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  • World of Warcraft Auction House heads to iPhone; Blizzcon tickets on sale next month

    World of Warcraft Auction House heads to iPhone; Blizzcon tickets on sale next month

    Posted on May 19, 2010 | No Comments
    You can now monitor your World of Warcraft auctions using your iPhone (or iPod touch). A new version of Blizzard's Armory App now gives users the ability to tap into the game's Auction House, wherein gamers can keep tabs on their sales of copper stacks and see how much Spellweave is going for.

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  • Location-based mobile social network Centrl integrates web version into its mobile apps

    Location-based mobile social network Centrl integrates web version into its mobile apps

    Posted on September 13, 2009 | No Comments
    "Location" has been one of the most frequently used buzzwords in the web industry recently, with i.e. Twitter, Facebook and Google having substantially stepped up efforts in that area in the last few months. TechCrunch has always been particularly bullish about location-based mobile social networks, with Loopt, Brightkite or, most recently, Foursquare among the big names. But there are more location-based social networks out there, and one of them, Centrl, is now intending to further bridge the gap between mobile phone users and the web at large (a move we called for last year). The service, which has been available on the iPhone [iTunes link], Android, BlackBerry [JAD file] and Nokia since May 2008, extended its offering with a web app a few days ago.

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  • Facebook 3.0 For iPhone Now Available On The App Store

    Facebook 3.0 For iPhone Now Available On The App Store

    Posted on August 27, 2009 | No Comments
    Nearly two weeks after submitting the app to Apple, Facebook's totally revamped 3.0 application is finally live on the App Store, according to the app's developer Joe Hewitt. You can download it now here. The store currently shows that the app is version 2.5, but if you click the Download button anyway you'll get the new version. The new application brings a slew of new features, making it what may be the most useful app on the App Store (be sure to read this post) for our full review. Among the additions are Events, which have frustratingly been omitted from previous versions. Now you'll be able to look up where your Events are, and you can also respond to them and see which of your friends are attending (for anyone who has ever had to boot up the web version of the site just to look up an Event address, this is a big deal. You can also post video directly to the site if you have an iPhone 3GS — a feature that will likely see the number of videos on Facebook increase dramatically.

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