Archive for December, 2009

SMS ticket for the bus available in February

As of the 1st of February 2010, passengers travelling by bus in Flanders will be able to buy their ticket by SMS.  Public transport company De Lijn has worked out a SMS payment system, but unfortunately only with Proximus.  Negociations with Mobistar and Base are being held but not yet finished. To buy the ticket, [ READ MORE ]

Best selling mobile apps are functional

The mobile apps for iPhone that are the most popular in the US are mostly functional and relevant. Here are some of them: - Kraft iFood Assistant: this app offers over 7.000 recipes and the matching shopping list. Users pay $ 0,99 per recipe. - Amazon Remembers: this application allows you to take a picture [ READ MORE ]

Playboy iPhone app: shockingly tame

Men’s entertainment giant Playboy Enterprises International released its first official Playboy application for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch, promising video clips, wallpapers and monthly magazine features but sidestepping the more risqué content on which founder Hugh Hefner’s legacy rests. While the App Store restricts downloads to users aged 17 and older, the application description states [ READ MORE ]

Mobistar plans app store for September 2010

Telecom operator Mobistar is planning to launch a mobile applications store in Belgium by September 2010.  Mother company Orange presented such an app store for France and Great Britain earlier this month.  Today, this Application Shop boosts 5000 applications, a number that should further grow next year.  Access to the shop will be pre-installed on Orange [ READ MORE ]

Nu.nl : more pageviews for App than for Web

Dutch news site Nu.nl reports a shift of web traffic from their mobile website to their mobile apps for iPhone and Android. In November, the traffic on the Nu.nl mobile site saw a 20% decrease to 20 million pageviews.  However, traffic on their mobile applications saw a rise.  The iPhone app is by far the most [ READ MORE ]

Twitter inventor Dorsey proposes mobile payment system

Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey has proposed his new mobile payment system ‘Square’ at the LeWeb09 event. Square uses a small device which can be plugged into the headset connection of your iPhone, allowing your mobile device to turn into a credit card reader.  Zip your credit card through the small sweeper and it transmits the [ READ MORE ]

Apple counts down 2009′s top-selling iPhone apps

Apple unveiled iTunes Rewind 2009, a new iTunes storefront feature spotlighting the year’s top-selling iPhone applications and media downloads as well as editors’ selections for the Best of 2009. According to iTunes Rewind 2009, which encompasses only premium applications for iPhone and iPod touch, Electronic Arts’ The Sims 3 was the App Store’s bestselling game [ READ MORE ]

LG mobile marketing will promote Avatar

LG will run a mobile marketing campaign to promote the forthcoming movie Avatar, which will hit cinemas on December 18th 2009. As part of the multi-channel campaign for the James Cameron-directed film, the handset manufacturer has launched a mobile internet site which it said will “give fans a deep, rich movie-tie-in experience”. The mobile marketing [ READ MORE ]

Mobile Virtual Network operators at a turning point

Next Monday, December 14th, Mobile Monday Brussels will organise their next event. The aim of this Mobile Monday Brussels session is to provide an understanding of the what is rapidly changing in the Belgian MVNO scene in terms of technology, branding and business models. Timing: 18h00. Registration, quick bite and Welcome by Henri Fischgrund, founder [ READ MORE ]

Porn App Store launched for Android phones

Where there is no app for that on the iPhone, there now is for porn on the competing Android mobile operating system. A Seattle-based company named MiKandi (pronounced “my candy”) has released an app store specifically geared towards porn. The application attempts to create a red light district for adult Android apps allowing adult content [ READ MORE ]

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