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Alameda, Calif.-based Blaze Mobile says it is launching two services, Blaze Wallet and Blaze Movies. The Blaze Mobile Wallet service lets people check bank accounts, pay bills, make transfers, and provides access to Blaze Movies, which allows people to buy movie tickets up to seven days in advance. The...
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Mogees is launching an SDK for Android that will allow developers to charge for applications on the Android Market using its mobile billing platform. In doing so, it's beating Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) to the punch by at least a few months. Currently, Google doesn't have a system that allows developers...
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-- T-Mobile USA Holiday Line-up: T-Mobile said yesterday that it is releasing new phones and devices for the holidays. It's releasing the MOTOZINE ZN5, which has a 5-megapixel camera with auto focus and flash. T-Mobile is also releasing the 'cameo,' which is a digital picture frame built...
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The financial system may be teetering, but the area of mobile banking is piquing some interest. In the U.S., mobile banking has only reached about 7.2 percent of working adults, according to recent survey by Compass Intelligence . Adoption is highest among young adults, frequent travelers and males....
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The $150 million BlackBerry Partners Fund has announced its first three investments totaling $16.7 million. They are: buzzd, a social network, Digby, a mobile storefront provider and WorldMate, a travel management tool. These three represent the fund's first investments, but last week, the investment...
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Michelin Guides Go Mobile: If cloth napkins, sommeliers and an array of silverware is your kind of thing, Michelen guides might already be on your shelf in paper form. Now the cuisine guides are optimized for mobile on a .mobi site that includes the latest reviews of restaurants in New York, Las Vegas...
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Visa said the U.S. isn't ready to start using their phones to make payments in stores, like people do in Japan, but they preparing to launch new services, including alerts and location-based offers that will launch shortly on the first Android phones, Reuters reports . Additionally, the credit card...
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When the T-Mobile G1 launches on Oct. 22, people will be able to browse and buy applications from the phone within the Android Market. Google's ( NSDQ: GOOG ) vision for this—although similar to Apple's App Store which saw tremendous success soon after launching this summer—will not be the same...
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Sprint ( NYSE: S ) is getting one step closer to mobile payments with a massive roll-out of a service currently live 6,600 New York City cabs. The system, developed in partnership with VeriFone's transportation system, will allow cab-goers to use a 10.4 inch touch screen to review the fare, make...
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The number of text messages sent during the second quarter jumped 20 percent to 52 billion messages, compared to the previous quarter, according to VeriSign ( NSDQ: VRSN ), which compiles statistics based on the messaging traffic it sees from its media division. Although the figures are skewed because...
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For all of the cutting edge mobile technology that Japanese consumers have routine access to, surprisingly little of it has made its way outside of the country. Its government, however, wants to change this, and will begin an "aggressive push" to market the technology overseas, reports AP ...
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-- Opera Launches Mobile 9.5: Opera Software (OSL: OPERA) released today the Opera Mobile 9.5 beta, a new browser for Windows Mobile touchscreen devices. The browser can be downloaded at http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/ . Opera Mobile 9.5 beta is supposed to be faster and is also nice because it...