Services Category

Samsung Launches Mobile App Developer Competition
May 20th 2013 - 07:10 GMT
Samsung has launched a global app competition aimed at finding new applications utilizing group communication function. ...more

CorFire and OLO Partner on Mobile Commerce Solution for Restaurants
May 19th 2013 - 09:45 GMT
USA based mobile commerce services provider, CorFire has announced a partnership with OLO, the provider of a digital commerce engine for restaurants....more

Nokia Adds Canada to Countries Supporting Its Free Music Streaming Service
May 17th 2013 - 12:16 GMT
Nokia's own mobile music service, that comes free with Lumia smartphones has expanded its service to include Canada. Nokia Music is now available in 25 countries....more

Smartphones Get Defence-Grade Secure Access to Microsoft SharePoint Services
May 17th 2013 - 11:10 GMT
A defense-grade data protection is now available for Apple iOS and Android devices when accessing Microsoft SharePoint services....more

Smartphone Software That Automatically Enables Wi-Fi When Within Range
May 16th 2013 - 16:00 GMT
Wi-Fi roaming services provider, Devicescape has developed a mobile app that can automatically switch on dormant Wi-Fi capabilities when a user is within range of their home Wi-Fi router....more

Over 50 Billion Apps Downloaded from Apple App Store
May 16th 2013 - 14:30 GMT
Apple today announced that customers have now downloaded over 50 billion apps from its App Store since it launched in July 2008....more

Rovio to Start Publishing 3rd-Party Mobile Games
May 16th 2013 - 11:10 GMT
Angry Birds mobile games developer, Rovio Entertainment has announced the launch of its new mobile game publishing initiative, Rovio Stars, which will feature games from outside developers....more

Google Launches Mobile Music Service
May 16th 2013 - 08:55 GMT
Google has -- as was expected -- announced its own mobile music streaming service, with the lengthy name of "Google Play Music All Access"....more

UK's Freeview Television in Talks to Enable TV Viewing on Tablets
May 15th 2013 - 14:10 GMT
Television software developer, Motive Television says that it plans to develop its Tablet Television technology to enable Freeview users in UK to watch and record television programmes directly onto tablets - without the need to connect to the internet....more

Google Preparing to Launch Mobile Music Streaming Service
May 15th 2013 - 13:50 GMT
Google is expected to announce its own music streaming service later today with the launch as soon as next week according to multiple reports....more

BBC IPlayer Comes to Windows Phone 8 Based Handsets
May 15th 2013 - 12:10 GMT
The UK broadcaster, the BBC has expanded its mobile television player service to work on Windows Phone 8 based smartphones....more

BlackBerry to Launch BBM Messenger Service on IPhone and Android Devices
May 14th 2013 - 18:00 GMT
BlackBerry has announced plans to make its own mobile social network, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), available on Apple and Android smartphones this summer, with support planned for iOS6, and Android 4.0 at launch....more

Ericsson Partners with Eurogiro to Build Global M-Commerce Interconnect Service
May 14th 2013 - 07:30 GMT
Ericsson has announced a partnership with Eurogiro that will allow more than 60 major banking groups and postal organizations worldwide to transact across Ericsson's M-Commerce Interconnect service....more

Amazon Offering $5 Of Free Mobile Apps for Kindle Users in the USA
May 13th 2013 - 18:30 GMT
Amazon has expanded its own in-house micropayments system, Amazon Coins to permit the purchase of apps for Kindle ebooks....more

ESPN Mulls Subsidising Mobile Video Download Costs
May 13th 2013 - 11:47 GMT
US sports broadcaster. ESPN is mulling an option to subsidise the cost of mobile data traffic when a smartphone user streams video content from its websites....more

Google Kills Off Physical NFC Card for Google Wallet
May 13th 2013 - 11:35 GMT
Google is reported to have scrapped, or at least delayed significantly, plans to launch a NFC enabled credit card that would have been tied into its own mobile payments platform, Google Wallet....more

One Million Dots Downloaded by IPhone Users
May 8th 2013 - 15:20 GMT
Dots, a new puzzle game that was launched for Apple's iPhone just a week ago has already surpassed a million downloads....more

Boingo Launches ITunes Payments for Wi-Fi Subscriptions
May 7th 2013 - 16:45 GMT
Wi-Fi services provider, Boingo Wireless has announced that Apple users can now use their iTunes account to purchase a Boingo subscription to access more than 600,000 hotspots worldwide....more

Amazon Launches Paid App Store in China
May 6th 2013 - 13:30 GMT
Amazon has beaten Google in allowing paid downloads of mobile apps in China. Currently, Google only offerd free app downloads....more

