Telmap, which we know as a white-label location-services provider, announced a new business package for mobile operators, allowing them to bundle local search, mapping and turn by turn navigation into customer subscriptions. Developed in relationship with NAVTEQ, it offers “significant benefits” to both operators and consumers, and we’ve already seen it rolled out by few…
Purchasing stamps with a text message to soon be possible in Sweden and Denmark
Remember the last time you sat a desk with a pen in your hand, an empty sheet of paper in front of you, and a head full of thoughts you’ve been struggling to express to a friend or loved one? Writing, in the traditional sense, may be dying, but that doesn’t mean the technology behind…
Qualcomm: We’re purposefully selling our chips for cheap to drive the smartphone market
Qualcomm’s Chief Financial Officer, Bill Keitel, told an audience at the Morgan Stanley Tech, Media & Telecom Conference that during the first fiscal quarter of 2011 they achieved operating margins of roughly 30% on chipsets. That figure is going to dive down to somewhere between 22% and 24% by the end of this year and…
UK operator 3 launches unlimited prepaid data plans [And they’re not joking when they say no limits]
While operators in many developed markets are starting to kill off their unlimited data plans in an effort to stop people from bringing down the multi billion dollar networks that they’re built without a full appreciation of what smartphones are capable of, UK operator 3 is opting to walk down a different path. Last December…
MEDL Mobile launches MEDL Alliance; Wants to purchase thousands of mobile apps
MEDL Mobile — which we know for their mobile app incubator and developer of a number of apps — used the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco to launch the MEDL Alliance, a program by which MEDL will acquire apps directly from developers while continuing to pay them a portion of the profits generated from…
Samsung Galaxy Pro rocks Android, BlackBerry form factor
During the Samsung SEA Forum in Singapore, the Korean company unveiled a new member of its Galaxy family – Galaxy Pro, which is a candybar-shaped Android smartphone with full QWERTY keyboard. We don’t see Android devices like this being announced that often, even though this form-factor could help BlackBerry users make the leap to the…
Third PayPal X Developer Challenge is all about Android
PayPal is organizing its third developer challenge which this time is focused on the Android platform. The company is looking for developers across the globe to build the most “innovative Android mobile apps” that leverage PayPal’s technologies — including Mobile Payments Library and Mobile Express Checkout — for mobile payments. PayPal will be honoring three…
Amiga classic Another World coming to the AppStore
If you haven’t played Another World “back in the days” you’ve missed a lot. At the time it was released on Amiga, the game looked amazing, packing an awesome vector-based graphics and great animation. Now it’s heading to the AppStore, compliments of DotEmu and Bulkypix which also brought us Gobliiins and will soon port Gobliins…
Western Union unveils foreign-exchange payment service for businesses with smartphones
Western Union is launching a new foreign-exchange (FX) payment service for small and medium-sized businesses, allowing them to make international payments from their smartphones (iPhones or BlackBerrys). The service is designed for “busy professionals,” providing them with an intuitive interface to make business payments in more than 140 currencies. According to Western Union, it [the…
TheTrainLine.com app now accepts payments from almost any mobile phone
Last time we talked about mobile ticketing solution provider Masabi, they managed to secure $2 million in funding from m8 Capital. Now the company announced that its mobile rail ticket purchase application for thetrainline.com supports pretty much any mobile phone out there, whether it’s a smartphone or feature phone. The mentioned app allows users to…