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Skyfire 3.0 for iPhone is in the AppStore, bringing improved Facebook experience for those who need one. The popular “I can do Flash” mobile web browser does its social magic by integrating Facebook Connect to deliver all of the social media features that are already available on Skyfire for Android. Here’s what’s new: Popular Content…
Guess who’s getting to play with the iPad 2 first? It’s the men and women of the Federal Communications Commission which always get to try the goods before the rest of us. Of course they’re focused on checking up possible RF interferences, but imagine the temptation to play with all the toys that cross their…
We’ve already talked about location-based mobile marketing service provider Placecast in the past. Now they’ve found a big partner to push the adoption forward – AT&T. Together the two companies are launching ShopAlerts by AT&T to deliver special offers to opt-in customers when they are near a participating store or brand in New York, Los…
Remember the Samsung Champ, that super low-end all-touchscreen feature phone? It seems this tiny device is selling like hot cupcakes when the Korean company decided to release a special, slightly improved version of the phone. The new Champ phone will be launched soon – E2652 Duos which will have features similar to the original Champ…
File this under “rumors” but also under “it makes perfect sense.” As you can see from a poster image above, Sony Ericsson is (or that’s “may be”) working on a new Walkman smartphone. Last time we’ve seen the Swedish-Japanese company in the “Walkman smartphone action,” they released the Symbian UIQ3-powered W960i. Even before that, they’ve…
When Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced to the world that the world’s largest handset maker would be switching to Windows Phone, Symbian would be killed after roughly 2 years, and that MeeGo isn’t even relevant anymore, you’ve got to wonder how employees took the news. In Tampere and Oulu, two cities in Finland, Symbian developers…
I can vividly remember my Amiga days. Bitmap Brothers was super-respectable name in the gaming business. Pretty much all of their games were rock solid, providing tons of hours of entertainment for the truly yours. Speedball 2 was on that list too, and boy am I glad to see it being re-done for the iPhone…
As we all know the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is set to hit be released later this month. Verizon is Sony Ericsson’s launch partner in the U.S., Rogers in Canada and there will be multiple partners for the UK launch. What about the rest of the world? We’re hearing that Virgin Mobile may get to…
A company called Tap Me wants to revolutionize in-game advertising and they may be onto something. Instead of making us watch some stupid video or show us a banner in the top corner, they have something better in mind. Their idea is to serve less intrusive ads to gamers, while providing advertisers with better context…
Augmented reality is getting adopted by a growing number of companies which either integrate AR features into their iPhone and Android apps or make layers/channels for the two popular AR browsers – Layar and junaio. That said, we weren’t surprised to learn that Juniper Research predicts augmented reality elements within mobile applications will lead to…