Citi has launched the first banking app designed exclusively for Kindle Fire. Advancing Citi’s evolution as the world’s premier digital bank, the Citibank Kindle Fire app provides U.S. consumers with a visually engaging, convenient way to track, analyze and plan their finances on the go.

In addition to being Citi’s first app for a tablet running on the Android operating system, it is also the first app from a bank to have been built exclusively for Kindle Fire with every component, graphic, touch action, button and slider customized to the tablet’s modified operating system, form factor, screen size and resolution. It is this degree of adaptation to the specific requirements that allowed Citi’s app to become the first Kindle Fire app in the Finance section of the Amazon Appstore for Android.

Citi Launches First Banking App Designed Exclusively for Kindle Fire

Lose your Kindle Fire?  Well, there’s an app for that.  Locate my Kindle brings much needed location services to the Amazon Kindle platform and is now available worldwide. The revolutionary service is powered by Lab4Apps, a start up company located in Gibraltar and North Carolina.

At a special launch price of only 99 cents, the App will allow Kindle Fire owners to locate their Kindle Fire instantly if it’s ever lost or stolen, using state of the art Wi-Fi triangulation. Once downloaded, the owner is asked to provide only an email address and a password to setup their account on LocateMyKindle.com. The website can be accessed from any internet browser to locate their Kindle Fire’s whereabouts immediately.

The app can also be used to find a stolen Kindle Fire.

Get Locate My Kindle in the App Store.

Catalogue by TheFind has quickly become the most popular catalog-shopping app with more than 150 catalog titles, look books, and weekly circulars from over 75 of the most popular retailers.  And now it’s available on the Kindle Fire.

Catalogue seamlessly connects the lifestyle images in print catalogs from the couch to both the retailer’s physical front door and online checkout. Version 2.0 for Kindle Fire adds the ability to easily check an item’s availability – in real-time – at local stores.  Access to inventory is initially available for Best Buy, Crate & Barrel and Williams-Sonoma, and will continue to roll out to additional stores in the coming weeks.

Get Catalogue in the Amazon App Store.

HotPads.com has announced the release of its app for the Amazon Kindle Fire.  As one of the few Amazon Kindle apps with a map built into the application, you can use the app to look for a house, apartment or condo.

Newsy is a multisource video news service that analyzes the world’s news coverage, highlighting the key differences in reporting. Through short videos available on the web and mobile devices, Newsy accelerates the understanding of how a news story is covered.

The Newsy app is now available on the Kindle Fire — it can be downloaded from the Amazon Appstore for free. Designed to take advantage of the Kindle Fire’s 7-inch color touch screen, the Kindle app delivers Newsy’s unique multisource video news in an intuitive and user-friendly environment.

Get the app from the Amazon App Store

The popular blogging platform WordPress is now available for the Amazon Kindle Fire.  With the app, you can do everything from writing blog posts to moderating comments to starting a brand-new blog right from your Fire.

There is one important tweak you need to make in your admin panel in order to use WordPress on the Kindle Fire.

Under the Settings tab, go to Writing. On the Writing page, under Remote Publishing, be sure the “XML-RPC” option is enabled. If you don’t do this, you’ll get an error when you try to access your blog or web site via the app.

Papa John’s, the Kentucky-based pizza chain, has created one of the most interesting Amazon Kindle apps — now you can order pizza with your Amazon Kindle Fire!

The company cites the “explosive adoption” of the Kindle Fire as the reason for targeting this model specifically as well as the continued interest in ecommerce.

via Mobile Commerce Daily

Are you a Hotmail user?  Microsoft has tweaked their Android app specifically for Amazon’s Kindle Fire.  The app includes Exchange Active Sync, which should make it easier for users to handle their mail; Microsoft claims the app works better than the native email application on the Kindle Fire.

You can pick up the app in the Android Market.

via ITProPortal