Kristina Farrah
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YouMail Allows Users to Personalize Caller ID
Any owner of a US phone number under YouMail can now customize their caller ID with the company’s new service, who.youmail.com. The caller ID will appear more like a profile on a social networking site and this is how they will appear when they call people or leave them messages. What’s more, users can even ...
Evri Updates iPad App, Preps for Kindle Fire Next
Mobile content discovery engine, Evri, has been having a steady growth of user since its late September launch. They offer personalized, topic-based approach to news discovery in an effort to give users what marketplaces are lacking. They’re app is a big hit and they are unleashing new exciting features for iPad users to enjoy.
Android-Loving Steve Jobs Invokes Rage on YouTube [Video]
Derisive or amusing, a Taiwanese electronic company sure managed to get some worldwide attention as they impersonate Steve Jobs and turned him into an Android lover. Sporting Taiwanese comedian Ah-Ken with Job’s typical black turtle neck, added with a halo and a pair of angel’s wings, Action Electronic Co. promoted a combined tablet PC and ...
Mobile Business Intelligence on the Rise
The explosion of mobile device usage and the propagation of powerful smartphones and tablet computers have become the catalysts for business intelligence to expand to mobile as well. When I look back to those years when smartphones were yet to be invented, I can’t help but be in awe of how this much browsing power ...
BlueGlass Acquires Voltier Digital to Shore up Marketing Services
In order to bolster offerings in content marketing, BlueGlass Interactive acquires Voltier Digital, a company that specialized in infographic production and data visualization. The three founders of Voltier will take on senior roles in BlueGlass’ production and marketing teams, and all of Voltier Digital’s employees will be absorbed into BlueGlass. Terms of the deal were ...
Worldwide Mobile Payments for Live Gamer
Live Gamers announced this morning that they have integrated PaymentOne into their platform for international mobile payments. Through PaymentOne’s AnyPhone, users will be able to have access to the simplest means of making in-game purchases on their mobile phones for added streamline user experience and maintain brand consistency throughout the payment process.
After Losing 100k Paying Users, Sky Splits Pay TV from Satellite
It’s the age of over-the-top connected TV services and they’re giving off a perilous aura strong enough for long-standing TV content companies such as BSkyB to engage in a major shift. BSkyB announced that they will launch their own service that doesn’t require satellite subscription this summer. There’s no word for the name and price ...
Big Beautiful Data: How to See a Song
This week’s big beautiful data series dwells around the media and entertainment sector. First off, we have the work of New York Times data artist Jer Thorp, “Visualizing 138 Years of Popular Science Magazine.” Thorp was asked by the Popular Sciene Magazine for a data art piece that explored their entire archive of publication history ...
Yahoo Kills 10 Mobile Apps, Hones Focus on Social TV, News
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson steer clears the company from 10 mobile apps that are hardly used by users to get itself in order. The announcement comes in a blog post Friday afternoon and includes the following apps: Yahoo! Meme (iPad and iPhone); Yahoo! Mim (iPad); Yahoo! Answers (Android); Yahoo! AppSpot (Android and iPhone); Yahoo! Deals ...
Tabbedout Hires New CEO as Niche Mobile Payments Heat Up
Effective immediately, Paul Fiore becomes the new CEO of Tabbedout, a leading mobile payment startup targeting the hospitality industry. Fiore has over 20 years of executive leadership experience in technology and finance services industries. Before he was taken in by the company, he worked as a general manager of bank products for prepaid financial services ...