Truphone has released version 3.3 of their iPhone and iPod touch (2nd Gen) applications in the App Store with some new Twitter add-ons to give all Twitterers an even better experience when using Twitter on Truphone.
The upgrade includes:
- Integration with yfrog and Twitpic, so you can post photos to your Twitter account
- Integration with bit.ly, so you can shorten links you want to tweet about
- Full Twitter search tools
- The ability to view direct messages as complete conversations
- The ability to follow and unfollow, and read the profiles of other Twitterers
- The ability to change your location, add map links and geotag tweets
These new features adds to the list of features already available, including free calls to Truphone, Skype and Google Talk users, and low cost international calling on the iPhone even if you aren't connected to Wi-Fi.
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Broadcom Corporation today announced a new single-chip HSPA (high-speed packet access) baseband processor and a radio frequency (RF) transceiver solution that integrates all of the key 3G (third generation) cellular and mobile technologies for powering the 3G smartphone and smart feature phone product segments. The advanced baseband processor is the first to provide extremely high-speed cellular connectivity with advanced, built-in graphics capabilities, for HSUPA (high speed upstream packet access) applications. The RF transceiver solution complements the advanced HSUPA processor to provide support for all global frequency combinations covering the latest 3G-enabled devices.
Designed in Broadcom's proven 65 nanometer CMOS process, the new '3G phone-on-a-chip' and RF solution enables manufacturers to build low cost, low power, next generation 3G HSUPA phones with breakthrough features, sleek form factors and very long battery lives. | 
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Over 100 fans were invited to shoot the official music video for the Noisettes new single Saturday Night, using only Nokia mobile devices. The fans filmed the Noisettes playing in a disused swimming pool in East London lead by music promo director, Kim Gehrig. You can create your own version at http://www.shotbyfans.com and then post to your Facebook profile for all your friends to watch. | |
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Novatel Wireless, a provider of wireless broadband solutions, today announced that it has successfully completed the first data transmission call using Long Term Evolution (LTE) 4G technology. LTE provides high data rates of up to 100Mbps on the uplink and 50 Mbps on the downlink and an enhanced user experience by leveraging new, wider bandwidth spectrum. Many operators are already planning to overlay LTE on their 3G networks to augment data capacity. Novatel Wireless is working with operators and plans to launch commercial data devices in late 2010.
"We are pleased to achieve these important first data transmission milestones on next generation technologies, last week with dual carrier HSPA+, and now with LTE, and we expect to leverage our industry-leading position to offer 4G wireless data products to our customers," said Dr. Slim Souissi, CTO, Novatel Wireless. "We believe our aggressive development efforts will enable us to deliver these innovative solutions with the fastest possible time to market."
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Check out this cigarette lighter mobile phone called "The Machismo" sold by Chinavision. The Machismo comes with a cigarette lighter as well as a super Triband, Dual-SIM cellphone with 2.5 inch touchscreen. The triband phone supports global GSM frequencies: 900, 1800, and 1900 MHz. With the Dual-SIM slots you can have two cellphone numbers with one phone.
The Machismo also features a 1.3 MP digital camera, video camcorder, a mp3 music player, an mp4 video player, Bluetooth, PDA tools, a 2GB TF microSD card and comes unlocked.
For more information visit http://www.chinavasion.com/.../machismo-cigarette-lighter-cellphone-touchscreen-dual-sim/ |  |
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Nokia Beta Laps announced a new experimental app called "Nokia Diagnostics". The intention is to create a solution for helping millions of Nokia users diagnose, troubleshoot, and configure their devices with ease. With Nokia Diagnostics features 5 different tests for you to diagnose, troubleshoot and configure your device: | |
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Nokia announced that since the 21 January 2010 launch of the new version of Ovi Maps with free walk and drive navigation, there have been over 1.4 million downloads. The one million mark was reached just one week after the launch.
