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Geo-targeted messaging with a public services twist

Posted by  in February 2nd 2012  
Hard on the heels of our story about BlockChalk comes word of Nixle, another location-based service for community messaging. But where BlockChalk focuses primarily on letting neighbours co ...
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App designed to keep motormouths in check

Posted by  in January 24th 2012  
Giving softly-spoken consumers everywhere a better chance of getting themselves heard, the Talk-o-Meter is a chat-monitoring iPhone app designed to show conversation dominators the error o ...
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Location-based messaging for neighbourhoods

Posted by  in January 23rd 2012  
It was back in 2003 that we began covering nethoods, as our sister site calls them, and since then GPS and mobile technologies have greatly increased locally focused possibilities. BlockCh ...
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Paperless mobile ticketing, no scanners required

Posted by  in July 9th 2011  
Mobile ticketing may offer myriad benefits for both event managers and consumers, but most options still require specialized scanning hardware to read the ticket from the user's device. Not ...
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Open source phone service for off-grid areas

Posted by  in July 8th 2011  
Mobile phones are increasingly viewed as a critical means of improving life for those in the developing world, whether through employment, healthcare or social connections. Such opportuniti ...
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Voice transcription service for iPhone users

Posted by  in July 6th 2011  
Back in 2007 we covered Jott, a voice-to-text dictation service available from any cell phone. Since then, Jott has expanded their service offerings to include Jott Voicemail, which allows ...
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Contest chooses apps to help fight childhood obesity

Posted by  in June 29th 2011  
The potential for digitally-enhanced games to help combat childhood obesity has already been widely recognized—witness Treasure World, LocoMatrix, Swinxs and The Hidden Park for just a f ...
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Letting consumers choose their own (vanity) phone number

Posted by  in June 27th 2011  
If consumers will pay extra to choose their own license plate number—or to customize their own notebooks, fabrics and sneakers, for that matter—it stands to reason they'd probably do th ...
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Callback tool saves customers from waiting on hold for service

Posted by  in June 24th 2011  
In surveys around the globe, consumers consistently rank waiting on hold for customer service as one of their most frustrating experiences. Alleviating this annoyance, Virginia-based startu ...
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App lets consumers open and pay a bar tab by phone

Posted by  in June 20th 2011  
The ability to pay for purchases by mobile phone may be common in some parts of the world, but it's by no means ubiquitous. Similar to the way RideCharge lets consumers book a taxi and pay ...
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Internet service by the day for mobile warriors

Posted by  in June 18th 2011  
Both mobile warriors and casual travellers are all too familiar with the difficulty and expense that can be associated with getting an internet connection while travelling. A couple of year ...
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Location-based classifieds in 140 characters or less

Posted by  in June 17th 2011  
Thanks to GPS-enabled mobile technologies, neighbours are communicating as never before. Where BlockChalk facilitates geo-tagged messaging in general, Anttenna focuses on creating a new, lo ...
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Television ad for muesli, shot and edited on iPhone 4

Posted by  in June 15th 2011  
While we usually feature companies when they launch, we love seeing their creativity develop and grow after that initial period. And we just spotted a fun example: the made-to-order muesli ...
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Solar smartphone comes with eco bragging rights

Posted by  in June 13th 2011  
Eco-minded products are all very well and good, but for many consumers the important thing is the green credentials that go with them. A new smartphone from German sports company Puma—lau ...
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Five business ideas focused on babies & new parents

Posted by  in June 12th 2011  
Starting a family is such a fundamental part of human life that it's no surprise that babies are an inspiring subject for enterprise and innovation. There's a new idea born every minute ;-) ...
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Five online services for getting together offline

Posted by  in June 8th 2011  
Long gone are the days when "online" was synonymous with social isolation. In fact, we're now witnessing the opposite: technology is driving people to connect and meet up with others in the ...
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Social networking from any phone in the developing world

Posted by  in June 6th 2011  
There's little doubt mobile phones can have an empowering effect on those in developing nations, and we've already seen efforts to use such technologies for improved income opportunities an ...
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Tool for restaurants makes menus iPhone-ready

Posted by  in May 28th 2011  
Between five and 20 percent of the traffic visiting the average restaurant's website does so from a mobile phone, meaning that the PDF menus offered by so many establishments are typically ...
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iPhone app lets users earn cash for small tasks

Posted by  in May 24th 2011  
We've seen numerous efforts to let mobile phone users earn cash for performing small tasks, but it wasn't until recently that we had seen an iPhone app dedicated solely to that purpose. No ...
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iPhone app enables CAD on the go

Posted by  in May 18th 2011  
For architects, engineers, surveyors and others who depend on computer-aided design, working remotely typically means gathering data offsite by hand and then bringing it back to the office ...
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In South Africa, concierge service via mobile phone rental

Posted by  in May 11th 2011  
The virtual ink had barely dried on our recent story about AtYourSide in Shanghai when word reached us of another personal guide service, again with an event-driven angle: Africa Talking, ...
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