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State Farm Insurance said today it will release an Android widget on Monday, August 23, aimed at reducing the problem of distracted driving. The “On the Move” widget allows Android users to write and preload customized messages that can be sent as automated responses to incoming text messages. The service if free to anyone with [...]

Google has launched a new Android app for version 2.2 (FroYo), called Voice Actions. The app lets you speak various commands to engage various functionalities of the phone. With Voice Action, you can initiate the sending of text messages, listening to songs, calls to businesses or contacts, emails, web surfing, and more. "Our mobile phones [...]

Wolfram Alpha told WebProNews today it has released beta versions of Wolfram Alpha Widgets and Widget Builder to allow users to create and share widgets on their blog or website. "Widgets are the next step in our goal of making Wolfram Alpha ubiquitous–available to everyone, everywhere," said Barak Berkowitz, Managing Director, Wolfram Alpha.     [...]

Real-time comment and reaction platform Echo has just released a new feature for its Echo Pro customers: A real-time recent comments widget.The widget, which can be integrated into practically any website with a few lines of… Read more

Google’s Blogger has released new share buttons for users, which can be placed under posts to encourage the sharing of content. The buttons let users share via email and popular social networks. "Blogger also has a Share link in the navbar, but for improved convenience you can now have share buttons below the post (we [...]

The Associated Press has released its 2010 edition of its Stylebook with a new section focused on social media for the first time and has announced that "website" is now one word. The new social media guidelines section includes information and policies on using Facebook and Twitter, how journalists can apply them to their work [...]

Restaurant recommendation site Urbanspoon is preparing to roll out a new iPad app and subscription service called RezBook, which will allow restaurants to book and manage reservations.Similar to OpenTable and its backend management software, RezBook is designed to replace the paper booking system that many restaurants use with a system that is not only mobile, [...]

Social sharing widget-maker AddThis is enabling users to integrate the Facebook “Like” button by adding a single line of code to the AddThis Toolbox.AddThis is now used on 1.2 million websites. It’s a familiar catch-all sharing button that lets blog and website publishers implement sharing across a huge and ever-expanding network of social platforms and [...]

Hello there, music fans! As always, we appreciate your tuning in to this week’s edition of Free Music Monday, wherein we offer you 10 free tracks in honor of the #musicmonday tradition on Twitter.Please enjoy this week’s eclectic selection of free tunes we’ve collected for you. If there’s a genre you’d like to hear more [...]

Ah, cellphones and dodgeball, they go together like… well… they don’t really go together at all, but that’s not stopping Samsung Mobile from organizing what will purportedly be the world’s largest dodgeball game on May 12.The practice of launching a stunt to herald the advent of a new product is nothing new — remember when [...]