The largest mobile video ad network Rhythm NewMedia announced the completion of its third-round of financing, totaling $10 million. QuestMark Partners led the round, which also included existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures and Rembrandt Venture Partners. The company will use the new funds to fuel the expansion of its mobile video ad network.…
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Pushpins app kills paper coupons for the iPhone users
A company called Pushpins is joining the “mobile coupons revolution” with a newly launched iPhone app. Available as a free download, Pushpins delivers instant coupons and rewards to shoppers when they use their iPhones to scan UPC barcodes at the grocery store. At the moment, the service is supported in more than 2,000 stores nationwide…
Skyfire heading to iPad, too
Skyfire — the web browser that brought Adobe Flash to many mobile platforms, iPhone included — is heading to the iPad community. Sure you can run the iPhone version of the app on your tablet, but you may also crave for a better, “optimized for iPad” experience. And that’s exactly what the Skyfire folks are…
HTC Touch Pro2 gets a small update to improve the stability of the People application
HTC keeps issuing software hotfixes for its older phones. Lately, we’ve spotted that the HTC Touch Pro2 got a small update that improves overall stability of the People application on devices with ROM versions between 2.00.xxx.x and 2.10.xxx.x. Details are not shared, but you should expect a smooth, bug-free experience. Before downloading the update, make…
Skyfire to shut off their servers at the end of 2010 and kill support for Symbian + Windows Mobile
When Skyfire first hit the scene a couple of years ago, we welcomed the competition that it would bring Opera who until that point in time was the only company making a mobile web browser that utilized server farms in distant lands to compress web pages before delivering them to our devices. Things have changed…
Panasonic to start selling Android smartphones in Japan in early 2011 [EU + US in 2012]
Panasonic is a brand most people associate with high end audio and video equipment, but the company is looking to change that by entering the smartphone space early next year according to Reuters. Their first Android powered devices are going to come out in Japan, and then hit overseas markets, hopefully Europe and America, in…
Detailed Sony Ericsson X12 Anzu specs surface [Same processor as the T-Mobile G2]
Last week we brought you news of an upcoming unannounced Sony Ericsson Android device that looked to be the flagship smartphone of the first half of 2011. Today we find out that may not exactly be the case. The handset, codename “Anzu”, runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, features a Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM7230 processor, the same one…
Discovery Health Unveils Free Android App
It looks like the good folks at Discovery Communications are at it again. This time around, Discovery Health has launched its first app, and it’s exclusive for Android users. Discovery Health for Android is a free app, and packs all kinds of health related goodness. Browse and read over 10,000 articles, view videos, check out…
O, The Oprah Magazine lands on the iPad
Oprah loves her iPad. She gushed over it on her popular television show, calling it “amazing” and literally squealing with delight over playing scrabble against other people. It was only a matter of time before her own content came to life on Apple’s tablet device. Thanks to magazine and newspaper publisher Hearst, Oprah fans with…
Microsoft offers big cash for Windows Phone 7 apps
We knew that Microsoft was paying developers to bring mobile applications to its just-launched Windows Phone 7 platform but we’re no learning some of the details of what this entailed. Microsoft is really going all out to bring apps to the platform. PopCap Games, the maker of the highly-popular Plants Vs. Zombies, said it was…