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BlackBerry World gets started in earnest tomorrow, and ahead of the show, RIM has announced the BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 that we’ve been hearing about for so very long. You might recognize the form factor as a lot like the old 9000, but the big difference here is that the screen is now touch-sensitive, along with…
Zynga has acquired UK-based mobile game developer Wonderland Software, which is best known for its iOS hit game GodFinger. As a result, Wonderland Software will become Zynga Mobile UK, marking Zynga’s first operating studio in the UK. Also under the deal, Zynga will get Wonderland’s team and select IP, not including GodFinger. Moreover, Wonderland Software’s…
Yesterday Opera Software announced Opera Appcelerate, the service that allows developers to promote their apps among Opera web browser users (both Opera Mini and Opera Mobile). Just like Opera’s Mobile Store, the Appcelerate service is also powered by Appia, the company which provides white-label mobile app store solutions. Alongside Opera, Appia launched its own performance…
MIPS Technologies is no stranger to Android. As a matter of fact, the company was showing off few MIPS-powered smartphones and tablets running Google’s mobile OS during this year’s CES. Now they’ve announced that “mastering” Android 3.0 Honeycomb platform is their (logical) next step. MIPS Technologies is porting the latest version of Android to the…
Get ready for a “Nexus Surprise”, Android fans, as the official Google Nexus Twitter account has sent out a tweet, teasing us. What the surprise could be is anyone’s guess, but we don’t have much longer to find out what it is. While we’d like to see a new Nexus handset today, it likely won’t…
Next time you’re going to visit the capital of the U.S. you will be able to pay for the parking with nothing but your phone. Parkmobile scored a deal with the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) to allow residents, workers and visitors to pay for parking at all of the approximately 17,000 on-street metered spaces…
ValueClick announced the acquisition of mobile advertising network Greystripe. The acquisition will provide ValueClick with immediate scale in the U.S. mobile advertising market, worth $1.1 billion and expected to nearly double by 2013. Greystripe’s mobile ad platform serves billions of rich media impressions to over 30 million users through more than 3,500 applications and mobile…
In a move designed to cut consumer costs on international text messages, Rebtel introduced ToIP (Text-over-IP) a new texting service that allows for SMS through local numbers over Internet, while also giving large SMS application providers a way to extend savings to their customers. To start using the service, users should register at Rebtel’s website,…
If celebrities can have their own iPhone apps, why shouldn’t their trainers? Well one of them is taking that route – Danny Musico, who is also a former Super-Middleweight Champion of the World. His upcoming application “Danny Musico’s Celebrity Fitness”, set to hit the AppStore on May 1st, will share all the tips and tricks…
Visa is working with Gap to deliver real-time discounts and promotions to opt-in consumers via SMS. Interested customers sign-up for the service to be notified of money-saving deals in real-time while shopping. In other words, as a consumer you get to receive the mentioned special offers on your mobile device when qualifying transactions are made…