Handmark and Tantao News Network have announced the availability of the Tantao News Mobile Reader for Blackberry mobile phones, offering global and domestic news updates originating from Chinese news sources. With the new app, Blackberry users can now get unique content which they can also share via their social networks like Facebook and Twitter. As people continue to demand for immediate access for varying resources, the Tantao News Mobile Reader is a must have to broaden the scope of updated news and information.

The Tantao News Mobile Reader currently available for all BlackBerry smartphones with a trackball or touchscreen and will be available for additional platforms in the coming months. You can download the app here.

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Back in June, the Yowza app for the iPhone was posted on Mobile Whack. Now, a second version of this popular couponing app has been released, making saving easier for coupon-crazy individuals looking for special deals and discounts via their very own mobile device. The Yowza version 2 for the iPhone or iPod Touch comes with new features that include a “My Stores” tab and integrated road maps to make sure you are directed to the proper stores when it comes to availing of discounts coming your way.

It even comes with a “Share Your Savings” feature which allows you to pass on the amount of money from using the Yowza app through popular social networks like Facebook and Twitter, or even simply by an email.

The Yowza app Version 2 for the iPhone is now available for free download at the iTunes App Store.

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Rated 4.5 out of 5 by Google Android users, SpoofApp officially brings its act to Blackberry mobile phone users. SpoofApp is the hottest caller ID app in the market today, allowing users to disguise, or “spoof”, their Caller ID, change their voice to sound like a male or a female, and record their personal or business phone calls, which can then be played back, downloaded, or shared with friends, through email or social networks.

Another highlight is that SpoofApp’s Caller ID spoofing, voice changing and call recording service can be accessed from any mobile phone around the world, through SpoofApp’s toll-free and local access numbers.

SpoofApp can now be downloaded at the Blackberry App World. It is also available for other mobile phones like the iPhone and Google Android.

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Lenovo unveils a new netbook for mobile computing consumers in the IdeaPad S10-2 netbook. The new IdeaPad S10-2 netbook gives consumers even cooler netbook features – models with 3G connectivity, the rich sound of Dolby headphone technology for music and movies and long battery life. Lenovo also made the IdeaPad S10-2 netbook thinner and lighter than the previous IdeaPad S10 netbook, and packaged the netbook in an expressive, colorful new ring pattern design.

“With the netbook scene rapidly changing, consumers are telling us they want to merge the capabilities of their most commonly used sources of electronic entertainment, such as digital photographs, online TV, music and social networks all into one portable and affordable device,” said Dion Weisler, vice president, Business Operations, Idea Product Group, Lenovo. “We’ve incorporated that feedback into our new IdeaPad S10-2 netbook, giving consumers around the world more ways to connect with options for wireless connectivity, a more portable and expressive design and entertainment-packed features.”

The IdeaPad S10-2 netbook will be available beginning at the end of May on www.lenovo.com and through business partners beginning at the end of June. Models start at $349.

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A new compact flip phone has been unveiled by Samsung Electronics in cooperation with Metro PCS Corp. The sleek, compact flip design of the Samsung Tint makes it both durable and fashionable. The Samsung Tint includes grey and pink faceplates as a standard accessory to help match the user’s style.

Additional faceplates are also available in various colors. This handset also features customizable wallpaper, banner themes and fonts to personalize the visual experience on the Samsung Tint.

The Samsung Tint is equipped with a powerful feature set, including an integrated camera, SMS, MMS, email and IM messaging capabilities, advanced voice recognition, Bluetooth wireless technology and speakerphone for easy, hands-free operation.

For immediate access to family and friends, the Samsung Tint offers ChatLINK℠ a push-to-talk social networking tool that works like a walkie-talkie. Users can simply push a button and talk without dialing to individuals or groups with compatible phones.

With the Samsung Tint, MetroPCS subscribers will be able to navigate the mobile Web, download ringtones and graphics and interact with social networks without having to use a laptop or PC.

MetroPCS’ plans for its wide variety of other phones range from $30 to $50 per month and allow subscribers to talk all they want, 24-hours-a-day, seven days a week. Unlike most carriers, MetroPCS does not require a signed contract, which means that consumers can activate service without going through a credit check or paying a deposit.

The Samsung Tint is available at all MetroPCS authorized dealers and company-owned retail locations. Visit MetroPCS’ website at www.metropcs.com for specific locations or to purchase the Samsung Tint and sign up for service plans.

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Motorola unveils a new handset in the Motorola Evoke QA4, a full-feature, touch-screen handset that allows users to stay connected via voice, text, video and popular online social networking services.

