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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 ]

Apple bans ‘Android’ brand and location-based apps for mobile advertising

Apple continues its censorship on the access for mobile apps to their app store. Educational software developer Flash of Genius reports Apple has requested the firm remove mention of Google’s Android mobile operating system from the iTunes description of the startup’s iPhone and iPod touch application Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab 2.2. In November 2009, [ 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 ]

FierceMobileContent Predictions for 2010

There’s no such thing as a sure thing, but here are five trends likely to shape the mobile content landscape in the year ahead. Place your bets. Micropayments will galvanize original mobile content efforts Navigation applications will shift from premium to ad-subsidized Mobile commerce will finally go mainstream Ereaders will emerge as the next hotbed [ 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 ]

Facebook Connect expands across the mobile web

Facebook announced the launch of Facebook Connect for Mobile Web, an effort to extend its reach across the mobile application ecosystem. Speaking at the Nokia World event in Stuttgart, Germany, Facebook Mobile director Henri Moissinac said Facebook Connect for Mobile Web will enable developers to add Facebook social media functionality to any app across any [ READ MORE ]

Samsung Application Store launched

Last Monday, Samsung Electronics has launched its Samsung Application Store. Users of Samsung smartphones, such as the Samsung Omnia, in the UK, Italy and France have now access to mobile apps; 30 other countries will soon follow. The  Samsung Application Store joins a large range of other app stores, including Apple App Store, Blackberry’s App World, Nokia’s [ READ MORE ]

Nokia announces mobile payment service Nokia Money

Nokia has announced a new mobile payment service, under the name Nokia Money.  The service is targeted mainly at countries with a limited bank infrastructure. Argumenting that there are 4 billion mobile phones worldwide, compared to only 1,6 billion bank accounts, Nokia considers the mobile phone as the perfect device to facilitate a payment or a [ READ MORE ]

Augmented Reality, the next big thing in mobile?

I was watching the presentation of Bruce Sterling on augmented reality. He describes it as the next big thing in mobile. That reminds me of the presentation of Marc Vanlerberghe (Google) on last year’s Web Goes Mobile seminar, who showed us a video of Wikitude: The options indeed are endless. The video above shows us [ READ MORE ]

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