Goby has released an iPhone application bringing its activity search engine to the palm of your hand. Using the dedicated application (and Goby’s website, for that matter), you can easily find nearby activities, make weekend plans or explore a new location with just three taps. The service has over four million unique things to do…
Ovi Store improved with 5-star rating system, more app information
Nokia is tackling the Ovi Store issues, as reported by their users. The updated client comes with few notable changes: Now it’s easier to browse around the store and pick apps you want to download/purchase, with many of them [applications] coming with example screenshots. Rating system went from 3 to 5 stars. In addition, only…
Seven to power Samsung’s Social Hub
Samsung has partnered with email specialist Seven to offer push-email (and some other) services to its Social Hub users. The service was unveiled as part of the Korean company’s efforts to push its Bada platform and offer an addition value for users, whether they own the Wave or the recently announced Galaxy S smartphone. In…
Knocking Live Video ported to Android; Allows live video sharing between iPhone and Android users!
Remember Knocking Live Video, the iPhone application/service that allows users to stream video to other people who also use Knocking Live Video? It has been updated and also released for Android. As you can guess from the post’s title, this means that both iPhone and Android users can beam video to each other, which is…
Juniper Research: Mobile web presence-based revenues to generate $6 billion by 2012
Juniper Research’s Mobile Web 2.0 report forecasts that the value of presence based Mobile Web 2.0 services will increase to more than $6 billion by 2012. Two factors that will help spur the growth are a growing number of smartphone users and an increased usage of mobile instant messaging. However, the report also noted problems…
Springpad wants to make sense of your notes; Can it take on Evernote?
There’s a new note taking tool out there and an accompanying iPhone app – Springpad. Like Evernote (my personal favorite), it allows users to save and access things they want to remember. However, it also adds something new to the table – it can read a portion of your content and put it in context.…
Video: Demo of Novarra [Opera Mini, minus the need for special client software]
When Nokia bought Chicago based Novarra, I was trying really hard to figure out what the company actually did. Yes, the press release was clear in saying that it helped web browsing speeds, but I’m a very stupid person. I need to see a product demo to register what exactly your product does. Reading a…
Tata Indicom Launches First Weekly Prepaid BlackBerry Plan
Last fall, Indian carrier Tata Indicom announced some innovative pricing plans for texting, and are now following up with an interesting new plan for BlackBerry users – prepaid weekly. The weekly service is busted up into messaging and data options, available in 85 and 250 Rs bundles respectively, but are also available for 299 and…
Nokia’s Comes With Music renamed to Ovi Music Unlimited in India
Nokia is bringing its Comes With Music (CMW) scheme to India under the name Ovi Music Unlimited. As far as I’ve understood, it’s not some separate, new service but the one the Finnish giant is already offering in other markets around the world. That made me think – are we about to see the global…
Opera Mini: State of the Mobile Web February 2010: Users up, page views and data down
Opera Mini, a piece of software that runs on most feature phones and smart phones that intercepts your request for a webpage, sends it to a remote server that compresses said webpage by up to 90%, and then spits it back to your device, is becoming more and more popular each month. In the latest…