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Picture quality strongly improved in iStandaard iPad application

At the launch of the iStandaard app we received a lot of comments that the pictures in the newspaper were poor low quality. That’s right. Tonight we have improved the graphic quality of the pictures in the newspaper. The result is amazing. Check it out![ READ MORE ]

De Standaard iPad app, developed by MobileWeb, now in AppStore

The new iPad app of De Standaard is now available in the iTunes AppStore. With this new version De Standaard has taken an important next step into the e-reader and digital newspaper market, by combining its attractive content with its digital subscription system. The design and development of the app was done by MobileWeb (www.mobileweb.be). [ READ MORE ]

e-reading award for iPhone and iPad app De Standaard

During the first e-reading event, De Standaard has received the first e-reading award for its iPhone and iPad application, in the category “newspaper and magazines”. De Tijd and Gazet Van Antwerpen were the other nominees. Both the iPhone and iPad application are developed by MobileWeb. We congratulate De Standaard with this recognition from the market [ READ MORE ]

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 ]

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 ]

Radio.be Android application

Today MobileWeb.be released his first Android application Radio.be You have access to the best radio stations from Belgium and this on your Android device! You can browse and listen to (currently) 82 radio stations, including: Q-music, MNM, Studio Brussel, TopRadio, NRJ, Fun Radio, BelRTL, Radio Contact, Nostalgie, VivaCite, Pure FM, … For more information check [ READ MORE ]

Easy translation with Google Goggles

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Googhle CEO Eric Schmidt presented  the new Google Goggles, a program available for Android smartphones.  It allows to take a picture of an object, building, monument,… and it will search for more information on this object (which sounds like a static version of Augmented Reality to me).  Goggles [ READ MORE ]

Ticketeazy wants to boost mobile ticketing

There’ve been talk about mobile ticketing for a long time already, but still we don’t see much appearing on the market. One of the latest initiatives is Ticketeazy, a project developed by Nick Van de Velde and Thomas Verhaeghe during their final year in college. They want to ease waiting lines at events through mobile ticketing, using [ READ MORE ]

Already 10.000 SMS tickets sold at De Lijn

A week after the launch of the new SMS ticketing service, Flemish transport company De Lijn has already sold 10.000 tickets by SMS.  That’s an average of 1.300 SMS tickets per day. Buying a SMS ticket can be done by sending the code DL (ticket for 60 minutes) or the code DL120 (ticket for 120 [ READ MORE ]

Radio 1212 collects 227.258 EUR via SMS donations on 4666

Radio 1212, the joint action of the 5 major Flemish radio stations JoeFM, MNM, Q-Music, Radio2 and Studio Brussel, has marked a historical record in mobile fundraising in Belgium. On Friday January 22nd 2010, between 8.00 and 20.00hr,  exactly 227.258 SMS have been sent to the shortcode 4666, equaling as many euros for the victims [ READ MORE ]