Motorola Evoke QA4 is designed for users to easily and seamlessly interact with friends and family through their wireless device. Featuring a 2.8” full touch-screen, Motorola Evoke offers both a touch-screen QWERTY keyboard and a traditional slide-out keypad, allowing for easy communication, no matter what method the user prefers.

Motorola Evoke’s home screen can be customized with integrated widgets that provide access to real-time information such as sports, news, weather, stocks and traffic. For those who never want to be out of touch with their favorite social networks, Motorola Evoke provides fast access to leading sites, including built-in MySpace integration.

Users can easily post instant updates and view profiles in one simple step with Motorola Evoke. From the touch-screen display users can also instantly launch a full HTML browser and use quick-start widgets for fast access to popular sites.

Motorola Evoke features a 2.0MP camera with video capture, expandable memory slot, stereo Bluetooth, GPS capabilities and an ultra intuitive user interface. The handset comes pre-loaded with popular Alltel applications such as TV on Demand, Radio on Demand and Alltel Navigation.

Alltel Wireless is offering Motorola Evoke QA4 for $79.99 after $100 mail-in rebate at Alltel retail stores and online at shopalltel.com. This discounted price is available to new and existing eligible customers who sign-up for a two-year service agreement on a qualifying Smart-Choice Pack. Smart-Choice Packs start as low as $69.99 per month and include unlimited data, e-mail and Web access.

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When it comes to logging on to social networking sites like Facebook, subscribers just seem to want to log on and showcase images and some excerpts according to them. When they are away from their PC, the nearest device to use is the mobile phone on a limited capacity. But not anymore!

GoTV Networks, Inc., the industry’s largest mobile media network, today announced the launch of LiveFromYou, a new personal media application for mobile phones and social networks.

LiveFromYou is a mobile and web product that enables users to share the stories of their lives in pictures, videos and words with friends and family on their social network page. LiveFromYou automatically organizes pictures, videos, and other media for easy and instant sharing via an application widget loaded onto a user’s Facebook or MySpace page.

LiveFromYou curates and organizes media, whether it is currently present on the user’s social network page or ready to upload from a collection stored on a desktop PC, digital camera or mobile phone. Media is automatically presented in chronological order, either individually or grouped in user-defined albums on the innovative LiveFromYou timeline. When geo-code data is present, the media items or albums are also viewable on a map.

LiveFromYou is now available for Facebook and MySpace. In one easy process users can load the application to their personal page. The LiveFromYou application widget automatically imports the media from a user’s social network profile.

Key Features:

• Multimedia Sharing
• Easy Access
• Instant Media Uploads
• Map/Geo Tracking
• Security

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If you are looking for the most reliable iPhone app in the market today that carries the most comprehensive VoIP application for the iPhone, the Nimbuzz iPhone app is your best bet.

With free Wifi calls to instant messaging buddies already available, new additions include the introduction of a dial-pad and the ability to make VoIP calls to landlines and mobiles via Skype-Out, and Nimbuzz’s major SIP provider partners including Gizmo5, Vyke, and SIPgate over Wifi - effectively turning the iPod touch into an iPhone.

iPhone users without Wifi connection can make VoIP calls using Nimbuzz Dial-Up VoIP in over 50 countries.

Nimbuzz bridges the iPhone VoIP gap by allowing VoIP calls over 3G via its Dial-Up VoIP option in over 50 countries. It allows iPhone users to call (international) mobile and landlines at significantly reduced costs, by dialing a local access number that connects to anywhere in the world via Nimbuzz VoIP servers.

Another feature allows Twitter updates via the Personal Message option. Popular communities, including Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, Google Talk, AIM, and social networks such as Facebook and MySpace are already supported with call and chat options.

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New games and new developments are what seems to be on the horizon for the iPhone. The iPhone OS 3.0 news from Apple unlocks many more opportunities for innovative game development for the iPhone.

Social Gaming Network has been planning for this moment for years and made huge strides with existing releases to achieve exactly what consumers have craved - and now Apple is responding. SGN has already pushed the boundaries with games for iPhone creating seamless game experiences across platforms.

SGN games that monetize through virtual goods with unique pricing structures evocative of the in-app purchasing capability just announced in the iPhone OS 3.0 Software Developer Kit are already available for iPhone including Mafia: Respect & Retaliation, Agency Wars and a proven model (fluff)friends on Facebook.

