MasterCard Worldwide today announced the availability of the MasterCard ATM Hunter application for BlackBerry smartphones. (Last April the company announced the same app for the iPhone/iPod Touch.) The app lets BlackBerry smartphone users easily locate the nearest ATM no matter where in the world they are. ATM Hunter is available for free download on BlackBerry App World.
“BlackBerry is the number one smartphone platform in the country and we are pleased to bring its users ATM Hunter,” said Cheryl Guerin, Senior Vice President, US and Digital Marketing, MasterCard Worldwide. “MasterCard ATM Hunter helps make life easier not only for MasterCard cardholders, but for all consumers by letting you instantly search by your financial institution – or find those that are surcharge free – helping to avoid deposit or withdrawal fees and save time and money.”
The MasterCard ATM Hunter utilizes the BlackBerry platform’s location awareness technologies to pinpoint the search and easily locate the nearest ATM, whether located in a bank, restaurant, airport, retail or convenience store…or elsewhere. | 
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Today, Opera Software released the final versions of the world’s most popular mobile Web browsers, Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10. Now, nearly any mobile phone can support an Opera-driven Web experience, complete with unmatched speed, style and cost savings. Simply go to m.opera.com to download it directly to your phone today.
Today’s release puts the finishing touches on the Opera mobile-browsing duo. The focus is on delivering the best Internet experience on nearly any mobile phone, along with a unified look and feel and innovative favorite features, such as Speed Dial, password manager and tabbed browsing. |
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Opera Software today launched the newest beta version of the world's most popular browser for mobile phones, Opera Mini 5, on the Android platform. Opera Mini 5 beta for Android brings a fast and cost-efficient Web experience to any handset built on the Android platform.
Opera Mini, with more than 50 million users worldwide, enables Web browsing on almost any handset by compressing data by up to 90 percent before sending content to the phone, resulting in significantly improved page loading and speed. With a simple, easy-to-use interface, Opera Mini offers a desktop-like Web browsing experience on a mobile phone, with favorite features such as Speed Dial, tabbed browsing, password manager and bookmarks. With Opera Mini optimized for Android, more people will be able to get a PC-like browsing experience on their mobile handsets.
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Download Opera Mini directly to your Android phone. To download, simply visit m.opera.com/next with the Android browser or search for Opera Mini 5 in the Android Market. For more information, visit http://www.opera.com/mini/next/.
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Gowalla, a location-based social networking service, today announced the availability of Gowalla for Android, a native application specifically designed for Android operating system. Previously the Gowalla experience was tailored to the iPhone and Android users could only access the service through Gowalla’s mobile website. Gowalla for Android provides Android device owners with an experience that highlights the strengths and uniqueness of Android OS. |
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As the number of consumers turning to their easy-to-use smartphones continues to rise, Travelers announced today the launch of its first mobile applications, “Auto Accident Help” for iPhone and “Quick Connect” for BlackBerry smartphones. Both applications are free for anyone to download. Auto Accident Help is available at the iTunes store and Quick Connect is available on Travelers.com.
The new mobile tools provide auto accident assistance for iPhone and BlackBerry smartphone users. Additionally, Travelers customers will have the added advantage of starting the auto claim process directly through the iPhone application and the mobile Web site.
“Immediately after an accident, it is natural to feel unsure about what steps to take and we want to be there to help guide people through the process,” said Patrick Gee, Senior Vice President for Travelers Personal Insurance Claims. “Our new mobile applications allow us to do so by helping consumers with the necessary and important steps after an auto accident.”
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Almost every concert-goer has had the experience of attending a rock concert and seeing BIC lighters aglow throughout the massive crowd signaling appreciation of a particular song or to request an encore. Nowadays it is a mix of cell phone screens and BIC lighters.
"BIC continues the tradition of being there with the free BIC Concert Lighter application for Apple iPhone, Apple iPod touch, Google Android(TM) devices, and BlackBerry Storm(TM)," said Mark Funderburk, associate brand manager - Lighters, BIC Consumer Products USA. "Users can virtually experience BIC's authentic flick sound and select their favorite lighter design to use on the phone. There is even a unique concert mode feature that lets you zoom-to-flame providing a big realistic flame to hold high above the crowd."
For more information on the BIC Concert Lighter Application, visit http://www.flickyourbic.com/concertLighter.cfm.
BIC Consumer Products USA (www.bicworldusa.com) is a leading distributor of stationery products, lighters and shavers. Since its founding more than 50 years ago, BIC has honored the tradition of providing high-quality, affordable products. Through this unwavering dedication, BIC has become one of the most recognized brands in the world today.
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| Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced that third-party application developers now have access to the Photoshop.com Mobile for Android 1.1 editor, allowing them to easily make it a part of their applications. In addition, Photoshop.com Mobile for Android 1.1 is available, providing users of the Google Mobile operating system with quick and easy photo-editing and sharing capabilities. Photoshop.com Mobile for Android 1.1 enhances the camera-phone experience by providing a collection of new editing effects. | |
Google announced today Gesture Search, a new Google Labs app for Android-powered devices running Android 2.0 or above in the US. Gesture Search lets you quickly find a contact, an installed application, a bookmark or a music track from hundreds or thousands of items, by simply drawing alphabet gestures on the touch screen.
For example, if you want to call your friend Anne, open Gesture Search and draw letter “A”, and Gesture Search returns a list of items that have words starting with “A” even if your handwriting isn't clear. If the "A" you draw looks a bit like an "H", as shown to the left, "H" results will be brought up as well. If needed, you can also erase a query by crossing it horizontally: left to right erases the entire query, and right to left removes the last letter or space in the query. Now you can either scroll down the list to find Anne or write more letters to refine the search.
