16 Mobile Apps for Surviving Holiday ‘Fun’

The holidays are a smorgasbord of sensory overload. The traveling. The cooking. The shopping. Even the “quality” family time. It’s all packaged into two nightmarish rollercoasters scheduled at the blunt ends of November and December.

Luckily, however, if you’ve got a smartphone or tablet, you can get by with a little help from your app-based friends.

Read More at: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/11/holiday-survival-apps/

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New Mobile app JaxtrSMS to send free SMSes worldwide

Bangalore: Jaxtr, set up by Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia and Yogesh Patel, today announced the launch of JaxtrSMS, an open texting application which allows users to send free SMSes across the world. "JaxtrSMS is completely unique in terms that a mobile user can send a text SMS to any mobile phone in the world without requiring the receiver to have the JaxtrSMS application installed on their phone," the company said in a statement.

This "open" facet of JaxtrSMS distinguishes it from other free mobile messaging applications where messages can only be sent within a closed network to people who also have the same app installed, the company claimed. Jaxtr Inc CEO and Co-Founder Sabeer Bhatia said, "Now, mobile users can leverage our free and open application to send messages to their contacts anywhere across the world without having to pay anything.



"The fact that our application has been downloaded by users across 197 countries in just a few weeks since our soft launch amply reflects our belief that JaxtrSMS will prove to be immensely useful to mobile users across the world," he added. Jaxtr Inc President and Co-Founder Yogesh Patel said that JaxtrSMS was completely developed in India.

Read More: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/a-new-app-jaxtrsms-to-send-free-smses-worldwide/205001-11.html

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Facebook Phone from HTC “Coming Next Year”

Facebook is working with mobile manufacturer HTC on its first official phone.




Face book is reported that “tweaked [Android] heavily to deeply integrate its services, as well as to support HTML5 as a platform for applications, according to sources familiar with the project”.

Facebook Chief Technology Officer Bret Taylor is said to be leading the project, which will build on the previous ‘Facebook phones’ that have launched with a dedicated button for access to the social network.


Read More:- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/8906119/Facebook-phone-coming-next-year-from-HTC.html

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