Nokia still hasn’t given up on Maps, and today it’s upgraded the HTML5 version for iOS and Android users. Now you can download local maps through the HTML5 app, and check public transportation as well. With the recent upgrades to Nokia Maps on mobile devices you can now download maps over Wi-Fi. The maps you more »

Pandora is facing mounting competition from rival music services such as MOG and Rdio. Both of the aforementioned services either already has or will have a free subscription option to go along with its paid offerings. One of Pandora’s biggest problems are services that allow users to listen to specific songs and albums on-demand. We’ll see how that further affects Pandora in due time. For now, Pandora has refreshed itself by launching a new HTML5-based web site.

If you are using an iPad and have an aversion to the regular Twitter app, but still want to use something official as opposed to a third party app — you may notice something different when loading up the Twitter website. According to the details we have so far, Twitter is in the process of more »

We have seen some of the bigger players fall in line with the new iOS App Store rules set forth by Apple. For example, the Kindle app for iOS was recently updated and had the links to the Kindle Store removed. And sadly that sort of means a less than ideal user experience for the more »

Nokia has an alternative mapping solution for iOS and Android device owners. It has brought Nokia Maps to both platforms in the form of a HTML5 web page. So while there is no Nokia Maps native application for non-Nokia devices, you can at least get an idea of what Nokia brings to the navigation table.

Earlier today, we told you about a new Facebook photo application that combines some of the best features of top photo apps currently available. While that application is one that will most likely end up in the Apple App Store to some degree, Facebook’s other plans involve cutting out the App Store altogether. TechCrunch has once again been tipped off on what Facebook is calling Project Spartan. Project Spartan is an initiative that could draw users away from the App Store and onto Facebook’s social platform.

Twitter has officially updated their mobile web app, which is now powered by HTML5. The new version is starting to come available today and was “built from the ground up for smartphones and tablets.” All in all, the new mobile version of Twitter will look rather familiar to those who have been using the dedicated more »

Internet Explorer 9 still has that new browser smell, but Microsoft is already looking ahead to its replacement. Microsoft revealed Internet Explorer 10 at the MIX11 conference today. Don’t leap out of your seat in outrage because it’ll take some time before IE 10 is released as a full product. However, you can download the Internet Explorer 10 Preview at this very moment.

The latest beta for the Google Chrome web browser may not have a chromed out icon anymore, but it has made up for that with its speech to text feature. This feature changes what you speak into text on-screen. This feature hasn’t been fully implemented yet, but it opens the door for many useful applications in the future. One such application is voice-controlled YouTube demo.