Bluetooth accessories maker SuperTooth unveiled two cool products at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The first one is SuperTooth HD which is touted to be the “most advanced Bluetooth speakerphone on the market.” The device comes with new Twin Speaker V Array Technology, rocking 2 5-Watt speakers and a 5.4-Watt amplifier for higher audio…
Location Labs makes Mobile Geofencing Platform available; Launches location-based Spatial Data Storage
Location Labs announced general availability of its Geofencing platform with enhanced functionality. The cloud-based technology is made to help iPhone and Android developers accurately define virtual boundaries on the phone or in the cloud, and is already in use for interactive billboard advertising from CBS Outdoors and Intel, and “Store Alerts” functionality in Cellfire’s couponing…
Myriad Updates enables social networking in emerging markets
Myriad is bringing social networking services to emerging markets with its new solution called Myriad Updates. The idea is to allow billions of people without mobile data access to cyber schmooze while on the go, using nothing but SMS. If you remember, we’ve already covered India-based GupShup which already offers a similar service and is…
UPS Mobile for iPhone Comes to Canada
What can brown do for you? Well, if you live in Canada, brown can now calculate shipping rates, track shipments and more, right from your iPhone. Yes, as you can probably guess, the UPS Mobile iPhone App is now available in Canada. This is a welcome addition to the Apple App Store for Canadians packing…
Google launches One Pass digital content store
As part of its (evil?) plan to dominate the mobile space and rival Apple along the way, Google opened its own digital content store called Google One Pass, allowing publishers to “maintain direct relationships with their customers.” At the same time, readers will be able to access the content they’ve purchased on a number of…
Mobile World Congress: iPhone 4 wins the “Best Mobile Device” award
Just because you don’t attend, it doesn’t mean you can’t win. Take Apple for instance. Last year, Steve Jobs was named the “Mobile Personality of the Year” and this year the iPhone 4 took the Best Mobile Device award. Needless to say, Apple wasn’t at the show neither this nor last year. Judges said that…
Urban Airship launches marketer-controlled mobile messaging service
Urban Airship used the Mobile World Congress to launch two new tools for mobile marketers. First comes Urban Airship Push Composer, which is said to offer a “clean, simple, web-based dashboard” from where marketers can craft, configure and activate mobile messaging campaigns via in-app push notifications in real-time across multiple mobile platforms. The second tool…
Note taking service Catch.com raises $7 Million in Series A round of funding
Note taking service Catch.com secured $7 million in Series A funding led by Excel Venture Management. The company will use the new money to accelerate the rapid growth of its secure notes apps built on its personal content management system for smartphones. Founded in 2008, San Francisco-based Catch.com competes with Evernote and has more than…
ALK Technologies unveils CoPilot Live 9, GPS navigation app for smartphones and tablets
ALK Technologies announced a new version of its popular GPS navigation app (it calls it a “platform”) for smartphones and tablets. CoPilot Live 9 rocks a brand new user interface with context-sensitive menus, “cutting-edge routing technology” and access to local content. Among the key features included in this release, we find: Optimal routes – CoPilot…
TELUS Goes Live with ‘4G’ Network in Manitoba
For the life of me I have no idea how long the good folks of Manitoba have been waiting on a network update from TELUS. The update was a critical one for many, because without it such hallowed devices such as the iPhone 4 have remained unavailable. That is, unavailable until now. The network update…