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Google Goggles has just launched an initiative with a few partners, including T-Mobile, Buick, Disney, Diageo (parent company to Guiness, Smirnoff, Captain Morgan, and other brands) and Delta Airlines. Basically, those companies are making their print ads recognizable to Google Goggles so that when someone takes a picture with the Android or iPhone app for…
A company called Miyowa scored a big contract with ZTE, which will pre-installed Miyowa’s IM and social networking clients on its phones. As a result, users will be able to cyber schmooze while on the go via Facebook and Twitter, as well as keep in touch with their buddies across IM networks such as Windows…
Rumour has it that music ID application SoundHound has reached a global partnership with HTC, starting with preloads of the free version of their app on the Desire HD and Desire Z. Neither HTC nor SoundHound has made any announcement just yet, but word has it things will get official this morning. SoundHound is an…
Datalogic Mobile, which is a global player in the Rugged Mobile Computers market, is teaming-up with Skyhook to include Skyhook’s Core Engine on its latest generation of mobile computers (industrial PDAs). Here’s how it works (from the press release): Skyhook’s software-only location system determines precise device location quickly and accurately by synthesizing data from Wi-Fi…
Location-based services provider Placecast is teaming-up with women’s specialty retailer White House Black Market (WHBM) to launch FashionAlerts and allow shoppers receive text messages from WHBM when they pass through specific geo-fenced areas. The service works with any feature phone that can receive text messages and is now running in 26 of the retailer’s locations…
Sony’s shares went up three points in Japan after a Barron’s analyst made some off-handed speculation that Apple could make a bid for Sony, Disney, Adobe, or other major players with the oodles of money it’s been making lately. Even though this was just some innocent analysis of commentary from Steve Jobs, who said “there…
After NASA, Gowalla has found another prominent partner to help it support (and promote) its check-in service. This time their “partner in crime” is The Associated Press and the two companies teamed-up for the University Check-In Challenge to allow Gowalla users to win a $10,000 scholarship for their college as well as some cool awards…
Looks like Asus and Garmin are calling it quits come January next year, and we can’t say that we’re surprised. With the crash and burn of the Garminfone, we’re actually more surprised this didn’t happen sooner. This makes strike two for Garmin, with the Nuvifone not quite attracting anyone, either. Now that the two companies…
HTC is partnering with TomTom to make the navigation features on its smartphones better. You may be asking why the company needs to do this, as many of its best-selling Android phones come with Google Maps and Google Navigation for the heavy lifting on location but the handset maker is trying to offer its own…