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Dell launches Fongo-powered VoIP service in Canada – Dell Voice
Just selling computers isn’t good enough for Dell. The company wants a piece of the ever-growing VoIP market and has launched its own such offering in Canada. Dubbed Dell Voice, the new service is powered by Fongo, providing users with a Canadian phone number and the ability to make free calls to numbers in 30 large metropolitan areas, including Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, as well as hundreds of smaller cities. Incoming calls from Canada are free as well, while international calls are competitively priced — i.e. cheaper than Skype. … Read more
Dusan Belic
History of mobile app stores [infographic]
ShoutEm prepared a neat infographic to provide us with a history overview of most popular mobile app stores in the world — including Google’s Android Market, Apple’s iPhone App Store, Nokia’s Ovi Store, RIM’s BlackBerry App World and Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace. Sure enough some app stores are more successful than others, with Apple’s service offering more apps and games than any other store. Here’s how it all comes together… Click on the image above to enlarge it.
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Warner Music Group: revenue from streaming services on the rise
Warner Music Group reported some great news for digital growth in the company’s October-to-December third quarter. The giant music publishing company’s digital revenue grew 15 percent in recorded music and 36 percent in music publishing, as these numbers were helped by iTunes expansion along with consumer adoption of Spotify. What’s even more impressive about WMG’s third quarter is the company hit a milestone, as U.S. digital music unit sales surpassed those from physical for the first time. Also, revenue from digital music is far and away ahead of music streaming, … Read more
Charles West
Yahoo launches its own app search engine
Yahoo thinks there’s money to be made in app recommendations, hence they’re using the power of its brand to make it easier for smartphone users to discover new applications. The newly launched Yahoo! App Search spans iOS and Android apps, though Android titles are at the moment more prominently placed on the site. You can either browse through categories or search for the games and apps you like. The search is especially neat, allowing for filtering through results by price, category and device (iPhone/Android). When you think about it – … Read more
Dusan Belic
U.S. Cellular unveils Voice Mail to Text service
You know it’s a pain to go through voice mail every day. Sure enough, you can detect some numbers and decide not to listen to them at all. However, there are others which you should/could listen, only to find out no action on your part is needed. Hence, Voice Mail to Text services were born, transcribing audio into text and allowing you to see (rather than hear) what a guy/gal on the other end of the line has to say. U.S. Cellular announced such service for its users, offering it … Read more
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inMarket unveils world’s first mobile shopper network, becomes CheckPoints’ parent company
inMarket unveiled what it says is the first mobile network exclusively reaching shoppers making retail purchasing decisions. Simply called the inMarket Shopper Network, it combines the volume of brick-and-mortar retail with the performance accountability of online advertising in its hyper-targeted programs, which is apparently a concept only recently made possible through mobile. The CheckPoints rewards app — the one we covered for few times in the past — will continue to play an anchor role alongside best in class shopping apps and inMarket’s SDK set for release in coming weeks. … Read more
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Mobile social network for games GREE hits 190 million users, aims for 1 billion in profits this year
GREE, one of the largest mobile social gaming networks, announced its plan to hit over $1 billion in profit this year ($1,050,682,300 – $1,182,017,588) and over $2 billion in net sales ($2,101,364,601- $2,232,699,888). You may haven’t heard about GREE before, but you’re probably familiar with OpenFeint. Well, GREE has acquired OpenFeint in April 2010 and is in the midst of expanding to the U.S. and the rest of the world. Already, the company has 9 offices globally, while the total number of registered users has reached approximately 190 million. Their … Read more
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BlackBerry Music Store now available in Canada
RIM’s BlackBerry Music Store now lives in Canada where users can download the free Music Store app from the BlackBerry App World and use it to discover new tracks, purchase and download them right away, and tell their inner circle about the songs they dig. You can either use the built-in search to find the tunes, or browse by what’s most popular, what’s new, what’s on sale, genres, sub-genres; or check out other tracks and albums by the same artist. Not sure you like some song? No problem, with access … Read more
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Juniper Research: There will be 3 million mHealth remote monitoring users by 2016
According to the latest report by Juniper Research, a burgeoning market for healthcare peripherals and increasing smartphone processing power will result in the number of patients monitored by mobile networks to rise to 3 million by 2016. Using a smartphone as a hub, remote patient monitoring will also lower the cost of mHealth services by reducing the need for costly tailored devices. The report goes on suggesting that the monitoring of cardiac outpatients is currently leading the field, though in time the management of diabetes and COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary … Read more
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New Shazam-enabled shows to air on Syfy, E!, and USA Network
We’ve already talked about Shazam-enabled shows, which allow TV addicts to not only recognize what they’re watching but also to interact with the show. The “world’s leading media discovery company” is now announcing that the entire second season of Being Human on Syfy will renew the integration of Shazam for TV into the hit series. In addition, other popular NBC Universal Cable Entertainment shows, E!’s The Soup and USA’s Psych, will also incorporate Shazam into special episodes airing in the coming weeks. Being Human (Syfy) – The second season of … Read more
Dusan Belic
card.io launches Android SDK
card.io, mobile commerce company which we’ve already covered in the past, released an Android SDK, enabling developers making apps for Google’s mobile platform to easily accept credit card payments. If you don’t know what card.io is all about, you should know that it allows consumers to take a picture of their credit card to process payments, without any extra hardware. Since its iOS platform launch in June over 80 apps have integrated the card.io SDK, with more than 750 new developers signed-up. Among the apps that already use card.io’s service … Read more