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It looks like shoppers were turning to their smartphones this holiday shopping season, as PayPal said mobile shopping grew 310% on Black Friday. PayPal, which has multiple mobile apps for all the major smartphone platforms, also said it saw a 27% increase in total payment volumes on Black Friday. PayPal has said that it expects…
Back in early October, we reported that EA Mobile’s Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit would be hitting the App Store “soon.” The one thing I’ve been enjoying about covering mobile games is when a company says they’re releasing one of their titles soon, they really do mean soon. In the case of Need for Speed:…
The GSMA announced the launch of the first ever GSMA Band App Audition, which is an app developer competition calling for mobile app concepts for the artists to engage with their fans throughout the world. For the competition, GSMA engaged some well-known names such as Muse, Faithless, upcoming new artists Metric and Eliza Doolittle, while…
Tokyo, Japan-based AITIA Corporation has launched what they say is the world’s first augmented reality motion video and still image shooting application called “Mosimo Camera” for Android smartphones. The name “Mosimo” comes from “what if…” in Japanese and the idea is to allow users to take incredible photos — i.e. “what if your girlfriend sparkled…
Bitstream was all proud to announce that their BOLT mobile browser is the first such solution to fully support Indic languages. More precisely, BOLT supports nine languages spoken as a first language by an estimated 1.3 billion people living in India and the surrounding regions — including Hindi (India’s official language), Bengali, Gurumukhi, Telugu, Tamil,…
Windows Phone 7 is still such a baby platform with a long way to go in terms of refinement and app availability, but it looks like decent Twitter support is coming right along. MahTweets has taken matters into its own hands with a Windows Phone 7 app that supports push notifications for Twitter mentions and…
Like clockwork, the Notion Ink blog has been updated to give us more details on the upcoming Android tablet, the Adam. This time around we’re hearing more about the calendar application, new sections of the website, and what the company plans to be in the future. While the calendar application on smartphones or tablets may…
MEDL Mobile launched the enhanced version of its popular Mall Maps mobile application to further make holiday shopping more enjoyable (and to make sure you’re not spending too much time in a mall, one would add). Anyway, new features included in this release are: Detailed store floor plans Store list with corresponding directory numbers Ability…
metaio, the company behind the popular augmented reality browser – junaio, announced that three companies are adopting their technology to launch AR campaigns – Connecticut Magazine, amNewYork and GSMA. amNewYork, which is Manhattan’s most distributed daily newspaper, used junaio to present readers with enriched editorials, such as Macy-sponsored flying balloons and the solution to a…
Nokia Beta Labs launched a new application for the geek community – Nokia Connectivity Analyzer. Before you go “it’s not just for geeks,” let me assure you that an average mobile phone user doesn’t check the status of his or her network connection. At least that’s the way I see it – and I’m definitely…