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MEDL Mobile has teamed-up with Real Madrid to launch “Journey to Real Madrid,” one of the official iPhone games of the Club. You begin the game as a young version of Cristiano Ronaldo, Mesut Özil or Zinedine Zidane, kicking against childhood friends from the playground of the star’s youth. Then you progress through key stages…
The latest Distimo Report looks at Apple’s App Store, four years after it was unveiled alongside iOS 2.0 (then iPhone OS). At launch, it had only 500 applications and today it counts more than 650,000 titles. Here are the highlights from the report: Due to emerging competition, the number of downloads among the top 200…
Modern version of Murphy’s law clearly states that whenever you need a USB cable to connect or charge your mobile phone, you don’t have one around. Enter ChargeCard, a new accessory that is killing it at Kickstarter as we speak. Their product, as the name says, is a credit card-sized device that has a USB…
It’s a fact that mobile communications are transforming healthcare with products and services already rolling out to help some of us live longer and healthier lives. Mobile technology can help the medical industry solve many problem, including the lack of doctors. For instance, in some cases – a physical presence won’t be needed and doctors…
GPS navigation app/service provider Navitel, which is the leading navigation company in CIS countries, released 7 new maps of Eastern European countries, including Greece, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, as well as map updates of Eastern Europe. In addition, they also updated maps for 15 countries of Europe and Asia, including…
When Verizon bought a chunk of the 700 MHz C-Block spectrum, it agreed to a stipulation that would let customers freely use the devices and applications of their choosing. When the carrier blocked its customers from using tethering apps, it ran afoul of these “open network” rules set by the FCC. The FCC launched an…
Google just announced via email to pre-order customers of the Nexus Q that it’s postponing the launch of the Android-powered streaming media player. After fairly poor reception, Google is taking some extra time to make improvements before it ships. “When we announced Nexus Q at Google I/O, we gave away devices to attendees for an…
Amazon turned up the heat in the online music arena with its improved Cloud Player service, which includes a new scan and match feature. Scan and match is similar to iTunes Match and lets customers create an online music library without uploading a single file. The service will scan your iTunes or Windows Media Player…
It looks like LG will be hitting North America strong with what’s been rated as its best smartphone offering to date, the Optimus 4X HD. Sometime after September 22nd, Canadians can expect the phone to land on all of the popular carriers such as TELUS, Rogers, and Bell, according to sources familiar with technology site,…
Amtrak has something special for those out there who always commute back and forth from work everyday. The commuter service is launching its new eTicket program, which allows passengers to board trains nationwide without an annoying paper ticket — a cool concept that has gone live as of July 30. Now this should come to…