Posts Under Category Mobile Apps

Amazon Mobile Payments Service (Amazon MPS) Announced

Amazon launched “Amazon Mobile Payments Service (Amazon MPS)”, which enables existing Amazon customers to use the payment and shipping information in their Amazon.com accounts to make purchases from their mobile devices. Customers will experience easy purchasing with Amazon’s 1-Click checkout on their mobile phones. Amazon MPS can be used within a native mobile application or on a mobile website. Amazon MPS enables you to get a payment authorization from your customer while on a mobile website or within a mobile application, make one-time payments, enable easy 1-Click purchases, refund completed payments, and cancel transactions. Read full story »

Sree Pillai|October 15th, 2009|Category: Mobile Apps|Write a Comment!

Zook.in Mobile Answer Service Goes International

Zook.in, the popular mobile answer service is now available world-wide. Users across the globe can now use Zook.in to find exact answers, and not just links to web pages, that can be consumed directly. Zook.in works well for local queries (hotels, shops, places of interest, etc.) and media queries (music, video, images, etc.). Users can try local queries such as “harvard medical school boston” (US), “thai orchid oxford” (England), “boulders resort hampi” (India). Or media queries such as “jai ho pussycat dolls” (Hindi), “party in the usa mp3” (English), etc. Read full story »

Sree Pillai|October 11th, 2009|Category: Mobile Apps|Write a Comment!

BIGMaps (bigmaps.com) – Directions, Local Business Search Over SMS, WAP and Apps

Reliance launched BigMaps.com, local search service, on GSM network. BigMaps.com claims to have over 20 million geoc-tagged buildings across India. This service is available only to Reliance Communications users over SMS, WAP and download medium, With BigMaps, subscribers to search across business, directions, events and movies. The maps can be zoomed up to 15 zoom levels and the services aim to provide real time landmark based routing. Read full story »

Sree Pillai|September 11th, 2009|Category: Mobile Apps|Write a Comment!

Deposit Your Check via iPhone at USAA Bank

USAA Bank, a privately held bank and insurance company in the US, plans to update its iPhone application to introduce the check deposit feature. The customers need to photograph both sides of the check with the phone’s camera. The image is going into the Bank’s deposit-taking system as any other paper check would. To reduce the potential for fraud, only customers who are eligible for credit and have some type of insurance through USAA will be permitted to use the deposit feature. Read full story »

Sree Pillai|August 11th, 2009|Category: Mobile Apps|Write a Comment!

Nimbuzz Vchatter Mobile Instant Messaging in Virgin Mobile India

Nimbuzz and Virgin Mobile India have partnered to bring Nimbuzz social networking and chatting to Virgin Mobile’s youth-centric customers. The multibrand WAP chat application in Virgin Mobile is branded as “Vchatter”. Vchatter allows users to access multiple instant messengers from a single login. Read full story »

Sree Pillai|August 4th, 2009|Category: Mobile Apps|1 Comment, Add Yours!

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