Call Jenny or anyone else in the U.S. or Canada, absolutely free, with MagicJack for iOS.

Move over, Skype. Watch your back, Line2. Good news, iPad and iPod Touch users. The new MagicJack app lets you make unlimited free calls to the U.S. and Canada, no strings attached, no credit card required. 

That means if you're a heavy gabber, you could theoretically drop to the cheapest available iPhone voice plan--and keep on gabbing. Of course, it also gives iPad and fourth-generation iPod Touch users an option for totally free phone service.

The first time you run the app, you get three choices. If you already have one of the famed MagicJack voice-over-IP gizmos, you can sign into your account, use your existing number, and access all of your associated contacts. That effectively gives you a second phone line for your iPhone--complete with its own voice mailbox.

If you're not already a MagicJack customer, you can quickly sign up f... [Read more]

While some solid changes to JavaScript rendering and other under-the-hood code have landed in the latest Firefox developer's build, the bulk of what's new focuses on the second version of the recently-introduced Android version of Aurora. Aurora 9 for Android includes some big interface changes designed to improve its usability on tablets, support for native camera apps, faster start-up times, and broader language support.

Firefox 9 Aurora for Android debuts a new way to interact with tabs, and ports the browser's signature bigger Back button to the mobile operating system.

Firefox 9 Aurora can be downloaded for Windows, Mac and Linux, and Android.

Firefox 9 Aurora for Android debuts some sweeping interface improvements. The Back button is now attached to the location bar, so it looks similar to the desktop Firefox. The location bar has been stretched so that the Refresh and Bookmark buttons are farther to the rig... [Read more]

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Unless you've been living under a rock (or maybe just don't read tech news) you probably already know that next Tuesday, October 4, is when Apple makes its next major announcement. While the company is tight-lipped as usual, we know that it will probably announce at least one new iPhone and when it plans to launch iOS 5, the operating system that powers the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.

One of the big known features of the new iOS is Twitter integration. Apple generally does a great job of creating intuitive interfaces for just about everything and what we've learned of Twitter on the iPhone sounds great, as you'll be able to tweet directly from Safari, Photos, YouTube, and Camera. But if you're a serious Twitter user, you're still going to need a third-party app to get all that Twitter has to offer.

This week's collection of iOS apps is made up of Twitter clients. The first mimics a popular desktop Twitter client and creatively uses column views. The second is straight from Twitter itself and offers even more than the Twitter Web site. The last may have the most features of all, along with a well-designed interface.

The smooth and sleek dark-gray interface makes browsing through tweets easy on the eyes.

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The beta version of Firefox 8 lets people try out built-in Twitter search.

As part of its rolling wave of updates, Mozilla today released a new beta version of Firefox that gives some new options for searching, controlling tabs, and managing add-ons.

The Firefox 8 beta (download for Windows | Mac | Linux | Android) is the newest to be released with Mozilla's six-week development cycle, in which the organization's programmers update the browser with fewer but more frequent changes. That's caused indigestion for some slower-moving Firefox users, but Mozilla believes it's necessary to remain competitive and to bring new features to users in weeks, not months. Mozilla also has proposed a slower-moving Firefox.

According to a blog post and ... [Read more]