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Miramax wants its piece of the Facebook and iPad action. For that end they launched a movie rental Facebook app titled Miramax eXperience, which at the moment offers users catalog of 20 movies in the U.S., 10 in the UK and Turkey, with additional titles to be included in September. Each movie can be rented…
RIM’s rumoured BlackBerry music service was launched in open beta today, and a lot of the details are as speculated. For $4.99/month, you get to pick 50 songs to attach to your profile, which are then easily shared and tracked with your friends. You can add songs to your playlist from friends as they show up…
On the heels of the recent deal with Orange, BOKU announced expansion to two other major operators of France – Bouygues Telecom and Vivendi’s SFR. As a result, the number of people in France that can now conduct mobile payments with their phones has grown to more than 50 million. If you recall, BOKU allows…
After Nextag Dealforce, the popular shopping website is out with another mobile app – Nextag Radar. However, unlike their earlier mobile efforts, this app is available for iPhone only (I guess the Android version will be released shortly, too). The new application not only allows users to search and compare products, and organize their searches…
Provider of mobile predictive analytics Medio Systems announced that Rovio will adopt its technology to enhance fan engagement for Angry Birds across all consumer platforms, including Google Chrome, Android devices and Apple’s iPhone and iPad lineup. The two companies are teaming-up to test the use of Big Data. Angry Birds games have been downloaded by…
BuzzMob is the latest company to join the location-based social networking space. Their mobile app, at the moment available only for iPhone, allows users to connect with the people around them while experiencing the same social activity like concerts and sporting events. Moreover, BuzzMob also says their service is well suited for college campuses and…
We’ve been talking about Placecast‘s ShopAlerts platform for few times in the past. Now they decided to open it up, allowing retailers to integrate the geofencing technology into their apps. As a result, smart merchants will be able to provide much better experience to their customers, enabling push-based deal alerts that work even when the…
Parkmobile keeps adding new locations where people can pay for their parking using nothing but their mobile phone. Their latest gig is in Tennessee, where the company has teamed-up with Premier Parking to allow users to pay their dues across surface lots located in and around the downtown Nashville. As that’s the case with other…
Remember iZettle, the smart card reader we talked about couple of months ago? Well it is now available in Sweden in limited numbers. The first 2,000 folks who downloaded the free iZettle app and registered will get the device while the rest of the country will have to wait a little longer. Then, once proven…
Last time we talked about mobile video calling, we quoted numbers from In-Stat. Today we have the figures from Juniper Research, which report titled “Mobile Voice & Video Calling: Strategic Opportunities & Business Models 2011-2016” has been released recently, predicting the improved prospects of mobile video calling. Among the reasons for this rise in use,…