After NASA, Gowalla has found another prominent partner to help it support (and promote) its check-in service. This time their “partner in crime” is The Associated Press and the two companies teamed-up for the University Check-In Challenge to allow Gowalla users to win a $10,000 scholarship for their college as well as some cool awards…
Google Voice Search now recognizes Russian, Polish, Czech and Turkish
Google Voice Search, one of the best features built into every Android phone running version 2.0 or higher, has solely been the domain of English, French and Chinese speaking users for quite a while. There may be one or two more languages it can handle, but I’m not too sure. Anyway, today Google is happy…
Sprint to unveil mobile wallet service
On the heels of launching the Sprint ID service, the CDMA/WiMAX carrier is gearing toward introducing its mobile wallet solution. In an interview to FierceMobileContent, the company’s director of open enablement Kevin McGinnis said: “It’s not a financial instrument – it’s basically a container that allows you to very easily put your own financial instruments…
Socially allows Nokia N8 users to sync their Facebook friends’ profile pictures and birthdays
Socially is a new app for the recently launched Nokia N8 (I’m not sure it works on S60 5th Edition devices, too) that allows users to sync their Facebook friends’ profile pictures and birthdays with their phone Contacts list. To get started, you’ll need to download the app, set it up and authorize your Facebook…
Footfeed lets iPhone users check-in at multiple services from a single interface
Folks from Footfeed’s PR team sent me a press release to inform me what their application/service is all about it. And… I liked it a lot. Basically, they allow location-based service users to check-in at multiple services from a single interface. At the moment, Footfeed sings along Brightkite, Foursquare, Gowalla, Facebook and soon Twitter, Google…
Rogers Adds Six Months to Upgrade Eligibility, Now 30 Months
You know what sucks even more than having to sign a three-year service contract to get a reasonably-priced phone? Waiting two and a half years before you can get another one. A leaked document from Rogers shows that as of today, it takes 30 months of service before you’re eligible for a hardware upgrade, which…
Roamware launches Temporary Number Service (TNS), allowing customers to have two numbers on a single SIM card
Roamware, which is a provider of roaming and Mobile Financial Services (MFS) solutions, launched a Temporary Number Service (TNS) service that enables operators to offer an additional number to an existing subscriber for a limited period without having to issue an additional SIM card. The new service is touted to be particularly useful to mobile…
Wholesale Applications Community announces 32 new member companies and WAC 1.0 specification
The Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), an alliance of telecommunications companies formed during this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, announced 32 new member companies and availability of the WAC 1.0 specification. Among the companies joining WAC at the board level are Accenture, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Qualcomm Incorporated and Samsung. In terms of operators jumping on…
Western European operators stand to make over 1 billion EUR if they give customers streaming music
Analyst firm Informa teamed up with streaming music service Spotify to issues a report stating the obvious: if operators offer their customers a streaming music service instead of trying to build their own store then they stand to make money hand over fist. Spotify, for those of you unaware of the most brilliant music service…
ING DIRECT USA launches two Android apps
ING DIRECT USA launched their Android mobile banking and ShareBuilder mobile investing applications, allowing users to conduct both banking and investing while on the go. The news comes on the heels of ING’s earlier iPhone and Blackberry apps and Android ATM locator app, which were launched earlier this year. Here’s what each of the two…