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With all of the recent speculation and curiosity about the ipad, the April 3rd release is beginning to reveal some of the answers. One of those questions is: how will the ipad pick up in the business world. For business execs who sit at a laptop all day, and already own an iphone for their [...]
Truphone‘s press release, “Truphone Gives iPad Owners a Voice,” describe the launch of the first VoIP app on the iPad. “Will this new app work over the iPad’s 3G network?” asks 9To5Mac and Gadget Venue. Whether the VoIP app works over 3G brings up a whole series of question, but first let’s take a look at the press [...]
While for some shoppers online shopping has taken the place of trips to the mall, others still prefer the touch and feel experience of browsing in stores. Customers like myself, who love walking around the mall, with a cup of Starbucks coffee in hand, can relate to the frustration of getting to the store only [...]
The long-resisted relationship between mobile telecom providers and Skype is beginning to change, and Verizon is taking the lead this time by partnering with Skype. Beginning in March, Verizon smart phone customers will be able to use their phone’s 3G connection to place Skype-to-Skype, send IMs and make International calls. The Skype Mobile client app [...]
Apple’s astonishing success in building a proprietary app platform with more than 140,000 iPhone applications has inspired other mobile operators to think about the lucrative business of phone apps. But in order to begin battling Apple’s incredible popularity, twenty-four mobile operators have decided to take the opposite approach to Apple’s proprietary platform: an open source [...]
A real-time voice translation is in the works at Google. In the words of Electronisca, here’s the details: Google on Sunday revealed that it could be the first to enable voice-to-voice translation for phones. Using the existing text conversion and voice recognition its search and from Android, the company is developing a system that could recognize a [...]
Siri’s new iphone app “puts a personal assistant in your pocket,” to quote TechCrunch. While reading about this new app, I felt like I was in a science fiction movie. Siri’s new phone app allows iphone users to talk requests, such as reserving movie listings, booking restaurant reservations, and finding local businesses. The idea of speaking [...]
Google’s NexusOne announced a new software update that will be released to its customers over-the-air. Among the various new features, the added pinch to zoom functionality to the phone’s browser, gallery and map applications, has raised the most eyebrows. The surprise among customers does not come from the novelty of multi-touch, which Mashable actually noted [...]
Yesterday, Apple announced that they updated the smartphone’s SDK to enable VoIP over the 3G network. This news may have been overshadowed by the simultaneous release of the Apple iPad, but yesterday’s VoIP update should not go unnoticed, especially given its buildup over the past half a year of debate. PhoneArena.com correctly commented, “While January [...]
Amidst this past summer’s brawl over whether Apple would accept the Google Voice app, Google promised that it would bring Google Voice to the iphone “one way or the other,” in the words of Vic Gundotra, the vice president of engineering for mobile apps at Google. Today, Google delivered their promise with Google Voice’s release as [...]
“Keep that New Years Resolution to Stay Better Connected…” writes Socialibrium LLC, a new relationship management provider, in announcing today’s new launch of Scale. Scale is an automated relationship management tool for the Blackberry, now available in Blackberry’s AppWorld. It takes all of your daily interactions – such as phone calls, emails, SMSs and meetings – [...]
