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Speedtext: enter handwritten text quickly on your iPhone

2 March 2010

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Speedtext is an iPhone application that allows you to handwrite text into your iPhone. It is popular in Japan where text entry using Kanji characters is difficult. I suspect it is handy for people who write in other languages as well (e.g. Arabic). For people who find the iPhone’s virtual keyboard challenging, it is also [...]

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Mobile Monday SV, 8 Feb 2010: Developer Secrets – Increasing App Store Sales

4 February 2010

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A lot of pajama entrepreneurs develop iPhone applications. It’s a lucrative market for some, but the truth is there are over 140,000 apps. How do you increase your chances of being discovered? How do you make this into a business that pays the rent and food? Mobile Monday Silicon Valley is holding a seminar in San [...]

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FaceCash: a simple, elegant mobile payment application

2 February 2010

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FaceCash is a mobile payment application for the iPhone and other mobile devices. You use your smartphone to pay for groceries, pizza, and more. Your smartphone has to be able to display a barcode. It works like Paypal. You send money from your bank account to FaceCash and pay for items via FaceCash. To allow [...]

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Apptizr discovers great iPhone apps for you

26 January 2010

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Apptizr is an online application that helps you find high quality iPhone applications that match your interests. Here’s the problem that Apptizr addresses: there are thousands of applications on the iTunes App store and the only ones you see prominently displayed are the most popular (usually gaming). If you have more esoteric interests, it’s like [...]

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Freerunr: free Wi-Fi where you want it

20 January 2010

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Freerunr is a startup launched in 2009, located in London (UK) whose concept is very simple: free, fast access to the Internet. All you have to do, according to Freerunr, is show up at one of the Freerunr hotspots, register, connect and voila, free Wi-Fi. Here’s what Freerunr says: “How does Freerunner give you really, really [...]

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