CardStar is a neat mobile service-application combo that wants to gather around loyalty cards, merchants and coupons around their platform. The main idea seems to tackle the membership/loyalty cards market and sell consumers the benefit of not having to take their cards with them when shopping. As a result, you’ll no longer have to carry…
Berg Insight: 130 million mobile LBS users in Europe by 2014
In its new report, Berg Insight is predicting that the number of European users of mobile location-based services (LBS) will grow from 20 million users last year at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 37% to reach 130 million users in 2014. Local search, navigation services and social networking are believed to become…
Autonomy’s document management solution iManage WorkSite now supports the iPhone
Ok, we get it – iPhone is more than good enough for business. To prove that, Autonomy which is the leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, announced that its document management solution, iManage WorkSite, now supports the Apple iPhone. As I’m not an expert on this, I’ll let their PR folks do the job…
NAVIGON announces navigation software for the Apple iPhone
Now that the iPhone 3.0 software has been released, we see more and more companies announcing their support for the updated platform that opens new possibilities. Navigon is not an exception, hence they’ve unveiled their iPhone plans. They’ve announced MobileNavigator, their navigation software which sports most (if not all) features Navigon is known for such…
SpinVox signs multi-country deal with Telefónica
SpinVox has announced today that the company’s speech-to-text conversion service is being deployed as a network service through an additional 12 countries in Telefónica’s mobile operations across Latin America. SpinVox service will be available to all Telefónica’s mobile customers in the region. Argentina; Colombia; Ecuador; El Salvador; Guatemala; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Peru; Uruguay and Venezuela will…
HiT Barcelona: Global Innovation Atlas unveiled
Today at HiT Barcelona conference, we’ve seen presentation of the global Innovation Atlas, an initiative of the World Alliance of Innovation (WAINOVA), coordinated by the International Association of Scientific Parks (IASP). It’s not exactly mobile-related news, but it’s interesting nonetheless. We’re talking about an online (web-based) software/service that shows the globe with around 700 spots…
HiT Barcelona: Apisphere enables location-based services
Another interesting company I’ve seen is Apisphere. They are allowing their clients to add location twist to their applications and/or services. As an example, Apisphere’s Kristal Pollack mentioned SalesForce solution which allows users to receive relevant information on their mobile phones for the upcoming meeting based on their current location. Then there’s the case of…
HiT Barcelona: DeviceAnywhere offers mobile application and content certification
With the application stores in full bloom, DeviceAnywhere is showing its offering that aims to help mobile operators and other interested parties (handset makers?) better manage all mobile content that comes their way. With DeviceAnywhere Proof Center, application and other mobile content developers and creators can certify their work, ultimately ensuring end-user’s satisfaction — the…
HiT Barcelona: popIn allows “searching on the spot”
popIn is a Japan-based company that provides users with the ability to contextually search the web based on the selected word/phrase in the web browser through a plug-in. At the same time, they also pitch website owners to allow their site visitors with the same functionality without any plugin, using nothing but a JavaScript. In…
HiT Barcelona: Scalado offers imaging solutions for mobiles
If you’ve been following IntoMobile closely, you’ll know that we covered Scalado for few times in the past. They pride themselves with imaging solutions that make mobile phones better handle large photos. When you have 5, 8 or 12 megapixel phones, the problem is how to show/render these large images on the screen with a…