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 LocationPoint ad network expands with the addition of Appello, Co-Pilot Live, NAVIGON, Ndrive, Poynt, RIM, Samsung and Telmap
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…
NewBay launches LifeCache Digital Vault music and video cloud service for operators and device makers; Teams-up with LG
Digital content services provider NewBay launched LifeCache Digital Vault 2.4 to provide music, photo and video cloud services for operators and device makers. LifeCache Digital Vault allows users to go beyond proprietary music clients like iTunes and access their image, music and video files from anywhere. In order to take advantage of the service, users…
RIM Buys Gist for Rich Contact Info on BlackBerry
As expected, RIM has acquired Gist, a company that offers an e-mail and meeting service which ranks and prioritizes incoming messages, as well as offers web-based contextual info about who’s contacting you. Gist figures out who’s most important to you based on how often you interact, and farms up data from blogs and social networks…
SPB Software, Spatial View team-up on glasses-free stereoscopic 3D mobile UI
Mobile software developer SPB Software is teaming-up with Spatial View, a pioneer in stereo 3D auto-stereoscopic technologies, to showcase the first glasses-free stereoscopic 3D mobile UI for Android. The new software apparently comes with “full navigation capabilities,” featuring an all-encompassing home screen with animated 3D widgets, 3D folders and customizable panels in stereoscopic 3D. I…
Orange France, Scanbuy team-up on Flashcode mobile barcode service
Mobile barcode solutions provider Scanbuy has partnered with Orange France to power Flashcode, a mobile barcode service that will allow marketers in France to create, edit, manage and generate a rich set of analytics about their mobile barcodes. Scanbuy will provide its carrier grade self-managed platform, along with mobile apps for all major platforms that…
Japanese Docomo and Korean KT team-up on cross-border NFC
NTT Docomo announced an agreement with South Korea’s KT Corporation to use near field communication (NFC) technologies to develop cross-border services for mobile payments, mass-transit ticketing, promotional coupons and other services. If everything goes as planned, the two market-leading operators will launch in their respective markets from around the end of 2012. Through the joint…
Cellfire, Location Labs team-up on location-driven grocery coupons
Cellfire is teaming-up with Location Labs for the Store Alerts feature in the new Cellfire iPhone and Android applications. Thanks to the new feature made possible with this partnership, users will receive real-time alerts about available coupons in nearby grocery stores from Cellfire’s network of 5,000 grocery locations. Best of all, customers can choose the…
10 new companies join Wholesale Applications Community, including HP, IBM, Adobe, SAP and Panasonic
The Wholesale Applications Community (WAC) is getting stronger with the day, with 10 new companies joining the alliance. The new members include Adobe, Amdocs, Eyeline, HP, IBM, Minigate, Neustar, Panasonic, SAP and SanDisk, bringing the total membership count to 68. HP is probably the most interesting new addition to the eco-system, hinting us we may…
French mobile operators team-up with Atos Origin on mobile payment service Buyster
Electronic payments solution provider Atos Origin is teaming-up with three of the leading mobile operators in France — Bouygues Telecom, Orange and SFR — to launch an “innovative payment solution” called Buyster. The new joint venture is being backed by the country’s major online retailers, including Aquarelle, Brandalley, Darty and Rue du Commerce. Buyster enables…