After the iPhone, the popular music-streaming service Rhapsody is “going Android.” The application is launched in a semi-private beta and in order to participate you should register on Rhapsody’s Facebook page to be a part of the test group. Both existing Rhapsody users and non-subscribers are eligible, and during the test period they will be…
Foursquare now available for Palm Pre, too
Location-sharing app/service Foursquare is now available for Palm Pre and Pixi users, too. With this move, Foursquare sings along four of the hottest platforms – iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and now webOS. From what we’ve heard (personally I haven’t tried it out on a Palm device), the app is as simple as it gets, with a…
AppMakr allows web-based creation of iPhone apps
Here’s a service that will help Apple reach 200,000 apps milestone. It’s called AppMakr and it allows anyone — and I mean anyone — to create his/her own iPhone app without a single line of code. The process is completely done via web using WYSIWYG interface, allowing users to seamlessly implement a number of features…
Evernote for iPhone gets a minor updated; Reaches version 3.2.1
Just when we talked about Evernote 3.2 for iPhone and the fact they’ve reached 2 million users, another update for the iPhone app has been released. The application is now in version 3.2.1, packing several handy features and bug fixes: Locally cached notes and offline notebooks are now excluded from iTunes backup, making syncing with…
Evernote reaches 2 millions users!
The company behind my favorite note-taking tool Evernote announced they have reached the 2 million users milestone and we congratulate them on that. For the occasion, they prepared a chart to show user behaviour. As you’re about to see, Evernote is one of those companies which takes advantage of the huge mobile cloud computing wave.…
Orange UK To Launch Mobile HD Voice In 2010
Orange has revealed it will be launching HD Voice nationwide for customers on its mobile network in 2010. In case you are wondering what HD Voice is, it’s the use of WB-AMR (Wideband Adaptive Multi-Rate) as a codec. This provides excellent audio quality due to a wider speech bandwidth of 50–7000 Hz compared to the…
Nuance Acquires Spinvox for $102.5 million
Voice recognition giant Nuance Communications has just picked up a pretty big company in the transcription sector: Spinvox. Among other things, Spinvox runs a voicemail service that translates voicemail into text and sends it to you as an e-mail. Nuance’s involvement in mobile is wide-spanning, but the latest from them has been a pair of…
Citysearch goes Android
After Buzzd, we have another similar service “going Android.” It’s Citysearch, an online local guide, which allows users to browse, search and share local information for over 15 million local business listings, and post reviews to Citysearch directly from their smartphone. Here are the Mobile by Citysearch key features: Submit reviews on the go Share…
junaio 1.5 for iPhone brings better data search and overlay, new social capabilities and improved UI
junaio augmented reality client for the iPhone 3GS recently got a major update. Version 1.5 brings tons of improvements, including: Enhanced live overlay and local search features, relying on Google Local Search to display POIs around you. New social features: rating and commenting on scenes generated by other users; scene sorting by popularity; share to…
Mobile social city guide Buzzd goes Android
The mobile social city guide (hmm, sounds complicated) buzzd is “going Android,” providing users with activity updates for almost half a million venues across the United States and Canada. The dedicated application, available for download from the Android Market, brings all features of the iPhone app, including the so called “buzzdmeter,” which measures activity at…