Location Labs announced general availability of its Geofencing platform with enhanced functionality. The cloud-based technology is made to help iPhone and Android developers accurately define virtual boundaries on the phone or in the cloud, and is already in use for interactive billboard advertising from CBS Outdoors and Intel, and “Store Alerts” functionality in Cellfire’s couponing…
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Vodafone, China Mobile sign a strategic co-operation framework agreement
Two of the largest mobile operators in the world, Vodafone and China Mobile, signed a “strategic co-operation framework agreement” at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Under the deal, the two companies will continue their existing co-operation in a number of areas, including exchange of corporate management, technical and operational expertise, enhanced roaming, multinational customers,…
Mobile World Congress: iPhone 4 wins the “Best Mobile Device” award
Just because you don’t attend, it doesn’t mean you can’t win. Take Apple for instance. Last year, Steve Jobs was named the “Mobile Personality of the Year” and this year the iPhone 4 took the Best Mobile Device award. Needless to say, Apple wasn’t at the show neither this nor last year. Judges said that…
Urban Airship launches marketer-controlled mobile messaging service
Urban Airship used the Mobile World Congress to launch two new tools for mobile marketers. First comes Urban Airship Push Composer, which is said to offer a “clean, simple, web-based dashboard” from where marketers can craft, configure and activate mobile messaging campaigns via in-app push notifications in real-time across multiple mobile platforms. The second tool…
Dick Costolo: There will be no Twitter-branded mobile phone
During a keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said they are not working on Twitter-branded mobile phone. However, he did admit that 40% of all tweets originate from cell phones, the fact that prompted rumors the Twitter phone is an option for the company. Moreover, Costolo talked about…
NAVTEQ LocationPoint ad network expands with the addition of Appello, Co-Pilot Live, NAVIGON, Ndrive, Poynt, RIM, Samsung and Telmap
NAVTEQ announced a great expansion of its LocationPoint ad network with major new publishers jumping on board. Among the partners announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, we now find major location-service providers such as Appello, Co-Pilot Live, NAVIGON, Ndrive, Poynt and Telmap, as well as hardware makers like RIM and Samsung – which…
Orange Gestures and smart Live Wallpapers announced for the carrier’s Signature Android smartphones
Like we don’t already have enough Android customization options available from handset and mobile software makers, some carriers want to put their signature on the user’s devices, too. Orange is one such carrier, which used the Mobile World Congress to announce Orange Gestures and “smart” Live Wallpapers. The so called Orange Gestures, which will be…
WAC 2.0 specification announced; 8 operators already connected to the platform
The Wholesale Applications Community aka WAC announced the new 2.0 specification, which now includes HTML5 and multimedia support. This in turn will enable better widgets and apps that mimic native apps’ capabilities. And that’s like a start, with WAC 3.0 — set to be available in September — promising to include billing support and user…
SPB TV 3.0 is touted as a mobile TV app store for broadcasters
SPB Software announced a new version of its mobile TV solution – SPB TV 3.0, which is dubbed as an app store-like publishing platform for TV channels. As a result, broadcasters and content owners have the opportunity to distribute existing catalogs and expand their offering to mobile devices. Users in turn get access to a…
Glu Mobile launches Gun Bros and Glyder 2 for Honeycomb tablets
We told ya’ Glu Mobile is preparing to launch games for the first Honeycomb tablets and voila – they are (almost) here. The mobile gaming company is using the Big Show in Barcelona to unveil the first games developed specifically for the Android 3.0 Honeycomb platform and optimized on the NVIDIA Tegra 2 mobile super…