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According to a new report from Juniper Research, the global redemption rate of mobile coupons will average at over 8% by 2016, representing an eightfold increase over the best paper coupons campaigns. The secret for this growth lies in the North American and Western European markets where users are now beginning to follow the same…
SEGA is bringing its popular Virtua Tennis franchise to the Android Market. The game, called Virtua Tennis Challenge, will be unveiled at the CES in Las Vegas next week and will deliver a ton of entertainment for on-the-go users. Here’s a snippet from SEGA’s official announcement: Virtua Tennis Challenge has been designed specifically for mobile…
India-based Dexetra is teaming-up with Q&A service ChaCha to create a “revolutionary element” to the Siri-like Iris app for Android. As a result, the popular voice-powered Q&A application will now include ChaCha’s vast database of questions and answers, allowing instant responses to inquiries asked by users for free. Moreover, this partnership is touted to allow…
So you like the fancy Porsche Design P’9981 BlackBerry but don’t want to spend a small fortune on one? No problem, you can pretend your BlackBerry 9900 or 9930 looks like a device designed by Porsche’s designers. Simply install the Porsche theme and tell all your buddies your vanilla BlackBerry is just as powerful as…
Nokia announced a new Symbian Anna smartphone in China that’s ready for NFC-based contactless payments. In addition, the device marked as 801T rocks a 4-inch ClearBlack LCD touchscreen, China Mobile-friendly TD-SCDMA connectivity, 8-megapixel “full-focus” camera with 720p video recording support on the back, VGA front-facing camera, 8GB of built-in storage, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, 256MB of…
Fashion TV is joining the Android smartphone race with its own product – FTV Phone. Developed in partnership with the Chinese handset maker ZTE, it’s basically a rebranded version of the ZTE Blade, which we also know as Orange San Francisco. Yep it’s the original San Francisco, not the new (better) San Francisco II. To…
It wasn’t that long ago when we talked about the Meizu MX, the latest product from the world’s famous iPhone cloner. The device itself is rock-solid, sporting a dual-core CPU, 4-inch screen and the familiar all-touchscreen form factor. However, that’s not enough for the company founder Jack Wong, who turned to Meizu forums (Chinese language…
So that February launch date in Europe was bogus information – LG will start selling its new Prada smartphone in Asia and Europe in January, while lucky South Koreans are getting their smart fashion fix as we speak. If you recall, the PRADA phone by LG 3.0 (the official name) is the third handset from…
Apple’s annual 12 Days of iTunes giveaway started yesterday with a free Coldplay album for UK iTunes users. In order to participate and get the freebies, you should download the 12 Days app from where you’ll be able to grab free music from the iTunes Festival: London, which was held earlier in the year. At…
iPhone users are sharing photos at a record level. However, most photos are (let’s face it) pretty boring and watching them can be pretty daunting. Enter Animoto, a new iPhone app that turns multiple photos into a fancy video slideshow that is easy to share and a pleasure to watch. The free to download application…