Deutsche Bank’s Global Transaction Banking (GTB) unit recently announced an introduction of mobile phone payments service to its clients in 80 countries across Europe, Middle East and Asia. Europe-based mobile payment provider, Luup, is selected to be the bank’s “partner in crime” and the two companies will enable consumers to securely transfer money from any…
Facebook Connect goes iPhone; Social games and apps are here!
Facebook unveiled Facebook Connect for iPhone, enabling developers to easily make their apps more social with “just a few lines of Objective-C code.” As a result, we’ll see iPhone apps that allow users to login to Facebook from within an app, find their friends, and then share what they do. Developers using Facebook Connect for…
Mobile ebook sharing community Wattpad goes iPhone
Popular mobile ebook sharing community, Wattpad, teamed up with Five Mobile to bring its service to the iPhone/iPod Touch users. As a result, a dedicated Wattpad application along with an extensive library of user-generated and public domain ebooks, is now available as a free download through Apple AppStore. Those not familiar should know that Wattpad…
Google Voice to Transcribe Voicemail, Saves SMS
Following a settlement on visual voicemail patents, Google has shown a public preview of their voicemail transcription service to be integrated with GrandCentral over the next couple of days in a private beta. This is potentially bad news for third party providers like PhoneTag and Spinvox, who rely on paid subscriptions. I’m curious to see…
iSkoot launches KalaidaLive SDK to allow OEMs to easily bring web services to the consumers
Few days ago we covered iSkoot’s Kalaida platform, which enables operators to offer various web services, Twitter included, to their customers, even in the case they [customers] own a feature phone. Now iSkoot is going one step further with the announcement of KalaidaLive SDK, which allows handset manufacturers to add real-time mobile Internet functionality to…
Qik Announces Share on Ovi Integration
Qik, one of the eldest mobile-to-web video services, has announced a tight partnership with Nokia’s Share on Ovi service, so recorded clips and live feeds will be cross-posted to Ovi. Not a bad deal at all, and a perfect fit since Qik has been supporting Nokia devices since the get-go. That close relationship has garnered…
Evernote’s mobile website optimized for the Android web browser; Native app in works!
Good news for Evernote fans which have or plan to obtain an Android-powered handset. The popular note taking service/application (and my personal favorite, I might add) has optimized its mobile website to render better on Android’s Webkit-based browser. T-Mobile G1 aka HTC Dream users will be automatically redirected to the optimized version once they visit…
SpinVox and Skype team up
SpinVox – ah yes, my fave voice-to-text company…… 🙂 I still use their service (or rather the people leaving messages for me do!) on a daily basis, and the logic of converting voice-to-text is something that all voicemail services should offer. Who wants to call voicemail when you can read what’s on it?! Well now…
More Mobile Learning – by GlobalEnglish
Following on from the post I wrote about the BBC World Service and its Mobile learning service (here), it’s good to see that other learning providers are also leveraging the power of the Mobile (and MP3 players….). GlobalEnglish has developed a mobile feature – the Mobile Learning Network – for its online business English training…
Cellebrite’s UME-36 now support HTC Dream/T-Mobile G1
Cellebrite — the company which makes devices that allow mobile phone content transfer, backup, and management systems at the point of sale — announced support for T-Mobile G1 aka HTC Dream. More precisely, Cellebrite added the Google Android-powered smartphone to the list of supported phones for its UME-36 device which can read and write phonebook,…