Launching this September in Japan, coupons based on your location, calculated via GPS, can be sent to your mobile phone reports Wireless Watch Japan. This has been the dream for people pushing location based services since the late 90s. Of course back then mobile phones didn’t have GPS, but you could still accurately pin point…
DoCoMo’s Credit Payment service tops 10 million users
Japan’s NTT DoCoMo has announced that there are now 10 million subscribers using their credit payment service – DCMX. The success came from several factors including popularization of Osaifu-Keitai and iD reader/writer terminals, as well as an introduction of a customer loyalty program. Currently, there are about 30 million DoCoMo customers who use Osaifu-Keitai-compatible handsets,…
Evernote for iPhone 3.1 is faster, better
Note taking service/app Evernote has an update application in the AppStore. Version 3.1 is much faster than its predecessor and also packs tons of improvements, including: Snappier snapping – creating both snapshot and camera roll notes is speedier than ever before. Clip web pages – just like you would do on your computer. This is…
Google Search results for feature phones now available in Arabic and Hebrew
Google announced that its mobile search service now supports Hebrew and Arabic. With this addition of two left-to-right languages, the Search is now available in total of 40 languages for feature phones. In the same blog post, Google’s Zhen Wang reminds us that the new search results format provides more complete support for the universal…
Twitter: the Golden Ratio
Twitter: the Golden Ratio I just read a great piece on something called ‘Twitter’s Golden Ratio’, on TechCrunch. It’s a simple enough concept, which revolves around assessing whether somebody is worth following or not. In the emails you receive when somebody decides to follow you, you get three stats: how many followers that person has,…
Microsoft OneApp is a mobile widgets kind of service that brings web services to feature phones
Microsoft has unveiled a latest addition to its mobile offering. It’s called OneApp and it’s an application-service-platform that will bring popular services such as Facebook, Twitter and Windows Live Messenger to feature phone users. In that sense, we’re talking about a 150KB-heavy JavaME-based application, which in some way resembles other mobile widget platforms such as…
Review: Dabr, a relatively unknown mobile twitter client, yet my favorite by far
Twitter. The heavily debated service is one that some people say is a waste of time, while others say it’s an indispensable communications medium. I was a huge anti-Twitter spokesman back during my days of using Jaiku. Jaiku had threads, and while your first Jaiku post was limited to 140 characters, the replies that went…
Visual Voicemail Arriving for AT&T BlackBerry Bold Users Tuesday?
Visual voicemail on the BlackBerry Bold has been a feature looming since January, but rumour has it that AT&T subscribers will be able to activate it for free starting tomorrow. Some particulars of the service have also bubbled up, if you’re you’re interested: Store up to 40 voicemails for up to 14 days Archive voicemails…
Online mind-mapping service MindMeister gets an updated iPhone app
Here’s one for the fans of the mind-mapping software. Popular online service MindMeister has a new application in the AppStore, allowing iPhone and iPod Touch users to take their online mind maps with them wherever you go. Simply sign in to your MindMeister account when you first start the app, browse and download your mind…
YouTube for S60 updated to better sing along S60 5th edition devices; New countries and langauges included in the mix, too
Google’s native YouTube client for S60 has been updated — it’s now in the version 2.2.17 — to work with Symbian S60 5th edition smartphones such as the Nokia N97, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and Samsung i8910 OmniaHD. As a result, now you can watch videos in full-screen mode. Moreover, the new version of the app…