Synergies between SGN’s suite of games that have already delivered on Apple’s vision with iPhone OS 3.0 include:

• A vision of creating immersive games with robust user pay models. From the beginning, SGN recognized that the only viable model would have to generate revenue from both advertising and user pay for in-game items or advantages.
• SGN is positioned to excel at an even faster pace with over 10 million users of games such as iBowl, iBasketball, iBaseball, SGN Golf, Mafia: Respect & Retaliation, Agency Wars, iFun, and i(fluff) on the iPhone and iPod Touch.
• With iFun, released in November, using the accelerometer technology in the iPhone, SGN could link the handset to a computer via wireless or 3G connection, making the iPhone into a Wii-like controller for the game.
• SGN has leveraged the convergence paradigm giving users the ability to play games either on mobile devices or on a PC (through social networks).

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Thanks to this new solution offered by +Movil from Cable & Wireless Panama, mobile users only need to make one click on their mobile phones to extend their social networks. The locally-branded service “Intercambio de Datos Personales” was recently launched in Panama, the first of its kind in the country.

Customers can use this person-to-person service to automatically connect and stay in touch with friends, family and business associates while building and growing their mobile social address books.

With CallerXchange, +Movil subscribers can exchange contact information immediately after a phone call or text message with one click. Recipients can easily click to add their friend’s contact information directly into their phonebook.

The service costs $0.30 USD per message sent and an automatic updating capability ensures that users stay in touch even if their information changes over time.

This service can be used by +Movil prepaid and postpaid subscribers with the red SIM cards. Subscribers without this color SIM card can obtain it in any Cable & Wireless store in Panama.

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iSkoot officially launched Kalaida, its new platform for carrier partners around the world that empowers a wide range of mobile handsets with new capabilities including full-time, real-time connection to social networks, personal e-mail, instant messaging, and news feeds.

Kalaida concentrates processing in the network, allowing multiple services to run on the handset at once and bringing the mobile experience closer to what users expect: immediate, single sign-in connection to the services they care about most. The platform currently supports Facebook along with leading e-mail, IM, and news services, and is rapidly extensible to support regional preferences and add new services as quickly as Internet users embrace them.

Running on the simple handsets most consumers still use, the thin Kalaida mobile client offers real-time notification of new mail, chat sessions, social network activity, and news items, even while users compose messages, check status updates, and chat with friends. All services are delivered over available data connections, without requiring 3G or WiFi for optimal performance.

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Well Nokia can pretty much buy anything they want. They’re only first when it comes to counting how many cell phones one has sold so far this year. We’ve seen how they bought Norwegian Trolltech a while ago and now they are getting ready to buy out Plazes, a 13 people start-up German start-up company based in Berlin.

Curios what a Plazes is? It’s a social activity service which allows you to plan, record and share your social activities. Better set your stories straight as you will be able to check out where you were in the past, where you are in the present and what the future will have for you. Nope, it’s not a fortune telling app, but rather a detailed journal of your whereabouts. So be careful when you start introducing places in Nokia’s Plazes.

Nokia found the Plazes thing pretty interesting and worth buying it out. Nokia’s social environment will benefit from the addition of Plazes. The German application will add place and time as elements of social networking. Friends we’ll know when you were there and where you are now. Kinda like a Twitter for social events.

So Nokia, how much did you pay for Plazes?

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Asia’s largest social network, Friendster, can now be accessed on cellphones, carrying over the experience that Friendster is famous for to the small screens. Now, users can gain access to almost all of the features that are available on Friendster including browsing photos, user profiles, checking messages, viewing birthdays, and so on by pointing their mobile browser to m.friendster.com.

The mobile version of Friendster is available only in English as of now with plans to add translation in multiple other languages. So head over to m.friendster.com and get connected on the go!

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Wayfinder announced that its Wayfinder Active appliction is now available for free in the US and Canada. Wayfinder Active is a GPS application for mobile phones that combines maps, GPS recording and statistics and is targeted at folks with an active lifestyle (think hiking, skiing, running, or biking). The application is a simple, social way to stay connected with other people with similar interests. Once installed on a mobile phone, you can access a world-wide map and record/share routes with a keystroke. It lets you follow your friends on their activities and training routes by easily importing their tracks.

The complementary online community, ActiveOutdoor, lets you upload GPX records onto the Internet. Other statistical data include maximum, current and average speeds during each activity, calories burned and that sort.

A built-in Reverse Route feature lets you find a route to anywhere. The free application can be downloaded from ActiveOutdoor. Compatible with over 100 phone models, including popular ones from Nokia and Sony Ericsson.

Wayfinder is also exhibiting at CTIA Wireless 2008, so if you’re in Las Vegas between April 1-3 2008, check them out.

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