Sony has just introduced new specs for their new handheld console, the Vita during a press conference at the Gamescom gaming conference in Cologne which supports for Foursquare and Skype. The references were made while discussing about the 3G capabilities of the $300 model. There was no demonstration and no screenshots so the UI is [...]
RIM has introduced BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) 6 Thursday. Being a staple of the BlackBerry experience, BBM is still a strong platform with 45 million users, 70% of whom use it daily. This latest iteration of BBM also expands a new social app layer to the messaging platform. In terms of supported apps, consumers will be [...]
Facebook’s new Deals spec will be released in five cities around the U.S. Those offers will come through email or will appear in the user’s news feed on Facebook. Certainly, the checkin-based contracts for mobile users that Facebook has released for its nascent Places platform are not available. Meanwhile, the initial mobile Deals product is [...]
Boxcar, one of the favorite apps for enhancing the iPhone’s unpleasant notification system, is on sale for Mac OS X in beta. Particularly, the app can connect to any social media or news service such as: Twitter, email, Facebook, RSS feeds, Google, and Foursquare, just to name a few. If users already have an account, [...]
On March 2, it is informed that it has purchased eight-month-old Beluga. However, the price of the contract has not been revealed. The change provides Facebook both the Beluga service and the engineering team behind it. Beluga has a small staff of three, particularly are former Google employees. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., the company [...]
Foursquare has just made announcement about some impressive growth today when the company now has achieved 6 million registered users, increased 3400 percent in terms of check-ins and witnessed a total of 381,576,305 check-ins in 2010. The location based social network only spent a month and a half to supplement another million users. Particularly, Foursquare’s [...]
Following its recent tendency of iOS app launches on Wednesday, Google has just released Google Places for iPhone and iPod touch. Google Places is an app for finding new places around users, rating their experiences, and sharing it all with friends. It is likely that Google separates its place discovery feature out of Google Maps [...]
