Mobile Devices & Apps Archives - Page 318 of 327

m.myspace.com – MySpace Launched New Upgraded Website for Mobile Users

December 5, 2009

MySpace released their new upgraded version of their mobile website, m.myspace.com. This new version can be accessed on iPhone, Android, and Palm WebOS devices.

Twitter also has made the new mobile web site available for previewing. Just point your phone’s browser to http://mobile.twitter.com. According to Twitter blog, the preview works best on Android, iPhone, Nokia S60 and Palm Web OS phones. […]

Nimbuzz for Blackberry Smartphones Launched

December 4, 2009

Nimbuzz launched Nimbuzz for Blackberry smartphones which runs as a native application and enables you to connect with all your friends from the most popular social networks and IM communities like Skype, Facebook, WLM (MSN), MySpace, Yahoo and Gtalk. This application is developed especially for Blackberry O.S. 4.6 and higher – devices like Storm, Bold 9000, Tour 9630, Pearl Flip, Curve 8900, Storm 2 and Bold 9700. […]

Samsung bada Smartphone Mobile OS

November 29, 2009

Samsung announced launch of its own smartphone OS is called bada. Bada is presented as a “complete smartphone platform, able to run high-performance native apps, and services”. Samsung bada is described as being simple for developers to use and having a ground-breaking UI. Bada will gradually replace Symbian and Windows Mobile in Samsung’s smartphone portfolio. Samsung hopes that bada-powered devices will become a significant force in the market in 2010. The first Samsung bada phones will probably be available starting next year. […]

The Wireless Power Consortium – Get Rid of the Power Cable too!

October 15, 2009

The Wireless Power Consortium is a cooperation of Asian, European and American companies from different industries, works on setting the international standard for interoperable wireless charging. Why do we still need to plug the power cable in our phones and gadgets? Everything else is wireless. Today each product comes with its own wireless charger. We got rid of the last wire, but created a jungle of incompatible charging stations. The consortium demands that the charging station will work with products from many companies, and will work with next year’s products as well. […]

Amazon Mobile Payments Service (Amazon MPS) Announced

October 15, 2009

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. […]

Amazon Kindle with U.S. and International Wireless in India at $279

October 13, 2009

Recently Amazon added Kindle with U.S. Wireless and International Wireless to its Kindle family of wireless reading devices. The newest Kindle can ship to customers around the world. With this new Kindle, you can receive your books, newspapers, and magazines wirelessly while at home or abroad in over 100 countries, including India. Kindle with U.S. Wireless is priced at $259 and Kindle with U.S. and International Wireless is priced at $279. […]

Zook.in Mobile Answer Service Goes International

October 11, 2009

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. […]

BSNL to Outsource Wireless Customer Care Services

October 5, 2009

BSNL invited bids to outsource its wireless customer service BPO requirements to private call centres for setting up and managing its BPO operations that will cover over 17-million customers across the four southern states. The size of the total BPO outsourcing contract for all zones is well over Rs 5,000 crore over a five-year period. […]

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

September 11, 2009

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. […]

Deposit Your Check via iPhone at USAA Bank

August 11, 2009

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. […]