Archive for the ‘Services’ Category

Qik Premium Hits Nokia Ovi Store; Qik.com Gets Revamp

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Qik has a couple of improvements to announce these days, ranging from the release of Qik Premium via Nokia's Ovi Store, to the redesign of the Qik.com site. Fans of the video streaming service will be able to download the software from Ovi Store, for a promotional price of $4.99 ...

Yahoo Changing Strategy for Mobile Market

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Yahoo is taking another approach at the mobile market, by disbanding its mobile segment and reorganizing the employees, for a new direction of the company. Mobile feats will be integrated in the rest of the company's divisions and this new direction is a sign that CEO Carol Bartz wants to ...

Skype Ejected from Ovi Store

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Here's another story a la "Google Voice versus AT&T and Apple", this time with Skype and Nokia playing the protagonists… or is it? We're talking about the fact that the Skype app was pulled from Ovi Store, just days after the free application was made available for the Symbian Nokia ...

PayPal Wants An App Store for Developers

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

PayPal has recently announced that it intends on opening an app store in 2010, allowing developers to provide software for customers. Invoicing apps or "daily deals" software will surely appeal to merchants on the web, or so claims Osama Bedier, PayPal Platform Business Unit and Emerging Technologies VP. eBay did something ...

Mobile Phones Get E-Wallet Features in Singapore

Monday, February 8th, 2010

The mobile phone is the tool of the future, we all know that, but in Singapore the device got a new use, the one of a mobile wallet. Through it, the handset gets converted into a credit card, for cashless payment. The Network for Electronic Transfers (NETS) has launched iNETS ...

Connectify Allows Windows 7 Users to Create a WiFi Hotspot

Monday, December 28th, 2009

If you want to create a WiFi hotspot with the aid of your Windows 7 computer, you can now use Connectify, a free application available for download from here. This Windows 7 product allows users to share Internet connection wirelessly without extra hardware, chargers or wires. Connectify also connects to any ...

HTC Pure Lost in a Taxi; Microsoft My Phone Tested on This Occasion

Monday, December 28th, 2009

CNET reporter Natali Del Conte decided to test the Windows Mobile "My Phone" service and instead of having a handset stolen, she decided to leave a HTC Pure phone in the back of a taxi. The device was left there with the sound off and the quest began for Microsoft's ...

GetJar Claims that Nokia’s Ovi Store is Not Second Largest App Store

Friday, December 18th, 2009

GetJar is an app store that provides mainly J2ME and Flash Lite software and the company is now the centre of our news, since they've just accused Nokia of bragging about their own app store. Tero Ojanperä, Executive Vice President of Services at Nokia recently claimed that Ovi Store is ...

Nokia Messaging for Social Networks Beta Gets updated

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

In case you're all about Twitter and other similar social networking services, you'll be glad to find out that Nokia Messaging for social networks beta has just been updated with support for the famous microblogging platform. Tweeting has just become convenient and easy to do from your Nokia phone's homescreen. If ...

Pandora Audio Streaming Gets Tested on BlackBery Tour

Monday, December 14th, 2009

A Dvice.com editor took a coast to coast trip recently, from North Carolina to California and took advantage of the opportunity to test the Pandora streaming service via a BlackBerry Tour. It seems that Pandora aims to become your new car radio, considering the quality of the service they provide. The ...