Archive for the 'Mobile' Category

Chris Thorman writes for Software Advice which specializes in helping organizations find the right software for their individual needs. He has shared his article “Searching for Real Estate Made Easy: Geo-Fences Plus Mobile Phones” with Dotfusion.
It’s Saturday morning. Joel and Rebecca are walking their dog through a neighborhood in Austin, TX. As they walk, they [...]

Voucher Cloud is an app developed by Invitation Digital that allows users to get discount vouchers straight to their mobile, as well as locating nearby businesses with special offers.
To make things easier, Voucher Cloud takes your current location via GPS and serves up the offers closest to you. This seems to [...]

Spin off of Twitter’s question “What are you doing?” Now we get to see your credit card transactions! Good idea?
As the Internet matures, slowly but surely everything we do in the real world is going social. But there’s a limit to how much information we can explicitly share on all the various services. A new [...]

Not to be outdone by tech visionary Jack Dorsey — one of the brains behind Twitter — and his Square cellphone payment start-up, point-of-sale  veteran VeriFone struck today with the announcement of PAYware Mobile.
Not dissimilar from the Square iPhone application and accessory, which The Times profiled last week, PAYware targets small businesses with its subscription-based [...]

There is nothing more excruciating than having to wait at an airport lounge for hours on end while weather conditions better and you can finally depart. If that situation ever rises its ugly head again, this new Twitter-based service might just alleviate things slightly.
http://www.boarding.fr/
In essence, through Boarding you can send a tweet which will allow [...]

It’s rather difficult to find a quiet and the most favorite place to work in a public place, which is almost perpetually noisy. WorkSnug, which is an Augmented Reality application for the iPhone 3GS will find your favorite work place that is just suitable for you. This is made especially for the mobile workers who [...]

Forget all the warnings your mother gave you about getting into a car with a stranger. A German technology institute developed an application that allows spontaneous carpooling for anyone with a mobile phone.
OpenRide, from the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, instantly matches drivers with ride-seekers and vice-versa. Walking from lunch to work when storm [...]

TGI Friday’s have launched a huge Facebook offer after ‘a friendly bet’ with a fan called Woody. If self proclaimed number one fan Woody can get 500,000 Facebook fans by 30th September 2009, then the first 500,000 will be entitled to a free Jack Daniels Burger or Jack Daniels Chicken Sandwich.
Unfortunately this promotion is US [...]

The Royal Opera House in London has come up with a very creative way to use Twitter to compose the storyline for their next opera.
“The Twitter Opera” is to be performed as part of the ROH’s Deloitte Ignite Festival at the beginning of September. The concert will consist entirely of 140-character tweets that the ROH [...]

Saving the trees with the iPhone

CourseSmart has come out with a pretty neat, and environmentally conscious, iPhone app. It allows college students to view and use their textbooks on their iPhone.
Read more at CNET