Barnes & Noble Adds Google Play App Store to Nook EBook Reader
May 3rd 2013 - 08:20 GMT
US book seller, Barnes & Noble has announced a deal to put the Google Play mobile app store onto its Nook ebook readers....more

Google Now Draining IPhone Batteries
May 2nd 2013 - 17:30 GMT
Google's just announced Now app for Apple smartphones is causing problems for some users who report that it is draining their battery....more

Amazon Adds Accessibility Features to Kindle Reading Apps
May 1st 2013 - 15:50 GMT
Amazon today announced new accessibility features for the Kindle reading app, making it easier for blind and visually impaired customers to navigate their Kindle libraries and read their books....more

Amazon's Mobile Ad Business Generating $500 Million in Revenue
April 30th 2013 - 11:10 GMT
Amazon's mobile advertising business, although not widely reported on, is reputed to already be a US$500 million per year business, and is growing....more

Skype Comes to the BlackBerry 10 Smartphones
April 28th 2013 - 10:10 GMT
VoIP based phone service, Skype has announced the availability of its mobile app for the BlackBerry 10 smartphone OS....more

Yahoo Signs Mobile Advertising Deal Across Southeast Asia
April 22nd 2013 - 08:50 GMT
Yahoo has signed a deal with a mobile advertising agency to sell adverts for its mobile websites in a selection of Southeast Asian countries....more

Twitter Launches Mobile Music Service
April 18th 2013 - 18:45 GMT
Twitter has launched its anticipated move into the music market, with a new service that tracks Tweets sent by users to detect and surface the most popular tracks and emerging artists....more

USA Bill Senders Testing QR Codes for Mobile Payments
April 18th 2013 - 13:00 GMT
A USA based trade body for electronic payments, NACHA has said that it is launching an industry evaluation of the QR Encoding for Consumer Bill Payment Guidelines that were first proposed last December....more

Payleven Opens Up Mobile Credit Card Processing to Private Users
April 17th 2013 - 15:40 GMT
European mobile payments processor, payleven say that it is opening its credit card processing service to the general public and non-businesses....more

Amazon Expands Global App Distribution to Nearly 200 Countries
April 17th 2013 - 09:55 GMT
Amazon has has announced that it is expanding its own app store to operate in nearly 200 countries over the next few months....more

US Retailers Select Gemalto to Develop Mobile Wallet Service
April 17th 2013 - 08:30 GMT
A USA based alliance of retailers has selected Gemalto to develop a mobile wallet for their mobile payments service....more

France Telecom Adds Android Support for Its Own OTT Messaging App
April 16th 2013 - 16:10 GMT
France Telecom-Orange has expanded the availability of its own OTT messaging app, Libon to work on Android smartphones. When first launched last November, it was an Apple only app....more

Hotel Reservations Website Generated $3 Billion in Revenues from Mobile Services
April 12th 2013 - 11:45 GMT
The hotel bookings website, Booking.com says that transactions through its own mobile services exceeded US$3 billion last year....more

OTT Service, WeChat Looking to Reduce GPRS Traffic Load
April 11th 2013 - 11:30 GMT
Chinese OTT messaging provider, Tencent has announced that it is working to improve the performance of its app when used over GPRS networks. ...more

Google Upgrades is Android App Store
April 11th 2013 - 11:10 GMT
Google has started rolling out an upgrade to its Google Play app store on Android phones and tablets that it said has been simplified to make it easier to find entertainment services....more

Viber Offers Free Voice Calls on BlackBerry Handsets
April 11th 2013 - 09:00 GMT
OTT service provider, Viber has announced an upgrade for its BlackBerry app that expands it from just messaging to include free phone calls between Viber users....more

Bitdefender Launches Free Antivirus Software for Android Smartphones
April 10th 2013 - 12:10 GMT
Anti-virus software firm, Bitdefender has launched a free version of its Antivirus service for Android smartphones....more

Skyhook Wireless Provides Location Tracking for Stolen Android Phones
April 10th 2013 - 11:20 GMT
Wi-Fi based location based services provider, Skyhook Wireless has announced a partnership to integrate its hybrid location platform into Comodo's Anti-Theft app for Android devices....more

Flurry Expanding App Analytics to Mobile Web Sites
April 10th 2013 - 10:50 GMT
Mobile app analytics services provider, Flurry has announced that it will launch a mobile web analytics packaged in the coming weeks. ...more

MoneyGram Launches Mobile Money Transfer Service in South Africa
April 10th 2013 - 09:05 GMT
MoneyGram and South Africa's First National Bank (FNB) have launched their first mobile money transfer service in Africa,...more

Nokia Revamps Music App
April 5th 2013 - 12:20 GMT
Nokia has launched a new version of its music app for desktop and tablet version of Windows 8, designed to allow Nokia Music+ subscribers share their music across multiple devices....more