What's On app transforms your mobile devices screen into a digital TV guide.

When away from the TV and wanting to know what's on ahead of time, there is a way to do just that if you own an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad thanks to an app called What's On.
The app will let you browse listings from local television, cable or satellite channels.
What's On also lets you mark certain programs as favorites which comes handy for knowing when they are on. Another interesting feature of What's On is the ability to see movies showings at local theatres. According to AppScout.com, you can use What's On to browse TV listings by time or channel, even use a feature called push notifications so to receive an alert notifying you when your favorite show is about to start.
What's On used to have two versions: one paid one that was free of ads and a free ads supported one. But a new version called 2.0 was just released and the paid version was dropped paving the way for just one version with more features like movies trailers clips.

For more, see AppScout.com

Microsoft Hotmail Wave 4 to start being rolled out today.

In a post in its Windows Live blog, Microsoft announced today that it has started rolling out Hotmail Wave 4 to its users worldwide. The upgraded service includes a new feature called Sweep whose purpose is to clean-up inboxes, offers an integration with Microsoft's new Office Online Apps among others. Another noticeable feature is a windows showing conversations just like on Gmail.
With the new Hotmail, emphasis was put on integrating users's social network activity with content from such sites as Flickr, Hulu or Pandora. According to AppScout, the new Hotmail offers Instant Messaging and text message via the Web.
The new Hotmail will be rolled out in phases starting today with Microsoft goal to have all accounts upgraded by summer end, still according to AppScout.


For more see AppScout.com

For people who may be addicted to Twitter, a new Web service called Kabutr offers a way to stay current on what's going on on their account without even logging in.
To use the new service, individuals would have to logging to their Twitter account and grant the Kabutr, access to their account. From there, Kabutr.com will watch your Twitter stream and send any new tweet to your e-mail address in the form of messages.
And if you can't resist the urge to post your own tweet, Kabutr.com will let you do it via e-mail as well. To avoid being overloaded by messages, the service urges users to create and use filters
and basic rules so to keep all your Kabutr messages in one place where they could be accessed.


For more, see AppScout.com

iPhone 4 new antenna is designed to improve calls quality.

The new iPhone 4 slated to go on sale June 24, is much improved in one area: signal strength and reliability. The big improvement is the consequence of a design change with the phone antenna wrapped around the frame instead of being buried under the shell.
With the new design, iPhone owners should experiment less dropped calls at a better quality according to the Wall Street Journal.

For more, see WSJ.com

Swype text-input application now available for download for all Android phones.

Most Android phones owners who were lucky enough to own a model with Swype, the text-input application pre-installed, have fallen in love with the application. That have created some sort of Swype-envy among the do-not have. Now, that is about to change with the company opening up the possibility for any Android phone owner to experience the thrill of swyping as the practice of forming words on a phone screen by tracing the letters, is called.
Starting today, any Android phone owner can download the application from the company Website (it is not available in the Android Marketplace) but only for a limited time and with a limited features said crunchmobile.com.
For the first time, Swype will provide support in Spanish and Italian. And for people wondering what Swype is, there is a video tutorial on Youtube.com


For more, see mobilecrunch.com

Ning adds new e-commerce and gaming revenue channels for its members.

A couple of months after phasing out the free part of its platform, Ning has just announced some new tools for its network of members in an effort to give them more opportunities to monetize their sites. The new ventures are in partnership with do-it yourself brand promotion CafePress and social gaming startup Heyzap. With the new initiative, network creators can now integrate Customs CafePreess shops directly into their networks and sell their branded products to their members or to the general public. The same is true with Heyzap with the possibility for network creators to add Hayzap pay-to -play games onto their networks. Ning will get a cut for each transaction with either platform. Another platform, Chipin, was also added, allowing network creators to raise funds and collect donations from their members for their chosen causes without Ning getting any cut. Ning executives are saying that these new revenue avenues are just the beginning of what they promise to be a string of numerous revenue channels, techcrunch reports.

For more, see techcrunch.com

Starbucks to offer free Wi-Fi at all its locations.

Starting July 1, Starbucks will offer free Wi-Fi internet access to all its customers at all its locations in the U.S. The move is in response to a similar one by McDonald who earlier this year offered free wireless Internet service to its customers in its effort to still business from the coffee chain. The Starbucks new free Wi-Fi offer will take over from a patchwork of confusing plans.
On top of the general Internet acces which will be be offered trough the same provider, AT&T, Starbucks will offer free access to some otherwise paid content like the paid portion of the Wall Street Journal or Zagat, the restaurant review site. Starbucks also plans to use the service as a virtual network where content from select business based on their proximity to the Starbucks locations, will be available.

For more, see WSJ.com