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UK’s largest online greeting card company Moonpig and augmented reality specialists at Zappar have teamed-up to “change greeting cards forever.” The new service, available from Moonpig’s website, allows users to create greeting cards that incorporate their own videos and personal messages. Here’s how to do it First, pick a card on the Moonpig site, upload…
So you like the new Samsung Galaxy Beam? I gotta give it to you, that projector on the top makes the phone super cool, as you’ll be able to share your photos and videos with other folks in the same room. The problem, however, is that your battery won’t allow you to play with the…
Not exactly a mobile news per se, but it’s about my favorite note taking service so we’re going with it nevertheless. Evernote launched a new developer site where both existing and new/potential developers should come to get all the tools and documentation needed to add some Evernote love to their apps. The main sections of…
According to a new report by Juniper Research titled “Mobile Revenue Assurance & Fraud Management: Business Strategies & Forecasts 2012-2016,” mobile telecoms industry lost over $58 billion last year (more than 6% of global revenues) due to inadequate FM (Fraud Management) and RA (Revenue Assurance) processes. The report suggests that if these processes aren’t fixed,…
The iPhone 4’s reign as the most-used camera on Flickr has come to an end. Apple’s iPhone 4 has been unseated at the hands of Canon’s 5D Mark II DSLR, ending an impressive 9 month stint at the top. The Mark II’s successes are likely attributed to the $300 price cut the Mark II saw…
Yesterday, a report from PC World suggested that Dell was terminating its smartphone line. The author was not sure if Dell was abandoning smartphones completely or whether the company still had new phones on its end-of-the-year roadmap. A company spokesperson reached out to PC World again to clarify this point and confirmed that Dell will produce…
Nokia has taken the wraps off a new tool to help users of Nokia’s Windows Phone devices figure out whether or not a software update is available for their smartphone. The tool was inspired (or, perhaps, commissioned) by Microsoft, who once offered a “Where’s My Phone Update?” tool of their own but abandoned it once…
Bump Pay is a new experimental app from the makers of Bump that instead of pounding fists to share contact information, lets you share money. It works by initially connecting to your PayPal account. Then you launch the app, type in the amount of money you want to transfer and bump hands with the person…
Wild predictions are being made about the future of 4G speed by CTO of Nokia Siemens Networks Hossein Moiin. He thinks that by 2020, significant advancements will be made to the technology that will allow for speeds to become 1,000 times faster than they are today while costing as little as $1 per gigabyte, which…
We all know that Google is working on a tablet of its own. We also know that it will likely debut within the next two or three months, possibly be cheaper than the Amazon Kindle Fire, and likely made by Asus. However, what we haven’t heard before today is that it looks like Google just…