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Video: Google Goggles Live Preview
December 8th, 2009 
murrc2 Jason Kincaid from techcrunch.com was at Google’s Search Event in Mountain View today and got to use the new application from Google called, Google Goggles. This is an application for Android and let me tell you is brilliant. Check it out:
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Fring Adds Free Video Calling App To iPhone
December 1st, 2009 murrc2 Fring has beaten Skype to incorporating a free application for the iphone and itouch that allows free video calling and video conferencing capabilities for the Apple products.
Frings new app is only for one way video calling though , as the iphone 3G only has a camera on the back of the phone meaning you can only stream one video in.
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Google Acquires Admob For $750 Million
November 10th, 2009 murrc2 
Google has today announced that it has acquired AdMob for $750 million. The mobile ad platform has been especially popular on the iphone.
AdMob founder Omar Hamoui had the following to say to customers:
Today we announced that AdMob has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Google for $750 million. We are extremely excited about this new partnership and what it means for our advertiser, developer and publisher partners.
AdMob’s people, products and tools will continue to work to deliver successful campaigns for you and to effectively monetize your mobile traffic – no interruptions. Our product and engineering teams will keep building great products for our customers. Our sales team will keep working with our thousands of advertisers to deliver successful campaigns. Our business development team will keep working to maximize ad revenue for the more than 15,000 mobile Web sites and applications that make up AdMob’s publisher network.
After our deal closes, AdMob will work with Google to accelerate the pace of innovation in mobile and do an even better job for you. We believe this deal will benefit our advertisers, developers and publishers by:
*Increasing our investment in building innovative and engaging ad units across platforms and to further improve targeting and tracking.
*Building even more powerful relevance and optimization capabilities, and more powerful technology and tools to monetize mobile traffic.
*Increasing the effectiveness of display advertising on mobile devices by leveraging Google sales team, infrastructure and relationships.
*Improving the already high level of service and support we deliver to our advertisers, developers and publishers.
Google had this to say:
iPhone and Android users browse the Internet more often than anyone else [Morgan Stanley], contributing to Google’s 5x mobile search growth over the past two years
And a quarter of these same iPhone and Android users spend nearly 90 minutes per day using applications on their devices [AdMob]
What do you think about the price? Is it a good buy for Google?
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Tags: Ea – Electronic Arts Buys Playfish For $275 Million Cash and More
November 10th, 2009 murrc2 
EA ( Electronic Arts ) closed its long anticipated acquistion of social gaming platform Playfish for $275 million in cash, $25 million Stock and $100 million in earnouts. Playfish which is based in London Uk has estimated annual revenues of $75 million.
Playfish operates social games on Facebook, Myspace, Hi5 and other social networks. Playfish has been installed more than 150 million times and they claim to have 60 million active users monthly. Playfished top games include top games include Pet Society, Restaurant City, Country Story and Who Has The Biggest Brain?
Playfish earns its revenue from trading in-game virtual currency for advertising offer
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New Knocking Iphone App
November 9th, 2009 murrc2 “MMS allows you to send multiple images but the sending process is slow, and the selection process is cumbersome. With Knocking, you can easily share entire albums, not just individual pictures. And MMS limits you to sending 5 pictures. Again, Knocking’s limit is 100. And even with that many photos, it takes only a couple of minutes to sync them all between the two phones.”
Source Techcrunch
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TextPlus App For Iphone Send Unlimited Free Text Messages
November 7th, 2009 murrc2 
TextPlus is here and it offers all users free text messaging. Powered by GoGII it allows any iphone or ipod touch to send free text messages to any phone/cell number in the US or internationally for free by using in-app advertising to cover the charges.
You can send unimited text messages with this service monthly as long as you have a wifi or a 3G connection. This is bound to attract a lot of users. You simply get a username which stands in for your phone number. It is going to make texting a lot easier and from what I have read on other forums , blogs and Twitter it seems as though it is well liked by the public.
TextPlus currently supports the following carriers; AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, Alltel, US Cellular, Virgin Mobile, Nextel, Boost, Cellular One, Dobson, nTelos, Cellular South, CellCom, evol, ECIT, RINA, Bluegrass, Cox, Inland Cellular, West Central Wireless, Centennial, EKN, RCC, and Immix/Pc Management.
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iPhone apps reach over the 100,000 mark
October 27th, 2009 murrc2 
Apple are yet to announce this great milestone that they have just reached but the people pver at mashable.com have found it. if you visit the unofficial iPhone App directory App Shopper, you will notice that there are now over 101,802 approved apps available for download to your iPhone.
It didn’t take too long for the App Shopper to reach such high numbers. In August mashable reported them as having 65,000 apps, now 2 and a half months later they have over 100,000. Do remember that this is the number of approved apps , there are just over 93,080 apps available or download.
It’s gettinbg harder for any app store to stand a chance against Apple. Nokias Ovi Store shows no where near the same figures as App Shopper. Windows Mobile, which has been around now for over six years opened a marketplace a couple of weeks ago and boasts only 246 apps, a big diffenerence compared to 100,000 at Apple iPhone.
The iPhone app economy is estimated to be worth over $2.4 Billion.
Have you developed iphone apps? Would it be a sector that you’d be interested in venturing into?
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