After iparkmycar, we bring you a story about another solution for parking in London. This time we’ll talk about ImpulsePay, which is working alongside Park Pay & Go to allow people to pay for parking using nothing but their mobile phones. ImpulsePay is providing its online Payforit service that works in a similar way to…
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Millennial Media launches new versions of iPhone and Android SDKs
Millennial Media released new SDKs for Android and iPhone (Android SDK 3.5 and iPhone SDK 3.5.5, respectively), marking the third SDK release on each operating system in less than six months. Android SDK got a heavier update, providing developers parity with iPhone advertising functionality. Included in the new version is support for static & video…
Floracle is a flowery fortune-telling iPhone app
Here’s an app that will make you relax and get some inspiration while on the go. It’s called Floracle, and using it you will definitely learn much about flowers. Inside the app, you meet a mystical soothsayer by the name of Delphinia, the Oracle of Flowers, that delivers inspiring messages through a beautiful detailed set…
ABI Research: 75% of all WCDMA base stations will be HSPA+ capable by 2015
ABI Research argues that despite the fact that everyone’s all about 4G these days, most carriers around the world are first looking to upgrade their networks to HSPA+ and then eventually switch to LTE. By the end of this year, 20 LTE networks are set to go live, but by the end 2015 only 11%…
Wellness coach Okinawa Game heading to the AppStore
Indie game developer Happy Blue Fish is preparing to launch Okinawa Game, which they call the pocketsize wellness coach. Designed as an easy to use app, Okinawa targets people of all ages looking for a fun way to teach (or be reminded of) the good habits that could help them lead a better and longer…
Myriad Group, MIPS Technologies launch Dalvik Turbo virtual machine for Android
MIPS Technologies and Myriad Group AG launched a high-performance full method-based Dalvik Turbo virtual machine (VM) optimized for the MIPS architecture that is made to replace the standard Android Dalvik engine. As a result, performance should be accelerated up to 5 times on real-world Android applications running on MIPS-based devices. Here’s how it works (from…
Portugal Telecom to consider increased bid for Vivo stake
The next episode in the Vivo drama is here. This time we have Portugal Telecom (PT) considering Telefonica’s increased bid of 6.5 billion EUR for Brazil’s Vivo. Actually, the Spanish group wants to buy out PT’s stake in Brasilcel, which is jointly owned by the two companies and which controls Vivo. If everything goes as…
Video: Apple posts the full WWDC keynote; watch Steve announce iPhone 4
Whether or not you’re an Apple fan, you’ve got to admit that Steve Jobs sets the bar for what an amazing presentation should be in today’s age of being stuck in meeting, staring at PowerPoint. Last night I wasn’t tuning into the live blogs, I had better things to do, but even if I tune…
Steve Jobs D8 Video Interview Now Available, Full and Uncut
When Steve Jobs took the stage at the D8 conference last week, we were treated to all kinds of morsels of wisdom and a look into the mind of Jobs. Topics covered included the inception of the iPad, which was actually in Jobs’ plans well before the iPhone was first announced, and the issue of…
This is the iPhone 4 doing FaceTime 2-way video chat
The iPhone 4’s front-facing camera isn’t just hanging out to help you take self-portrait pics, it’s hanging out to help you do some good ole fashioned 2-way video calling – Apple calls it “FaceTime.” Thanks to some technical jiggering of the iPhone OS, excuse us, iOS 4, the iPhone 4 and all future Apple phones…