Smartphones

Pizza Hut tops list of brand apps with 1 million downloads, says Forbes Magazine

November 30, 2009

Forbes Magazine named the Pizza Hut iPhone app the #1 Branded Mobile Application of 2009 in an article released this week. In 2009, the Pizza Hut iPhone app also was named the winner of two MMA awards for Best Mobile Display Campaign and Best Emerging Technology Campaign in North America, as well as an OMMA [...]

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UrbanSpoon’s update augments reality

October 15, 2009

Add the popular (and free) UrbanSpoon restaurant finder to the list of iPhone apps to feature augmented reality. Pull up “Scope” to see nearby restaurants. Put an interesting eatery in the crosshairs and tap for details. Remember, augmented reality works only on the iPhone 3GS, which uses GPS, a compass and camera to find your [...]

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More About AR apps for iPhone and Android

October 4, 2009

Here’s a quick follow up to my post about mobile augmented reality: You can also check out Wikitude, from Mobilizy, which was released Oct. 2, the day of my post. Like Cyclopedia ($1.99), Wikitude overlays onscreen info pulled from Wikipedia. The app also permits you to add your own info. Best yet, it’s free. Wikitude [...]

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Info pops: Time, Stradella Rd., AdMob, CFI Group, Akami

October 4, 2009

Time Warner is collaborating with U.S. magazine publishers such as Conde Nast and Hearst to set up a digital newsstand aimed at putting their content on e-readers, according to an article published by Yahoo! Tech News. Stradella Road, a marketing and consulting company, has released a new research study of about 4,000 moviegoers finds that [...]

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CNN intros a fee-based mobile app that also includes in-app advertising

September 29, 2009

CNN, one of the last major news outlets to launch an iPhone app, is going against the grain with a fee-based app that also includes in-app advertising. App Store shoppers are accustomed to either paying for an app without ad support or getting it free with ad support. Although its approach is unconventional, CNN’s CNN [...]

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The App Store beats steadily

September 28, 2009

And the beat goes on, and on and on. Apple said this morning iPhone/iPod touch aficionados have downloaded more than 2 billion apps from the App Store. There are now more than 85,000 apps available to more than 50 million iPhone and iPod touch customers worldwide and more than 125,000 developers in Apple’s iPhone Developer [...]

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Make voice calls without phone numbers

September 25, 2009

This sounds pretty cool, assuming it works as promised: Digitrad, a provider of VoiceWeb platforms for personal and business use, launched a new consumer voice service called OrganIP at DEMOfall 09 in San Diego. OrganIP [Weird name, isn’t it?] makes phone calling easy by eliminating phone numbers. Type a person’s name in any Web browser [...]

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Don’t let your iPhone or iPod touch or the data stored on it get out of hand

September 16, 2009

Ifrequently get queries from iPhone and iPod touch owners looking for info on how to secure their devices. Personally, I wouldn’t store any info I couldn’t afford to lose on my handheld (or netbook or laptop, for that matter). However, if you insist on storing sensitive data on your iPhone/iPod touch, a number of companies [...]

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Analyst: Mobile banking to become ‘commonplace’ by 2014

September 10, 2009

Market researcher Javelin Strategy & Research released a report that suggests mobile banking on smartphones will be “commonplace by 2014.” The ubiquity of mobile banking will also affect how consumers shop and pay for goods and services, Javelin says in 2009 Mobile-Banking and Smartphone Forecast. Other key findings from the report include: Nearly half of [...]

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iPhone, iPod touch and Android users share similar ‘appsession’ for downloads

August 27, 2009

It’s still early to start comparing downloads of iPhone apps to those for Android smartphones, but AdMob says so far, they running at an equal pace. AdMob, an mobile ad services provider, surveyed more than 1,000 iPhone, iPod touch and Android users for its July report to find our more about their interaction and download [...]

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