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Twilio, the cloud communications company we’ve already talked about in the past, is bringing its Twilio Voice solution to Europe. The company opened an office in East London to allow developers to buy local UK telephone numbers instantly from the Twilio.com website and Twilio’s API. The service is used to build web and mobile applications…
Toyota Touch Life is a new member the Japanese car maker’s infotainment product family made to sing along Toyota iQ city car. Using the latest industry connectivity protocols (MirrorLink), it mirrors the smartphone’s display on a 7-inch touchscreen, providing users with access to smartphone functionalities they need when driving. Nokia’s Symbian Belle-running smartphones and the…
Mobile payments company Fortumo (which we’ve already covered in the past) unveiled cross-platform, HTML5-supported mobile payments, allowing developers to monetize users of mobile web apps in 60 countries, on any mobile device, with single integration. The solution is praised to require “less clicks” relying on the data already stored on a device, ensuring for both…
RIM has just announced a beta program for Office 365 on BlackBerry, which will offer business organizations Exchange synchronization and security options, without all of the hosting hassle. A browser-based console allows managers and end-users to keep tabs on their BlackBerry deployment, including remote wiping if needed, and the usual sync between e-mail, calendar, contacts,…
As part of the efforts to make its Tablet S more appealing to the users, Sony is launching PlayStation store in Europe, North America and Australia. At the moment, Tablet S owners (not that there are many of them) can choose between 10 titles, including Everybody’s Golf 2, Twisted Metal, Jet Rider, Jumping Flash!, Destruction…
We’ve already told you about CounterPath‘s enterprise-grade, SIP-compliant VoIP apps Bria for Android and iPhone. Now the company announced these two will get the video support, starting with the Bria iPhone Edition later this fall. As a result, CounterPath users will be able to check the availability and status of colleagues, friends and family members,…
After making its iOS app free to non-Premium users, popular task management service Remember The Milk is doing the same for the Android community. Version 2.0.0 (aka “Deckard”) has been released in the Android Market packing a ton of changes and feature improvements. The main new thing you’ll instantly notice is the app dashboard from…
Google Voice has finally started getting the MMS support. According to the company’s “official” blog post, they’ve been hard at work trying to make this happen and thus far they managed to cram MMS capability for messages coming from one carrier – Sprint. In other words, Google Voice users are now able to receive pictures…
GENWI, the cloud publishing platform for mobile we’ve covered in the past, announced that it has raised $4 million in Series A funding from Nexus Venture Partners and existing investors – Inventus Capital Partners and Quest Venture Partners. The company has created and is actively managing over 1,500 apps across popular platforms (iOS, Android and…
As part of the strategy to get a foot in the door of big companies, Samsung launched a new program called “Samsung Approved for Enterprise” or SAFE. The idea is to provide some sort of guarantee that products and services offered by Samsung and its partners are SAFE to be used in the corporate environment.…