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• Last minute holiday shopping? — Yep, there are mobile apps for that

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 757
  In case you’re not keeping track, there’s only a week left till Christmas. Thankfully, if you’ve got a smartphone, there are 8 apps that could make this year’s last minute shopping easier than usual. These are available either on the Android or iPhone platform, although I’ve only tested out the Android apps ...
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• Rdio is ready for the App Store—but not for users

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 757
  There’s been much secretiveness surrounding the new startup Rdio , who many expect to take a revolutionary tack in the online, subscription-based music world. Though the company’s still in private beta testing, and is short on providing details, the startup has just launched an iPhone app that gives a first ...
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• DiscoveryBeat videos: The masters explain how to get your app noticed

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 757
  We’re pleased to present the videos of our DiscoveryBeat panel sessions that took place on Dec. 8. They’re a good way to learn from some of the smartest minds about how to get your application noticed in an age of noise. With more than 100,000 apps on the iPhone and 500,000 apps on Facebook, it’s a huge ...
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• Web ads served to iPhones draw 10-20 times more clicks

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 757
  “The wall between online advertising and mobile advertising has cracked,” according to ad network executive Michael Chang. Chang’s company, Greystripe , has been testing a partnership with Web ad network Tribal Fusion. In the past six months, Tribal Fusion has passed along more than 500 ad campaigns to ...
  2 days ago

• EA to launch three big franchise games on the iPhone

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 757
  Electronic Arts continues its offensive on the iPhone today as it announces the impending launches of three major games on the iPhone: Need for Speed Shift, Spore Creatures, and the Simpsons game. All three games could be called second-generation iPhone games. They reflect a lot of work that EA is putting into the ...
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• Gadget advice site Measy will tell you which smartphone to buy

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 757
  Gadget-recommendation service Measy launched a smartphone tool this week to help users find the perfect smartphone based on their needs. The engine asks users their ideal price as well as the importance of several factors including carrier, functionality (business, texting, apps and software, video/camera), customer ...
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• iFart launches first farting social network for the iPhone

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 757
  There’s nothing that brings together family and friends around the holidays like a good iPhone fart application. While there are many, there’s one that is dubbed king — iFart from InfoMedia. When we wrote about iFart Mobile last Christmas when developer Joel Comm was pulling in over $10,000 a day. The app ...
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• Smule, creator of hit iPhone music apps, raises $8M more

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 757
  Smule , the company behind popular, music-based iPhone apps like Ocarina and I am T-Pain, has raised $8 million in a third round of funding. The Menlo Park, Calif. company’s apps usually take advantage of the iPhone’s capabilities in cool, innovative ways that revolve around music. (Co-founder and chief ...
  3 days ago

• The future of the music album? Check out RjDj’s Little Boots app

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 757
  In an age when tracks can be copied or streamed at virtually no cost, what extras can musicians add to make a living? A London- and New York-based startup called RjDj is experimenting with one answer. RjDj is taking albums from electronic artists like Little Boots and Air and creating reactive music ...
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• Thumbplay sees executive shuffle as it prepares to launch music app

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 757
  Thumbplay , a provider of mobile content like wallpapers and ringtones, announced some changes at the top today — chief executive Are Traasdahl has been appointed chairman, while chief marketing officer Evan Schwartz has been promoted to CEO. This doesn’t look like too much of a shake-up, since Traasdahl and ...
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• Professor claims Square took his credit card reading technology

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 757
  Square , a new company that makes a small device to let anyone make a credit card payment from their mobile phone, has probably stirred up more excitement than any other startup launching in recent months. But Bob Morley, an associate professor of electrical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, says ...
  3 days ago

• How soon till mobile TV really gets going?

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 757
  Mobile TV has analysts excited. ABI Research estimates that mobile TV will have 43 million subscribers by 2013 , and research firm TeleAnalytics estimates 50 million mobile TV users in North America by the same year . But so far mobile TV has not nearly lived up to the hype. Qualcomm’s FLO TV, the technology used ...
  3 days ago

• India’s GupShup SMS social network crosses 26 million users

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 757
  Facebook and Twitter are surely be the most popular and most influential social networks on the Internet. But Indian SMS-based social network GupShup’s 26 million members proves that sites not built and hosted from the San Francisco Bay Area can attract large audiences. GupShup published a press release this ...
  4 days ago

• Swype raises $5.6M for novel text-entry technology

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 757
  Swype has raised $5.6 million in a second round of funding and has shown further momentum in getting its new text-entry technology off the ground. Swype lets you enter text more easily into a cell phone text message. You begin typing a message with a virtual keyboard on a touchscreen phone. The device suggests ...
  4 days ago

• Activity guide Nextstop comes to the iPhone (but not the App Store)

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 757
  Nextstop , an online activity guide that launched earlier this year, is now offering an iPhone version that lets users find cool activities nearby, even if they’re not sitting at their computer. San Francisco-based nextstop competes with many other activity guides by trying to provide information in the most ...
  4 days ago

• Google Phone could upend telecoms, says Forrester analyst

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 757
  There’s been no shortage of rumors, some more substantiated than others, that Google’s coming out with a new, game-changing phone , and everyone’s itching for a chance to weigh in. A few things are certain now, thanks to Saturday’s post from the Google Mobile blog: there is, in fact, a product being ...
  4 days ago

• VentureBeat Job Board relaunches – check out these coupons, prizes and referral rewards

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 757
  I’m delighted to announce the relaunch of our  VentureBeat Job Board . Lots of people are looking for jobs right now, and there are plenty of Silicon Valley companies looking to hire. So we’re looking to serve our readership with a specialized job board targeted at them. The job board now features a better ...
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• Looks like the Google phone is real, named the Nexus One

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 757
  It’s looking all-but-official that Google is developing a smartphone of its own using its Android operating system, as reported in TechCrunch last month. All Google has said officially is that it has developed a “mobile lab” device that “combines innovative hardware from a partner with software that runs ...
  6 days ago

• Pandora’s Tom Conrad: There should be a PageRank for mobile apps

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 757
  People can’t stop talking about discoverability — how a mobile application can stand out in an app store against 10,000 or 100,000 competitors.  Tom Conrad , chief technology officer at internet radio service  Pandora , threw out a few novel ideas for improving the process today during a panel discussion at  ...
  1 week ago

• Apple strikes back at Nokia with patent countersuit

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 757
  Apple filed a patent countersuit against Nokia today, alleging that the mobile phone giant has infringed 13 of Apple’s patents. The suit is a response to a patent infringement case brought by Nokia on Oct. 22 . “Other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ...
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