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Doothas launched today in the iTunes app store, with location-based app that adds layers of discovery and fun to the physical world around you. Doot has a novel take on the idea of “geofencing,” and harkens back to Dodgeball, Dennis Crowley’s precursor to location app Foursquare. Dodgeball made it (relatively) easy to notify your friends via SMS when you were nearby, and with the Doot app, you’re able to tag a location with a message, or a doot, even when you’re not there....

Today DOS is30 years old. If only someone sent Microsoft free baked goods for milestones. What is fascinating, and perhaps scary, is thatHotmail is 15 years old. That means that from the naming day of DOS to today, half of the time has included Hotmail. It almost feels that innovation has slowed, doesn’t it? Whatever the case, on July 27th, 1981, Microsoft named a product MS-DOS that it had acquired from Seattle Computer Products....

If you’re an Android user that has a large library of iTunes songs then you’re probably familiar with doubleTwist. Dubbed ‘iTunes for Android’ it allows Android users to stream iTunes playlists, videos and photos wirelessly. NowdoubleTwisthas added support for Apple’s open AirPlay API and is offering the ability to stream to Apple TV and other AirPlay devices. The doubleTwist app isfreebut the upgrade to support the AirSync feature is $5. In addition to streaming to the Apple TV it will also allow you to play your music back on other UPnP and DLNA devices like the PS3, Xbox 360 and many media servers....

As we’vepreviouslyreported,DoubleTwistis an elegant solution for synchronizing media, bringing the ease of use of iTunes to non-Apple devices. The company’s recently releasedAirSyncapp brought easy wireless media synchronisation to Android devices. Now a new upgrade to the app brings with it something rather tasty – wireless sharing of media from Android devices to Playstation 3 and XBox 360. Once set up, the AirTwist feature means your Android device will show up as a media drive on your console, letting you view images and video, and listen to audio, from your phone directly on your TV....

Dragon Go!is an iPhone app from Nuance, the makers of the popularDragon series of text-to-speech apps. It supports a bunch of popular services like Bing Maps, Google text and image search, the iTunes Store, Twitter, Wikipedia and YouTube and allows you to search across them using your voice. It was recently updated to version 1.1 and added support for more sources of on-demand media. Now when you search for a movie, song or TV show, the media tab shows you results from the iTunes Store, Netflix and Spotify....