Vegas Mate, the recently released city guide app by the Vegas Media Group, provides very useful information for anyone going to Sin City. Vegas Mate provides lists of hotels, restaurants, shows and activities are the main focus of the app. Each list offers information such as address, average cost, editor rating, a map, and reviews. (…)

When it rains, it pours. Since reviewing Talking Phrasebooks we’ve been inundated with requests to review other translation apps. We gave BdTranslator passing marks in our review earlier today. Next up is Linguo from Edovia Inc..
Linguo is the best translation app around. (…)

AppCraver reviewed translation app Talking Phrasebooks recently, so when Alan Cook from Bad Dog Apps sent us a free test version of BdTranslator, another translation app, I thought we’d take a look at it and compare it to Talking Phrasebooks. (…)

The Talking Phrasebooks apps from UK application developer Coolgorilla offer basic phrases and dictionaries in six languages (Spanish, French, German, Italian, Greek and Portuguese) with over 350.000 downloads so far and Spanish being the most popular language. (…)

Urban Spoon is a small Seattle startup (three employees as of last year: see this coverage), focused on the restaurant review space. Unlike Yelp, which relies on social/user reviews, Urban Spoon took the approach of incorporating existing review data from trusted sources like CitiSearch. This approach makes sense to me. (…)

The new “App” from Hotels.com is not really an app at all, but just an iPhone optimized website with an iPhone app wrapper.  You would think that Interactive Corp, the large Barry Diller controled parent of Hotels.com would allocate sufficient resources to produce a decent iPhone version of their (excellent) Hotels.com service. (…)

Truphone at first sounds too good to be true — VOIP on your iPhone. So, is it like SkypeOut, which is very close to free? Well, not exactly. When you download the app, you are given a free $4 to apply towards any calls, international or domestic. Since truPhone does not ask for your credit card, you might assume that it is a free service. (…)