My favorite note-taking tool Evernote is now used by more than 3 million people. According to the “official blog post,” this milestone has been reached in record time. They crossed the 1 million registered users mark after 15 month, 2 million after 7 months and only 4 months for the third million. In other words,…
OpenTable: We’ve seated more than 3 million diners through our mobile apps!
OpenTable, the online restaurant reservation service which also has its mobile application for various platforms, issued a press release with some impressive numbers. Here are the highlights: More than 3 million diners have been seated through OpenTable mobile apps, marking a 200% increase in eight months. Based on a $50 average check per diner, OpenTable…
Juniper Research: Mobile payments market to quadruple by 2014; Set to reach $630 billing in value
A new study from Juniper Research, “Mobile Payments Markets: Strategies & Forecasts 2010-2014”, has found that the value of mobile payments for digital and physical goods, money transfers and NFC (Near Field Communications) transactions will reach almost $630 billion by 2014, which is up from $170 billion this year. According to Juniper, the growth across…
Rogers Gives Away New Text Messaging Features
On top of their Social View plans released yesterday, Rogers is unveiling some new SMS options that are free for all customers. You can now set auto-reply texts for when you’re unavailable over extended periods of time, block irritating text senders, copy your incoming and outgoing texts to an e-mail address for later reference, forward…
Wind Mobile Launches Mid-Range “Charged” Data Add-On
Wind Mobile has filled in their plans with a third option between their high-end Infinite and smaller Social Mobile data add-ons. The new Charged add-on goes for goes for $20/month and offers 500 MB of data and 4 cents per MB beyond that, available for both their BlackBerry 9700 and other smartphones. Charged is a…
YourAppReviewed.com sells positive iPhone app reviews
After pay per blog post and pay per tweet services, I guess we expected a service like this to emerge. A company/website called YourAppReviewed.com offers positive app review services for the iPhone apps. There are three packs of reviews to choose from – Trial Pack which comes with 5 reviews, Standard Pack with 10, and…
TomTom to get its app store, too
As everyone and their mama getting an app store these days, why would TomTom be any difference. They aren’t – the navigation technology developer said it will have its own app storefront by the end of this year. The news comes on heels of the launch of TomTom Go 1000 Live device, which comes with…
Rogers Expands HSPA+ Coverage, Intros Social View Plans
Rogers has expanded their HSPA+ coverage to Regina, Saskatoon and Winnipeg, following up on their announcement last summer. Since then, 21 Mbps mobile broadband has been made available in most of the major cities across Canada, including Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Kingston, Halifax, Edmonton, Quebec City, and lots more. The expansion competes with Bell and…
Mobile payments provider Zong raises $15 million in funding
Mobile payments provider Zong has raised $15 million in funding from a round led by Matrix Partners. The Palo Alto-based company is in the lucrative market of virtual currency for social gaming and has recently scored a major deal with Facebook to power-up their virtual currency platform – Facebook Credits. Beyond Facebook, Zong also works…
The first augmented reality flashmob organized for Layar users in Amsterdam, Netherlands
I’ve no idea how we missed reporting on the first Layar-powered augmented reality flashmob in the world. It happened at the Dam Square in Amsterdam on April 24th. Sander Veenhof is the creator behind this amazing idea and to turn it into (augmented) reality, he has teamed up with TAB Worldmedia, one of the leading…