Education Startup Teamie Rolls Out New Mobile Apps for iOS and Android
Many of you likely remember Teamie, the winner of our Startup Arena competition this past February. With a goal of fusing social and learning into one, the Singapore-based startup has been making good progress since we last saw them, and today we have a brief update.Teamie now has mobile apps that can be used to access your learning resources and discussions regardless of where you are. It’s available for both iOS and Android, with the capability to access your classrooms, bulletin boards, and news feeds, as well as view ...
NHN Japan’s Line Camera Gets 5 Million Downloads in Less than a Month
NHN Japan has seen its VoIP application Line skyrocket to dizzying popularity with more than 30 million users to date. And now the company appears to have another hit on its hands, announcing that its free Line Camera photo app has reached the milestone of 5 million downloads.What’s remarkable here, of course, is the speed with which it reached that mark. Its Android app was published back on April 12, and you may remember that we tested it out at that time. I liked it a lot, and I ...
China Unicom to Rollout HSPA+ 3G For Phones Next Week
In good news for lots of iPhone, iPad, and Android users, China Unicom (NYSE:CHU; HKG:0762) - the country’s second-largest mobile telco - will be rolling out higher-speed HSPA+ 3G next week. The roll-out will occur on May 17th to anyone with a phone or tablet that can support that kind of speedier 3G.Unicom’s regular WCDMA 3G network can hit 7.2Mbps - but with HSPA+ soon reaching mobile devices, more folks can get (theoretical) speeds of up to 21Mbps. The May 17th date is somewhat significant, as it’s a full year ...
Mobile Analytics Platform Umeng Adds New Tools, Now Supports WP7 Too
We all need a bit of a refresh from time to time, and the Chinese mobile analytics company Umeng seems to feel the same way, today launching a new look. More importantly there’s now a bunch of new tools to help app developers understand their users and optimize their smartphone app’s advertising.‘Umeng Analytics 2.0,’ as the Innovation Works-backed startup is calling this, brings four new analytical tools to its dashboards - and it now supports Windows Phone 7 as well as iOS and Android. The ad and promotion platform itself ...
Wildby is a Voice-Controlled Encyclopedia for Children
Kids tend to ask many different types of questions, sometimes too many for parents to be able to answer. One solution that can offer some help to parents is Wildby is a voice-controlled Android application specially catered for children. All the child needs to do is to verbally ask the question, and Wildby will answer. The app will return an answer, which mimics how an adult would answer a child. This is one of the startups which caught my attention from JFDI's demo day which was held last friday.Unlike Qwiki, Wildby ...
Rage of Bahamut: Not the Prettiest, But Hard to Put Down
Last week we told you about the card battle game Rage of Bahamut by Cygames, which had hit number one on the list of top grossing Android apps recently. I’ve been playing with the game a little bit, and it’s pretty clear to see why the game is doing so well. The title does have a few flaws in my opinion, but allow me to give a general overview before I get into that.Starting out with the game, I made use of one of the friend codes left by ...
GREE Announces ‘Dino Life,’ the First Android Title from its North American Studio
This morning we mentioned that GREE (TYO:3632) had announced a couple of new game developer partnerships in CrowdStar and iWin. And now this evening the company is announcing a brand new title from its North American studio with the release of Dino Life, which is exclusively for Android.GREE describes the game as free-to-play, where players can collect and breed dinosaurs as they expand their pre-historic tribe. You can hatch new species of dinosaurs, and cross-breed them into something entirely new. The company’s SVP of social games, Eiji Araki, noted ...
InMobi Sees iOS Falling in Hong Kong, Android Invading [INFOGRAPHIC]
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The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology.Mobile ad platform InMobi has been busy these past few days crunching ad impressions stats from across Asia, giving us insights into growing smartphone usage in various countries. Now it’s Hong Kong's turn, where mobile advertising grew 656 percent from Q4 2010 to the same period at the end of 2011. But the picture in Hong Kong is a bleak one for Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), whose iOS presence in the Chinese SAR fell 16.1 percent; ...
Japan’s Price Comparison Site, Kakaku, Opens Section for Android Apps
I’ve been a fan of Japanese price-comparison engine Kakaku.com (TYO:2371) for a long time. For nearly every major purchase I make, I check out a comparison of various retailers’ prices over on Kakaku. Recently the service, which is a subsidiary of Digital Garage, announced the addition of a dedicated section for Android app listings and comparisons, which looks like it will be a solid resource for Android users in Japan.Listed under Kakaku’s keitai/smartphone category, the Android app section will provide application information and summaries, along with ‘kuchikomi’ (or word of ...
Japan’s Bitcellar Raises $5 Million for Recently Acquired Photo App FxCamera
A few weeks back we told you about the Android photo app from Japan called FxCamera, which at the time had been acquired by Japanese web company Bitcellar. Now today we’ve received word from that latter that it has raised 420 million Japanese yen (over $5 million), with shares allocated to JAFCO Super V3 Investment Limited Partnership.It’s notable that FxCamera claims to have 15 million downloads (although it has been around for a long time), which Bitcellar says makes it the largest Android camera app in the world. In ...
‘My Country’ Mobile Game Comes to China, Virtual Construction Sites Now Opening
China’s Shanda Games (NASDAQ:GAME) has just launched its first-ever mobile gaming title called My Country. It’s a city building game, so far only on Android in Shanda’s Chinese release, which allows users to build up their city’s landscape, transport infrastructure, and economic business.Like many such casual games, My Country is free-to-play but with a number of tasks and goodies that can be expedited if you pay real cash for some in-game virtual currency. But if you’ve got the patience to build up your initial factories (pictured below) quite slowly ...
Android Doubles Its Market Share in China, Symbian Still Ahead of iOS
New stats from Beijing-based Analysys International show that Google’s mobile OS, Android, doubled its market share in China in the past year, rising to account for 68.4 percent of smartphone sales by the end of 2011. Unless it’s close to reaching the plateau, it could well be the OS of choice for more than three-quarters of Chinese smartphone buyers very soon. Apple’s iOS, in contrast, appears to have gained and then lost some of its territory throughout the last year, ending it with 5.7 percent.Symbian - which covers a lot ...
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