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Opera Software today launched a native version of Opera Mini 5 beta for Windows Mobile 5- and 6-based handsets.
By integrating Opera Mini with the Windows Mobile platform, Opera is able to deliver an optimized version of the popular Opera Mini browser that dramatically improves performance and the overall user experience. While Opera Mini traditionally requires Java, the new Windows Mobile version does not, which means that Opera Mini will work on any Windows Mobile phone.
The Opera Mini 5 beta for Windows Mobile includes the same rich feature set as the Java-based version. Renowned features, including tabbed browsing, the password manager, bookmarks and Speed Dial, are built-in to deliver convenience while on-the-go.
One of Opera Mini's major benefits is that it compresses data traffic by up to 90 percent, resulting in significantly improved page-loading and speed.
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Vlingo Corporation today launched an enhanced version of its popular Vlingo for iPhone App, which is now available on the App Store. The app gives users the ability to send email and text messages simply by speaking into their iPhone. Unlike speech recognition apps that offer a single use only, Vlingo delivers up to six voice-powered features including: email, SMS Paste, social site updates, maps and voice dial. Vlingo for iPhone supports North American & UK English.
"Over the last year, millions of iPhone users who experienced the convenience and safety of our voice-powered app have asked for more ways to use it on the go," said Dave Grannan, President & CEO at Vlingo. "Adding email and SMS Paste were natural extensions for busy users who want to experience better, faster ways to communicate. Now, with a single app, it's easy to send an email or text, call a friend, search the web, update Facebook or Twitter, and use Google Maps simply by speaking into your iPhone."
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Comcast Corporation today announced it has released a new version of the Comcast Mobile application, which now includes a remote DVR programming service (rDVR) that is being rolled out across the country. With the Comcast Mobile app 2.0, customers never have to miss their favorite show or movie because they can program their DVR at any time, from anywhere.
Comcast Mobile, the free downloadable app now available for the iPhone or iPod touch, serves as a single access point to some of Comcast’s most popular services including Comcast.net email; visual voice mail, which enables customers to view and select which voice mail messages they want to hear; address book sync; real-time TV listings and trailers of On Demand movies.
Customers can utilize the app’s new fully-featured TV program guide, which provides their local TV listings line-up, to record programming at home. The app also enables them to:
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Pear Analytics today announced the release of its free Website Analyzer for the iPhone and soon to be iPad application. The Website Analyzer application analyzes any website or blog by scanning the site and a variety of data sources to determine how “SEO-friendly” the website is. Within 30 seconds, the user will get a full report on their website with vast and easy-to-read information and resources to show the user how to fix or solve the problems in non-technical, easy-to-follow instructions. A video demonstration may be viewed at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pear-analytics-website-analyzer. Pear develops search engine optimization software to help website owners get better rankings in Google and other search engines. |  |
| This is a really cool app. You can make music with your iPhone by simply singing into it. The app, named Voice Band, records your voice then transforms it so it sounds like a real sampled instrument. (See demo video above and below) | |
Real estate Web site Zillow.com today announces an update to the free Zillow iPhone App, with new features that allow users to easily share Zillow's rich data on over 93 million U.S. homes using social media such as Facebook and Twitter. Additionally, home shoppers can now search and find homes for rent along with homes for sale, recently-sold homes and Make Me Move listings. (See video above). | |
Many iPhone application developers are making a ton of money writing software for the iPhone. (See Becoming Rich Writing Apps for the Apple iPhone). If you are interested in learning quickly how to write apps for the iPhone you will want to check out the eBook "How to Make an iPhone App" by Matt Drake for $47.97.
The eBook will teach you how to develop iPhone apps even if you never programmed before. Of course, you can always hire a programmer to write an app for you but that can be very expensive depending on the complexity of the app.
The eBook teaches how to program in C, Objective-C and Cocoa-Touch, Procedural and Object Oriented Programming, Model-View-Controller (MVC) Design Pattern and # how to use Interface Builder.
For more information visit MattDrake.com/How-to-Make-an-iPhone-App.
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Now you use your iPhone or iPod Touch as a flash drive with the free iPhone Explorer App. iPhone Explorer is an iPhone browser for Mac and Windows that lets you browse the files and folders on your iPhone or ipod Touch as if it were a normal USB flash drive or pen drive.
You can use the easy drag-and-drop methods to add or remove files and folders from the iPhone. Compatible with all iPhones and iPod Touches including the new 3GS and 3.0 firmware. Works with or without jailbreaking.
iPhone Explorer features:
- Free Mac and Windows
- Drag-and-drop interface for easily copying files to and from your iPhone
- Create, delete and rename files and folders on your iPhone or iPod Touch
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Our friends over at BrickHouseSecurity.com are selling an app (called Executrac) that turns your BlackBerry or smartphone into a mobile GPS tracker with no contracts. Employers can use existing BlackBerry or smartphone to track employee location. We also guess that spouses can use to app to track their partner and parents can use it to track their kids.
The app runs discreetly in the background without affecting the phone's performance. Executrac features: - Easy download directly from phone
- Panic button for emergency situations
- Remotely & invisibly deploy to 1000's of phones
- Complete history & reporting
- Geofence safety zone alerts
- Doesn't affect functionality of your blackberry or smartphone
For more information visit BrickHouseSecurity.com/Executrac. | 
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