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Barclays announced that its Barclays PingIt mobile service is now available to corporate clients, allowing them to receive payments from their customers. On the other hand, users will get an easy way to pay their bills, as an alternative to paying by cash, cheque or bank transfer with nothing but their phone. The corporate collections…
Parkmobile USA is bringing its mobile payment service to the citizens of Oakland, California. Best of all, the new service supports NFC-based contactless payments, allowing customers to wave or tap their phone on any of Parkmobile’s NFC-enabled stickers. Of course, existing payment methods also apply, so even if your phone doesn’t support NFC, you can…
Smith Micro Software is bringing its Voicemail platform to the Boost Mobile subscribers on May 31st with the launch of the HTC EVO Design 4G. Using the new service, users are able to manage their voicemail messages like email, scroll through and listen to messages in any order, forward or reply to messages via email…
Cricket has teamed-up with TuneCore, which is the largest distributor of digital music with “one of the highest revenue-generating music catalogs in the world.” As a result, Muve Music‘s library will be increased by up to 2 million tracks, while TuneCore artists will get access to over 600,000 Muve Music customers. Under the deal, Cricket…
CloudOn is launching its popular workspace on Android, allowing tablet users in the US, UK and Canada to create, edit, save and share Microsoft Office and Adobe documents while on the go. But that’s not all with the company also announcing integration with Google’s cloud-storage solution, Google Drive, adding to its cloud storage service options,…
Like we already don’t have enough social music apps and services, SK Planet launched MusicBunk, an Android and iPhone app that offers “effortless social music discovery.” Similarly to other such apps, MusicBunk also allows you to share music with friends, have discussions based on what you’re listening to and easily purchase new tracks. The application…
Twitter updated their user interface late last year, and many people, myself included, hated it. They then updated their mobile apps to look like their new website. I hated the new iPhone app so much that I spent $0.99 to buy Tweetbot from Tapbots and have never looked back. Anyway, this new user interface hasn’t…
YouMail introduced a new feature that wants to change the way users reply (or rather, don’t reply) to the voicemails that are left for them. The new “receipts” automate the standard “reply by text” feature, while also allowing for the person who has made that call to listen to their message and change the way…
Mobile Roadie, the web-based service that allows users to easily make iPhone and Android apps, is expanding to additional platforms – iPad and mobile web. The iPad app platform comes with a number of features, including live navigation widgets that turn the main menu into a dynamic feed of streaming content; hi-res graphics layers, parallax…
Twilio, cloud communications provider we covered for few times in the past, is bringing its voice and messaging APIs to Windows Azure customers. As a result, developers whose apps require features such as interactive voice response, mobile app distribution via SMS, call automation or two-factor authentication, will be able to use Twilio’s REST API to…