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Consumer
mobile
software roundup:
May - June 2009
- Compiled
June 12, 2009, by Gary Thayer, MobileVillage Editor
Below are
new product releases and updates through June 12, 2009. Prices
quoted are in US dollars.
Multi-Platform
Kaspersky
Lab
announced version 8.0 of Kaspersky Mobile Security, its
antivirus and spam-SMS-blocking software that also prevents data
leakage when a phone is stolen. Version 8.0 adds an encrypted
folder, parental controls, GPS to track the phone if stolen, and
an improved SIM Watch feature that allows users to remotely block
communications and delete data stored on their mobile device even
if a new SIM card has been installed. Kaspersky Mobile Security
8.0 is subscription-based and can be downloaded at kaspersky.com
for $29.95 per license.
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Momail
mobile email has
added Twitter support, allowing Momail users to post Twitter
"tweets" and photos with just a Momail email,
rather than having to logon to Twitter or download or install
special mobile software. Momail also works with Facebook,
Flick, and Mobile VoIP telephony provider Jajah. The app
works on all mobiles with built-in support for email. For
more information on Momail, see momail.com, or the company's
summary
page on MobileVillage.
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Privus
Mobile has launched a real time caller ID service that
offers all details of callers that are not on a user's contact
list. Privus claims its service identifies the caller on nearly
85 percent of cell phone-to-cell phone calls. The app can also
store complete caller details in the user's phonebook. Privus
Mobile is offered through the App Store on Windows Mobile, BlackBerry
and Android devices via Handango, the BlackBerry Store and Blackberry
App World.
Unbound
Medicine has updated its Harrison's Manual of Medicine
for Mobile + Web, which supports iPhone, BlackBerry, Android,
at
Handango and Palm mobile devices. For more details, see unboundmedicine.com.
Android
Big in
Japan
has updated ShopSavvy, its personal shopping assistant
app. ShopSavvy enables customers to comparison shop by scanning
any product's barcode using their Android phone's built-in camera.
ShopSavvy then searches and displays the lowest prices online
as well as at nearby brick-and-mortar retailers, and also looks
up product reviews. The new version 3.5.0, includes more than
1,000 new retailers and 750,000 new products, as well as faster
scanning and load times. ShopSavvy can be downloaded at the Android
Market at android.com/market, or from Big in Japan at biggu.com.
BlackBerry
Kaplan
Publishing
released its best-selling GRE Exam Vocabulary Flashcards
and Medical Terms for Nurses applications on BlackBerry.
The GRE app helps prospective grad students augment their vocabulary
for the verbal portion of the Graduate Record Exam. The Medical
Terms app aims to help nursing students learn terms needed for
both the workplace and licensure exams. GRE Exam can be downloaded
at
Handango for $4.99, and Medical Terms is available for at
Handango for $9.99. Both apps are also available for the
same price at BlackBerry App World.
Technicopia
released a BlackBerry version of its "gwabbit"
contact grabber app, which automatically searches and identifies
contacts embedded in your BlackBerry emails, and adds or updates
that information to your BlackBerry Contacts, in one click.
For syncing contacts to Outlook, gwabbit's automated capture
keeps contacts updated globally. The desktop version, gwabbit
for Outlook, similarly identifies signatures in incoming emails
and creates them as new or updated contacts on your desktop.
Gwabbit for BlackBerry costs $9.99 annually on BlackBerry App
World (blackberry.com/appworld), and at gwabbit.com. Gwabbit
for Outlook is available for a single, one-time fee of $19.95
at gwabbit.com.
iPhone
/ iPod Touch
GeoSentric's GyPSii, a free mobile social
network app available in English and Chinese, has been added
to Apple's App store. GyPSii lets users create and share "geotagged"
content in real time, and users can automatically update and
share their status, newly created places and friends in real
time across other social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.
GyPSii is also available on phones from LG, Nokia, RIM, and
Samsung. GyPSii can be downloaded from Apple's
App Store and directly at gypsii.com.
SplashData's SplashPhoto and SplashNotes
applications are now available for iPhone and iPod touch. SplashPhoto
is a mobile photo album manager that can connect with Flickr
and Picasa, and SplashNotes is a note-taking and outlining application.
Both offer wireless synchronization with Windows and Mac OS
X desktop applications that are available separately. SplashPhoto
and SplashNotes are available for $4.99 each from Apple's App
Store. The free SplashPhoto Desktop app and the $9.95 desktop
version of SplashNotes are available at splashdata.com.
Truphone released Truphone 3.0,
the latest version of its VoIP app for the Apple iPhone.
Truphone features an integrated messaging tool that unifies
all IM communities from a single page within the application.
IM services currently supported include Skype, MSN Messenger,
AIM, Yahoo! Messenger and Google Talk. Truphone 3.0 is available
at truphone.com.
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