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We must confess this has come as a shock: The Catholic Church has embraced Apple Inc.’s iPhone and approved an app to guide troubled worshippers through confession.

RIM has just announced that at long last it has released a new and hopefully improved version of its App World 2.1, which should be rolling out throughout the day

There are a number of different options for keeping us safe while driving with cell phones. We recently took a look at ZoomSafer and also how to use Tasker for safe driving without any phone related distraction

Mountain View based VoIP firm Jajah has quietly rolled out JAJAH Mobile for iPhone, an app which allows users to make international calls for either free or very little, without having to connect the call via online via Jajah’s website first.

One could argue that many apps contribute to user laziness, offering shortcuts to information, entertainment and more, but Adidas’ new app for BlackBerry and iPhone aims to change all that, as it hits the ground running on Tuesday.

Many writers have dreamed of penning the perfect screenplay, one which will catapult them into fame and out of the misery of obscurity. Rarely, however, does one complete such a screenplay. What holds these writers back? Some say lack of drive or family support, but RCR wondered whether the real reason was the lack of a good iPhone app.

In a Q&A session with Research in Motion’s director of consumer alliances Alex McCallum, RCR finds out why it’s really Blackberry that makes mobile music tick. Or should we say Tick Tock?

Never mind face-time, Skype has done an about-face when it comes to its plans to charge for VoIP based calls over 3G, deciding to let the unwashed masses have their fill for free.

Never mind face-time, Skype has done an about-face when it comes to its plans to charge for VoIP based calls over 3G, deciding to let the unwashed masses have their fill for free.

If you’re a social geek like me, then Flipboard is the iPad app you’ve been waiting for, aggregating Facebook, Twitter and other feeds into a very appealing magazine-like style.

While the oil disaster in the gulf of Mexico is certainly no game, app developers are finding innovative ways to raise awareness of the issue, and even raise money for the environment at the same time

Foursquare, the smartphone app which lets one “check in” at various real-life locations, proceeding to use that information to spam ones mates via every social network under the sun, is close to locating a bit of funding of its own, it has been reported.

It seems that after a decade of traveling, itinerary management app maker WorldMate may finally be arriving at a rather lucrative destination in the shape of a buyout by either Travelport or American Express.

We bring you some more tasty tidbits from the show floor out here in Singapore

Speaking at the MEF forum at CommunicAsia Singapore on Tuesday, Amrish Kacker a partner and head of the Asia Pacific office of Analysys Mason predicted apps and app stores still had a world of growth in front of them, especially if apps began coming to mid and low range phones in future.

Tawkon, an innovative Israeli firm which has come up with an app of the same name to monitor and analyze cell radiation so users can “talk on” as usual and receive smart prompts to avoid radiation just when they need to.

According to an anonymous tip to the Google Operating System blog, the search engine giant is testing its own Google Voice VoIP service through Gmail. Indeed, we’ve noticed the new icons pop up on our Gchat boxes today.

They may be members of your family; they may be your tennis partners; they may be your closest friends; heck, you might be one of them yourself. They’re the chronically late, the relentlessly tardy and they’re everywhere.

At long last Apple has woken up to the fact there is a whole world outside the great US of A, and has started rolling out its iPad store internationally, albeit in rather piecemeal, half-baked fashion.