Archive for April, 2010

SMS can reduce missed appointments

Mobile solutions for healthcare Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest nonprofit healthcare provider, is using mobile as a means of cutting costs on its communication infrastructure. Kaiser needed to find a solution that would cut patient communication costs and at the same time have the potential for a national rollout and have a considerably short development [ READ MORE ]

Android overtakes iPhone: more traffic in U.S.

It seemed all to come: Android has overtaken the iPhone in terms of data on smartphones in the U.S.. According to figures from AdMob, an agency that places advertising banners in applications and collects figures . AdMob gives a partial overview of the smartphone market because they do not operate on all platforms, but a [ READ MORE ]

Radio.nl Android application

Friday 23 april MobileWeb.be released a new Android application Radio.nl! With this application you have access to the best radio stations from the Netherlands and this on your Android device! You can browse and listen to (currently) 280 radio stations, including: Radio 538, Radio Veronica, 3FM, Sky Radio,… For more information check http://mobileradioapp.nl and you [ READ MORE ]

Tablets: Android is coming

There is not only the iPad in life. Google can count on a lot of manufacturers to release tablets based on Android. The most interesting one might be the Archos Home Tablet 7 that’ll be released in the coming weeks for a price around 200 €. That tablet will provide a touch screen of 7 [ READ MORE ]

Apple Sells 8.75 Million iPhones in Q2

Apple announced its second quarter earnings results today and, once again, the company outperformed market expectations with its best non-holiday quarter ever. The company posted $13.50 billion in revenue and a net quarterly profit of $3.33 per diluted share. This obliterates Wall Street estimates of $2.45 a share. It was also a big quarter for [ READ MORE ]

iPhone 4G: it is coming?

Engadget posts a couple of images purportedly of a prototype iPhone 4G. The backstory is quite sketchy, though the site does believe it may actually get some hands on time with the device. Apparently the phone was found on the floor of a San Jose bar inside of an iPhone 3G case. Right now we [ READ MORE ]

The iPad, the saving of the newspaper industry?

This week we received our long awaited iPads. One of the 450.000 that were sold in the first days. We have to admit that we are thrilled by the capabilities of this tablet device: the ease-of-use, the great multi-touch screen, the speed (what a difference with the iPhone!). We are also very surprised to see [ READ MORE ]

SMS action for Haiti generates 426.672 Euro

In January 2010, MobileWeb and the three mobile operators KPN Group Belgium/BASE, Mobistar and Proximus organised the action SMS 4666 to raise money for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.  People were offered the possibility to send a SMS message to contribute 1 Euro to the participating humanitarian organisations.   In a period of [ READ MORE ]

Apple Announces Multitasking and many more in iPhone OS 4.0

At its ‘Sneak Peek Into the Future’ media event today, Apple announced several major feature additions, including multitasking and an in-app ad network, to iPhone OS 4.0 for release this summer. The most significant new feature of iPhone OS 4.0 highlighted by Jobs is multitasking, which recent rumors had indicated might be coming. Apple had [ READ MORE ]

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