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If you’re trying to search for apps on the iTunes App Store, it seems that Apple has recently begun testing a search suggestions feature on the app store. As you can see in the screenshot above, the related search feature is place below the search bar itself, so for example if you were to search for “calendar”, which is a pretty generic term, suggestions might include calendar planners, daily planners, and so on.

Another example would be search for a news reader, in which the relevant research suggestions will spit back terms like feed reader and business news, just to name a few. For example some people get their news from apps like Feedly which is a feed reader, while others might prefer more direct sources like a specific app like Bloomberg or CNN. (more…)

Apple Begins Testing Related Search Suggestions In App Store original content from Ubergizmo.

With spring finally in the air, it’s time to grab your phone and go outside. No, not so that you can check your email on a hike, but because there are plenty of other ways that the little computer in you palm can actually make the outdoors more fun. We’ve rounded up some of the best stargazing, hiking, and wildlife apps right here.

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We have all wished for it at some point, that smartphones have the ability to automatically send notifications to our computers while we’re either too busy to too lazy to pick them up. There are a few apps out there that can make this happen, but Pushbullet takes it to a whole new level. Not only does it mirror notifications from an Android phone to the computer, as soon as they pop up on the smartphone, but it also lets users send files, links, lists, text and maps from the computer to the phone, this works the other way around as well.

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Pushbullet Mirrors Notifications From Android Phone To Your Computer original content from Ubergizmo.

For the most part, Apple’s iTunes App Store downloads are more or less valued the same based on the price of $0.99. Of course there will be differences due to the currency conversion, but for the most part they remain somewhat affordable. However it seems that in the UK, there is a chance that UK iTunes App Store users could face a price hike of 20% which is basically the country’s “value added tax”.

Why is this? Well at the moment app stores like those by Apple and Amazon currently exploit a tax loophole which allows digital downloads, like apps, music, and books to be downloaded and bought without having to pay the 20% VAT, which in turn allows them to pay much lower international tax rates. (more…)

UK Government Looking To Apply 20% VAT To Digital Downloads original content from Ubergizmo.

Following similar plans announced by Burger King last week, Wendy’s has announced that it is now accepting mobile payments in restaurants across the U.S. Wendy’s has been testing mobile payment over the past year. The My Wendy’s app, available for both iOS and Android, now lets customers pay for their purchase at most of the 5,800 locations in the country.

The move towards mobile payments shows that fast food chains are increasingly targeting younger customers, often referred to as “millennials.” Its no secret that this particular demographic appreciates the flexibility of being able to do a lot of things through a phone, the chains are simply looking to tap into that.

Burger King recently announced that starting next month its mobile payment program will go live. Rival McDonald’s acknowledges importance of mobile payments and is currently testing it out in select locations around the country. Even Chipotle is conducting its own experiments with this payment method.

In order to pay through the My Wendy’s app, customers won’t need to scan it. Instead they would need to tap the app to generate a six digit number, which they would then give to the cashier. For now, the app doesn’t offer any discounts or even a loyalty program, but it could do so in the future.

Wendy’s Starts Accepting Mobile Payments In The U.S. original content from Ubergizmo.