Parkmobile USA is bringing its mobile payment service to the citizens of Oakland, California.
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Parkmobile USA launches NFC-enabled mobile parking payments in Oakland, CA
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IPO won’t stop Facebook from its acquisition plans. After Instagram and Lightbox , they acquired Karma, a gift giving service that relies on the social network to make the [gift giving] “process” as seamless as possible
Read more here: Stalker is a new iPhone app (Android version is in development) that allows users to discretely take photos of their surroundings.
Continued here: Talpic is a new iOS and Android app (at least I haven’t heard of it before) that targets the ever-competitive multimedia sharing market.
Read more: Smith Micro Software is bringing its Voicemail platform to the Boost Mobile subscribers on May 31st with the launch of the HTC EVO Design 4G. Using the new service, users are able to manage their voicemail messages like email, scroll through and listen to messages in any order, forward or reply to messages via email or text, and save messages directly onto the memory card. Moreover, Voicemail-to-Text transcription will also be offered for a monthly fee, allowing subscribers to read voicemail messages at school, at a concert, in a meeting, or anywhere that listening is inconvenient
Original post: Dish Network, the budget satellite television provider, has 40 MHz worth of spectrum in the 2 GHz band that they really want to use to deploy a wireless network. There’s a few problems though. First, that spectrum was originally intended to be used for satellite communication, so the FCC has to see whether or not Dish can use that spectrum for terrestrial use .
See the rest here: Penguin Books has teamed-up with Zappar to make the Penguin English Library “ready for the 21st century.” Using the Augmented Reality technology, readers will be able to bring elements of four of the books to life, including animations of Coralie Bickford-Smith’s illustrated covers, video, audio and extracts. Initially, readers will be able to access the extra content on novels Moby Dick, and Lady Audley’s Secret, with two further titles to come later in the year.
Read more here: Telmap Navigator is now available as a free download for Blackberry users in the UK, providing interested folks with local search, mapping and navigation services with in-car navigation with 3D moving maps, voice-guided instructions, a dedicated pedestrian navigation mode, and a postcode business and address search. In addition, the application also allows users to explore their surroundings with access to nearby restaurants, pubs and plenty of activities provided by TripAdvisor, Lonely Planet as well as ultra-local content from companies like Barclays Cycle and Ordnance Survey. Of course, social component also comes built-in so you can share your whereabouts with friends on popular social networks (Facebook and Twitter) and BlackBerry Messenger
Continue reading here: GameStop, which most people know as the store that sells videogames, is apparently going to enter the mobile space according to Engadget . They accidentally launched a website for their upcoming MVNO (mobile virtual network operator), which has the amazingly creative name “GameStop Mobile”
View post: Researchers at Samsung Electronics have “ gotten rid of the biggest barrier in the commercialization of graphene ” according to Park Seong-jun of the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology. They created what they’re calling a “graphene barristor” which will enable them to eventually make processors that aren’t based on traditional silicon, but instead on carbon. Now if your head is spinning, let’s break things down a bit
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