After Apple Deal HopStop App Disappears From Windows Phone

Only days after Apple announces buying HopStop, the transit navigation app used in metropolitan areas vanishes on Windows Phones. The app is no longer made available to the Windows Phone Marketplace. Owners of the Windows Phones who had  previously been using the app received an abrupt message stating, “HopStop no longer supports the Windows platform.” … Read more

DC Politicians Learn to Instagram

Popular social network, Facebook, is currently looking to hire a “Political Outreach Manager” to teach Washington D.C. officials how to use Instagram. Facebook recently posted a job listing for a position teaching government officials, politicians and other notable political voices in D.C. how to better their skills at using the Facebook owned app, Instagram. The … Read more

Apple Improves Maps

After breaking away from Google, Apple buys HopStop and Locationary to improve mapping tools. Apple Inc. has confirmed their plans in order to advance mobile operating systems on iPhones and iPads. Until last year, Apple had used Google as it’s mapping service. Their breakup had proved to be a disappointment among their users, as maps … Read more

OttoCat App Searching System

OttoCat App Searching System OttoCat is trying to revolutionize the way we find and search for apps. They are building an automatic categorization system that analyzing language and categorizes the entire App store. The system is patented and uses computational linguistics and information retrieval systems to organize the entire App store. This will make the … Read more