Nuance Communications, Inc. today announced that its acclaimed Dragon Go! app for iPhone and iPod touch now features the ability to launch popular movie and TV streaming services; get direct access to more of the most popular names in mobile content, like Spotify; get answers to the toughest of questions from Wolfram|Alpha and Ask.com; and, find friends on Google+. Since its release in July, Dragon Go! has continued to rapidly evolve and revolutionize the way consumers access and experience mobile content – taking them directly to the mobile destinations they know and trust – just by using their voice.
“The response to Dragon Go! has been nothing short of amazing, proving that consumers demand a fast, easy way to find and experience mobile content via the best destinations and sources available – not a list of preferential properties owned and controlled by one company,” said Michael Thompson, senior vice president and general manager, Nuance Mobile. “With these latest enhancements, we’re giving people open direct access to streamed movies and shows, more music, more social networks, and the ability to ask a question and quickly have it answered.” |  |
| QlikTech, a leader in Business Discovery – user-driven Business Intelligence (BI), today announced it is expanding QlikView on Mobile support for popular tablets and handhelds. Previously available for Apple iOS, QlikView will now deliver full mobile functionality on Android and BlackBerry platforms and deliver an engaging mobile BI experience that provides business users with anywhere, anytime access to live data and analytics. Unlike first-generation mobile BI apps that only offer prepackaged static reports with limited views, QlikView on Mobile allow users to understand what’s happening with their business as it happens. It also offers the flexibility to instantly adapt analyses, data sources and visualizations to meet changing business needs. | |
LiMo Foundation and the Linux Foundation today announced a new open source project, Tizen, to develop a Linux-based device software platform. Hosted at the Linux Foundation, Tizen is a standards-based, cross-architecture software platform which supports multiple device categories including smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, netbooks and in-vehicle infotainment systems. The initial release of Tizen is targeted for Q1 2012, enabling first devices to come to market in mid-2012.
Tizen combines the best open source technologies from LiMo and the Linux Foundation and adds a robust and flexible standards-based HTML5 and WAC web development environment within which device-independent applications can be produced efficiently for unconstrained cross-platform deployment. This approach leverages the robustness and flexibility of HTML5 which is rapidly emerging as a preferred application environment for mobile applications and the broad carrier support of the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC). Tizen additionally carries a state-of-the-art reference user interface enabling the creation of highly attractive and innovative user experience that can be further customized by operators and manufacturers.
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Nuance Communications, Inc. today announced that its Nuance Mobile Developer Program, now NDEV Mobile, features new services that make it easier than ever for developers to voice-enable apps with Nuance’s industry leading speech technology. NDEV Mobile now features three new service tiers – Silver, Gold, and Emerald – that give developers more choice and flexibility in how they bring Dragon-powered innovations to market. The Dragon Mobile SDK made available through the NDEV Mobile program now also supports Windows Phone 7 in addition to Android and iOS, as well as an HTTP web services interface, and, brings developers eight new languages for voice recognition.
NDEV Mobile has already experienced great success since its launch in January, 2011, with more than 4,000 iOS and Android developers signing on to access the Dragon Mobile SDK across the US, Europe, Asia, and Australia. This success has led to demand for even more flexibility and support in bringing voice-enabled applications to market. As such, NDEV Mobile now features three new tiers of service to better meet the diverse needs of the broader mobile developer community: | |
Microsoft announced that this morning, at roughly 10 a.m. Pacific time, the roll out the Mango update has started to phones around the world. Windows Phone 7.5 (aka Mango) is our largest and most feature-packed software refresh to date.
Microsoft plans to ramp up delivery gradually—but make the update available to most existing customers within 4 weeks.
Today Microsoft is starting the roll out of Windows Phone 7.5 to more than 98 percent of existing Windows Phone customers. This is a simultaneous, coordinated, global update that cuts across carriers, phone models, and countries. This time, almost everybody is going first. | |
Nokia is now offering members of the Nokia Beta Labs community a preview of their new Store Client. Please is inviting users to test it out before it is deployed in a software update. Store QML client is available for the following devices: Nokia C6-01, C7-00, C7 Astound, E7-00, N8-00, X7-00.
