Are you tired of ordering the same old drink when you go out? Well that's about to change with "Drinkspiration" by Absolut, the manufacturer of various liquors. Drinkspiration is a free iPhone app that provides instant drink recommendations. The app includes 400 drinks based on rum, vodka, gin, brandy, whisky and tequila.
Drinkspiration will make drink recommendations based on location, popular, taste, color, sound volume, time of day and much more. Once you pick your drink criteria, the app will make suggestions that you mix or even ask your bartender to mix. The app even allows you to post your drink on Facebook and Twitter. You can also see what drinks are being tried by other users all over the world.
Google announced today the release of Google SMS in Uganda. Google SMS offers various mobile apps that provide access using SMS to deliver a diverse source of information which includes health, agriculture, news, local weather, sports, etc.
Google SMS also includes Google Trader, which is a marketplace application that allows buyers and sellers to find each other. They can sell and buy from each other various products and services from used cards, mobile phones, crops, livestock, etc.
Google SMS also offers Tips which is an SMS based query and answer service. When the user texts a free-form query, Google algorithms will restructure the query to identify keywords, then search a database to identify relevant answers and return it to the user. For more information visit Google Mobile Blog.
Bitstream Inc. announced that the BOLT mobile browser, the company’s web browser for mobile phones of all types, has passed a major milestone, achieving its one millionth install just 18 weeks; just over four months after its public debut.
The BOLT mobile browser, built to be used on a wide range of mobile phones from simple “feature” phones to more advanced devices such as BlackBerry smartphones, has averaged greater than 50 percent growth in usage each month since the application made its public debut at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this past February. Since its introduction, BOLT users have consumed more than 22 terabytes (22,000 gigabytes) of data from 61 million web pages.
BOLT users worldwide are discovering that BOLT’s enhanced browsing experience leads them to spend more and more time surfing the Web from their mobile phones. More than 20 percent of BOLT users spend 30 minutes surfing the Internet per session, with more than half of those – a figure that continues to grow – spending more than an hour per session. In addition to social networking, search, web-based email and video websites are top ten destinations all around the world.
SIRIUS XM Radio today announced the availability of a free application on the Apple App Store that will allow iPhone and iPod touch users to access SIRIUS XM's groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed channels. The app will give SIRIUS and XM Internet subscribers access to 120 channels of sports, talk, entertainment, news, comedy and commercial-free music directly from their iPhone or iPod touch.
For the first time, SIRIUS XM will make available its expanded Internet content on iPhone and iPod touch, including some of its new and popular showcase channels, created just for Internet users.
Users of iPhone and iPod touch with an Internet subscription to SIRIUS or XM have access to exclusive sports and entertainment programming from SIRIUS XM's satellite radio service, including, Oprah Radio, MLB Home Plate, Martha Stewart Living Radio, SIRIUS NFL Radio, NHL Home Ice, PGA TOUR, Opie & Anthony, Mad Dog Radio with Chris Russo, Playboy Radio, The Foxxhole comedy channel presented by Jamie Foxx, Blue Collar Comedy Radio, CNN, Fox News Talk and NPR.
Avid golfers and weekend duffers alike can always know the distance to the green with GPSGolfShot, a new application available exclusively to Verizon Wireless customers. Using GPS technology, GPSGolfShot helps golfers navigate both new and familiar golf courses, giving them information to improve their games, right on their wireless phones.
GPSGolfShot provides real-time yardage readings on nearly 10,000 professionally-mapped golf courses across the United States, making club selection simple and helping to speed up play by eliminating the need to seek out distance markers or to pace off yardage. Course layouts are updated constantly and new courses are added frequently. Many golfers have their wireless phones with them when they play, and GPSGolfShot eliminates the need to carry an additional expensive range finder or other gadget.
Opera Mobile 9.7 beta is now available to accelerate the mobile browsing experience for Windows Mobile-based phones. Speed is at the heart of this beta release due to the addition of Opera’s recently launched technology for faster surfing, Opera Turbo. Opera has also included its newly upgraded browser engine, called Opera Presto 2.2, for faster page loads and better overall performance. With the added bonus of Opera Widgets, Opera Mobile 9.7 gets you the Web content you want in fewer clicks and less time. . To learn more, check out the Opera Mobile 9.7 beta with Opera Turbo demo video and download Opera Mobile 9.7 beta.
