March 2010 Archives
Cell Phone and BlackBerry Apps: Timecard Employee Time Card with GPS
Econz is promoting their Timcecard app on a National Television Ad Campaign. The app keeps track of where employees are, their tasks and more over cell phones.Timecard is a mobile time, attendance and GPS tracking application that runs on a cell phone or BlackBerry smartphone. Ma…
Sprint Gives You a Free-Try Guarantee for a Month with No Service, Activation or Restocking Fees
Sprint announced that starting April 1, 2010,new customesr orexisting customers adding a new line of service -- Sprint will give you 30 days to try for free. If you don't like it you can walk away at no charge. There is no restocking fee and the activation fee is refunded, while other carrie…
Prepaid Cell Phones 65% of New Subs, Grew 17% Says NMRC
Consumers are cutting costs and opting less expensive prepaid cell phones, a prediction that was forecast last year by the New Millennium Research Council (NMRC). The 4th quarter of 2010 marked the first time that the number of new prepaid wireless cus…
Interest in Developing for iPad Strong, Android and iPhone Neck n’ Neck
Appcelerator's Mobile Developer Survey shosw that plans to develop for iPad have decreased slightly but are still strong.The new developer app interest has Android and iPhone neck and neck (iPhone 87%, Android 81%, followed by iPad at 53%).Blackberry has doubled from 21% developer support in Jan…
Cypress Solutions Wins NAVTEQ LBS Challenge
NAVTEQ , announced at an awards ceremony at Where 2.0 that Cypress Solutions Inc. is the Grand Prize Winner of the North America edition of the 2010 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge. Vancouver-based Cypress Solutions Inc. (www.cypress.bc.ca), won the competition with its mobile LBS application, …
Nuance TALKS 5.0 Available for Blind and Visually Impaired
Nuance TALKS 5.0 is available for Series 60 5th edition touchscreen phones. Nuance TALKS is Nuance's assistive software that converts displayed text on a handset into highly-intelligible speech for blind or visually impaired mobile consumers. "With Nuance TALKS 5.…
Droid Updates 2Day, 2Morrow and Beyond: Android 2.1 for Droid by Motorola Rolling Out
Verizon Motorola Droid users will finally be getting the update to Android 2.1 starting today with a limited Over-the-Air roll-out increasing over time.The Android 2.1 system update for the Motorola Droid by Verizon offers a lot of perks to users:Voice to Text filling in of all fields on the…
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