The success of the new version Ovi Maps is a key part of Nokia's strategy to lead the market in mobile maps, navigation and location-based services. By leveraging its investment in NAVTEQ, Nokia has been able to remove the costs associated with navigation for drivers and pedestrians and is quickly activating a massive user base to which it can offer new location features, content and services.
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GetJar, the world’s 2nd largest app store, today announces the launch of App Catalogue Express (ACE) – a white label mobile app catalog for carriers, aggregators and partners to launch their own app stores quickly and easily. One of the launch projects for ACE is GetJar’s work for Spare Backup to create a mobile app store for The Carphone Warehouse, Europe’s leading independent mobile phone retailer.
Spare Backup has used ACE as part of the build for The Carphone Warehouse’s new customer portal, a cloud based service, which includes a mobile app store. The Carphone Warehouse portal offers a selection of high quality mobile apps to customers in the UK, including GetJar’s most popular apps – available for all major platforms and devices.
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Verizon said today that it is offering a free digital coupon service for its wireless and FiOS TV customers that can help them save money on their next trip to the grocery store.
Verizon’s Spend SmartSM coupons, powered by Cellfire, eliminate the hassle of clipping and collecting paper coupons by giving users instant access to coupons via their wireless phones, TVs or computers.
Verizon’s Spend Smart coupons cover a wide range of products on customers’ shopping lists and can be used at more than 4,000 locations of more than 20 grocery chains nationwide, including ShopRite, Safeway and Kroger. Coupon brands and products rotate every two weeks, with more than $25 in monthly grocery discounts available at any given time.
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Skyhook Wireless, provider of the Core Location SDK, the patented hybrid location system, today released its February report on trends in location-aware apps from Apple's App Store, Google's Android Marketplace and the BlackBerry App World. Skyhook conducted the study by manually searching these three app stores for common apps, and found that very few developers distribute apps across all and that most have different pricing points.
Though there are nearly 6,000 location apps on iPhone, 900 on Android and 300 on BlackBerry, Skyhook found that only 43 of these apps are available in all three app stores. Of these 43 apps, most are free, indicating that developers make their apps cross-platform as a way to increase download numbers, not revenues. Developers that are interested in high revenue tend to focus only on paid apps for iPhone.
In addition, all paid cross-platform apps set different pricing points across each platform. BlackBerry versions are always the most expensive, while iPhone and Android versions are usually set much lower. | 
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GeoVector Corporation, inventor and developer of mobile technology linking digital information with real-world places, has announced the availability of GeoVector World Surfer 2.0 for the iPhone. World Surfer 2 provides ease of use feature enhancements to GeoVector’s popular directional search and pointing application. | |
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Palm is offering $1 million in cash bonuses to webOS developers. Palm has launched the "Hot Apps Program" which rewards most-downloaded free webOS apps and paid webOS apps generating most revenue. The Palm Hot Apps Program will reward developers of the hottest webOS applications with a total of $1 million. The top rewards of $100,000 will go to developers as follows:
- The developer of the free webOS application that’s downloaded the most between February 1, 2010, and May 31, 2010 will receive a $100,000.
- The developer of the paid-for webOS app that generates the most revenue during the same period will also receive $100,000.
Developers of other top free and paid apps will also receive cash awards, as follows:
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The high-profile launch by Apple last week of its long-rumored iPad tablet computing device highlights the real start of a new market segment for media tablets that according to analysts at ABI Research will see four million units shipped this year. By 2015, shipments are forecast to reach about 57 million annually.
“Apple’s iPad is not the first media tablet,” says senior analyst Jeff Orr. “But it does help define this new device category. The main focus of media tablets is entertainment. A tablet will not replace a laptop, netbook or mobile phone, but will remain an additional premium or luxury product for wealthy industrialized markets for at least several years.”
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A new study by Juniper Research has forecast that nearly 15 billion tickets will be delivered to subscribers' mobile devices worldwide by 2014, compared to just over two billion this year.
The new Mobile Ticketing report found that services are developing fastest in the transport sector, with SMS, bar code and, increasingly, app driven services being offered by rail & metro companies and airlines.
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