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PixelsBeatPaper, which we pointed you to previously, is now rocking out with an interactive London Tube map, which is sure to come in handy for our UK readers! The ‘application’ installs as a widget, and gives you a draggable map that you can browse easily on your phone. The best part is that it doesn’t [...]
We’re getting bored waiting for the Ovi Store, just as I’m sure you are. Nokia has said that it would launch sometime in May, which leaves us 31 days of guessing and hoping. To make this process a bit more fun, we’ve decided to host a contest! This is real easy – you simply have [...]
One of the hot news items that came out of the 2009 Nokia Developer’s Summit was that Operator Billing support has been dropped from the Ovi Store’s U.S. launch. In other countries, such as the UK, Australia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Russia, Singapore, and Spain, users will be able to pay for purchases from the store [...]
The 2009 Nokia Developer Summit has been taking place over the past couple of days, including the 24-hour Hack-a-thon that we told you about previously. While our own Imran wasn’t in the finals, we’re still pumped about the winning widget, called Rocket. David Emmanuel Castro Guerrero worked with Plusmo to create his dream widget, Rocket, [...]
In December we wrote about Resident Evil going live on N-gage. For those who don’t know what Resident Evil is, it’s a game series in which objective is to save the earth from zombies arising to try destroy us all. In order to promote more on N-gage and N-gage games with focus on Resident Evil, [...]
Keytoss, the mobile web portal which we like a lot, announced today that their portal has gotten a few new functions. This time, they offer an online hotel booking service, in addition to those other good travel tools we covered earlier. You can access this function by going directly to h.keytoss.com or you can access it from the [...]
David Wood recently posted an interesting thought on the Symbian Foundation blog, positioning Symbian as a consumer brand. This is different than simply being present on consumer electronics – a consumer brand is something that consumers are aware of, and actively seek (or seek to avoid), and is something that Symbian needs badly, if they’re [...]
Yet another highly-anticipated N-Gage title has stormed its way onto the platform, this time it’s Age of Empires III. This turn-based conquest-type game is set during the time of the Ottoman Empire, where you build up your city and fend off attacking armies. You can either sit back and fortify yourself, waiting for the enemy [...]
Live streaming from your cell phone seems to be all the rage lately, with QIK recently adding Facebook integration, so that you can instantly alert your friends that you’re streaming via QIK, and also automatically publish the resulting video to your Facebook account. It all sounds really cool (in fact, I was the first person [...]
