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Vonage recently announced a new service, Extensions, allowing its customers to extend their Vonage home calling plans to any phone, including mobiles. Existing customers can add any U.S. phone number as an extension by logging into their online account at Vonage’s website. The extension phone number can be a mobile phone, a home phone or…
On the heels of the Music Unlimited launch, Sony is bringing its Qriocity video service to select Sony Ericsson Xperia smartphones. The phased launch will start on August 1st, allowing users to buy and/or rent movies and TV shows from NBC, Universal, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, and Warner Bros, as well as…
Jumio unveiled a new technology solution called Netswipe, which turns any webcam into a secure credit card reader that allows merchants to more easily and efficiently accept payments online. As a customer, you will briefly hold your credit card in front of a webcam and let Jumio do its magic in the backend, without saving…
Seattle-based PressOK Entertainment launched PlacePlay, calling it a “location-enablement platform” that connects mobile game developers, players and local advertisers. The platform’s flagship toolset, PlacePlay Tournaments, enables developers to add local tournaments to their games to drive player engagement and increase revenue through targeted, “location-enhanced” advertising. PlacePlay combines location data with social and game data to…
Twilio — provider of pay-as-you-go cloud communications services which we’ve already covered in the past — launched Twilio Client, a software toolkit for web, iOS, and Android development that allows developers to enable voice communications within any application. Here’s the official pitch: With Twilio Client, millions of web developers worldwide can now build Skype-like voice…
Canadian carrier Mobilicity has just announced that they’ve cut data roaming rates to the U.S. by 70%. Now you only pay $1.50 per MB of data. By comparison, Wind Mobile is charging $0.10/25 KB, which works out to $4.00/MB, while Rogers takes $6.00/MB. Even with a $50 travel pack (which Rogers requires you to keep for…
So far we’ve seen quite a few app suggestion services but apparently that doesn’t stop other companies from entering this market. One such company/service is AppGrooves, which thinks its technology will crack this nut. And honestly, they may be onto something. Using a “Hot or Not” concept, their “original machine learning algorithm” learns what kind…
We’ve already talked about Placecast and their ShopAlerts service in the past. At that point their offering was targeted toward big companies and now they’re going to the small and medium sized businesses with a new product called ShopAlerts Self-Serve. As you can imagine that “Self-Serve” part means interested businesses will be creating their own…
Ever-aggressive in offering new pricing options, Canada’s Wind Mobile has recently launched a pay-as-you-go pricing scheme. Pay Your Way means there’s no set monthly fee, but you top up on texts and voice minutes as you use ’em. That time expires based on how much you put in at a go; if it’s under $20,…
According to In-Stat’s recent report, nearly two-thirds of smartphone and almost 86% of tablet users have watched video on their device, representing a “rapidly developing market.” The research company argues that even though many mobile video products have only recently launched, providers are experiencing significant growth in usage rates with mobile video consumption forecasted to…