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Skyscanner "all flights everywhere" is a new iPhone app that allows users to find the cheapest flights while on the go. Launched three weeks ago, it has already been download by more than 650,000 users, prompting the Skyscanner management to "completely revise download targets" for the project.

Skyscanner is so popular that it has hit the top spot in UK AppStore for Travel Apps and #2 in the AppStore out of all free Apps as well as being #1 in Italy, Russia, Poland, Spain and other European markets. According to Skyscanner Barry Smith, the hard work does not stop here, as they want to maintain this growth by continuing to develop the app and port it to other platforms, namely Android.

He also added: "With over 600k downloads in less than three weeks, the appetite for the Skyscanner all flights everywhere iPhone app has far exceeded our expectations. We will continue to monitor the reviews to get user feedback, but early signs are that we have delivered the functionality that iPhone users want."

 

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As a frequent patron of BART, Muni, and other fine San Franciscan transportation services that often cut through signal-destroying underground tunnels, Read It Later and Instapaper are two of my best friends. I tap a button in my PC browser, pop open the app on my iPhone, and whatever I was reading is saved to my handset for perusal later including when I have got no data connection.


As of today, Android users can get in on the DVR-like fun. While there is still no official Instapaper client for Android, Read It Later has just launched into the Android Market at 99 cents a pop. Just like the iPhone client, it will sync your reading lists, optimize and format the text for the mobile screen, and automatically archive everything you have read.

 

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z rebtel Mobile VoIP company Rebtel hits 10 million users!

Rebtel, which is apparently the world second largest mobile VoIP company after Skype, announced that it has surpassed 10 million users worldwide after a "record breaking twelve months" and increased revenues of more than 120% to $40 million in 2010. Unsurprisingly cause they are starting from a smaller base Rebtel is currently growing five times faster than Skype and plans to continue the trend and almost double its revenue to $75 million by the end of 2011 with a current run-rate of $55 million.

Since its inception in 2006, Rebtel users made 200 million calls, spending over 1 billion minutes along the way. The company provides its mobile app for a number of platforms including the iPhone, Blackberry and Android.

And apparently their users love the service with 98% of them stating they would recommend Rebtel to a friend. Moreover, users do not just say but actually do so, with 65% of new user registrations coming from word of mouth.

 

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SPB Time for Symbian

 

After the iPhone and Windows Mobile, SPB Software is bringing its super-advanced time/alarm app SPB Time to the Symbian platform. Touted as an "advanced skinnable time toolbox" the application comes with several handy features, including a realistic looking 3D model of the Earth in the "World Time" and the countdown screen with the sandglass. Customization is also big with SPB Time with an option to select the clock appearance, hands, digits, alarm icons and background. Stopwatch, calendar and moon phases are also included in the mix.

 

However what I find most interesting is SPB Time alarm options. There are 3 different alarm type classic, bio and paranoid alarms. The first one works like your regular, built-in alarm/clock app. Bio alarm wakes you up on the correct stage of your sleep by starting with the slight ticks and sounds of nature before the actual alarm time. Finally, Paranoid alarm is made for heavy sleepers who consider the regular alarm too weak to wake them up.

 

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Good news Swype users, there is a new update available that tackles many issues with thepopular keyboard, as well as offering up some new features along the way.

 

Two user-requested features have been added in, and now the hidden word tip window has been removed. Well, you will see it once, after you input the first hidden word upon a new installation, but thats it! The other new feature is that contact names will stay deleted instead of automatically being re-added. I am glad to see this fix, as too many time have I just trying typing simple words, only to be bombarded by a ton of contact suggestions.

 

The updatealso  brings support for QVGA, WQVGA, WSVGA, and qHD displays, and also adds in Russian, UK English, and Dutch language support. However, not all screen resolutions support all languages at the moment.

 

Some more details on the update below:

  • Due to incompatibilities with new features added to Android 2.3.3, we have disabled double-tap-to-edit IN ANDROID 2.3.3 ONLY. This ONLY effects Android version 2.3.3
  • We fixed one of our gestures that you have all been asking for but didn’t work quite right: To hide the keyboard you can trace a path from the SWYPE key to the BACKSPACE key.
  • The installer includes a new option when it detects Swype is already installed: Generate License. This option can be used to force Swype to delete and re-create the license file. This should make fixing license issues a lot easier for our users.
  • Some changes to the license have significantly decreased the likelihood that updating your system software will require a new license for Swype. Major changes will still require a new license, but simply updating your existing ROM should no longer disable Swype.


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