Apps for Good partners with Facebook to teach young adults how to build social applications

Earlier this month, the London based programApps for Goodsplashed the pages of The Next Web in our story,Apps for Good turns teens into mobile app developers for a better future. We interviewed the program’s CEO Iris Lapinski, a driven, brilliant entrepreneur who is literally changing the world throughCDI Europe‘s open sourced education program that teaches underprivileged young adults how to build and market mobile applications. Today, Apps for Good is announcing its partnership with Facebook that will offer unemployed 16-25 year olds from across London the chance to learn how to design, code and build social applications that have a positive social impact on their life and others around them....

4 min · 712 words · Thomas Edwards

Apps For Good turns teens into mobile app developers for a better future

“Being German, working for a Brazilian company and trying to convince people to change the world in London isn’t the easiest task,” says Iris Lapinski, the CEO of London’sApps for Goodprogram, with a laugh. But changing the world is exactly what she’s doing. The program she dreamed up teaches young people learn to create apps that transform their world, inspiring a new generation of eager tech minds. Lapinski is a German born entrepreneur who found her way toCDI Europeafter working as a commercial digital media and telecoms consultant for Ovum Farncombe Technology....

8 min · 1513 words · Matthew Watkins

Apps in your email? PowerInbox reinvents what email can be.

I spend the vast majority of my day dealing with email. While that’s both a blessing and a curse, what I’ve found is that things that can add context and ability to my email are really important to me. Rapportive, for instance, is one of those apps that I can’t live without. But what about the rest of the Internet? Your email inbox should be able to do much more than just allow you to read messages....

3 min · 458 words · Amber Morse

Apps with AirPlay, new gestures and hotspot support coming to iOS devices in 4.3

Apple has just released the latest beta version of its iOS software to developers. From what we’re readingover at Macstories, there are some interesting changes in store for iPhone and iPad owners. Oh, it’s worth mentioning though that this beta doesn’t seem to have support for the iPhone 3G or for the first two generations of the iPod Touch devices. So what’s coming? From what we’re seeing so far, the first major feature is that iOS apps should soon be able to use AirPlay to broadcast to the big screen viaApple TV....

2 min · 352 words · Elizabeth Carlson

AppsFire releases AppDeals, monitors App Store price drops as they happen

Appsfire, the company behind the powerful app recommendation service of the same name has today released a new iPhone application calledAppDealswhich notifies users of app price drops and the price change of paid to free apps as soon as they happen. It’s not a new idea, many apps cover the dropping in price of the App Store’s applications; AppsDeals borrows on the success of the AppsFire platform, highlighting a huge number of apps on one screen that is easy to browse and access, delivering apps that became free by category, highlighting the apps that have dropped in price in those categories also....

2 min · 299 words · Mark Clark
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