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A quick app update here for the BlackBerry users this afternoon. If you run the official Twitter for BlackBerry application (from RIM), you can now grab an update, bringing you up to version 1.0.1.12. It’s a small update for sure, but you can never go wrong running the latest and greatest version. Inside the updated…
Although Android is everywhere these days, iOS brings in more dough in terms of ad revenue for free apps. It’s tough to say how long this trend will last given Android’s tremendous presence – it’s on hundreds of smartphones and tablets combined – but right now iOS has a pretty solid lead when it comes…
We just came back from Opera’s booth at Hall 1 where a crowd of people were hovering around, foaming from the mouth, waiting for a chance to get a crack at playing with Opera’s new browsers for tablets. Opera was showing off Opera Mini for the iPad and that baby was flying. Thanks to their…
During a keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said they are not working on Twitter-branded mobile phone. However, he did admit that 40% of all tweets originate from cell phones, the fact that prompted rumors the Twitter phone is an option for the company. Moreover, Costolo talked about…
eBay scored its first mobile pre-load deal with a carrier. Their “partner in crime” is the Spanish group Telefónica, which will pre-install eBay’s mobile app on an array of devices it offers through O2 UK. The deal includes both feature phones and smartphones, spanning multiple platforms like Android, Windows Phone 7, Symbian and Bada. Telefónica…
NAVTEQ announced a great expansion of its LocationPoint ad network with major new publishers jumping on board. Among the partners announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, we now find major location-service providers such as Appello, Co-Pilot Live, NAVIGON, Ndrive, Poynt and Telmap, as well as hardware makers like RIM and Samsung – which…
Poynt’s location-based search app for Android and BlackBerry have had a few updates here at Mobile World Congress 2011. For one, the Android version will now have a gas prices widget, so you can see what’s the cheapest within the 9 closest stations. Both the Android and Blackberry versions also got a new sharing feature,…
Like we don’t already have enough Android customization options available from handset and mobile software makers, some carriers want to put their signature on the user’s devices, too. Orange is one such carrier, which used the Mobile World Congress to announce Orange Gestures and “smart” Live Wallpapers. The so called Orange Gestures, which will be…
The Wholesale Applications Community aka WAC announced the new 2.0 specification, which now includes HTML5 and multimedia support. This in turn will enable better widgets and apps that mimic native apps’ capabilities. And that’s like a start, with WAC 3.0 — set to be available in September — promising to include billing support and user…
NAVIGON updated its GPS navigation application for Android devices. There are two new things — cause only one of them is an actual feature — included in this release. First comes the so called Pedestrian Flashlight function, which means “pedestrians will safely find their way even in the dark,” turning the camera flash on their…