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Sony Ericsson is bringing its flagship Xperia arc smartphone to Japan. However, since we’re talking about the Land of the rising Sun, some tweaks here and there were required to appeal to the tech-savvy Japanese users. That said, the arc has a new name in Japan – acro, but we’re talking about pretty much the…
Glu Mobile announced a multi-title partnership with Blammo Games, founded by the game industry veteran Christopher Locke, who most recently built and ran the studio responsible for freemium top ten grossing iOS titles Smurfs’ Village and Zombie Cafe. Moreover, he also served as external producer on another popular game – Lil’ Pirates. As part of…
Parkmobile keeps expanding the network where it allows people to pay for parking using nothing but their mobile phone. Their latest target is Chattanooga, which is the fourth-largest city in Tennessee. The company will implement its solution at CARTA surface lots located in and around the downtown Chattanooga area. In order to use Parkmobile, customers…
A company called DigiMo wants a share of the ever-growing mobile payments market. Hence they’ve launched their own platform, touting it as the “first true mobile payment solution” that requires no hardware or software modification at either the Point-Of-Sale (POS) or mobile device (works with any feature phone). Available for immediate deployment worldwide, DigiMo’s platform…
Mobile marketing platform provider Velti, which we’ve already talked about in the past, launched version 8.0 of its mobile marketing platform, saying it’s the largest such solution on the market. According to the press release, mGage 8.0 builds on the “strengths of the previous release” by providing a fully integrated single environment across the different…
American Airlines is all proud to announce they are the first North American airline to begin testing the new inflight streaming video product from Aircell. Using the new service, passengers will get a new entertainment option, allowing them to wirelessly stream movies and TV shows to their personal Wi-Fi-enabled devices during flight. American and Aircell…
In what seems as a strange partnership, Glu Mobile is teaming-up with Full Fathom Five, the publishing company of best-selling author James Frey, for a “groundbreaking transmedia collaboration.” As part of the deal, James Frey and Full Fathom Five will work closely with Glu on the creation of a minimum of four original story ideas…
Cricket has been steadily adding new markets for its Muve Music service and voila – they are now offering it in all of its markets. The newly added markets include Fort Smith, Jonesboro and Little Rock, AR; Fresno, Merced and Visalia, CA; Macon and Savannah, GA; Boise, ID; Lincoln and Omaha, NE; Buffalo, Rochester and…
Although we’ve seen Sammy’s Galaxy S WiFi 4.0 and 5.0 at the Mobile World Congress, the Korean company made them officially official yesterday, almost three months after the big event in Barcelona, Spain. As you probably know we’re talking about Android-powered media players which come with pretty much the same specs as the Galaxy S…
Nokia-owned mobile location-based service enabler NAVTEQ, which BTW is in the midst of re-organization to better work with Microsoft, launched its mobile ad network NAVTEQ LocationPoint in China. NAVTEQ’s ad network is already embraced by a number of companies, including Appello, Co-Pilot, NAVIGON, Poynt, RIM, Samsung and Telmap — all of which will be able…