This beta Store client will replace the current Store client on your Symbian^3 or Symbian Anna device, and it supports nearly all of the features as the official Store client (Web Runtime). The key new features this client brings include:
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Nuance Communications Inc. announced today that Nuance’s automatic speech recognition technology is powering the new Sprint Voicemail-2-Text service for its BlackBerry customers, giving them the ability to quickly and easily read their voicemail messages via email or text message.
Tailored for mobile consumers, the new service delivers the freedom and flexibility to stay connected from virtually anywhere, while helping to efficiently identify – and respond to – the messages they care about. As part of the service, Sprint BlackBerry customers receive transcribed messages via email or text message, and can respond with a just a simple click. Further, messages can be easily forwarded and saved – no more writing down of messages or misplacing them. | |
Sending a text message (or SMS message) has always been one of the easiest ways to share information and keep up with your favorite accounts on Twitter. SMS is currently available in about 80 countries and nine languages and usage continues to grow. Nearly four billion SMS messages are sent and received on Twitter every month.
Starting yesterday, you can share photos on Twitter by including a photo in your text message. It’s simple: just enter the text of your Tweet as you normally would, attach a photo to the message and send to Twitter. This feature is currently available with the following carriers*: AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Cellular South in the US; Vodafone, O2 and Orange in the UK; Vodafone Italy; Rogers Communications in Canada; VIVA Bahrain; and, TIM Brazil. We’ll continue to work with more carriers to enable their customers to share photos via text message. | |
From the Verizon Developer Community (VDC) Conference, Verizon Wireless announced today that the company continues to expand the number of tools available to members of the VDC with several new third-party technologies and services that will help developers enhance the value of their applications. The tools range from retail solutions to brand enablers, giving developers cost-effective solutions to develop applications for existing and future wireless networks. “Verizon continues to look for ways to provide value to the developer ecosystem by leveraging new tools to augment the development process. Each company we partner with provides a unique offering to developers for enhancing and monetizing applications while increasing user engagement,” said Todd Murphy, director, Consumer Solutions Group at Verizon Wireless. | |
Verizon Wireless and Chomp announced that Chomp’s search technology will provide an integrated search function for apps in the newly redesigned Verizon Apps, enabling customers to discover and purchase the apps they want on Verizon Wireless Android smartphones. Chomp’s app search engine will power all Verizon Android app searches within Verizon Apps.
Verizon Apps customers will be able to search for apps not just by the name of the app, but based on what the app does. Chomp’s search technology makes it possible to search for “kid’s games,” “expense trackers” or any description and instantly see the best apps for that search term. Verizon Wireless is previewing its redesigned mobile app storefront, Verizon Apps, at the Verizon Developer Community (VDC) Conference taking place Sept. 13 – 14 in Las Vegas.
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Parents worry when their teenager is behind the wheel of a car. Sprint is helping ease the minds of parents by launching Sprint Drive First, a new application that automatically locks a mobile phone when a car is moving more than 10 mph, disabling phone functionality, directing incoming calls to voice mail, and silencing distracting alerts for emails and text messages.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 20 percent of injury crashes in 2009 involved reports of distracted driving. Of those killed in distracted-driving-related crashes, 995 involved reports of a mobile phone as a distraction (18 percent of fatalities in distraction-related crashes). | 
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Nokia is pressing the accelerator on building mobile phone capabilities into cars with the release of the Nokia Car Mode app. Nokia Car Mode makes it easier for drivers and passengers to access maps, satellite navigation (provided by Nokia Drive), traffic updates, music and voice calls when they are in vehicles, so there’s no need for a separate music player or satnav. Smartphone features and services are designed and displayed to optimise the usability in the car and avoid driver distraction. (See video above) | |
fring, the mobile communication service that pioneered mobile video and group video chat, has launched Playgrounds – a new social feature within the fring app that enables anyone to participate in Group Video discussions about subjects that matter to them. (See video above) | |
US Airways is helping speed up the check-in process and improve convenience for its customers with mobile boarding pass technology from NCR Corporation.
