FierceMobileContent:
Sony Corporation is the latest entrant into the crowded digital storefront space, stating plans to launch an online marketplace selling music, movies, books and related media optimized for mobile devices. Sony offered few con (Read More)
FierceMobileContent:
The National Football League is looking to the mobile platform as the sport expands its digital media horizons. "We are trying to find more and more ways to offer the games online, and mobile is becoming more and more importa (Read More)
FierceMobileContent:
Money transfer applications, location-based services and mobile search will reign among the top 10 mobile application categories of 2012 according to a new forecast issued by market research firm Gartner. Basing its predictio (Read More)
FierceMobileContent:
Global payments solution giant Visa announced the North American rollout of a transaction alerts platform enabling card issuers to send real-time notifications to customers via email, SMS or the Visa Mobile application (intro (Read More)
FierceMobileContent:
Yahoo confirmed it will pull the plug on its Yahoo Go mobile application early next year. Introduced for BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Symbian devices in 2006, the Go app featured a carousel-like homepage incorporating acces (Read More)
Mashable!:
At the end of October, the iPhone finally came to China, albeit without WiFi. China represents a huge area of potential not just for the iPhone, but for the smartphone market in general.The biggest area of growth in the smart (Read More)
readwriteweb:
From a group calling themselves Electronic Civil Disobedience comes the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a simple mobile application intended to aid and abet border-crossers from Mexico to the United States.This GPS app is built t (Read More)
TechCrunch:
I’ve spent the last week throughly enjoying my new Droid, and while I’ve come across some problems, most of my issues have simply been with the fact that Android does things differently than the iPhone — the transition just t (Read More)
MobileBurn.com:
Research In Motion's mobile application storefront, BlackBerry App World, will allow customers to charge apps to their cellular bill in 2010, CEO Jim Balsillie said Wednesday.
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FierceMobileContent:
Verizon Wireless announced the premiere of Mobile Magic, a Walt Disney Parks and Resorts-developed mobile application giving subscribers exclusive access to information and recommendations to enhance their vacations to Walt D (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Feeling a bit under the weather? Soon you'll be able to cough into your mobile phone for an instant diagnosis. A research firm called STAR Analytical Services is working to develop software that can analyze the sound of a cou (Read More)
FierceMobileContent:
Universal Studios Home Entertainment announced the launch of pocket BLU, a free mobile application enabling consumers to access Blu-ray video content via iPhone or iPod touch. Premiering in conjunction with the Blu-ray releas (Read More)
Gizmodo:
They're calling it "Bada," which means ocean in Korean. And it's got an SDK! After sifting through hundreds of words of deliberately vague press release, this is all we really know about Samsung's new mobile OS. Well, almost. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Shazam, the music discovery iPhone application which gained widespread adoption thanks to its appearance in an iPhone TV commercial, is now getting a ton of new features thanks to the launch of a premium application called Sh (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Life360 is often described as an "OnStar for life," providing its users with tools to track and protect people and things through a variety of interfaces.The company offers IRL services such as child identification parapherna (Read More)
FierceMobileContent:
Big-box retail giant Best Buy announced a retail partnership with Google to install the web services giant's free Google Mobile App on all compatible smartphones, including BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and S60 devices. Google M (Read More)
FierceMobileContent:
Mobile publishing technology provider Verve Wireless announced it will team with the Associated Press to deliver white-label mobile application solutions enabling publishers to launch customized, branded applications across t (Read More)
FierceMobileContent:
Mobile application downloads on cross-platform app store GetJar topped 55 million in October 2009, a 40 million year-over-year increase, the firm reports. Instant messaging client eBuddy tops all GetJar apps to date, generati (Read More)
mocoNews.net:
If you aren’t a hardcore software developer, but have a great mobile application idea? No problem. A slew of intermediary platforms have sprouted up recently targeting an increa (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we analyze how Google CEO Eric Schmidt thinks the Web will evolve, review Hulu's latest plans to make money, investigate use case (Read More)