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Sure, two-way video chat on mobile devices is cool, but what if you could hold a video conference call with 4, 8, even 16 people in full 720p HD resolution? You’d probably want to give it a spin, right? Well, Ittiam is at Texas Instrument’s Mobile World Congress 2011 booth to demo their multi-party P2P…
One of HTC’s newly-announced Android smartphones is the Wildfire S, the successor to the compact and feature-packed Wildfire from last year. The iterative update to the Wildfire made its debut at Mobile World Congress 2011 at HTC’s press conference, and we had a chance to take the compact handset for a spin. If you’re in…
Waze, the smartphone app that uses crowd-sourced data from their network of smartphone-savvy users to determine traffic levels on highways and side-streets in your area, will soon make it even easier to check up on traffic density with a new Android widget that serves up at-a-glance traffic info. Waze was at Google’s Android booth at…
During a keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said they are not working on Twitter-branded mobile phone. However, he did admit that 40% of all tweets originate from cell phones, the fact that prompted rumors the Twitter phone is an option for the company. Moreover, Costolo talked about…
NAVTEQ announced a great expansion of its LocationPoint ad network with major new publishers jumping on board. Among the partners announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, we now find major location-service providers such as Appello, Co-Pilot Live, NAVIGON, Ndrive, Poynt and Telmap, as well as hardware makers like RIM and Samsung – which…
Poynt’s location-based search app for Android and BlackBerry have had a few updates here at Mobile World Congress 2011. For one, the Android version will now have a gas prices widget, so you can see what’s the cheapest within the 9 closest stations. Both the Android and Blackberry versions also got a new sharing feature,…
Another tidbit from RIM out of Mobile World Congress 2011 was a new service called BBM Gifting, which will let you buy and send BlackBerry App World titles to friends over the exclusive instant messaging network. The transaction would be made through carrier billing, so you wouldn’t even have to punch in your credit card…
Like we don’t already have enough Android customization options available from handset and mobile software makers, some carriers want to put their signature on the user’s devices, too. Orange is one such carrier, which used the Mobile World Congress to announce Orange Gestures and “smart” Live Wallpapers. The so called Orange Gestures, which will be…
The Wholesale Applications Community aka WAC announced the new 2.0 specification, which now includes HTML5 and multimedia support. This in turn will enable better widgets and apps that mimic native apps’ capabilities. And that’s like a start, with WAC 3.0 — set to be available in September — promising to include billing support and user…
SPB Software announced a new version of its mobile TV solution – SPB TV 3.0, which is dubbed as an app store-like publishing platform for TV channels. As a result, broadcasters and content owners have the opportunity to distribute existing catalogs and expand their offering to mobile devices. Users in turn get access to a…