Opera Mini, a 3rd party browser that uses remote servers to compress websites before delivering them to your phone, started out as a Java application. It actually still is, but that’s slowly starting to change as of today. Opera has just launched Opera Mini 5 Beta [read my review here] as a native Windows Mobile…
Juniper Research: More than 130 million mobile enterprise users in da cloud by 2014
Juniper Research has a new report titled “Mobile Cloud Applications” forecasting that the number of enterprise customers using mobile cloud-based applications will rise to more than 130 million by 2014. Key players such as Google and Microsoft will be among key drivers of this growth with their Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) deployments. Juniper found that as cloud…
twiddish is a mobile social network for U.S. diners
A company called StewartSoft is launching a social network and mobile application for iPhone/iPod Touch for diners across the U.S. – twiddish. The service (and the accompanying mobile app) is made to allow people to discover the best and worst restaurant dishes through user-generated photograph-based dish reviews. Basically, it’s a Twitter-like micro-blogging service with images…
Foursquare checks in with Vodafone UK customers
Vodafone UK customers can now “check-in” to Foursquare, one of the hottest social networking phenomenon, on their mobile phones. Vodafone UK customers can now access Foursquare’s new mobile website on any mobile internet enabled handset directly through the Vodafone MyWeb or Vodafone live! on older phones. They can also text “FOURSQUARE” to 97886 to receive…
QiK Premium and Skype come to Nokia’s Ovi Store, which is getting 1.5 million downloads a day by the way
When it rains, it pours. Three big pieces of news relating to Nokia’s Ovi Store his the net over the past 24 hours: QiK Premium was released. It’s $5/year. What does that money get you? Higher quality video playback. What do I think about live streaming video services? Waste of time. Nothing you do, NOTHING,…
Destinator 9 GPS is now an iPhone thing, too
Following the release of the Android version, Intrinsyc’s Destinator 9 GPS navigation app has found its way to the Apple AppStore. In addition to standard turn-by-turn navigation feature (maps powered by NAVTEQ), the application also boasts real-time traffic updates, highway junction views, advanced text-to-speech, integrated Google Local Search, live weather updates, “NavStrip” and a comprehensive…
Check out Sygic AURA: Real 3D GPS Navigation
Sygic’s AURA has some lofty aspirations for a Sat Nav – claiming 3D Maps, social networking, car and pedestrian nav, and voice guidance! Oh and don’t forget the TeleAtlas maps, POI, geo-tagging, and city guides! “Our dream to build AURA has come true – three years of development has resulted in a product that completely…
Mobclix acquires Heartbeat, cloud-based iPhone sales analytics tool
Mobile advertising market keeps consolidating. Today we bring you the news involving mobile ad exchange network Mobclix and their acquisition of Enormego’s Heartbeat for an undisclosed sum. Launched in January 2009, Heartbeat is a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service that provides iPhone developers with additional data about their apps, including sales information, crash reporting, hourly usage stats, reviews…
Nuance unveils medical dictation apps and an SDK at the HIMSS conference
Nuance is using the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Atlanta to talk about its medical mobile technologies, based on the Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice-to-text software. The company unveiled a series of apps for smartphone-equipped doctors, nurses and other health care professionals. The so called Dragon Medical Mobile suite consists of several applications:…
VisionSync’s MotionCast app/service combo is made for hyper-local news
From the creator of such apps as TatTap and iMobile Care, comes a new application-service combo designed to empower citizen journalism. The name is MotionCast and a dedicated mobile client is available for the iPhone only, but I’m guessing that will change with support for other platforms in no time. Using the service/application, users are…