Some time ago we talked about Greystripe’s unique proposal to offer free iPhone app developers guaranteed download for 99 cents per download. Now we have some campaign results to share. The program was offered to the first 200 developers who signed up and included such brands as Kraft, Chorus and PlayMesh. All campaigns reached their…
Juniper Research: Mobile cloud application revenues to hit $9.5 billion by 2014
Juniper Research is out with the latest report on mobile cloud computing. The company forecasts that the annual revenues from cloud-based mobile applications will reach nearly $9.5 billion by 2014. The main factors that will contribute to this growth are need for converged collaborative services, the widespread adoption of mobile broadband, and the deployment of…
T-Mobile USA offers doubleTwist’s Multimedia Sync to the Android smartphone users
A company called doubleTwist announced the availability a custom version of its Multimedia Sync software for T-Mobile USA’s Android smartphone customers. A custom installer comes pre-loaded on the T-Mobile myTouch 3G Fender Limited Edition, whereas existing customers — owning T-Mobile G1, Motorola Cliq, Samsung Behold II or T-Mobile myTouch 3G — can download the software…
Grammy gets its iPhone app
Grammy is out with its own iPhone app called “Guess the GRAMMYs,” developed in partnership with Diversion Media. It’s a free social media app that allows users to challenge their friends on GRAMMY trivia, while at the same time showcasing the award show’s countless marquee performances, and offering a trove of exclusive photos. You can…
Lumosity.com launches Lumosity Brain Trainer for the iPhone
Brain-training gaming destination Lumosity.com is joining the iPhone race with an app called… guess… Lumosity Brain Trainer. The new application promises to deliver a “complete brain training experience in a mobile format.” In other words, they are mobile-izing their website, and allow users to track their progress using the so called “Brain Performance Index” (BPI)…
Shazam Encore Music ID Comes to BlackBerry
Shazam has been identifying, grabbing lyrics for, and allowing purchases of songs on BlackBerry since last spring, with Storm compatibility arriving a little bit later in the summer. Since then, a new version came around to iPhone (and now BlackBerry) called Shazam Encore, which hosted faster song lookup, recommendations, and optimizations for song ID while…
‘The Missing Sync’ Now Compatible with Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus
With the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus now available on Verizon, I was wondering how long it was going to take the folks at Mark/Space to launch their syncing solution for these new webOS offerings. Turns out it didn’t take them very long at all. This morning, I received a note from Mark/Space…
State of the Mobile Web December 2009: Opera Mini is now 4 years old, has 46.3 million users
In November 2005 Opera Mini went public in a limited trial offered to only Sweden and Norway. A few months later, January 2006, it would be released globally, and this month Opera is celebrating 4 years of having their wickedly awesome Opera Mini browser available around the world. As per every month in recent history,…
Truphone for Android updated with Nexus One support
Just when we reported that Truphone has released a brand new version of its client for the Android platform, the company sent us an additional release saying that the Nexus One is now on the list of supported devices. This effectively unlocks WiFi calling on Google’s superphone and Truphone adds that their software is the…
Good for Enterprise iPhone app updated with support for IBM Lotus Domino and Notes
It was not that long ago when we talked about the Good for Enterprise iPhone app, which provides users with enterprise-class messaging and collaboration experience with all the security, visibility, and control that IT requires. It has been updated recently to include support for IBM Lotus Domino and Notes. In addition to IBM Lotus Notes…