Flowd, the social network for music lovers which we’ve already covered in the past, announced the so called “Frequent Fan” promotions program for all signed artists and partners, allowing them to create unique mobile offers for their fans on Flowd. These special offers and campaigns are available for free and can be triggered with a…
Online backup service Carbonite launches an iPad app, updated iPhone and BlackBerry apps
Online backup service Carbonite launched an iPad version of its mobile application, allowing users with Apple’s tablet to access their files on a large screen. Carbonite Access for iPad shows all of the files you’ve stored in the cloud on your beloved tablet so you can download, view and share them with just a few…
Sprint Launching Google Voice on All Handsets
Along with being launched on the Samsung Nexus S 4G, Sprint has announced that Google Voice will be coming to all of their handsets from here on in. With a few quick steps, Sprint customers can turn their existing phone number into their Google Voice number, through which inbound and oubound calls from up to…
Zong expands its mobile payments platform to any mobile phone
Zong is expanding its mobile payments platform to include pretty much any mobile phone and other connected devices. Previously available for HTML and on Android, developers can now integrate Zong’s simple mobile payments service in nearly any environment, including Flash, Unity, Interactive TV, gaming consoles and the mobile web. In order to do so, developers…
StumbleUpon Paid Discovery allows brands to “stumble” consumers on their computers, mobiles
StumbleUpon launched StumbleUpon Paid Discovery, its new social media brand advertising platform that enables brands to target customers using sponsored web and mobile pages within StumbleUpon. Using the new platform, brands can reach customers through in-stream promotion of entire web pages, micro-sites, mobile sites or videos. Marketers can even target users by age, gender, location…
Telmap exceeds 5 million maps and navigation users
Mobile location-based services provider Telmap announced that its user base has exceeded 5 million users! Unsurprisingly, Android and iPhone device owners demonstrated fastest growth, with iPhone in particular being “responsible” for more than 600,000 downloads. Telmap provides white-label, managed mobile location-based services to mobile operators, and its application is available on more than 700 devices,…
Snaptu brings LinkedIn to feature phone users
Just because you (still) don’t have a smartphone that doesn’t mean you can’t access popular web services. Facebook and Twitter are already available on pretty much any mobile phone sold in the world and LinkedIn is following with the same/similar offering. However, it’s not LinkedIn which developed the mobile application for feature phone users —…
Plaxo returns to its address book roots; Launches Plaxo Personal Assistant
Plaxo, the once famous company for its address book service, is restarting operations to once again focus on solving the increasing problem of how to keep contact information updated and relevant. As part of the plan, the company is unveiling a family of address book-related services, including Plaxo Personal Assistant, which is described as a…
In-Stat: There will be more than 375 million mobile payment users by 2015
Mobile payments are widely seen as a promising market and In-Stat predicts that by 2015, more than 375 million users will pay stuff using their mobile phones. That’s an increase from this year’s forecasted 116 million mobile payments users. According to market analyst Amy Cravens, there is a consumer demand for mobile payments. However due…
LoveThis.com relies on friends for recommendations
You know it can be a pain to get a good service these days? Moreover with so many options, you can’t be sure which product is right for you? The best way to know is to check with your friends and some other folks you trust. That, however, could be a pain even with Facebook.…