Moving Beyond The Check-In, Foursquare Introduces “Radar”
The next update to Foursquare’s iPhone app for iOS 5 will pester you even more about things to do nearby. The new feature is called Radar, and it pulls suggestions from FourSquare’s Explore feature. Depending on your location, it might suggest a nearby restaurant, or remind you that the coffee shop on your to-do list [...]
Read MoreMobile Platform Spinlet for Music Lovers and Artists in Africa
Digital music is hot right now. There are many different platforms to choose from,; Pandora to Spotify and the other new startups in between. Listening to music has become fun and more convenient over the years. But it is Spinlet that is offering great music to fans and artists in Africa. Spinlet is a social [...]
Read MoreT-Mobile Bobsled Gives Facebook Users Free Mobile and Land Line Calls
Watch out Skype, T-Mobile Bobsled is sliding into your VoIP territory. The service — which allows you to voice call yourFacebook friends from anywhere in the world — now lets you make free calls to those same friends’ mobile and landline numbers in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico, right from within your browser. You can [...]
Read MoreJamaican Tech Entrepreneur Launches BlackBerry App Shop PING
Jamaican tech entrepreneur Jerome Campbell, CEO of Jacx Technologies launched a new app for BlackBerry App World called Shop PING! Shop PING! is a BlackBerry Classifieds App for Jamaica that makes it easy for BlackBerry users to view and post classifieds listings such as: Auto, Real Estate, Employment, Phones, Services, Merchandise, and Events. This app makes [...]
Read MoreHere’s Who Will Cash in on the iPhone 4S Bonanza
Did you hear that iPhone 4S, the device that was dismissed as “meh” by many of our media brethren saw pre-bookings of a million devices on day one? That’s not only good news for Apple, but also for its partners: AT&T, Verizon and Sprint, which is betting it all on the iPhone. But they aren’t the only ones cashing in [...]
Read MoreAndroid is the New Linux -And That’s Not a Good Thing
Google’s mobile operating system Android is the new Linux: open, free (aside from patent issues), and just a utility. It’s completely worthless as a brand in which to build upon. Unfortunately for Google, Android means different things to different companies. For HTC and Samsung it’s beginning to be a patent mess. And for Amazon, it’s just [...]
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