There’s a reason you’re seeing more diversity in the Android Market because Google said its application store now has more than 30,000 programs. This shows some strong growth because Google said there were about 16,000 apps a mere three months ago. The ramp up makes a lot of sense: The Droid has sold more than…
Rogers My Account App for BlackBerry Available as Beta
While talking with the Rogers guys last night about their Android My Account app, it came up that they’re also sneakily soft-launching a BlackBerry version, which will also monitor minutes, data, and text message usage. The app also enables mobile payments once your bill comes in. Not bad at all! Rogers has been in the…
Paid Apps Making Debut in Canadian Android Market
One of the biggest problems/hang-ups I’ve had with Android in Canada has been the lack of paid app action in the marketplace. For whatever reason, Google and the big Canadian carriers have had issues to sort out before paid apps were a go. Thankfully, it looks like those issues have been sorted, and paid apps…
‘Zagat To Go’ Arrives for webOS
‘Zagat To Go’, the app that connects you to trusted ratings and reviews of thousands of restaurants all over the world, is now available for webOS! Yessir, Palm Pre and Pixi users can now pop open the Zagat app to find nearby restaurants via GPS, check out service reviews, typical costs, top rated lists, browse…
Slacker Radio and Hello Music Team Up to Stream Unsigned Artists
Thanks to a deal with the new music submission service at Hello Music, Slacker Radio is now allowing unsigned artists to upload their music and create their own artist-based radio station. Cool beans. This is a huge opportunity for any unsigned band that simply wants their music to get out there, to be heard. The…
Merriam-Webster Dictionaries Now Available for BlackBerry
Need a powerful dictionary app for your BlackBerry? How about if I told you that Paragon Software Group and Merriam-Webster recently announced the availability of MANY of MW’s publications? Would you want to download them? A few days ago, Paragon and Merriam-Webster announced the availability of the following publications for BlackBerry: Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh…
PayPal releases an updated iPhone app; Bump integration included
PayPal has updated its iPhone application. The single most notable feature of the new version (at least me thinks so) is the Bump integration, thanks to which users can move money from one account to the other by simply tapping two devices together. This is a huge win for Bump, which recently opened up the…
The first mobile app-centric conference APPCON 2010 set for August 24-26 in Las Vegas
I guess we knew someone is working on such a project – a whole new conference dedicated to mobile applications. It’s called APPCON and it kicks on Tuesday, August 24 at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. The idea is to create a neutral place where all interested parties — developers, device and accessory makers,…
Snaptic note-taking tool nears 2 million installs on Android
It’s time to give space on IntoMobile to some other note-taking tool other than Evernote (which I love). 🙂 We’ll be talking about Snaptic, which announced that its note-taking application (3banana) on Google’s Android has reached nearly 2,000,000 active installs. As far as I’ve understood, we’re not talking about “pure” Snaptic client installs, but all…
Ultrabrief: Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 are no longer beta
Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 are finally final, but not for all platforms. Here’s the snippet from the press release you care about: Opera Mini 5 is available on all Java-based and BlackBerry phones, as well as Android and Windows Mobile (both in beta only) phones. Opera Mobile 10 is available on Windows…