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Mobile payment experts of BOKU announced a carrier-billing deal with T-Mobile USA to allow users to easily pay for digital goods (mobile content and apps) sold through the T-Mobile Mall. As a result, T-Mobile’s app and game developers can accept in-app payments from T-Mobile’s 34 million subscribers with transactions being billed directly to a subscriber’s…
Precise Biometrics wants to extend the built-in security of the iOS-powered devices like the iPhone and iPad. To that end, they’ve launched Tactivo cases, which boast fingerprint reader and which will be available later in the summer. Here’s what you should know (from the press release): Tactivo is a smart casing for tablets and smartphones…
Telmap is launching two new APIs to connect websites and mobile apps with its Mobile Location Companion. As a result, users of websites which provide information about various points of interest can now send the location (address or business information) directly to the Telmap-powered app that’s installed on their mobile device. User click on the…
Just because it has no “Ericsson” in its name, that doesn’t mean Sony has forgot about its existing Sony Ericsson customers. Quite the contrary, the company is rolling out firmware updates for select devices wearing both names as we speak. The select devices are Xperia arc and Xperia neo, which users have reportedly started receiving…
Need another game to take advantage of that Transformer Prime or other Tegra 3 device you’re rocking in your pocket or backpack? Well, look no further than Renaissance Blood THD – the newest addition in the TegraZone app store. Here’s a brief description of the game from TegraZone.com Da Vinci is dead. Now it’s up…
Flipboard for Android was launched as an exclusive for the Galaxy S III, but the software has made the rounds thanks to the folks at xda-developers. The original apk was leaked earlier this month and even received an OTA update. Today, Flipboard announced that an official beta version of the reader software is available for…
The Chronic Dev Team pushed out another update to the Absinthe jailbreak tool that adds support for the iPad 2,4. This variant is the $399 iPad 2 which ships with a 32-nm chipset instead of the 45-nm hardware in the original iPad 2. Because of the new hardware in the iPad 2,4, the original Absinthe…
Virgin Mobile is releasing a 4G hotspot and USB dongle that will work with the carrier’s $35 unlimited data plans. Toss in the fact that as with anything on Virgin Mobile, there’s no contracts involved, this is definitely a deal worth checking out. In early May, Virgin Mobile announced that it would start selling the HTC…
The LG Viper 4G LTE from Sprint is a phone that we’ve had a lot of time to play around with that went on sale on April 22 – and today you can get it for only once cent with free shipping and $25 in Google Wallet credit. This is a phone that LG has…
The first North American Samsung Galaxy S III variant was officially announced today and will start shipping on June 20th. That have you excited? Well, the Canadian variant also looks like it will be shipping with an extra GB of RAM, ensuring a snappy and fluid experience from end to end. While 2GB of RAM…