AT&T unveiled a new native iPhone application for enterprise users – AT&T Workbench, using which businesses can “easily provision, deploy and control enterprise web applications for work in a highly-secure, reliable and manageable fashion.” As an integral part of AT&T MEAP (Mobile Enterprise Applications Platform — essentially AT&T’s cloud), the application provides: Role-based deployment of…
Zerista launches mobile community platform at DEMO Spring 2010
Zerista — the company that powered the mobile social network for this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona — announced that it will launch what they say is the world’s first Mobile Community Platform at DEMO Sprint 2010. According to the press release (which I got via email, if you wonder), it’s the only hybrid…
Shazam hits 1 million downloads in Nokia’s Ovi Store after 7 months; 1.5 million in 2 months on App Store
Shazam, the music service that allows users to identify what song they’re currently listening to by way of recording a short sample and then sending it to a remote server for processing, has just announced that they’ve hit 1 million downloads via Nokia’s Ovi Store since making their application avilable in store in August 2009.…
Yap’s speech cloud solution used in Microsoft’s Talk to Text app for Sprint
Provider of automated cloud-based speech recognition services Yap announced that is has been selected by Microsoft to provide speech-to-text capabilities in its Talk to Text mobile application for Sprint. Initially, the new application is available for all Blackberry devices, allowing users to speak their text messages and emails. The Yap speech cloud provides fully automated,…
AT&T unveils Global Messaging 50, $10 add-on plan
AT&T has unveiled a new add-on plan for budget-conscious globetrotters called Global Messaging 50, allowing them to send both text and multimedia (image and video) messages while travelling abroad. As you can guess from its name, the plan includes 50 messages, which could be sent for $10 a month (on top of your existing monthly…
Video: Opera officially demos Opera Mini on the iPhone, say they submitted their app for approval
Opera is playing the public sympathy card and showing the world what browsing on EDGE is like on Opera Mini versus Apple’s native Safari browser. The demo is impressive, it’s exactly what I’ve already seen at Mobile World Congress, but more importantly it’s the political equivalent of Opera going “now what motherfucker?” to Apple. The…
Pocket Communications joins the app store frenzy with its own BREW-based offering
We’re getting the point – virtually everyone — carriers, handset makers and platform developers — will have its own app store at some point. Southern Texas regional provider Pocket Communications doesn’t want to be left out, hence it is joining the wave with its own offering. The carrier’s store is based on Qualcomm’s BREW platform,…
MoBeePay joins the mobile payment race
MoBeePay is a new mobile payment company and is (almost) out with an iPhone client that brings e-transactions to the street. Here’s how it works (from the press release): Sellers register their products with MoBeePay and receive MoBeeTags (data matricies) and/or MoBeeCodes (product codes) from MoBeePay, which are stored in the MoBeeHive (cloud). Buyers merely…
Yowza!! now in version 2.2; Adds support for Austin, Texas
y Yowza!! — the free location-based mobile coupon application/service that comes from actor Greg Grunberg whom you may know as Heroes’ mind reader Matt Parkman — is adding Austin, Texas to the list of supported cities. Among the local businesses included in the update are the most popular places to eat and drink such as…
ActiveTrak to unveil GadgetTrak Mobile Security, anti-theft software for Android at CTIA
ActiveTrak, the company that makes advanced theft recovery software for consumer and business devices, will be unveiling its new GadgetTrak Mobile Security software for Android at the upcoming CTIA Wireless 2010 in Las Vegas. Touted to provide the “most advanced data protection and theft recovery solutions for smartphones,” the new application/service allows users to track…