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For all the guff AT&T gets about its mobile data usage in major cities, I’m pretty glad they have John Donovan as its Chief Technology Officer. Donovan’s an interesting cat. A self-proclaimed gadget freak, he carriers an HTC Android device (Aria?), a BlackBerry Bold, an iPhone 4, a Kindle, an iPad and other things. I’m…
Google is looking to make it easier to create mobile programs for Android and its just-launched App Inventor makes it simple to create programs with little, to no experience. The new development tool has been in work for over a year and it essentially creates a drag-and-drop interface for mobile program development. This doesn’t mean…
We’ve been hearing about a project from RIM called BlackBerry Shield for some time, first in March, then again a few weeks ago. The rumours were all true, and RIM has announced the private beta of what they’re calling BlackBerry Protect. It exists as both a web service and an on-device application, and can help…
After the iPhone and Nokia smartphones, Syntonetic is bringing its Moodagent music app to devices running Android 1.5 or higher. The application creates mood-based playlists using sliders labeled Sensual, Tender, Happy, Angry and Tempo. You can lock a track to ensure a particular song appears in each new playlist or exclude it from all list…
To all of you who downloaded Borders ebook client or grabbed Borders’ ebook reading device, the book retailer has a surprise for you – five free top-selling books valued at more than $40. The offer is valid through Wednesday, July 14th, and includes such popular titles as Dean Koontz’s “Frankenstein: Prodigal Son,” Lee Child’s “One…
Verizon Wireless is joining Christopher Nolan’s Inception movie campaign, big time. Here’s what they got: A special mobile game called “Inception: Mind Crime,” which is available for Motorola DROID and HTC DROID Incredible users by texting “WAKEUP” to 5500. The free app provides access to exclusive film information, video content and images, artwork, and music,…
Avatron Software, the same company that produced Air Display HD for iPad, has another interesting application. Called Air Sharing, this app works on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad (special version), allowing users to wirelessly transfer virtually any file format — including Microsoft Office docs, PDFs and image files — to their device(s) and view,…
The trivago hotel search is out with its iPhone app, allowing users to book hotels when away from their computers. There are more than 400,000 hotels in trivago’s database which you can now search while on the go. The best part of the iPhone app is automatic location-based searching for hotels. In other words, trivago…
AT&T is teaming up with wireless payment company Apriva to launch new mobile payment applications for small businesses, AprivaPay and AprivaPay Professional, allowing them [small businesses] to accept credit and debit cards while on the go. As you may know, the mobile payments market has a bright future with Generator Research forecasting it will grow…
After releasing iPhone and iPad apps, PriceGrabber is “going Android.” Similarly to their iOS application(s), PriceGrabber for Google’s mobile OS allows users to: Scan barcodes and search PriceGrabber’s catalog for the best price from thousands of retailers. Search, browse and compare products – you can search by product name, UPC, manufacturer’s part number, most popular…