metaio, the company behind the augmented reality app/service junaio, is opening up the API, allowing developers to build their own applications that interact with the platform. Here are the highlights: Unlike other AR applications, junaio will allow developers to use multiple information sources to develop their applications. The API will enable developer to see how…
ZipRealty extends real estate searching to the iPhone
Online real estate brokerage ZipRealty is joining the iPhone scene with a dedicate app. Using it, “house hunters” in 4,897 cities and neighborhoods across the U.S. can search for available homes and view photos, prices and estimated values. In addition, the application enables a buyer to contact his or her ZipRealty agent with a tap…
Skype beta for Symbian non touch screen devices launched
Skype has just launched a beta application for Symbian S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 and Feature Pack 2 devices. The hefty 4.2 MB installation file takes up 6 MB of your phone’s internal memory, making it one of the largest Symbian application I’ve come across, and the number of clicks required to install the…
Good Technology gets its own iPhone app
As enterprise users are turning to iPhone, Good Technology is following. The company has launched the Good for Enterprise application, providing “enterprise-class email and secure access to behind-the-firewall applications and data for iPhone.” Among the features, Good highlights remote wipe capabilities, on-device data encryption, and the ability to manage all devices from a single, web-based…
QotD: Marissa Mayer about Google Mobile search as a % of total searches: “Roughly doubled in a year”
QotD (Quote of the Day) as we say in Twitter slang comes from Google’s VP of Search Product and User Experience, Marissa Mayer, during an interview with Michael Arrington from TechCrunch that took place today in Paris at the Le Web conference: Michael: Let’s talk mobile search. How important is that to Google, I mean,…
Microsoft updates Bing for Windows Mobile
Microsoft has a new version of its Bing “decision engine” for Windows Mobile devices. The updated application comes with improved voice search capability (better speech recognition) as well as a new location feature that automatically finds the user when searching maps to deliver better local search results. In addition, Microsoft also notes that the application…
Google Goggles: A new service that promises to make searching the internet as easy as taking a photo
CNBC recently aired a program called “Inside the Mind of Google” and revealed that Google is working on a visual search project that internally is referred to as Google Goggles. The application, which will premier on Android devices, will let a user snap a photo of anything and then Google will deliver search results based…
EezeeRator brings real-time flight reviews to the iPhone and Android smartphone users
EezeeRator is a neat and quite useful mobile application, which provides users with a simplified way to share real-time flight information and reviews via Android and iPhone — an Android version is already available while iPhone app is coming next month. From the application, users can search for airline and flight information, post reviews, and…
Obopay honored with World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer 2010 award
We love the mobile banking and payment provider Obopay, and perhaps more importantly, Nokia loves them — hence they’ve launched the Nokia Money service in partnership with Obopay. In that sense, I’m glad to report that Obopay has been chosen by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer 2010 for its “innovation, transformational technology,…
Ultrabrief: Google Maps hits 3.3.1 to fix a problem with Layers [Symbian, Windows Mobile]
Remember when I told you about Google Maps 3.3 around 72 hours ago? They’ve issued a small update, 3.3.1, to fix a problem that some people have been having with Layers. Just type http://m.google.com/maps in your mobile browser and install the new version. That is all. Enjoy your weeked. [Hat tip to All About Symbian]