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Foursquare’s check-in application for BlackBerry has been updated to let you get pop-up notifications as soon as your friends check in to a location. There’s also a fresh round of bug squashes, UI improvements, and code optimizations, all of which are welcome. Foursquare’s presence here at the BlackBerry DevCon has been significant, with a check-in…
Those of you who have tried out Fennec for Android probably don’t have many positive words to say about it. The app had a sizable footprint, and the only thing it seemed to be really good at was force closing itself. Well, Fennec has now been updated for Android OS, and it works pretty well.…
We’ve seen some screenshots before but that’s never as good as some video of the upcoming MeeGo smartphone operating system. As you can see in the video below, we get a little walk through of MeeGo running on a TI OMAP 4 prototype hardware. We get to check out the Settings, SMS, Contacts and a…
Firefox Home has been somewhat of a hit with iPhone users who use Firefox on their computers. Soon, BlackBerry and Symbian users will get a little bit of Mozilla love, too. If you’re unfamiliar with Firefox Home, it basically stores your browser info in the cloud so you can access it elsewhere. Whether it’s bookmarks,…
The whole location-based gaming thing is definitely on fire with Foursquare and others and the new app Checkpoints is trying to integrate that with mobile shopping. The Checkpoints Apple iPhone app gives you points for scanning products. These points can then be redeemed for discounts, gift cards or online services. You go into a participating…
Best Buy Mobile sure has a way of enticing smartphone buyers. If the pre-order options, exclusive products and no-mail-in-rebate deals aren’t enough, it’s kicking things up a bit in October. The mega retailer has just announced Free Phone Fridays, a fun alliteration for an even more fun promotion: in the month of October, Best Buy…
This week at DevCon, RIM is showing off for the first time the Pearl 9100, Curve 3G 9300, and Bold 9700 running their new BlackBerry 6 operating system. RIM didn’t offer anything specific as far as a release timeline goes, but they did imply that the software was mostly in the hands of carriers at…
Although we haven’t talked about the How to Cook Everything iPhone app when it was initially released, now when it got a free version, we decided to give it some space on IntoMobile. Like its paid counterpart, How to Cook Everything Essentials is also based on Mark Bittman’s bestselling book, featuring such things as: 102…
Samsung is teaming-up with Zooppa to launch the user-generated marketing campaign for the Galaxy Tab. The name of the campaign is “It’s Go Time!” and it will ask users to produce videos, print and banner ads that answer the question, “If you had a Galaxy Tab, what creative things would you use it for?” Creators…
According to a report from the Association of Online Publishers (AOP), UK-based online publishers see mobile devices and tablets as pivotal in creating opportunities to develop into world class media businesses. Here are the findings from a recent AOP survey: Half of the AOP members are currently delivering content by mobile app, with 1 in…