Cortado announces that Cortado Workplace is now carried by Samsung in the "Samsung Apps" store. Now Samsung users can enjoy the versatile functions of the Cortado Workplace app, including file management, file sharing and free cloud printing. According to current data of the market research firm IDC, Samsung led the worldwide smartphone market ahead of Apple in 2012 with a market share of 30.3 percent. Using the Samsung Apps Store, preinstalled on all Samsung devices, users can download selected apps to their smartphone. After extensive testing and subsequent activation by Samsung, the free cloud desktop app, Cortado Workplace, is now available too.

New Spark Lightning Strike Feature Makes WeatherBug the First and Only Android App to Show How Far Lightning is to Your and Your Loved Ones’ Location. People have long relied on their eyes to detect lightning strikes and their ears to hear when thunder roars. But if you can see lightning or hear thunder, you may already be in danger. As the severe weather season kicks into high gear for much of the US, WeatherBug weather app is helping Android smartphone users stay safer from dangerous lightning strikes with a new feature called Spark.

Kicksend, a Combinator-backed company that helps people print and share photos with their loved ones, announced a new “Home Delivery” feature for its Kicksend app for Android, iPhone and web. With Home Delivery, Kicksend users can easily and conveniently gift photo prints right to family and friends’ doorsteps directly from their smartphone. “Sending photo prints of cherished memories to people you care about has never been easier,” said Pradeep Elankumaran, Co-founder and CEO of Kicksend. “Home Delivery is sure to be an instant favorite of Kicksend users, and we can’t wait for gifted prints to start showing up at loved ones’ doorsteps.”

Nuance Communications announced that its intuitive voice capabilities power the HTC Car app on the new HTC One smartphone. Now, people can take command of their HTC One while minimizing distraction behind the wheel in more than 20 languages. The HTC Car app integrates Nuance’s powerful voice recognition capabilities to give people quick and direct access to people, local business information, navigation, music on the device, streaming content from TuneIn, and more. Further, hands-free command and control is available, including hands-free text messaging that lets people hear incoming text messages read aloud, and respond without having to manually or visually engage the device.

AVG Technologies, the provider of Internet and mobile security, privacy and optimization to 146 million active users, has announced that its AVG TuneUp for Android is now available for free for Android smartphones and tablets. Built to help users get improved performance from their Android smartphones and tablets, AVG TuneUp for Android combines several tools to increase device performance, including a task killer, battery saver and storage space manager, and also allows users to monitor their data usage. The AVG TuneUp for Android smartphones app enables users to fine-tune their device’s performance to keep it running as smoothly as possible.

The Establishment Number Finder App is the first Apple iPhone app dedicated to searching a US Department of Agriculture product establishment number. The new iPhone app offers instant access to a product’s manufacturer and provides further information about that company. The iPhone app offers its address, telephone number and web address. All containers of meat, poultry and egg products must be labeled with a USDA mark of inspection and establishment number, which is assigned to the plant, where the product was produced. Users simply type a product’s establishment number into the app and discover the producer or manufacturer of the product.

Fidelity Investments announced that Windows Phone users now have free access to the Fidelity Windows Phone 8 brokerage app through the online Windows Phone Store to help them manage their investments on the go. The trading app for Windows Phone 8 provides Fidelity customers access to their brokerage account watch lists, account information, real-time quotes and the ability to trade stocks, ETFs, mutual funds and options. All investors, whether or not they are a Fidelity customer, will be able to view news, market information and quotes.

Blurb, the global creative publishing platform, announces its partnership with Samsung Electronics to power worldwide book and magazine print production and fulfillment within Story Album for Samsung Galaxy S 4, Samsung’s newly announced flagship smartphone. Users of Samsung Galaxy S 4 will be able to automatically create professional quality print photo books and magazines quickly and seamlessly from their camera phone images. Until now, there has not been a simple and elegant way to curate and design, and then order a book or magazine directly from the smartphone itself. Samsung and Blurb teamed up to solve this problem via the pre-installed Story Album and its auto-generated layouts that instantly convert into print-worthy publications.

New Otterbox iON smartphone battery extender app - Being predictable isn’t always a bad thing. OtterBox now has the smartphone outsmarted with a new smartphone battery app for Apple iPhone and Android devices. Introducing the OtterBox iON Intelligence app, available free in the Apple Store and Google Play. This innovative smartphone battery app is a smart and seamless battery extender. Otterbox iON Intelligence eliminates the guesswork of predicting smartphone battery life with a clear display of power status and an intuitive indication of exactly when to charge next. Soon, OtterBox Defender Series protection for smartphones will come packed with this new technology to provide a trifecta of power, protection and battery management.

Adobe Photoshop for smart phones - Adobe announced the availability of a new version of Photoshop Touch, optimized for Apple iPhone, iPod touch, and Android smart phones. Inspired by the successful Photoshop Touch for tablets, the smartphone app brings core features of Photoshop desktop software to mobile devices and offers similar intuitive, touch-based features. "Mobile phones are increasingly becoming the primary tool for people to take and edit photos," said Winston Hendrickson, vice president products, Creative Media Solutions, Adobe. "Adobe is dedicated to serving our customers’ evolving creative workflow and we heard that Photoshop fans wanted some core Adobe imaging magic on their smartphones."