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. For instance, calls to the U.S. and U.K. cost just 2 c/min.

Aside from the basic phone calls, Dell Voice also offers call display, call waiting, voicemail and even the 911 emergency service. Moreover, users have the option to port their existing phone number over to Fongo for $25.

The free to download application is available for Android, iPhone, Windows desktop and, soon for BlackBerry. It works both over 3G/4G and Wi-Fi networks.

Finally, it’s worth adding that we’re pretty confident Dell is using Canada as a testbed market, and will soon launch its service in the U.S.

[Via: MobileSyrup]

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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, with $204 million compared to just $15 million.

Spotify has yet to make a huge impact, but this could be due to Warner Music coming on board late. The company did acknowledge that it envisions Spotify’s unlimited-subscription model to be its future, as it shows better growth with subscribers locked in to paying a $120 a year premium.

“That flow of dollars is substantially greater than the average annual purchases with respect to an iTunes user.” CEO Cooper told analysts, “Both downloads and streaming provide us with meaningful economics. I’m personally agnostic – although you can draw your own conclusions from the streaming payments versus average iTunes users’ (payments).”

This news proves that publishing companies were overly paranoid when it came to fully embracing the unlimited-subscription model that’s offered from the Spotify’s or Rdio’s of the world. Warner Music Group flat-out admitted it’s more profitable for music publishing companies in the long-term. It’s good to see these guys finally come around, but I guess profits will do that.

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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 – this works much better than the default Android Market.

Speaking of which, Yahoo pulls the app description and user comments from the Android Market, while iPhone users will have to click on the link and actually visit Apple’s AppStore to read what other folks think about certain apps.

Now we’re not sure what Yahoo is planning to do going forward. Will they include Windows Phone apps as well? What about other platforms? Guess we’ll have to wait and see. In the meantime, you’re free to check out the Yahoo! App Search from here.

[Via: AndroidCentral]

U.S. Cellular announced such service for its users, offering it for $2.99 per month. A free 30-day trial is also available to get you in the mood and only once you realize all the benefits, you can commit your hard earned cash.

Voice Mail to Text relies on Nuance Communications’ Dragon technology, allowing you to respond to voice mail via text or email when calling back isn’t an option. Moreover, because your messages are now text, you can also search through them, which is pretty cool…

inMarket’s audience is composed of more than 20 million mobile-enabled shoppers who use their phone as a resource before, during, or after shopping in stores. Since its launch in October 2010, the world’s leading brands such as Coca-Cola, Levi’s, Nestle, Henkel, Kraft and Proctor & Gamble tested the service and have realized dramatic lift in consumer purchase intent of up to 400%. By comparison, conventional mobile banner campaigns demonstrate increased purchase intent by 11%… Sounds promising, can’t you tell?

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 next step is to launch the GREE global platform by the last quarter of this year…

Now how this affects a mobile gamer in every one of us? For one thing we expect to see GREE continuing to compete with the likes of Tapjoy, supporting further development of new and porting of existing popular games to the Android platform. We’ll keep you well informed which games are coming as a result of GREE’s activities in this area…

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 to a 30-second track sample, you can preview every song before committing your hard earned cash. Moreover, if you’re still not sure, you can easily beam this audio preview to your friends via BBM, email, SMS, Facebook and Twitter to ask them what they think about it, or (if you’ve already grabbed the song) – suggest them they get it, too.

Finally, it’s important to add that all your music is stored in the cloud (7Digital Music Locker), which you can later access from multiple apps and devices, making sure you get to keep all of your tunes even if (God forbid) your phone is lost or stolen…

Music Store (FREE) [BlackBerry App World]

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 Disorder) and other chronic diseases will play an important role in the market. In the meantime, report author Anthony Cox says that more trials are needed to further convince the medical establishment of remote patient monitoring benefits.

Further findings from the report include:

• Mobile healthcare and medical app downloads will reach 44 million in 2012, rising to 142 million in 2016.
• Clarification from the US FDA on which mHealth apps will require FDA approval is still required but is expected to add further impetus to the market.
• Developing markets continue to benefit from SMS-based education programmes, while app-based services will appear in the medium term.
• EHR (electronic health records) have yet to gain significant traction even in developed markets but in the long term will become an important component of mHealth offerings

As usual, you can get additional information from Juniper’s website.

Being Human (Syfy) – The second season of Syfy’s hit original series incorporates Shazam for TV. When you use Shazam while watching the show, you can see exclusive scenes from the next week’s episode, a track list of the songs featured in that night’s episode and wallpaper for your device. Moreover, Lexus is sponsoring a sweepstakes for a chance to win a trip for two to Boston, where the show is set.

Psych (USA) – Fan Favorite PSYCH returns to complete its winter season on Leap Day, February 29 at 10/9c, with this episode plus March 7, both Shazam-enabled, letting people watch show bloopers, browse a photo gallery of stars James Roday and Dulé Hill, and download wallpaper. They can also shop for merchandise featured on the show, and participate in Lexus-sponsored sweepstakes to win a trip for two to the show’s setting at Santa Barbara.

The Soup (E!) – Shazam-enabled episodes on February 29 and March 7 at 10 p.m. EST and PST will give people links to exclusive clips from The Soup. When people use Shazam to tag the show, they can enter for a chance to win a trip for two to Los Angeles where they will go to a taping of The Soup, sponsored by Lexus.

Shazam is available for a number of mobile platforms, and you can download the mobile app for your device from the app store you like the most.

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 are Venmo, a social payments platform, Merchant Billing, a billing, payments and processing company; and Qthru, a retail application that is geared toward improving the way people shop.

Finally in case you wonder, the company is founded by two former AdMob employees, Mike Mettler and Josh Bleecher Snyder; and backed by angel investors Michael Dearing of Harrison Metal, Jeff Clavier and Charles Hudson of SoftTech VC, Manu Kumar of K9 Ventures, Alok Bhanot (former VP, Risk Technology at PayPal), and Omar Hamoui (CEO and founder of AdMob).

card.io payments (FREE) [Android Market link] [iTunes link]