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Yowza!! — the free location-based mobile coupon application/service that comes from actor Greg Grunberg whom you may know as Heroes’ mind reader Matt Parkman — is adding Austin, Texas to the list of supported cities. Among the local businesses included in the update are the most popular places to eat and drink such as Eddie V’s Restaurant, Frank, Max’s Wine Dive, Odd Duck Restaurant, Roaring Fork and Saxon Pub; as well as clothing stores Secret Oktober and Gallery D, indie record store Waterloo Records and the Alamo Drafthouse movie theatre.
In addition to adding a new city, Yowza!! also announced they’re out with the version 2.2. The main new thing of this release is support for custom, manually entered location. Apparently, users will need this feature when travelling and their iPhone’s location capabilities are turned off. In this case, they can manually enter a ZIP code.
Now that I’m thinking, this could be useful for iPod Touch users only, as there are really no reasons to turn off location-based services for the U.S. residents who just happen to be in the other (again) U.S. city — except maybe to save some battery life.
Anyway, you’ve probably already grabbed the updated version. If you still haven’t, follow the link below.
Yowza!! (FREE) [iTunes link]
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
