Show, Tell, And Sell—Conferences Target The Cell-Phone Market
Every year, during these first three months, we get to see the outcome of two huge annual cell-phone conferences.
New Applications
Platform Develops Apps For Multiple Environments
The FeedHenry Hosted Development Environment lets users build and run the same application across iPhone, Android, Symbian, and BlackBerry smart phones as well as across Web and social media sites such as Facebook and MySpace....
Free Maps App Tops 1 Million Downloads In A Week
Since its January 21 launch, the new version of Nokia’s Ovi Maps with free walk and drive navigation has been downloaded more than 1.4 million times. It is a key part of Nokia’s strategy for the mobile maps, navigation, and location-based services markets....
Motorola Opens Apps Store In China
Motorola’s SHOP4APPS, which will be open by February 14, will offer applications designed to customize Android-based Motorola phones in China. It also developers a set of resources, starting with tools for testing their applications, as well as marketing and promotional tools for marketing their applications to end users...
$1 Million Offered In 4G Development Prizes
The YTL Communications Sdn Bhd “mYprize” Global Developer Challenge offers $1 million in prizes to inspire entrepreneurs and innovators around the world to create new 4G mobile Internet products and services for Malaysian deployment. ...
Developer Program Opens With $1 Million In Prizes
The Palm webOS developer program is now open, allowing developers to start developing and distributing applications for webOS devices. And to help attract attention, the company has announced a $1 million developer Hot Apps bonus program. ...
Partnership Develops Mobile P2P Payment System
CashEdge Inc. and Firethorn Holdings LLC have entered into a strategic relationship to market an integrated mobile person-to-person (P2P) payment solution using CashEdge’s POPmoney P2P payments service and Firetorn’s Mobile Wallet solution....
Samsung Announces $330,000 Open Mobile App Contest
Hoping to drive new applications for its Omnia II (I8000) smart phones, Samsung Electronics has launched its Global Developer Contest. The competition will run through December 23. The top two winners will receive $100,000 each, with 34 other individual prizes of $10,000, $5000, and $2000 available. ...
Speech Application Eliminates Driving While Texting
The free DriveSafe.ly mobile application aims to eliminate the potential for violations and accidents while driving by reading text messages and e-mails aloud, automatically responding without users ever touching the mobile phone. ...
Andrew Files For Declaratory Judgment to Protect MREL System
Andrew LLC has filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court in Delaware seeking a declaratory judgment that its multiple-range estimation location (MREL) system for locating mobile devices does not infringe an existing U.S. patent held by TruePosition Inc....
Android-Powered Phone Syncs Social Sites
Powered by Google’s Android operating system, Motorola’s Cliq 3G smart phone uses the company’s Motorblur solution to manage and integrate communications. Updates to contacts, posts, messages, photos, and more are streamed together and synced from sources like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, and work and personal e-mail....
Microsoft Software App Enables Smart-Phone Applications On Feature Phones
With Microsoft’s OneApp, feature phones with limited memory and processing capabilities can run popular smart-phone applications like Facebook, Twitter, Windows Live Messenger, and Mobile Wallet quickly and efficiently. ...
Vodafone Selects Tele Atlas To Power LBS
Vodafone will use digital maps and location-based content from Tele Atlas across its global footprint for its location-based services (LBS) and navigation offerings. Through the agreement, Tele Atlas and Vodafone will collaborate to enable LBS, routing, and mapping applications for mobile users around the world....
Paragon Software and Merriam-Webster Release Dictionaries For Smartphones And PCs
Paragon Software Group has announced that Merriam-Webster’s explanatory and bilingual dictionary series is now accessible for smartphones, such as the iPhone, BlackBerry, HTC, Nokia, and others as well as for desktop PCs. Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition, Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, and more are available for smartphones, with Webster’s Medical and Spanish dictionaries appearing electronically. ...
ALK’s CoPilot Live Is Now Available to Android Market Users
ALK Technologies’ CoPilot Live, a satellite navigation system, is accessible for Android-based mobile phones. This turn-by-turn navigation can now be downloaded from Android Market for products such as HTC Magic, HTC Dream, and HTC Hero....
Web-Based Service Customizes Mobile Surfing Protection
Content Control 2.0 from Flash Networks enables parents to select which content they consider inappropriate or dangerous for Web-enabled mobile devices. It also allows parents to apply specific filtering for each mobile user....
