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After running since 2008, Nokia’s “Comes with Music” service, which provided unlimited tunes for a year from Ovi for a significant markup on handsets, has been canceled in 27 countries. China (where it’s DRM-free), India, and Indonesia will continue selling one-year subscription packages, while 6-month subscriptions will still be available in Brazil, Turkey, and South…
There’s a new mobile-izer service on the Interwebs called AppsGeyser, which allows webmasters and online businesses to quickly create apps for Android devices from any web content. Still in beta, the new service is super-easy to use, consisting of only two steps and, as a result enabling the apps to be operational in minutes. No…
It was at the end of December when we talked about the Associated Press and Gowalla’s University Check-In Challenge. Today we present you with the winner – it’s University of Houston, which won a $10,000 donation to its Cougar Community TierOne Endowment fund. Resources from the fund provide stipends for undergraduate research and study abroad.…
During an interview at the recently ended CES in Las Vegas, Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo said that over 40% of all tweets are made via a mobile phone, which is up from 25% a year ago. He went on suggesting that 50% of active users are also active on mobile. According to Costolo, the sharp…
This isn’t exactly mobile news, but it’s significant nonetheless. After the dot-com bust you don’t get to hear that some company has raised billion dollars. Groupon is an exception, as they’ve announced completing a $950 million round of financing to fuel global expansion, invest in technology, while at the same time providing liquidity for employees…
Hopefully this will be the last 2011 prediction article we’re posting. I decided to give Telmap a shout because of their extensive involvement in the location-based services (LBS) that gives them a unique perspective to the industry. Without further ado, here are their top 9 LBS trends for 2011: Location as a constantly-active infrastructure layer…
Rauland-Borg Corporation, a pioneer in the development of Nurse Call solutions, is teaming up with the developer of point-of-care communications software Voalté to enable patient calls from Rauland-Borg’s Responder 5 Nurse Call system to connect directly to the caregiver’s Voalté-enabled iPhone. Voalté’s unified communications solution enables nurses and clinicians to send and receive presence-based text…
Juniper’s latest report discusses mobile money services, which are getting increasingly adopted in the emerging economies of the world with some regions expected to achieve a rate of 1 in 5 money service users over the next 2 years! What’s more, some developing countries are seeing unprecedented penetration levels of up to one in two…
It’s a raining dead birds season in some parts of the world, including Arkansas, Louisiana and even Italy, prompting folks to think that the end is near. Loopt decided to “take advantage” of the mysterious events and throw a party. The thinking behind the move makes perfect sense – if it is the end of…
You may be thinking that with competitors like Foursquare, Gowalla and even Facebook (with its Facebook Places), the market is too crowded for location-based check-in services. You would be wrong or at least that’s what folks from European early stage venture firm Balderton Capital are thinking as they led a new round in SCVNGR’s funding.…