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Your car’s license probably isn’t associated with much beyond getting you tickets but Bump.com is trying to change that by making your car’s license plate your name in a social network. If the idea sounds crazy, I completely hear you – your license plate seems like something you wouldn’t want to give out on a…
Apple said it will be delaying the launch of the iPad 2 in Japan as the country deals with recovering from the massive earthquake and subsequent disasters related to it. The Apple iPad 2 was launched March 11 and you can check out our unboxing on the streets of SXSW 2011 here. The second-generation tablet…
We all knew that the Sprint iDen Push-To-Talk services would be transitioned to CDMA and the company outlined the plans for this today. We can look forward to Sprint Direct connect in the fourth quarter of this year and it will land on an Android phone at first. If you’re not aware, PTT enables you…
The one unheralded weapon in Apple’s iOS arsenal version Android is the iPod touch. This relatively low-cost media player can hook in tens of millions of users into the iOS app ecosystem and there hasn’t really been a credible Android competitor until now. Samsung said it will be bringing the Android-powered Galaxy Player to the…
We were spending the last few days at the SXSW 2011 conference, so I’ve been a bit removed from the tragedies that are happening over in Japan. While we can only hope for the best at this point, it’s good to see the mobile industry doing what it can to help and today XCom Global…
The HTC Arrive was announced not-too-long ago but this is the first time that you’ll see the Windows Phone 7 smartphone not being tethered to a stand. Yeah, that’s just kind of how IntoMobile rolls. The HTC Arrive is a Windows Phone 7 device that will debut on Sprint soon and it will be the…
Damn. SXSW 2011 has been a bonanza for the IntoMobile team on the BlackBerry PlayBook exclusive side, as we just brought you the first look at the BlackBerry PlayBook music store on the device but that’s just one of the components of the multimedia strategy. Check out the video below for an exclusive first look…
Yes, we’ve heard about the Windows Phone 7 NoDo update for quite a while now and we know that it will bring copy and paste, fast app resuming and other goodies but this exclusive video shows you the first time we see it on a live unit. Features of Windows Phone 7 NoDo (No Doughnuts…
Google’s Marissa Mayer spoke at the SXSW 2011 conference and she shared some interesting stats on Google Maps for Mobile and the search giant’s future plans for location-based services. First of all, she said that the company found Google Maps had 40% usage on the mobile side, which isn’t much of a surprise considering that…
At SXSW 2011, group messaging apps are the heat and you’ve probably heard of the Beluga and GroupMe contenders but GroupedIn is also playing in this space and its social networking integration may give it a leg up against the competition. At its core, the GroupedIn iPhone app is a group messaging app that aims…