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Parkmobile USA is bringing its mobile payment service to the citizens of Oakland, California. Best of all, the new service supports NFC-based contactless payments, allowing customers to wave or tap their phone on any of Parkmobile’s NFC-enabled stickers. Of course, existing payment methods also apply, so even if your phone doesn’t support NFC, you can…
IPO won’t stop Facebook from its acquisition plans. After Instagram and Lightbox, they acquired Karma, a gift giving service that relies on the social network to make the [gift giving] “process” as seamless as possible. Using Karma, folks can send “perfect gift” to their friends and family either from Facebook or from their smartphone (iOS…
Stalker is a new iPhone app (Android version is in development) that allows users to discretely take photos of their surroundings. No flash and no shutter sound to give you away – as far as the rest of the world knows, you’re NOT taking any photos. Heck there’s a feature that disguises the screen as…
Talpic is a new iOS and Android app (at least I haven’t heard of it before) that targets the ever-competitive multimedia sharing market. Their twist is to go beyond photos and allow users to also include sounds to the mix. Available as a free download, the application lets you view, listen, share and recommend pictures…
Smith Micro Software is bringing its Voicemail platform to the Boost Mobile subscribers on May 31st with the launch of the HTC EVO Design 4G. Using the new service, users are able to manage their voicemail messages like email, scroll through and listen to messages in any order, forward or reply to messages via email…
Dish Network, the budget satellite television provider, has 40 MHz worth of spectrum in the 2 GHz band that they really want to use to deploy a wireless network. There’s a few problems though. First, that spectrum was originally intended to be used for satellite communication, so the FCC has to see whether or not…
Penguin Books has teamed-up with Zappar to make the Penguin English Library “ready for the 21st century.” Using the Augmented Reality technology, readers will be able to bring elements of four of the books to life, including animations of Coralie Bickford-Smith’s illustrated covers, video, audio and extracts. Initially, readers will be able to access the…
Telmap Navigator is now available as a free download for Blackberry users in the UK, providing interested folks with local search, mapping and navigation services with in-car navigation with 3D moving maps, voice-guided instructions, a dedicated pedestrian navigation mode, and a postcode business and address search. In addition, the application also allows users to explore…
Talk about a hot deal. UK phone retailer Phones 4U is offering the brand new HTC One X for free on a 36 GBP/month plan. And get this – it requires putting your signature on a 12-month contract with Vodafone!!! Usually this sort of deals come with two-year customer agreements so we’re kinda surprised delighted,…
GameStop, which most people know as the store that sells videogames, is apparently going to enter the mobile space according to Engadget. They accidentally launched a website for their upcoming MVNO (mobile virtual network operator), which has the amazingly creative name “GameStop Mobile”. What’s an MVNO? It’s basically a reseller. In this case, GameStop is…