March 12th, 2013

Cobook 2.0 Arrives, Bringing An Auto-Updating, Universal Address Book To iPhone

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Cobook, a Mac contact management app that made its way over to the iPhone back in December, is today launching version 2.0 of its service which introduces a new feature called “Livecards.” This feature does what everyone wants address books to do these days – automatically update their contacts with the most current information. → Read More

December 7th, 2012

Cardign Launches A New Way To Network With The iPhone Via Image Recognition

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Cardign (pronounced like the sweater) is a new app for iPhone launching today from a Toronto-based startup. The app has a neat little trick, since it uses facial recognition via pictures snapped with the iPhone’s camera to retrieve a user’s contact details. Cardign founder Jean-Luc David believes that it’s a far easier way for people to connect at in-person networking events and other social… → Read More

December 6th, 2012

Cobook Brings Its Unified Address Book To iPhone

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Cobook, which has long offered a contact management app alternative to Mac OS X’s default address book, is today finally available on mobile with the debut of its iOS application. Like its desktop counterpart, the new app creates a unified address book by syncing your iPhone contacts with data from social networks including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. → Read More

August 30th, 2012

Cobook, A Better Address Book For Mac, Now Syncs With Google Contacts

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Cobook, a Mac contact management app which offers an improved experience over the default OS X address book (at least, that’s a popular opinion), has released an update today which introduces a notable new feature: the ability to sync with Google Contacts. That’s a great selling point for this free software application, which previously pulled in contacts from the Mac’s native address book, as… → Read More

August 17th, 2012

Deets For iOS Keeps Contacts Up To Date Automatically, Lets You Share Files, Photos & More

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Deets is a newly launched mobile app that lets you organize your contacts and keep everyone’s information up-to-date automatically, but that description alone sells it a bit short. This new iOS app is a little bit of everything – it’s a communication hub, a contact synchronization utility and even social networking service. The idea is somewhat similar to the concept of Google+ Circles in the… → Read More

July 13th, 2012

Brewster’s Address Book App Briefly Exposes Ashton Kutcher’s & Others’ Private Data; Company Says It’s Fixed

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Brewster, the hot, new personalized address book app for iPhone, launched to much fanfare this week. But it also launched with a concerning bug. Some users reported they had the ability to see the personal contact information for people they shouldn’t have had access to, including the likes of one Mr. Ashton Kutcher, for example.

His wasn’t the only private contact information exposed, from… → Read More

February 17th, 2012

Cobook, A Slick Address Book App That Doesn’t Upload Your Data

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The mundane Address Book was big news this week due to the privacy fiasco, but here’s a post about an impressive address book app with a different approach to privacy. Cobook is a Mac contact management app that’s simple, powerful and actually fun to use. The software, made by a boot-strapped startup, is now in a free beta test, with 60,000 downloads since it launched at the end of January. … → Read More

February 13th, 2012

Mobile Address Book—Much Heat, Little Light

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The controversy that began last week with mobile startup Path being exposed for downloading users address books from their mobile device exploded over the weekend.

Nick Bilton at the New York Times opined on the matter and declared Path to have been let off way too lightly due to the Silicon Valley echo chamber and its lack of concern for privacy. Path investors, and my good friends, Mike… → Read More