Archive for the ‘Local Search per Mobile phone’ Category

Meinestadt.de has added a new rating feature to its mobile local-search application for the iPhone and Android. Users can immediately begin to see user ratings for stores, services, and restaurants, and add in their own two cents, all on-the-go. Read the rest of this entry »

The US-Patent Office has promised Apple a patent for location-based information services that may effect other providers of location-based services. The industrial property law with the code RE42,927 and the title “System and method for obtaining an using location specific information” is broad enough to affect all mobile services using location-based material. Read the rest of this entry »

The free location-based recommendation app Alfred, developed by Clever Sense, now offers users “group recommendations”, displaying those locations that other people also enjoy in the latest version of the app, in addition to custom results especially for the users. Read the rest of this entry »

The location-based check-in platform Foursquare gives all iPhone 4 and 4S devices with the new Apple operating system iOS 5 a new, innovative feature, thanks to the latest update of its application: “Radar”, a geolocation service which alerts users automatically if they are near a location or friend on their to-do list. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian provider for mobile location-based services and local advertising Poynt Corporation has announced that the Poynt app for location-based search has now been downloaded over ten million times since the release in June 2008. The free application is available for the iPhone, Android-, Windows Phone-, and Nokia-devices, as well as for BlackBerry smartphones and PlayBook tablets in the coordinating app stores. Read the rest of this entry »

“Picking up where amazing left off” – the new slogan for the iPhone 4S. Quite some words, considering that many die-hard Apple fans are quite disappointed in the lack of an iPhone 5. But just because there is no optical difference between the previous iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4S, it still has some pretty spectacular features for users to check out that can make local searches be conducted in a much more elegant fashion. Read the rest of this entry »

iPhone users have been able to use the mobile application from meinestadt.de for local product offerings for about one year now. Now, Android devices also have the capability: the city-portal has integrated the “kaufDA Navigator”, as with its iPhone app a year ago. Read the rest of this entry »

Wohin?, the iPhone app from FutureTap was just selected as iPhone App of the Week by Apple in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. The app has been able to sell over 300,000 licenses, making it the most successful local search app in the App-Store.
The app costs 2.37 Euro in the App Store. There is also a module that can pep up the service to operate in augmented reality, which is free for 30 days and 0.79 Euro after that on top of the regular app. Read the rest of this entry »

Whoa, the search engine giant is throwing another punch: not only is the social network project Google+ Facebook’s biggest competition while still in its test phase, but Google has now taken over the deal provider The Dealmap.

The goal behind this is quite clear: the internet giant can further expand its own service for deals, Google Offers, which has been in the beta phase and only available for few American cities. Google would then become a powerful player in the couponing market. The Dealmap, which went live just last November, already has two million users and is available online and as a mobile application for several US cities as well as London. Read the rest of this entry »

meinestadt.de is offering something that has been already available from the online directory Das Örtliche since the beginning of the year, and from the local ratings portal Qype since this July: an app for the Windows Phone 7. In cooperation with Microsoft, the city portal developed this special mobile application. The apps for the iPhone and Android smartphones have been available for quite some time.

The app is available in the Windows Marketplace, under http://redir.ec/meinestadt-windowsphone7, to download. The developers have chosen the most popular categories from the vicinity radar for the app, according to allesklar.com. Users that are on-the-go can search for restaurants, cafés, hotels, or ATMs for all German cities and municipalities. Users also receive weather information, events, and film times in the vicinity. The smatphone’s localization is automatically conducted using GPS.
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