QuickMobile Launches Analytics Dashboard with Real-Time Data for Event Marketers
Event marketers and organizers will now have access to real-time analytics data to improve event logistics and measure success with the release of QuickMobile’s new Analytics Dashboard. Accessible through the Vancouver startup's content management system, the new dashboard is available to all customers and delivers hourly updates of data captured from event attendees’ use of QuickMobile’s mobile meeting apps.
read moreInstagram Clone: Facebook Launches Mobile Photo App for iPhone
With all the negative news swirling regarding Facebook's IPO and their inability to monetize mobile, the multi-millionaire Facebook developers have kept on working.
Today Facebook launched Camera, a new iOS app that enhances the Facebook photos mobile experience. With Camera, users can now view just photos from their friends in one feed, share multiple photos at once, and customize pictures with captions and filters before posting.
Considering Facebook's recent billion dollar purchase of Instagram, today's launch may come as a surprise.
Camera is an independent photo application with a few features extremely similar to what users of Instagram are already used to using. However with Camera users will not be able to share within the app only (as Instagram can do) or to other social networks all at once.
Camera is all about Facebook.
Camera will be available for the iPhone starting today and can be downloaded for free from the App Store.
Toronto's XMG Studio Launches Next Mobile Game, Fashion Star Boutique
Toronto-based game developer XMG Studio has released their next mobile game.
Designed by fashion lovers for fashion lovers, Fashion Star Boutique is an "innovative fashion experience" that is inspired by runways around the world and teaches aspiring designers how to manage their own line of apparel and their own clothing store.
read moreWhat Does it Take for an App to Get on Apple's Top 25 List?
A lot of iPhone and iPad users never bother to venture beyond Apple's top 25 lists for apps. That's why it's so important to developers that they crack this list, even just temporarily, if they want to make it big.
But getting there requires some success to have already been established. The question of just how much, though, has never been perfectly clear.
read moreDriven by iPad, Tablets Growing 10X Faster Than Laptops
Netbook and laptop shipments increased by 12% in the first quarter of 2012, according to the NPD Group.
Meanwhile, tablet shipments skyrocketed 124%—more than 10 times the growth of laptop shipments.
read moreResearch In Motion Desperately Wants Netflix on BlackBerry
When Netflix ventured into Canada, it was very quickly made available on Apple's iOS and Google's Android—the two major global players in mobile today. But Research In Motion's BlackBerry, which is still a prominent and loved platform here in its home country, got the snub.
read moreIT Departments Need to Get Over BYOD: It's Here to Stay, Cisco Study Affirms
IT departments hate it. Everyone else loves it. And in this case, majority rules.
We're talking about the Bring Your Own Device trend, of course. It's booming, and it's here to stay.
Cisco, an early adopter of a company-wide policy of 100% BYOD, has released a report that not surprisingly shines a favourable light on the phenomenon.
read moreMobilicity to Launch Full-Service Kiosks in Brick Stores in Toronto and Edmonton
Mobilicity today announced the arrival of full-service Mobilicity kiosks at select locations of The Brick in Toronto and Edmonton. The Brick's says it plans to expand into the mobile phone industry and that these kiosks will complement its electronics department.
read moreSamsung Receives 9 Million Preorders for Galaxy S3 Smartphone
Samsung has received an astonishing nine million preorders for the Galaxy S3, according to a report from the Korea Economic Daily this morning.
The third-generation smartphone will launch across more than 100 global carriers, starting in Germany on May 29 before rolling out to North America and other regions of the world in June.
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