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Private Social Network For Couples
If both a couple owns an iPhone and/or an Android based phone and are in love, then Between is the app they need to have on their mobile smartphone.
Between is a mobile service that provides a secret place for lovers to communicate and keep their precious moments.
The Korean entrepreneurs behind Between had a charming idea: Let couples create one-on-one social networks for purely private sharing.
With the app, two people can connect with each another to share private photos and secret messages. The private “chat” function includes support for emoticons, so you can dress up your sweet nothings with as many smiley faces, winks, and hearts as your sweetie can stand. In the future, the network could support coupons or other offers, enabling marketers to reach the desireable demographic of young, happy couples in search of romantic experiences and adventures.
Where’s My Water
Where’s My Water? is a puzzle video game developed by Creature Feep and published by Disney Mobile, a subsidiary of Disney Interactive Studios. Released for devices using Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems, the game requires players to route a supply of water to a fastidious alligator. Where’s My Water? has been praised for its gameplay and its graphical style, with special recognition of its lead character, Swampy, the first original Disney character for a mobile game.
Investors Bet On Angry Birds
Investors are making a high-risk bet that Angry Birds is the next big thing, a game that can expand beyond its smartphones origins.
Rovio, the Finnish developer behind Angry Birds, has just raised $42m from prominent investors. Rovio recently announced a commercial tie-in with 20th Century Fox on Rio, an animated film about birds. The developer will also launch Angry Birds on Facebook in May 2011.
To know more about what is happening in the mobile platforms and applications, consider visiting the ArabNet 2011 Shift Digital Summit, from March 22-25, in Beirut-Lebanon, which will draw over 1,000 attendees and 80 speakers from around the world. It will include a Developer Day (March 22), Two Forum Days (March 23 & 24), and a Community Day (March 25).
The Day SMS Will Die
When was the last you sent a text message (SMS), question asked to smartphone users. Maybe some are still using SMS when connecting with people who are not into sophisticated phones, the smart ones.
So basically the industry of SMS will come to an end or at least see itself shrinking, except for companies who still believe that this is a cheap marketing tool and keep in feeding your phone with crap messages about shoes sales, valentine flowers, and so on… and most of the messages end up being deleted and most of the time, before even reading them.
But it seems that eventually the SMS market still have some potential. It has been estimated by the International Telecommunications Union that 6.1 trillion SMS messages were sent in 2010. That’s over 16.7 billion messages per day. 696 million messages per hour. 1.16 million messages per minute. And 193,429 texts in a second.
So who is replacing this niche business? It is called Mobile Instant Messaging.
The smartphone users are invaded by mobile instant messaging apps and they are built for almost all mobile platform, but not unified till now and not everyone uses the same IM client, so still this needs to be fixed by app builders.
I am not quite sure if mobile IM will be as profitable as SMS, but it will take the mobile service providers many years to work this out until data access becomes as cheap as sending an SMS and until all users are playing with smartphones.
For business travelers, still email is the #1 tool to send one to many messages, to avoid high roaming costs, plus almost all mobile IM requires to sign-in (except BBM and that is why it’s still the No.1 threat) and users tend to forget signing in every time they turn on their mobile phones.
Until SMS comes to an end, let us wait and see new mobile IM apps emerging and the latest news in this sector was the Facebook acquisition of Beluga for an undisclosed amount.
To know more about what is happening in the mobile platforms and applications, consider visiting the ArabNet 2011 Shift Digital Summit, from March 22-25, in Beirut-Lebanon, which will draw over 1,000 attendees and 80 speakers from around the world. It will include a Developer Day (March 22), Two Forum Days (March 23 & 24), and a Community Day (March 25).
PeekFON – Emails Everywhere in Europe
This December 15th, Fon will launch the Peek in Europe under the brand PeekFON. The Peek is an efficient email gadget whose unique feature is that it will have no roaming charges in any European country.
The PeekFON will be 99 euros to buy, a reasonable price especially considering that the price includes both the gadget and 6 months of all-you-can-eat email service anywhere in Europe. No roaming charges. No contract.
After that the charge will be 12,90 euros per month for the service but, as opposed to other email machines out there, there is no cancellation penalty of any kind if the user does not want to continue with the service.
According to Martin Varsavsky, CEO of Fon, that fact is the key reason why FON have decided to launch the Peek. The roaming will be handled by the new pan-European MVNO Spotnik, and be seamless to the end-user: their Peek will simply log onto the new GPRS network wherever in Europe they travel to.
PeekFON Martin Varsavsky Interview at LeWeb conference in Paris (Dec. 10, 2009)
Skype for Symbian, At Last !!!
At last, Skype has announced a new beta for the Symbian client.
The beta is still limited to a few Symbian devices, it works well over 3G, Edge and WiFi, and brings many of the features that we have come to love from the service, like free skype-to-skype calling, using Skype credits to call regular phone numbers, receiving calls on your online number, as well as instant messaging features such as chat, group conversations and sending and receiving files (currently limited to images, videos and music).
Source: Symbian-Guru.com