Mobile OS company Symbian enters app store fray: Launches Horizon
Symbian, the company that makes operating systems for a large number of the world’s mobile phones, today will be announcing the launch of Horizon, its own path into the thick forest of app stores.
The company will make the announcement later this morning at MobileBeat2009, our application-focused conference today in San Francisco, where Symbian executives such [...]
Blizzard Rolls Out WoW Mobile Armory [Blizzard]
Clean those third-party World of Warcraft applications off of your iPhone or iPod Touch, because Blizzard’s free official Mobile Armory application is go.
The World of Warcraft Mobile Armory takes all the functionality of the full armory website and places it at your fingertips. The iPhone app allows players to immediately access character, guild, and [...]
Former Googler Sanjeev Agrawal To Lead Just-Funded Mobile Search Startup Aloqa
Today’s a big day for Aloqa, a fledgling mobile search and information services company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. The startup will be announcing at Venturebeat’s MobileBeat 2009 conference that they have just raised $1.5 million in Series A funding from multiple angel investors and VC firm Wellington Partners.
Aloqa will seize the opportunity to present [...]
Personforce Launches Mobile Jobs Platform To Develop Job Search Applications
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Tech jobs site Dice.com has recently released data that indicate that tech jobs are still largely unavailable. Dice reported that its available technology jobs totaled 48,993 in June, which is down 43.7% year over year. And unemployment numbers have hit record highs. As there are fewer jobs available, there is increased pressure on [...]
Speeding Up RSS
I’m sorry, but RSS feeds are way too slow. I know this first-hand. As part of my job here at TechCrunch, I monitor a lot of RSS feeds for breaking news. We also produce our own feed and I can see how quickly it propagates to various feed readers and feed-powered news [...]
Y Combinator Endorses Bump Technologies In The Quest To Destroy The Business Card
Last summer, I wrote a lengthy rant against business cards, calling them “virtually useless as one of the last bits of information that we pass non-digitally”. Ten months later, I couldn’t agree with myself more. Just like the handshake, the business card is an annoying relic of the past. Each card I [...]
