opportunities, or write recommendations. This week LinkedIn launched major… Read more »

Socialcam is a mobile app for iOS and Android that makes it easy to share videos with other users. But maybe it’s a little too easy… up until recently Socialcam didn’t provide a way to mark videos shot with your camera or uploaded from your mobile device as private. Now Socialcam 2.4 is available for iPhone and it includes a new private video option. For some reason… Read more »

Facebook is launching a new app for managing your Facebook messages on iOS or Android. It’s called Facebook Messenger, and honestly, it looks virtually identical to the Messages tabs that are already available in Facebook’s existing iOS and Android apps. There are a few differences though. The new Facebook Messenger app lets you include your location or attach photos to a message. It also lets… Read more »

Google has rolled out an updated version of its Google+ social networking app for iOS which adds support for iPod touch and iPad models. Up until now you could only use the app on an iPhone, although the mobile web app for Google+ works pretty well. But the company’s native apps for iOS and Android offer a few features that you can’t get from the… Read more »