telus has just announced one hell of an offer for audiophiles in Canada: for between $0.69 and $1.29 per track, or $20 per month for unlimited service, telus customers can download a wide selection of music over the air to their phone without the hassle of digital rights management stopping them from transferring or copying…
Bubbly: Like Twitter, but instead of 140 characters, you’re limited to talking for 60 seconds
Here’s a concept that’s a bit odd. Take Twitter, a service that allows you to post a 140 character message that the people who follow you can read. No matter how many people follow you, you only see the tweets of the people who you want to pay attention to. Now do the same thing,…
Urbanspoon goes Android
After the iPhone (AppStore link) and BlackBerry, Urbanspoon is “going Android.” The application keeps all the functionality (and UI) of the iPhone version, allowing users to find restaurants based on price, current location (nearby) and culinary style. Moreover, Urbanspoon users can rate and review restaurants, providing other folks with the real-life information that can be/is…
Truth On Call helps industry get relevant health information from doctors
A start-up called Truth On Call has launched a mobile service that targets reporters, financial analysts, pharmaceutical executives and soon patients, providing them with an option to send a text message and get a reply from a group of doctors. The company says they have thousands of physicians, which can be selected by specialty and…
GetJar launches white label mobile app catalog solution for carriers and partners
GetJar — the company behind app stores for such companies as Sony Ericsson (PlayNow Arena), Vodafone, 3 UK and Virgin France — launched App Catalogue Express (ACE), a white label mobile app catalog solution for carriers and partners. And they already have a first client – The Carphone Warehouse, which is Europe’s leading independent mobile…
Text4baby launched to provide health tips to pregnant women and new moms via SMS
U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra announced the launch of Text4baby, what it says is an “unprecedented mobile health public-private partnership” designed to promote maternal and child health among underserved women. The service provides timely and expert health information through SMS to pregnant women and new moms through their babies’ first year. Here’s how it works (from…
Nokia N900 is almost fully integrated with Evernote
I used to argue Nokia should acquire Evernote (among other companies). Now in the effort to get all those Evernote fans, myself included, to like/buy their first Maemo 5-powered device, they’ve released the Evernote Sharing Plug-in that’s almost completely integrated in the N900 mobile experience. There’s no need to launch a separate Evernote app to…
Roaming services provider Mach launches service to enable prepay CDMA customers to roam on GSM networks
Roaming services provider Mach has launched a new service to enable prepay CDMA customers to roam on GSM networks. Apparently the company is the first provider to offer an inter-standard roaming service for prepaid mobile users, and is also the first to offer a fully integrated prepaid and post-paid inter-standard roaming capability to CDMA operators.…
VeriFone’s PAYware Mobile starts shipping its card processing sleeve for the iPhone
VeriFone, which we know as a Square competitor, announced that it has started shipping its PAYware Mobile credit card processing sleeve for the iPhone, and that the complementary PAYware Mobile app is in the AppStore. As you may know, PAYware Mobile (and Square for that matter) provides small businesses with secure card processing capabilities using…
Google Image Search for mobile now features Popular Images
Google has recently included “Popular Images” feature to its Image Search service. Accessible on Android-powered devices and the iPhone, it lets users browse and find interesting images across categories such as Movies, Sports, Cars & Bikes, Music, and Cartoons. Each category has images corresponding to what’s popular on Google Image Search. Moreover, there’s the “Trends”…