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Google’s Marissa Mayer spoke at the SXSW 2011 conference and she shared some interesting stats on Google Maps for Mobile and the search giant’s future plans for location-based services. First of all, she said that the company found Google Maps had 40% usage on the mobile side, which isn’t much of a surprise considering that…
The Angry Birds phenomenon rages on with a new version of the game available for Android exclusively through the Amazon App Store. It’s a bit unusual for the game to be sold exclusively through a distributor not known for its popularity for mobile apps, so one has to wonder about the deal that Amazon and…
Are you ready for NCAA March Madness? The 2011 Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament is all setup and ready to go, and if you’re packing iOS-heat, the NCAA March Madness On Demand app for iOS is a must have. Available as a free download (awesome), NCAA March Madness On Demand packs quite a few features…
Good news for Microsoft as their Windows Phone 7 Marketplace has reportedly hit the 10,000 apps milestone faster than any other competing store, Apple’s AppStore included. The Redmond giant accomplished the goal within 4.5 month, compared to Apple’s 4.7 and Android Market’s 11 month, while Palm’s Web Store is still in the 5,000-ish figures. However,…
MOG and MINI USA are teaming-up to develop a new MINI Connected Approved App to bring MOG’s popular on-demand streaming music service to MINI vehicles equipped with the MINI Connected system. The two companies used South by Southwest to demonstrate a beta version of the application, though they failed to share the final app launch…
CloudTalk — which touts itself as a “social communications platform that enables natural communication through voice messaging, texting and photo and video sharing” — unveiled its new Partner Program at SXSW in Austin, Texas. The idea here is to allow mobile and web application developers to integrate a “whole new dimension” of voice, text and…
Poynt announced that over 1 billion consumer queries and resulting actions have been performed using the Poynt mobile local search application. The data includes searches within the app’s seven feature verticals – Businesses, People, Movies, Events, Gas, Restaurants and Weather as well as the behavioral data such as clicking to call, clicking to browse and…
Dusan touched on Tiny Wings last month, and with good reason. The game is climbing up to the top of the App Store charts all around the world. After purchasing and playing the game for myself, I couldn’t help but jot down a few notes that I had to share with you. If you’ve been…
At SXSW 2011, group messaging apps are the heat and you’ve probably heard of the Beluga and GroupMe contenders but GroupedIn is also playing in this space and its social networking integration may give it a leg up against the competition. At its core, the GroupedIn iPhone app is a group messaging app that aims…
We’re at SXSW 2011 in beautiful Austin (find our coverage here) and we talked to Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley and he told us about what we can expect from the future of the location-based check-in service. Foursquare 3.0 just launched less than a week ago and it featured a major redesign for multiple platforms. You…