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Want a MeeGo tablet? Go to Intel’s session at GDC

A lot of people like to dismiss and poke fun at MeeGo, but developers don't seem put off by Intel's OS offering. While Nokia's betrayal was certainly a kick in the teeth for the chip maker, developers seem to be showing more than a passing interest in the software, showing up to developer sessions in droves.

Movistar eyeing launches of e-health, m-banking, education apps – Chile

Business News Americas | March 2, 2011 | Patrick Nixon Chilean telco Movistar expects to launch in the next year a series of new applications around the areas of education, e-health and mobile banking, senior executives from the operator told BNamericas. The notion that mobile operators have...

Scanbuy launches Mexico office

SCANBUY LAUNCHES MEXICO OFFICE AS MOBILE BARCODES GAIN TRACTION AROUND THE WORLD Millions of Users Already Have Application on Telcel Camera Phones New York, NY and Mexico City, MEXICO – Mar. 1, 2011 -- Scanbuy, Inc. (www.scanbuy.com), the global leader in mobile barcode solutions, today announced...

Intel plans to woo developers to MeeGo

Intel believes it knows what developers are –and are not – looking for in mobile platforms and plans to use the knowledge to win them over as part of its long term MeeGo strategy.

Telefonica introduces FRIGO Reflections at the MWC, a unique experience to share the status of running applications between different devices

Telefonica | February 16, 2011 | Press Release FRIGO REFLECTIONS A unique sharing experience of your "running applications" between devices. The main objective of this project is the sharing of content and running applications between devices belonging to the same user or with third parties.  For instance, a...

Telefónica unleashes apps across all devices

Telefonica | February 14, 2011 | Press Release Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, 14th February 2010 – Telefónica today unveiled a new service that lets customers access, manage and enjoy apps on any mobile phone, tablet, netbook, mobile PC, set-top box TV and many other homescreen...

Texas bank branches introduce integrated mobile banking

AUSTIN, Texas – American Bank of Texas in Marble Falls and Waggoner National Bank located in Vernon have launched First Data Corp.’s Mobile Manager mBanking for use on mobile devices using technology from mobile provider mFoundry. The offering is now available to Internet banking...

Telefonica announces BlueVia developer community

Telefonica | February 10, 2011 | Press Release Telefonica announced today that it has launched a developer community, BlueVia, which will operate across Telefonica’s global footprint. BlueVia will build upon the foundations of Telefonica’s existing developer programmes, O2 Litmus in the UK, Open MovilForum in Spain, Movistar...

GetJar puts its money on Android in Nokia dilemma

While the Internet is rife with rumor surrounding what embattled Nokia Corp. plans to do next, cross platform app store GetJar has thrown its hat in the ring with the opinion Nokia should go Android and not Windows Phone 7.

Alien Dalvik allows Android apps on other platforms

The app store battle that used to rage between Apple Inc. and Google Inc. appears to have finally cooled down, with both parties seemingly happy that they have a huge enough catalogue of apps to satisfy even the most voracious smart phone user. However, some of the app distribution platforms on other systems leave a lot to be desired.

Google I/O tickets go on sale; sell out

Google Inc. today went live with the page for their annual developer conference, I/O. Aside from being a very nice HTML5 page featuring animated bouncy balls (also check out the draggable logos and buttons – seriously, this is a cool site!), the site also opens up registration for those wishing to attend.

Google not happy with number of paid app purchases in Android Market

Google is “not happy” with current app sales in the Android marketplace according to Android platform manager Eric Chu speaking at the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco yesterday.

LG to preinstall PapayaMobile's apps & social network on Android phones in 2011

PapayaMobile | January 26, 2011 | Press Release PapayaMobile, a leading mobile social platform for Android, today announced that LG will preinstall Papaya applications into LG Android phones shipping in China beginning January 2011. This comes on the heels of Papaya recently releasing China-specific versions...

LG to preinstall PapayaMobile’s apps & social network on Android phones in 2011

PapayaMobile | January 26, 2011 | Press Release PapayaMobile, a leading mobile social platform for Android, today announced that LG will preinstall Papaya applications into LG Android phones shipping in China beginning January 2011. This comes on the heels of Papaya recently releasing China-specific versions...

Telefonica, Orange, Verizon hope to win the next round in mobile content

Ingrid Lunden| MocoNews | Dec 20, 2010 9:41 AM ET —Telefonica/BlueVia: The Spain-based operator Telefonica (NYSE: TEF), which has extensive operations throughout Europe as O2 and Latin America, is launching a new open-API program to encourage developers to make apps for its own app store initiatives, which...

CEO of TabbedOut

An interview with the CEO of TabbedOut Rick Orr at TWS in Austin 2010.

AppTech Corp to Develop Website and App for Brazilian Soccer Development Academy

December 6, 2010 | AppTech Corp Press Release On December 1, 2010 AppTech Corp (Stock Symbol: APCX, www.AppTechGlobal.com) entered into a marketing agreement to develop a "Members Only" website and Smartphoneapp for a major soccer development academy located in Parana, Brazil. The new website and app will...

Google to exhibit at Mobile World Congress

The GSMA has announced that Google will be exhibiting at Mobile World Congress for the first time

BlackBerry aims for music industry domination

In a Q&A session with Research in Motion's director of consumer alliances Alex McCallum, RCR finds out why it's really Blackberry that makes mobile music tick. Or should we say Tick Tock?

iPhone saves man from jail

et out of jail free? There’s an app for that – or at least, an Australian man has discovered there’s a way to prove his innocence from rape allegations by retrieving deleted text messages on his iPhone proving his liaisons with his accuser were consensual.

Americans have no patience for dud travel apps

Americans are even less tolerant of travel agent trouble when it comes via mobile according to a new survey. Travel research firm PhoCusWright polled 792 Americans traveling for pleasure rather than business over the past year and found many of them rather unforgiving of any mobile mishaps.

Mobile app revenues to reach $25bn by 2014

The economy may be tanking, but app developers aren’t suffering much, with a new report today claiming a whopping 25 billion mobile applications will have been downloaded by 2015, a figure that has skyrocketed from a paltry 2.6 billion applications downloaded in 2009.

Ovi store developers un-appy

Ovi store developers are certainly a surly bunch, with more than half of them unhappy with the way the Finnish phonemaker runs its app shop.

Turning ringbacks social

With all the apps and functions today’s phones can perform, we often tend to forget that their main purpose and basic function is to make actual phone calls.