U.S. retailer JCPenney is partnering with Cellfire on mobile coupons, allowing shoppers to “ring up savings with an innovative cell-phone coupon program.” As a result, interested customers will be able to carry their coupons with them, no matter where they happen to be, and show/scan them directly from the phone’s screen at the register. For…
TomTom iPhone Car Kit gets priced at $120
Following on a UK leak that revealed the TomTom iPhone Car Kit’s pricing at €99.99, TomTom has nipped US pricing rumors in the bud with a press release confirming a $120 price-point for the US. The press release (find it here) isn’t filled with the usual marketing fluff we’re used to seeing, it just gets…
Palm Pre gets homebrew video recording
The list of things the Palm Pre is good at doing is considerable. The Pre’s webOS can multi-task like it’s nobody’s business, it’s great at aggregating your social network contacts and it’ll even allow you to pinch and zoom your way through web-pages. Video recording isn’t officially on that list. Unofficially, however, the Palm Pre…
Palm releases webOS 1.2 with premium apps in tow
We’ve been waiting for Palm to release its webOS 1.2 update ever since rumors pointed at a September 24 launch date. That day came and passed with nary a peep from Palm. Today, Palm is making some noise with the release of webOS 1.2 and its support for premium, paid webOS apps. The arrival of…
Google stops Android modder Cyanogen from making cool tweaks
When Google says “stop,” you stop (and desist). Just ask Cyanogen. The prolific Android hacker/modder/developer has apparently been issued the dreaded “cease and desist” notice from the almighty Google. From what we can gather, Google isn’t taking Cyanogen’s Android hacking lightly – especially the part where he distributes closed-source Android apps like Market, Talk, Gmail,…
Freeverse Announces Augmented Reality Game: Fairy Trails
Freeverse has announced the Fairy Trails App, an augmented reality game for iPhone and iPod touch, leveraging the latest technology in iPhone OS 3.1 including camera and compass access! Shake the device to power the detector and then scan your surroundings for magical creatures. Fairy Trails uses the camera and compass of iPhone 3GS to…
Vodafone announces new ‘360’ service
Ha ha. See what I did there with the title? No? Nevermind. Anyway, Vodafone has announced it’s new ‘360’ service, which in simple terms, is a social networks aggregator that sync contacts between your phone, the InterWeb, and your computer. But why have me tell you when Vodafone can say it so much better: Vodafone…
New App: Netsuite does ERP
Netsuite has announced a new, free app for the iPhone and iPod touch, available on the Apple App Store. This is the very first cloud computing mobile enterprise resource planning (ERP) app available in the App store which means that for the first time, businesses can run their financials on their iPhones. Everyone knows an…
Robotvision – Bing-powered Augmented Reality for iPhone
Now that the iPhone OS 3.1 is officially official, the iPhone 3GS is free to play around with all sorts of cool AR apps. One of the coolest new augmented reality apps for iPhone is Robotvision. The iPhone AR app uses Bing’s new Bring iPhone SDK to help iPhone 3GS users to find nearby Tweets,…
Nokia battling for Ovi brand in Brazil
Nokia’s Ovi brand apparently isn’t as unique as the Finnish mobile phone giant would like. Ovi is Nokia’s online portal for mobile services, app and music downloads, and videos. Turns out, there’s a similar mobile-related brand called “Ouvi” in Brazil. And, you know what happens when competing trademarks and copyrights in the mobile space butt…