Opera Mobile 9.7 beta features a mobile version of Opera Turbo. This turbo-charged technology is made possible by:
Google today introduced the first downloadable orkut mobile app, available for most Java-enabled devices, with more features to keep you connected to your orkut friends and phone contacts. The features include:
Take a photo on your phone and upload into your orkut album.
Share photos with orkut friends or SMS the photos to phone contacts not yet on orkut.
Call or SMS any of your orkut friends or phone contacts without leaving the app.
View scraps, updates from friends, and photo albums in offline mode.
To install the beta version of the orkut mobile app, visit m.google.com/orkut on your phone.
Google today announced that their Google Mobile application is now available for the Nokia S60 smartphones. The app provided Google an opportunity to address three aspects of an issue Google regularly hears; which includes immediacy of access, location and query formulation.
The new app for the S60 allows quick access to programs directly from the home screen, making search, Google Maps, Gmail and other Google mobile services quickly available.
The new app includes location awareness. When you use the My Location feature, you'll get search results that relate to where you are.
Members of the mobile industry working within the Unified Test Initiative (UTI), today announced new Java Verified program capabilities and the launch of JATAF (Java Application Terminal Alignment Framework), a new open source project where members of the global Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME) ecosystem are collaborating to streamline testing of applications across a wide range of mobile phones and handheld devices.
These initiatives provide developers with enhanced testing features to make it easier and faster to deliver a variety of Java-based mobile devices and applications to businesses and consumers worldwide. Today’s release opens the door to new revenue opportunities across the entire Java eco-system and demonstrates how the mobile industry is working together to address fragmentation issues.
Opera today released the first beta of Opera 10, the newest version of the company's industry-defining Web browser. Opera 10 beta sports a surprising array of new features, a fresh look and feel, and enhanced speed and performance. It is completely free for Windows, Mac and Linux users from http://www.opera.com/next/.
If you have ever waited on dial-up, slammed hard into a bandwidth cap imposed by your ISP, or gotten stuck on a crowded Wi-Fi hot spot, Opera Turbo is here to rescue you. Using state-of-the-art compression technology, Opera Turbo unclogs your connection so you can get to your content. Opera Turbo easily delivers 3x to 4x the speed of slower connections and can offer broadband-like speeds on dial-up.
With the recent launch of Google Android G2 paving the way for other new Android phones, mobile technology specialist Mobile Distillery has launched its Celsius Android solution to optimise and port mobile applications to Android phones. This will help developers overcome inherent platform fragmentation issues they face when launching new mobile content and services to the wider market, which now also includes Android phones.
In this fast-moving and rapidly expanding industry, it has become very important to develop and implement mobile applications across all platforms time efficiently to ensure a quick return on investment. Having significantly simplified the porting process for mobile applications to native Brew, WindowsMobile and BlackBerry, Mobile Distillery is now also greatly speeding up application development cycles for Google’s Android phones with Celsius Android, automatically with JavaME or semi-automatic from iPhone.
Today Skyfire is announced the launch of its mobile browser 1.0 version is now available for free download at get.skyfire.com. Over one million consumers have installed and used the Skyfire browser in just under five months, making it the fastest growing downloadable mobile browser in North America. This demonstrates the explosive consumer demand for exact-PC like full internet browsing on mobile devices.
For the first time, consumers can use their phones to watch any web video and live events, stay connected with friends, share web pages instantly, and use the full-featured PC versions of their favorite websites.
Skyfire is the only mobile browser to support popular web standards and plug-ins such as Flash 10, Silverlight 2, Ajax, Javascript and more, so the rich media on websites work on phones just like the PC. Known for its speed, Skyfire launches quickly and loads web pages quicker than other mobile browsers. Skyfire users can customize the start page with RSS feeds from their favorite websites.
Qualcomm Incorporated today announced the expansion of its Plaza suite of solutions to include Plaza Retail. Built on Qualcomm's fourth generation content retailing solution and backed by Qualcomm's extensive experience in fostering developer ecosystems, the goal of Plaza Retail is to allow application retailers (typically mobile operators) to present subscribers with a uniform and easy shopping experience on any capable device. Plaza Retail also gives publishers and developers the ability to make their content available to multiple retailers instantly, regardless of their development platform. Application retailers can then leverage their knowledge of subscribers and the strength of their own brand to create a rich shopping experience that is highly personalized for each consumer.
