Tag: "Mobile"
Google to launch iTunes competitor, Google Music
It looks like Google will be releasing an iTunes competitor called Google Music for the Android phones. Google music will be a web based system whereby users can go view music and download to their device. Google music will be very much a cloud based music store. Google recently purchased a company called Simplify Media […]
Read More | ShareApple demos HTML5
Apple is a firm believer of the open web, even though their App store by many is a closed system. This week Apple has created a showcase of HTML5 technology and has gained the attention of developers worldwide. While HTML5 is nowhere near mainstream yet, and wont be for sometime – Apple is interested to […]
Read More | ShareTelstra launches Tribe® social networking tool
Exclusive to Telstra customers – a new social networking tool called Tribe® has been launched. Tribe® aggregates your Facebook, Twitter and MySpace into one single interface where you can access all sites from. Telstra customers simply browse to http://tribe.telstra.com from their mobile browser to access this feature, and there are no data / usage costs, […]
Read More | ShareGoogle-AdMob Deal Approved
The Federal Trade Commission in the United States has finally approved Google’s purchase of mobile advertising company Ad-Mob. In a blog post Google wrote: ‘We’ll now begin the process of bringing our products and teams together in the best way, and building new products and features together,’ ‘We’re working to make this integration happen as […]
Read More | ShareTweetDeck secures another $3 million VC funding
TweetDeck is a social media tool that can be used on mobile or desktop devices to manager your Twitter account and more recently Foursquare and Google Buzz. Betaworks is the company behind the additional $3 million funding to Tweetdeck. Twitter has recently launched their own application simply called Twitter (used to be called Tweetie). TweetDeck […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare releases their own App Store
Foursquare has released their own App store that allows users to interact with the Foursquare API and add photos and videos etc to your Foursquare check-ins. To check out the app store goto: http://foursquare.com/apps/ There are 18 Apps available so far including Hootsuite & Squarepik. Other apps include: Soovox Dev Miso for iPhone Love A […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare growing FAST- 600,000 checkins per day
Foursquare is now getting 600,000 checkins per day from users worldwide. In March they were getting 400,000 checkins per day, and in February was generating 1 million checkins per week. Foursquare is growing fast. Apparently Yahoo has walked away from their previous to buy Foursquare for $100 million, but may be back with a lower […]
Read More | ShareYahoo and Samsung ink deal
Yahoo have partnered with Samsung to distribute their services on millions of Samsung devices around the world, such as: Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Front Page, Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Flickr, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Contacts, Yahoo! Calendar, and Yahoo! Weather. It is good to see Yahoo partnering up with mobile hardware providers, something Microsoft […]
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