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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…
We told ya’ Glu Mobile is preparing to launch games for the first Honeycomb tablets and voila – they are (almost) here. The mobile gaming company is using the Big Show in Barcelona to unveil the first games developed specifically for the Android 3.0 Honeycomb platform and optimized on the NVIDIA Tegra 2 mobile super…
HTC just introduced the Salsa and ChaCha at Mobile World Congress 2011 and these Facebook phones will be coming to AT&T soon, according to the carrier. The Salsa and ChaCha can be called Facebook phones because these Android-powered devices have a dedicated button for the social network. The idea is that whenever you’re looking at…
Digital content services provider NewBay launched LifeCache Digital Vault 2.4 to provide music, photo and video cloud services for operators and device makers. LifeCache Digital Vault allows users to go beyond proprietary music clients like iTunes and access their image, music and video files from anywhere. In order to take advantage of the service, users…
Sierra Wireless used the Mobile World Congress to introduce two new 4G mobile hotspots – the AirCard 753S and AirCard 754S, both of which can connect up to five WiFi enabled devices simultaneously to the internet. The former sings along Dual-Carrier HSPA+ whereas the latter with LTE networks. Both products are scheduled for commercial shipments…
Nuance is bringing its multi-modal FlexT9 app for Android to Europe with support for six languages, including US and UK English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. The FlexT9 combines various Nuance products like Dragon Dictation, T9 Trace, T9 Write and XT9, giving consumers ability to choose how they want to communicate with their friends and…