The proliferation of app stores has led to multiple solutions that only address the market for a single device or platform. Plaza Retail increases the market opportunity for developers and publishers by offering a much wider range of distribution channels, presenting new opportunities for both new customers and the BREW community. Most important, because content is not tied to the device, application retailers can offer consumers the benefit of being able to upgrade or change devices without losing their application investment.
Sony Ericsson as released the updated Themes Creator Version 4.0 tool. The tool is a "composer" which allows you to personalize the look and feel of any Sony Ericsson mobile phone by quickly creating themes based on existing components such as color palettes, sound files, image files or animations.
Version 4.0 is a major new release with a new UI, simplified workflow and wizards, meaning that professional themes can be created in minutes in just three steps.
AT&T today announced the availability of its AT&T myWireless Mobile application on the Apple App Store. AT&T developed the application to allow iPhone customers to manage family and individual accounts directly from their iPhone anytime, anywhere.
Supplementing AT&T myWireless, a popular service through www.att.com used today by millions of AT&T customers, the Mobile edition for iPhone brings greater ease and simplicity to virtually all elements of account management. The app's primary functions include:
The ability to access and control a computer from a BlackBerry Storm smartphone is coming soon from LogMeIn. LogMeIn Ignition for the BlackBerry Storm smartphone will allow users to access their Internet-connected Windows- and Mac-based computers from virtually anywhere and work as if they were sitting in front of them.
LogMeIn will demonstrate an alpha version of Ignition for the BlackBerry Storm smartphone during WES 2009 at booth #503, May 5–7 in Orlando, Fla.
Key features planned for LogMeIn Ignition include: Remote control BlackBerry Storm smartphone users can access files and programs on any remote Internet-connected computer as if they were sitting in front of it. LogMeIn Ignition is compatible with Windows PCs running LogMeIn Pro, LogMeIn IT Reach or LogMeIn Free, and Mac OS X computers running LogMeIn Free.
Research In Motion (RIM) today announced the availability of a new BlackBerry push API (application programming interface) that will enable developers to push real-time content to BlackBerry smartphones.
RIM is extending its existing, well-proven push technology from the enterprise into the consumer space, allowing developers to leverage push technology for BlackBerry applications targeted at consumers. Push technology provides a proactive mechanism for developers to deliver data to BlackBerry smartphones as it becomes available. It brings immediacy to mobile communications with real-time content, preserves battery life, and minimizes data usage by eliminating the need for "poking" and "polling" servers. RIM's unique push technology significantly enhances the user experience and provides a proactive mechanism for developers to deliver data to BlackBerry smartphones as the data becomes available.x
T-Mobile has released a software update that for the Android platform. The update comes with new functions, many enhancements, and more improvements to the the input screens. In Starting in May, T-Mobile will be shipping new handsets with this latest software, and will offer existing T-Mobile G1 customers the mobile update for download with an automatic installation over the air and free of charge. Alongside its software updates, T-Mobile will be further expanding the Android cell phone portfolio during 2009 to introduce new handsets.
One of the software's new features is an automatic horizontal or vertical layout for the touch screen display. This allows the T-Mobile G1 to be used in landscape format even if the display is covering the physical keyboard. Another key new feature is the virtual keyboard, which makes it possible to input call numbers or text simply by touching the screen. T-Mobile G1 owners can therefore choose between a virtual or a physical QWERTZ keyboard. And, of course, the touch screen keyboard is available in portrait and landscape format.
Nokia Beta Labs has launched Nokia Easy Meet, which is an intuitive mobile collaboration tool that allows for real-time sharing of content using mobile devices as well as PCs.
The service requires no software download for any device. Only access to an Internet browser is needed. From either a PC or a mobile device, the user enters the Nokia Easy Meet URL and then creates a meeting. The service supports regularly scheduled as well as ad hoc meetings.
Once you create a meeting, the service sends out an email and/or SMS to each participant. With just one click, each participant can join the meeting and view the content shared by the host. Content can come directly from the host’s device or from remote servers (via OVI Files).
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