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Google is poised to bring Near Field Communication to the United States in a big way this upcoming year. The company is reportedly preparing to test a mobile NFC payment system in New York and San Francisco that will rollout in the upcoming months. Google has purchased and is installing thousands of VeriFone Near Field…
What’s the first thing you think of when you hear “Mike Tyson” and “game” in the same sentence? If you’re at least in college right now, chances are good that you’ll be thinking of the original Mike Tyson’s Punch Out game on the Nintendo NES gaming console. Well, the controversial boxing champ is back at…
As soon as the iPad 2 was confirmed to have dual cameras, you knew there would be a deluge of applications using these cameras in an entertaining way. The first such application to hit the App Store is AR Magic Mirror, a facial augmented reality application for the iPad 2. The application uses the front and…
We’re at SXSW 2011 in beautiful Austin (find our coverage here) and we talked to Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley and he told us about what we can expect from the future of the location-based check-in service. Foursquare 3.0 just launched less than a week ago and it featured a major redesign for multiple platforms. You…
The SXSW 2011 festival in Austin, TX has been overrun with group messaging apps from every corner of the world. The mobile technology trends we’re seeing out here are being fueled by personal recommendation apps and grilled cheese sandwiches (seriously), but the biggest trend, by far, is the group messaging trend. So, when we ran…
Hopefully, you were watching our live coverage of the iPad 2 launch live on the streets of Austin for the SXSW conference and festival. We couldn’t help but rip into it on the streets for our unboxing so check out our first streetside unboxing of the iPad 2. The Apple iPad 2 is not necessarily…
The biggest tech/geek/music/film festival of the year is about to kick into high gear, and the IntoMobile crew will be pounding the ground in Austin, TX to bring you real-time coverage of the SXSW 2011 conference. There’s no need to feel left out of the SXSW party, as we’ll be live-streaming all the happenings from…
Opera just launched its own in-browser app store for Opera Mini and Mobile but that didn’t sit well with GetJar and the largest independent app store has ejected Opera Mini from its store. In a blog post set to go live soon, GetJar clarified the move in a message to PaidContent: The simple problem is…
Foursquare is preparing for an update that will become available tonight for iOS and Android. The new update looks like it will be a pretty major overhaul for the application and will make the user experience a little more rich. For now, Foursquare has been a rather passive application for me. The joy of becoming…
A few years ago, upskirt photos being taken on mobile devices became quite problematic in Japan and South Korea. Officials in both countries started cracking down on those perverts, especially in trains where most of the crimes were taking place. In fact, phones were required to make a shutter sound every time their cameras were…