This year's South by Southwest Interactive will play host to tech trends in areas as diverse as gaming, artificial intelligence, 3D printing and social networking, but whether the next Twitter will emerge at the conference is harder to say. ...
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A new payment card aims to help children save and spend their pocket money on toys. Providing children with a contactless pre-paid VISA debit card, PKTMNY allows parents to add pocket money to the account, then set controls on where ...
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App Factory, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of SK Planet, today announced at South by Southwest the launch of Jukebox Hero, an innovative new mobile app that transforms the personal music library on a user's mobile device into an ...
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Fast Company and Target Corp. announced plans for the Co.Labs & Target Retail Accelerator, where developers will vie to create a new mobile experience for Target. Fast Company will chronicle the developers’ efforts on its new ...
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The telecoms industry is set for huge growth over coming years, thanks to the protracted maturation in the smartphone and tablet markets, said research agency Ovum in a statement on 2 March. The prediction is that that partnerships will ...
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Chinese Authoritative third-party mobile Internet data company iResearch released the mobile smart end-user behavior (MUT) 2013 data, whose mobile safety segment attracted much more attention. The data showed that in the past six months, ...
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The daily deal industry has fallen a long way since Groupon came onto the scene in 2008 and created a niche within e-commerce. Tineka Smith reports. Daily deals innovator Groupon burst onto the scene in 2008 and by 2010 had clocked up 35 ...
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Online shopping giant Beyond the Rack will unveil its new mobile app at South By Southwest in Austin Saturday, highlighting the power of real-time engagement through its integration with global cross-channel digital marketing provider ...
Quick service restaurant (QSR) McDonald's Arabia is all set to display nutrition labeling directly on food packaging across its 360-plus restaurants in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), in a bid to promote balanced lifestyles. The ...
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The idea that the technology behind search is a done deal is far from the truth, according to Google, as the company appears to still have plenty of tricks up its sleeve to improve it. "Everybody's mindset is that search is a solved ...
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Visual 2000 International Inc. is launching a new Visual SFA.net Tablet app for the iPad, iPhone, Android, Surface and other Windows-based tablets and smartphones. The powerful yet simple-to-use mobile sales force automation (SFA) solution ...
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Google confirmed today that it has ported part of QuickOffice, a popular iOS and Android app substitute for Microsoft Office, to a technology baked into Chrome OS and the company's Chrome browser. The search giant acquired QuickOffice in ...
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Lenze Americas, a leading global manufacturer of electrical and mechanical drives, motion control and automation technology, has released a packaged collection of formulas now available as a free app for smartphone, tablet and mobile PC ...
At CeBIT 2013, Software AGwill showcase its new API management capabilities, based on webMethods technology, enabling enterprises to power industrial strength APIs. The company provides the tools necessary to expose APIs for developers and ...
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Intel has acquired appMobi's HTML5 developer tools division and hired its tools-related technical staff, to likely boost its presence in the mobile apps developer market. AppMobi in Lancaster, Penn., will now focus on its other business ...
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