As part of its goal to make parking payment as convenient as possible, Parkmobile announced that it has conquered another market – St. Petersburg, Florida. Again, the service is touted as a “time saving,” though (again) it requires user registration at Parkmobile’s website. Parking can be paid either by the (mobile) Internet, a dedicated mobile…
Sprint gives away $50 Media Hub vouchers with Samsung Epic 4G purchase; Galaxy Tab buyers to get the same treatment
Sprint and Samsung are organizing a nice campaign to promote Samsung’s Media Hub offering. Under the deal, folks who purchase Epic 4G will get a $50 voucher to use it for renting select movies from Samsung’s service. Upon purchase, customers will receive a 10-digit promotion code for the $50 gift. The code will be valid…
China Unicom renames its application storefront to Wostore
Similarly to China Mobile which has its own flavor of Android (OPhone), China Unicom has been working on UPhone and the accompanying Ustore application market. That store now has a new name, supporting not only Android, but other mobile platforms as well. The new name is Wostore, with WO coming from the brand of the…
Datalogic Mobile teams-up with Skyhook to improve location performance on its industrial PDA products
Datalogic Mobile, which is a global player in the Rugged Mobile Computers market, is teaming-up with Skyhook to include Skyhook’s Core Engine on its latest generation of mobile computers (industrial PDAs). Here’s how it works (from the press release): Skyhook’s software-only location system determines precise device location quickly and accurately by synthesizing data from Wi-Fi…
VoX Communications launches Nimbuzz-powered Android app and an unlimited voice calling plan
VoX Communications is teaming-up with Nimbuzz to launch a new VoIP application, VoX Mobile Out for Android, and an accompanying $4.95 a month unlimited voice calling plan. The new service is touted as a “compelling option for inexpensive cloud-based calling for Android phone owners within the US.” Pervasip (owner of VoX) is already a partner…
textPlus launches real phone numbers; Reports impressive figures
Popular SMS service/app textPlus is going one step forward by introducing real phone numbers, allowing users to chat with their buddies that don’t have to run textPlus! You either get an automatically assigned phone number or select a specific area code and number for $1.99/year. At the moment this is a U.S. thing only, but…
Text A Star helps celebrities stay in touch with fans and make money out of it
Gone are the days of exclusive deals with magazines where celebrities are exclusively sharing bits of their personal lives with their fans. We live in the era of mobile technology where no middle man is needed, allowing the two sides [celebrities and fans] to connect directly. That said, we’ve spotted a new service called “Text…
Telmap unveils location-aware Twitter Widget
Telmap, the company behind many of the carrier-branded navigation services, launched a location-aware Twitter Widget as part of its mobile search, mapping and navigation solution. Once implemented, users will be able to access to location-based tweets in their vicinity, whether they come from their followers or not (public tweets). Additionally, when searching for some location,…
In-Stat: Revenues from mobile video calling to surpass $1 billion by 2015
After Juniper, we have another research company exploring the prospects of the mobile video calling services. It’s In-Stat which has found that this market’s total revenues will exceed $1 billion by 2015. Obviously, they point out that video calls are nothing new, but they returned to the spotlight following Apple’s introduction of the iPhone 4…
Placecast teams-up with White House Black Market to launch FashionAlerts, location-based marketing scheme
Location-based services provider Placecast is teaming-up with women’s specialty retailer White House Black Market (WHBM) to launch FashionAlerts and allow shoppers receive text messages from WHBM when they pass through specific geo-fenced areas. The service works with any feature phone that can receive text messages and is now running in 26 of the retailer’s locations…