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As suspected, Google will be announcing at their I/O conference this morning a streaming music service for desktop and mobile. Simply called Music, the early beta is currently only available in the United States, but will allow users to upload their songs to share with the world at large, much like Grooveshark. Record labels probably…
As we hinted in the “Google I/O 2011 Preview” post, the search giant will launch its own cloud-based music service later in the day. From what we’ve heard, you could expect a service that works like the “criticized by the major labels” Amazon Music, allowing users to upload songs and listen/stream them on their smartphones…
Another day, another announcement from Parkmobile. Their latest “target” is the largest city in North Carolina – Charlotte. Starting today (May 9th), Parkmobile will integrate its service at over 30 non-gated Preferred Parking surface lots covering over 3,000 parking spaces in and around the Uptown Charlotte area, providing customers with the ability to pay for…
TheLadders.com, the web-based recruitment solution for professional talent ($100K+), unveiled a new feature called “Mobile Inbox” to provide job seekers with an easy way to connect with recruiters and hiring managers while on the go. Mobile Inbox builds on top of the earlier features launched by TheLadders.com – My Pipeline, Follow Recruiter and 1-click communications.…
Parkmobile keeps expanding the network where it allows people to pay for parking using nothing but their mobile phone. Their latest target is Chattanooga, which is the fourth-largest city in Tennessee. The company will implement its solution at CARTA surface lots located in and around the downtown Chattanooga area. In order to use Parkmobile, customers…
In its “Mobile Messaging Report,” Juniper Research (among other things) looks at the Application-to-Person (A2P) messaging, forecasting that revenues from such services will exceed $70 billing by 2016, effectively overtaking revenues from Person-to-Person (P2P) messaging during the year 2016. The research company points to various use-cases of A2P messaging, including financial services, advertising, marketing, business…
A company called DigiMo wants a share of the ever-growing mobile payments market. Hence they’ve launched their own platform, touting it as the “first true mobile payment solution” that requires no hardware or software modification at either the Point-Of-Sale (POS) or mobile device (works with any feature phone). Available for immediate deployment worldwide, DigiMo’s platform…
Loopt Qs, the new service launched by Loopt we talked about few weeks ago, is now live in the SF Bay Area and will be gradually expanded to other parts of the country. To get your city to the list, simply demand it from this page on Loopt’s website. What’s Qs again? It’s a new…
Mobile marketing platform provider Velti, which we’ve already talked about in the past, launched version 8.0 of its mobile marketing platform, saying it’s the largest such solution on the market. According to the press release, mGage 8.0 builds on the “strengths of the previous release” by providing a fully integrated single environment across the different…
So far we’ve seen quite a few app building services but none of them was completely free. Enter appsbar, which is touted as the “first cost-free way for any business or person to create professional, multi-function apps” and get them quickly published in Apple’s AppStore and Google’s Android Market. Anyone can visit appsbar’s website to…