Shazam is preparing to launch a new app called the Shazam Player. The original Shazam music tagging app has been downloaded about 165 million times since 2008. The Shazam Player app will have synced lyrics (LyricPlay), social sharing, bios, smart playlists, etc.

Tweet Speaker is an Apple iOS app that reads your tweets to you out loud. You will be able to hear your regular timeline, mentions, tweets from lists, etc. All of you have to do is hit play or turn the dial back to a specific time and then hit play. You can also adjust the reading speed or sync with other Twitter apps so you can automatically catch up where you left off with HootSuite, TweetDeck, etc. [Lifehacker]

Nate Murray has designed a game for the Apple iPad called “Game For Cats” [iTunes link]. It is a free app with the full game as an in-app purchase. The point of the game is to have your cat smack the red dot that is moving around. If your cat hits the dot on time, then it will get points. Best of all is that the game really works as demonstrated in this video:

Google has updated the Google Voice iPhone application. The Google Voice iPhone update is now up-to-date with its sister Android app. The new version of Google Voice has multi-recipient texting, contact autocomplete, support for Sprint, multi-line text entry field, and a 1-touch dialer copy-and-paste. The Google Voice Android app has been able to perform multi-recipient texting for over a month. Sprint Google Voice iPhone users will now be able to send all calls to the native dialer when the phone is integrated with the service. [TNW]

Research firm Distimo put together a series of posts to find out how many downloads it takes to get to the top of the Apple App Store free app rankings. Just how much does it take a free app to hit the top 10 free apps in the Apple App Store? it would require about 30,000 downloads per day in the U.S. alone. And how about the #2 or #3 top free app? About 200,000-300,000 downloads! That is nuts! [Distimo]

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has updated the Gmail iPhone app with new features. The new Gmail iOS app has custom signatures for messages and a vacation responder. You can set them up through the gear icon at the top of the new menu. The app also supports nested labels. Scribbles has also been added to the Gmail iOS app.

Flipboard is an app that was named the Apple iPad App of the year and one of TIME’s Top 50 Innovations. Now the app is available on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Flipboard automatically creates a personalized magazine out of content that is being shared with you including Instagram photos, Facebook updates, Tumblr posts, and content from your favorite publications.

eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) is hitting one million listings made per week through the eBay Mobile app [iTunes link]. Last year eBay made the right move by consolidating their buying and selling iPhone applications. Now it is simple to take photos of your goods and quickly list them through the app. The company has also launched a new video series called eBay MoneyMakers, which features videos of people making money on eBay. [TechCrunch]