Fort Morgan, Colorado-based Viaero Wireless unveiled new Nationwide Plans with carry-over minutes, as well as affordable messaging and data plans. As you may know, plans with carry-over minutes allow users to accumulate unused minutes from a given billing cycle and pool them with unused minutes from previous billing cycles. Viaero users can accumulate minutes for…
Consumer Reports Mobile Shopper App Now Available for iPhone
Fans of Consumer Reports will be pleased to know that a brand-spanking new Consumer Reports iPhone app has been released. The Consumer Reports Mobile Shopper allows you to access ratings and reliability data while you’re out-and-about doing your shopping. Very convenient (and useful) to say the very least. Key features found within include: Scan barcodes,…
Chillingo announces 6 iPhone games that will hit the AppStore this fall
Chillingo, revealed six new games that will be coming soon to the Apple AppStore. The titles range from puzzlers and shooters to arcade racing and real location-based multiplayer online games. Here’s what the popular gaming publishers is cooking: Sheeple Chase (developer: Green Ant Games) A wacky race through an English farmyard where Sheep race against…
NASA badges hit Gowalla
NASA is teaming-up with location-based service Gowalla in an effort to “bring users one small step closer to the universe.” Under the deal, NASA-related information and virtual items will populate Gowalla — among the virtual items that will be included are moon rocks, a NASA patch, a spacesuit and a space shuttle. Gowalla users who…
Telefonica’s O2 launches first location-based mobile marketing service in the UK
O2 announced that it is the first network provider to offer large-scale location-based mobile marketing service in the UK. As a result, brands are able to deliver relevant SMS and MMS to consumers in a more targeted and effective way than ever before. Consumers on their end opt into the service to receive relevant messages…
Tango video calling app for iOS and Android hits 1 million downloads in 10 days
Tango, a free mobile video calling app/service for iPhone and Android which we recently covered, announced that one million people have downloaded Tango from the Apple’s AppStore and Google’s Android Market in the first 10 days of its release on September 30th! The application debuted as the number one Social Networking app in the AppStore…
Nimbuzz surpasses 150 million downloads, 3.65 billion mobile voice minutes
The folks behind the popular multi-network IM and VoIP client Nimbuzz shared some cool figures with the media. Here’s what they got: Nimbuzz mobile app has been downloaded for more than 150 million times since the application was launched in May 2008; Users have spent more than 3.65 billion mobile voice minutes on Nimbuzz; 50%…
Wattpad announces support for Windows Phone 7
There’s one thing I like about Wattpad – they are sooo platform agnostic. The so called “YouTube for e-books” already has its application available for a number of platforms and they keep adding new ones the second these are announced. Just recently, we reported they plan to support BlackBerry Tablet OS and now they’re saying…
Pocket Devil: Hell Yeah! and Flight Doodle hitting Windows Phone 7 devices!
Future Windows Phone 7 device owners may not get a chance to play Angry Birds right from the start, but there are other gaming studios that announced support for Microsoft’s new mobile platform. Eyedip is one such company, which said their popular Pocket Devil: Hell Yeah! and Flight Doodle will be included in the first…
Dark Horse Bookshelf app announced for iOS device; Set to offer single-issue comics for $1.49
During the recent New York Comic Con event, Dark Horse announced its mobile app for iOS devices, along with what they say is the “industry-changing digital comics program,” which is a win-win situation for both comic creators and readers. In other words, readers will be able to grab comics at lower prices while creators will…