Reading over an androidcommunity.com, the guys there are saying that the nex-gen Puma phone is going to be rocking Android – oh yeah? Nice! Apparently, during a launch event for the current device (!), an EVP Marketing commented that Sagem are looking to go with the Google OS in a big way in upcoming devices.…
Forum Nokia’s Bill Perry: Ovi Store now serves more than 1.6 million downloads a day!
It seems that after new enhancements, Nokia’s Ovi Store is finally picking up the pace. We did reported that Digital Chocolate has experienced some success in selling its games to the Nokia phone users, and now we have some additional numbers to prove things are going well for the world’s largest handset maker. According to…
Juniper Research: Revenues from mobile health monitoring to reach $1.9 billion by 2014
Juniper Research is out with a new report titled “Mobile Healthcare Opportunities: Monitoring, Applications & mHealth Strategies 2010-2014.” In it, they forecast that revenues from remote patient monitoring using mobile networks will rise to almost $1.9 billion globally by 2014. Heart based monitoring in the US will account for the bulk of early mobile monitoring…
NextGen Tracks Body Weight with BlackBerry and Wi-Fi Scale
Fitness software developer Gym Technik has just struck up a partnership with Withings (who make a Wi-Fi-enabled weight scale) to allow you to track your weight progress on a BlackBerry application. What happens is, once you step onto the scale, you get an e-mail with the results, and then you can launch the BlackBerry app from…
Vodafone to launch its own Android app store?
Vodafone (like other carriers) refuses to be turned into a dumb pipe. They want to control the user experience and make additional money out of it. On that note, we bring you this story which involves the Big Red and their plans to launch a special version of the Android Market called “Android App Shop.”…
Nokia to announce Ovi Maps and Messaging integration tomorrow, no new devices
Nokia put up a count down timer to an event set to kick off in a little under 22 hours, and while fanbois may be foaming at the mouth, expecting to finally hear some information about the N8 that’s been leaked to high heaven, Eldar from Mobile-Review has it under good authority that what we’re…
Continental and Nokia team-up to connect your mobile phone with an in-vehicle display
Continental and Nokia are joining forces to enable drivers to connect, display and control mobile phone applications via an in-vehicle dashboard display. The name of the game (technology) is Terminal Mode and the goal is to improve the usability of services such as telephony, navigation, social networking and music in an automotive environment “while keeping…
Digital Chocolate scores 4 million game downloads on Nokia’s Ovi store
It’s not like every day we have some Ovi Store success story to share. Unfortunately for Nokia, they haven’t been able to repeat Apple’s AppStore success. If you look at Shazam’s example, it has hit 1 million Ovi Store downloads after 7 month, compared to 1.5 million in 2 months on AppStore. To be fair,…
Parkmobile brings its mobile parking payment service to downtown and midtown Atlanta
Parkmobile is yet again extending its somewhat complicated to use mobile parking payment service to eight Lanier Parking Solutions lots located in downtown and midtown Atlanta. It’s complicated because it requires that you register before using the service. Still if you’ve already paid parking with Parkmobile in the past, that shouldn’t impact you — you…
Google adds QR codes to it’s URL shortener- will mass adoption ever come?
Google has recently added QR code integration to its URL shortener, Goog.gl. People using the URL shortener can now have a custom QR code, making it easy to access the link by scanning it with your phone. How this is easier than clicking a link, I don’t know, but it could prove to have its…