Following check-in, customers receive an email containing a digitally signed and encrypted 2D bar code that is compatible with current imager-based airport scanners and boarding gate readers. Customers are able to scan the mobile boarding pass at the kiosk if necessary or bypass check-in lines and head straight to the security checkpoint where the electronic bar code is scanned and validated. The bar code can then be used at the gate for boarding. | |
Nokia and Microsoft announced that they would deliver Symbian software updates called Microsoft Apps. These updates will add some serious business productivity tools for anyone buying a new Symbian Belle device, as well as anybody looking to upgrade from Symbian Anna to Symbian Belle. Read on to find out exactly what’s coming, and when.
If you’re into downloading apps that’ll increase your productivity – and we know you all are – you’ll be happy to hear that during the fourth quarter of this year you’ll be able to start up the Software Update app from within your phone and find the following free apps: | |
CompanionLink Software provides two-way synchronization of contacts, calendar, tasks and memos between popular CRM databases and the Motorola DROID BIONIC. CompanionLink supports syncing the DROID BIONIC with Microsoft Outlook, Sage ACT!, Palm Desktop, IBM Lotus Notes, Novell GroupWise, Salesforce CRM, and Highrise.
The Motorola DROID BIONIC is one of the most anticipated Android smartphones this year. The DROID BIONIC features a dual-core 1GHz processor, 4.3” qHD display, 16GB of internal storage and a 16GB microSD card preinstalled, 8 megapixel 1080p HD video camera with a front-facing camera, webtop functionality, 4G speeds, and a much more. Running Android 2.3.4 and priced at $299 on the Verizon network, the DROID BIONIC is bound to be a hit among those looking for a top-of-the-line smartphone. |
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GetJar, the world’s largest free app store, has introduced GetJar Gold, a program that gives consumers free ongoing access to premium applications that they would have to pay for on other app stores.
The same premium Android apps that cost up to $10 on Android Market or Amazon App Store are offered free as part of GetJar Gold. New premium apps are added to GetJar Gold every day and remain on the store. All apps are available for download at no cost, saving consumers potentially hundreds of dollars over time. With 30 million active monthly users, GetJar is set to give away millions of dollars worth of apps.
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NAVIGON AG, a leading provider of mobile phone on-board navigation, announced the second generation of its award-winning navigation apps for Android devices and the iPhone will be available this fall. The new versions redefine core elements of smartphone navigation, including an industry first approach to map management and updates, an even more effortless and intuitive user interface, and new features not found in any other navigation app. Current Android and iPhone users are eligible for free upgrades to the new versions. In addition, NAVIGON is making its successful navigation app available for Windows Phone 7 later this year.
“Over the last two years, we’ve continuously added new features to our navigation apps, transforming them into the most feature-rich smartphone GPS apps available,” said Gerhard Mayr, NAVIGON vice-president of worldwide mobile phones and new markets. |  |
Nuance Communications, Inc. today announced that the OnStar RemoteLink mobile app for iPhone now features voice recognition capabilities powered by Dragon. OnStar integrated the Nuance’s voice recognition technology as part of the Nuance Mobile Developer Program.
OnStar’s RemoteLink mobile app, available for Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick and GMC owners with eligible 2010 or 2011 model year vehicles, enables drivers to stay connected with remote access to real-time vehicle data and the ability to perform commands, such as unlocking doors from anywhere. And now with voice capabilities from Nuance, RemoteLink consumers are able to take advantage of RemoteLink’s new navigation features by simply speaking a destination. Drivers can speak the name of an address, like “directions to 200 Boylston Street in Boston, Massachusetts,” or even search for destination details, like “directions to Harbor House in Detroit.” Once the information is returned, users can send the details from their iPhone directly to their OnStar service for turn-by-turn navigation. | |
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, a leading mobile phone provider, today announced the bada 2.0 SDK (Software Development Kit), an application development tool for Samsung's own mobile platform. bada 2.0 is expected to be a catalyst in expanding the global distribution of bada smartphones, which have already received significant global sales.
The expansion of the bada platform is led by the success of the seven existing Samsung Wave devices. The Wave smartphones have proven extremely popular in Europe, China and Southeast Asia, where consumers have been attracted to their affordability and functionality; the recognizable user-experience and touch interface has helped introduce existing Samsung feature phone users to Smartphone services and application experiences. | |
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