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Free Apps Roundup for July 8th, 2011
This week on the Free Apps Roundup: Get ready for carnage; Bungie’s classic FPS, Marathon, has made its way to the App Store sans charge. But that’s far from all. TWC has updated their iPad TV app, MS updated Bing, and I found a bunch of other great apps, not to mention a bunch of limited time freebies you aren’t going to want to miss.
Free apps roundup for March 26th, 2010
Another great week for the App Store. There are enough apps and games this week to keep you busy while waiting for the iPad next week. Soon, I’ll be able to include iPad apps as well, which is very exciting indeed. Until then, we’ve got an online multiplayer pictionary-style game, Digg, two search apps, some Crazy Traffic, and an app I would’ve loved in high school.
Macworld 2010: Guy Kawasaki’s Revolution from the Rest of Us
On Friday morning of MacWorld 2010, Guy Kawasaki showcased five iPhone/Mac developers and gave each one a chance to show off the innovative things they are doing. Guy is a former “Evangelist” for Apple and is currently the co-founder of Alltop. Let’s take a brief glimpse at the apps and developers that were showcased: Square, Hearplanet, Boinx TV, Bing and Bill Atkinson PhotoCard.
Microsoft’s Bing to be iPhone OS 4.0 default search engine?
According to sources of BusinessWeek, Microsoft and Apple have been in talks to change the default search engine for Safari.app on the iPhone OS 4.0 to Bing. Not only would this give Bing the opportunity to gain a huge amount of the mobile search market, it is also another road bump in the increasingly rough relationship between Google and Apple. Giving Bing the primary spot on their smartphones would put Bing in a place to easily take over Google when it comes to mobile search, as not many people take the time to change the default engine.
Don’t Bing me!
Steve Ballmer, I have a problem with something you said yesterday. During CES, you made a great dig at Google, saying that Microsoft’s intent with Bing is “… not just trying to provide people with a list of links; we want to understand user intent and anticipate what users are really looking for.” That sounds good, until you really think about it. Microsoft, as a company, is famously bad at anticipating what users want.
