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Mobile payments company PaymentOne launched the PayOne HTML5 API, which provides an HTML5 compliant web-based payment flow for mobile app developers looking to monetize their offerings across multiple platforms and devices with a “charge it to my mobile phone bill” payment method. As a result, developers who pick HTML5 as their platform of choice can…
It looks like Microsoft has completed a version of its Office productivity software for the iPad and the app is awaiting Apple’s approval and should be available in a few weeks, according to a report from The Daily. The Daily says that the Office for iPad app enables users to create and store Word, Excel…
I’m a big fan of the Stitcher Radio app (I have over 800 hours of usage, it tells me) and the company just released an updated iPhone app which will guarantee that my friends know how much I dig it because it now includes integration with Facebook’s Timeline. Once you download the updated app and…
Bing announced that its mobile client for Windows Phone will get two cool features. First there’s Bing Vision, the neat feature that turns your phone into a scanner that works with barcodes, CD, DVD and book covers, detecting product information and associated links. Moreover, if you’re scanning some product, Bing provides you with local availability…
Google updated its Google+ app for iOS-based devices. The main new thing is Instant Upload, which once enabled will automatically upload all your photos and videos to a private album on Google+ from where you can easily share them with your circles, or the world. Please note that this new feature is only active while…
Those of you with Sprint’s version of Samsung Galaxy S II, aka Epic 4G Touch, can finally take and make Skype video calls. In order to do so, you’ll have to grab the latest version of the Android app, which also updates calling interface and adds “improved quality” — we guess they refer to calls,…
YouMail, the company behind the popular visual voice-mail service, launched a new service to allow any owner of a US phone number to control their personal brand through caller ID. In that sense, the company launched a new website at who.youmail.com where users can enter their phone number and see what their current caller ID…
Barclays Pingit is a new money-sending service launched by one of UK’s largest bank. Using it, some 1.9 million Barclays’ customers are able to make instant money transfers to anyone with a UK-based mobile phone and a current account with any UK bank. And that’s like a start with Barclays promising to extend Pingit to…
A recent Best Buy ad is jumping the gun a bit, suggesting that the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet has access to apps for Twitter and Kindle, when sadly it does not. Instead of assuming Best Buy just got their facts wrong, it’s much more likely that it knows something we don’t: Twitter and Kindle are coming…
The Apple App Store has been a phenomenal success and the company is about to reach the 25 billion download mark. It wants to celebrate and reward one lucky fan out there: if you wind up downloading the 25 billionth app for the iPhone, iPod touch or iPad, you could win a $10,000 App Store…