Flipboard is a new iPad app made to turn your beloved tablet computer into a social magazine. It does that by mining the hundreds of millions of web links posted each day on Facebook and Twitter. Your “job” is to enter your Twitter and Facebook logins and let the app do its magic. It will…
Slacker Radio adds ABC News to its personal radio service
Slacker announced the addition of ABC News to the mix, providing listeners with access to a dedicated news station covering national, world, sports, politics, entertainment, business and tech news. Moreover, there’s the option to include headline news for top of the hour updates on any Slacker Radio station. In addition to news, there are segments…
Video search engine blinkx unveils mobile API
blinkx, which touts itself as the “world’s largest and most advanced video search engine,” launched mobile API, giving developers of mobile applications and sites access to blinkx’s index of MP4 video. We’ve already talked about blinkx in the past. If you’ve missed that article, you should know their mobile video index includes millions of clips…
Mobile Backstage allows musicians to keep up with their fans
Finnish company Steam Republic has launched a service/app called Mobile Backstage, which enables record labels and musicians to build communities around their fans’ smartphones. The main idea is to provide fans with a dedicated mobile application from where they [fans] can access the latest news, as well as communicate directly with the artist and other…
RAJAR: 20% of British smartphone users listen to radio on their mobile phone
UK’s Radio Joint Audience Research (RAJAR) has conducted a small survey of 1,083 respondents to find out their radio listening habits. Apparently, 20% of British smartphone owners, or 1.4 million people, have downloaded a radio app on their device. Of those, over half (53%) use a radio app at least once a week; 54% select…
Remember The Milk updates its iPhone app, too; iOS 4, Retina display support included in the mix
On the heels of the Android application update, Remember The Milk launched a new version of its iPhone app. As expected, the main point of this release is the support for the iOS 4 and iPhone 4’s Retina display. Here’s the recap of what’s changed: Multitasking support Background sync completion – which is very, very…
DoCoMo to launch the I-mode app store later this year
Folks at Japanese NTT DoCoMo seems to work round the clock lately in an effort to bring innovation to their network. We’ve already reported that the company is looking at portable gaming consoles for growth and about their plans to unlock phones starting from April of next year. Now, they are opening their once famous…
HP’s SiteonMobile allows browsing the Web through SMS
HP is launching what seems as a very useful service for the emerging markets of the world. Called “SiteonMobile,” it allows users to view content of their favorite web pages in the form of text message or listen to that content as it’s being spoken on their phone. I’m not sure this is the first…
Telefonica launches Jajah-based mobile VoIP service in Europe
After acquiring Jajah six months ago, Telefonica is finally trialing the mobile VoIP service offering in Europe. They’re starting with Germany, where their local subsidiary (O2 Germany) is launching “O2 Global Friends.” The new service gives customers the ability to make international calls by dialling a local number. Users can choose choose five friends who…
ABI Research: Mobile video service revenues to exceed $2 billion in 2013
ABI Research is out with a new study, this time dealing with mobile video services. According to the research company, revenue from such services — which BTW include video telephony, video messaging, video sharing, video-on-demand, VoD downloads, and “other” video services — is expected to top $2 billion worldwide in 2013. Video sharing will be…