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Four months ago, Facebook launched something called the Preferred Developer Consultant Program in an effort to point companies and celebrities towards the best developers. Now, the program's taking an important leap forward as Facebook's more than tripled the number of recommended developers. Facebook started things off with just 14 developers, which seemed like an interesting choice. Those dozen or so developers couldn't possibly design too many Facebook pages and/or apps, after all...
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Android phone owners should now be able to become smarter consumers. A free app called Google Shopper has been released, and with it, users are supposed to find it easier than ever to look up product specs, check out reviews, and compare prices. Google Shopper doesn't quite represent some breakthrough. Instead, it combines the image recognition abilities offered by Google Goggles with the barcode-scanning feature Google Product Search for mobile introduced in May. Plus some voice recognition...
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Google is launching the Google Voice app for both the iPhone and Palm WebOS. It is an HTML5 app, which the company says provides users with a "fast and versatile" mobile experience, because of its use of the latest advancements in web technologies. "For example, AppCache lets you interact with web apps without a network connection and local databases allow you to store data locally on the device, so you don't lose data even when you close the browser," explains Google in a...
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Microsoft has removed the beta tag from the Bing Maps Silverlight site . This means, at least according to Microsoft, that users can expect greater reliability, supportability, and further innovation. "First off, if you go to the Bing Maps AJAX site and have Silverlight installed chances are you will be redirected to the Bing Maps Silverlight site (note this change only affects users in the US)," explains Microsoft's Chris Pendleton. "We're rolling this out with a small percentage...
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Gartner has released some research findings that indicate consumers will spend $6.2 billion in 2010 in mobile application stores. Meanwhile, advertising revenue is expected to generate $0.6 billion worldwide. According to Gartner, mobile app stores will exceed 4.5 billion downloads in 2010, eight out of ten of which will be free. Gartner also forecasts worldwide downloads in mobile application stores to surpass 21.6 billion by 2013, and free downloads to account for 82% of all downloads in 2010 ...
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eBay Inc. took first place in the Mobile Commerce Daily competition for the 2009 Mobile Retailer of the Year award.
Mobile Commerce Daily indicated that “there were many worthy nominations, but after careful consideration, eBay did an outstanding job in its mobile efforts,” citing the high number of items bought via mobile on eBay this past [...]
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Even if you haven't used Spotify , there's a good chance you've heard of it. The service's description goes: "A world of music. Millions of songs on your computer, on your mobile and available offline. Brought to you ad free." People in the US have been unable to use the service so far. There has been talk that this may soon change upon the launch of Google's Nexus One phone , but this may not happen. There was rumored to be a US Spotify app for Google's Android...
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Professionals who both own iPhones and are members of LinkedIn are in for a treat. LinkedIn for iPhone 3.0 has been released, and the new app (which remains free) represents an improvement over the old one in almost every way. The most obvious change comes in the form of a fresh user interface. Adam Nash, Vice President of Search and Platform Products at LinkedIn, explained in a blog post , "We've worked to bring the most common and important features to the top of the application, to make...
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Share this article... More »CNBC PRESENTS "PLANET OF THE APPS: A HAND-HELD REVOLUTION!" One-Hour Documentary Reported by CNBC’s Scott Wapner to Premiere on CNBC on Thursday, January 7th at 10PM ET/PT ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., December 22, 2009—They’re quick, helpful and maybe even a little [...] Post from: ColderICE eCommerce Video Blog CNBC Goes Inside The Billion $$$$ Apps Business Related posts: The Wednesday WAVE from Google?!? Share this article...Close Bookmark and Share This...
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As you read this, the inboxes of 14 Facebook developers may be reaching the breaking point. You see, Facebook's decided to launch something it calls the Preferred Developer Consultant Program, and these lucky developers are the first to receive the social network's official endorsements. Kristin Thayer explained on the Facebook Developers blog, "We often hear from brands, celebrities, companies, and organizations who are looking for the best resources to start building an application...
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PayPal has launched a new "Send Money" app for BlackBerry. It is now available for free via the BlackBerry App World. "Have you ever gone to lunch with friends and forgotten your wallet, but remembered your BlackBerry? Well you longer have to be the friend who is constantly borrowing cash," says Eric Duprat from the PayPal Mobile team. The app lets users quickly send money to people around the world - anyone in their contact list. "Users can also easily stay on top of their...
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Microsoft has announced the launch of a new Bing Maps beta, which incorporates Streetside and Photosynth imagery. "The new Bing Maps experience also features innovative new mapping applications such as Twitter Maps for real-time updates by area and Local Lens featuring hyperlocal, neighborhood content," a representative for Bing tells WebProNews. There are a number of interesting apps available, which is easily the most interesting part about Bing's new Maps experience: It will be quite...
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It has been discovered that Google is now showing AdSense ads inside Google Earth. While it is not that surprising to see Google putting ads on another one of its properties, it has raised a few eyebrows, given that Google Earth is a desktop application. Google actually states in its policy that it doesn't allow developers to use AdSense ads in their desktop apps, but it appears that Google is bending the rules for its own product. The company is certainly free to do so, given that it owns the...
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Twitter is making it easier for third-party apps to allow users to find other people to follow. On the Twitter API Announcements Google Group, the company announced that they are adding the functionality of Twitter's "find people" feature to a new API. "For a while now Twitter.com has had a 'Find People' button that allows users to search for other people to follow. Starting today we're exposing that functionality over the API as well -- take a look at the new endpoint...
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Google has launched Google Analytics for Mobile Apps. The reports that are available as a result of last week's expansion of mobile reporting features are now available for mobile apps as well. There are 2 categories of user interaction that you can track, which are pageviews and events. Developers can determine when their apps should trigger pageview requests, since they don't contain HTML pages. Google Analytics aggregates the data in the Content reports, displaying number of visits, session...
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