Following on from my post last week about T-Mobile re-designing the ‘My T-Mobile’ part of their site, Verizon has gone and done the same apparently! One of our readers (thanks Johnny!) spotted the changes, and pinged us a URL to take a look at – and wouldn’t you know it, it’s re-design central! Fascinatingly, one…
New MetroPCS Service Transcribes Voicemail to Text Messages
MetroPCS just launched a new voicemail-to-text service for $3/month, that can send full voicemail messes via SMS or e-mail. The audio files are attached if you need to listen to it the old-fashioned way because the transcription is wonky. This is similar to the services offered by third parties like Google Voice, SpinVox andPhoneTag, only this MetroPCS…
Truphone brings its free and low-cost calling service and instant messaging to the iPad
In all but surprising news we have Truphone announcing an iPad version of its multi-network instant messaging and VoIP client. As a result, they say that iPad is instantly turned into a (quite large) phone. You can chat with your buddies across IM networks — AIM, Google Talk and MSN — as well as call…
Skyhook Wireless’ Local Faves allows iPhone developers to make their apps location-aware
Skyhook Wireless is out with another SDK, Local Faves, which this time allows developers to add location tagging, community and check-in functionality to any iPhone app. Here’s how it works and what it does (their own words): Local Faves helps developers create engaging communities within apps, driving user loyalty and more opportunities for monetization. In…
American Express launches its iPhone app
American Express is catching up with the rest of the industry. These days, everyone’s about iPad, but not American Express – they’ve just released an iPhone app, hinting us they are not on the cutting edge of technology, unfortunately. To be fair, they already had mobile website up and running and even SMS alerts, but…
Toshl expense tracking app is web connected and I love it for that!
I guess we all agree it’s a good practice to keep track of your expenses. There are quite a few mobile apps that allow you to do just that, but there is one problem all of them have – what happens when you switch phones or even platforms? The data from you previous phone is…
South Africa’s Vodacom to launch M-PESA mobile money service in South Africa
South Africa’s Vodacom is teaming up with local banking group Nedbank to launch the mobile money service – M-PESA. The service, which was originally created as a pilot funded jointly by Vodafone and the UK Department for International Development [DFID] Financial Deepening Challenge Fund, has proved immensely successful in Kenya, Tanzania and Afghanistan, and has…
Mplayit: People are more willing to pay for mobile apps than you think
Mplayit, the Facebook application/service that lets users discover and share new and interesting mobile apps, released their latest mobile app analysis, showing that more than one-third of users across all top mobile platforms are interested in paid applications. According to Mplayit, that goes against conventional wisdom that users aren’t willing to pay for anything. Here…
Truphone offers free calls for Easter
Truphone has a special offer for Easter – the company is running a 48-hour-long promotion that includes free calls to landline numbers in the United States, Canada, UK, Australia, Germany, China, France, Italy, Spain and the Philippines; as well as mobile calls to the U.S., Canada and China! In other words — as they say…
Synchronica acquires Colibria’s Instant Messaging and Presence Service business
Synchronica is acquiring Colibria’s IMPS Instant Messaging business, reseller agreements and existing worldwide mobile operator customer base to accelerate its entry into the “fast-growing mobile IM sector and help to achieve its goal of becoming the leader in next-generation mobile messaging for emerging markets.” The company [Synchronica] wowed to continue developing, marketing and supporting Colibria’s…