TRUE CALLER TAKES CALLER ID TO A NEXT LEVEL

Today the Swedish entrepreneur behind the service TrueCaller presented a new functionality for their mobile caller id. TrueCaller has in cooperation with directory services worldwide distributed information to its users for 1½ year. The service already has over 800 000 users performing well over 35 million searches per month. TrueCaller users have since start been able to see name and address information belonging to a certain number. But as of today, users will even be able to see a picture of the person who’s name or number they have looked up. TrueCaller is the first service in the world able to offer picture caller id.
According to the founders Alan Mamedi and Nami Zarringhalam this progress is a logical evolution within this field.

”We constantly try to work with innovative angles of improving the areas we’ve noticed as troublesome. One very common problem has been that seeing the name of someone is at times not enough information to be able to associate a person to a specific number, even whit address information. By performing well defined user-experience research we were able to determine that the best solution to fill in the gap for lack of association is by taking advantage of the possibilities given by pictures.”

The founders realized early on that it’s not enough to perform a simple person search on Facebook. Instead Alan and Nami worked on an intelligent method with which they could, with high accuracy, reveal a picture of a person or number searched for through TrueCaller. TrueCaller is now ready to display pictures of thousands and thousands of lookups which in short will become millions!
TruCaller works with Symbian, Android and iPhone.

FIREFOX 4 BETA FOR THE NOKIA N900 AND ANDROID - ITS FASTER THAN EVER!!!

The Firefox team has released a new Firefox 4 Beta version of their Web Browser for the Nokia N900 and Android devices. You can get Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta from the Android Market to test on your Google Android device or go here to get Firefox 4 Beta on your Nokia Maemo device. This release is the fastest performing Firefox 4 Beta for mobile yet. You will notice faster start-up, page load times and responsiveness to panning and zooming. The Firefox Mobile Add-ons Gallery also offers more than 100 add-ons to customize the features, functionality and look of your Web experience.

New Email app for Symbian S60v3 devices

Nokia released todays a new Email app for Symbian S60v3 devices such as the Nokia C5, E5, E55, E72, E75, N78, N79, N85, N96, 5320, 5630, 5730 and 67xx model phones. Get the new Nokia E-mail app and get a great e-mail experience on Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail and most popular e-mail providers. See your e-mails as they are meant to be seen. Download it now go to Menu > Applications > Tools > SW Update.

MOBILE APPS DOWNLOADS TO SURGE 77 BILLION BY 2014

The mobile apps market is set to explode, with downloads expected to surge to 76.9 billion by 2014, according to analyst firm IDC. Apps downloads reached 10.9 billion worldwide in 2010, with approximately 300,000 mobile apps introduced by developers over the past three years. From 2011, mobile apps will expand onto other devices, such as connected TVs and the general connected home, IDC said. Meanwhile, worldwide mobile apps revenues will surpass $35bn in 2014, IDC predicted.More after the break........