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The directory Gelbe Seiten is clearly reacting to the growing demand for applications for smartphones and tablet computers: the company has released new apps for the iOS operating system, Android, as well as Bada. Read the rest of this entry »

The free mobile local search application from the directory Gelbe Seiten is now available for all BlackBerry-smartphones that have the 7 OS operating system. According to Gelbe Seiten, the app makes the newest version of the BlackBerry OS to a pocket-sized, multi-media directory expert. 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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Germany’s market leader for bonus collecting has just released a new version for its application for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. The latest Payback-App, in cooperation with Das Örtliche, now offers users theme channels for local search.
Payback customers that download the latest version of the app in the Apple Store will find a new point in the menu: clicking on “Extras” can show users where the next ATMs are, where the next movie theater is, or when the next cultural event is. The data is delivered by Das Örtliche. Payback is trying to expand these kinds of local services, according to the app. This ambition is confirmed by DeTeMedien, the carrier for the online directory. Read the rest of this entry »

Das Telefonbuch did it about three weeks ago, now Gelben Seiten is following suit: with the new application, the iPhone or the iPad can become a navigation system – for free. Integration with the V-Navi-App from the cooperation partner Map and Route makes this possible, much like the app for Das Telefonbuch. Read the rest of this entry »

The rating community Yelp has expanded the local coupons for its iPhone and Android apps. Up until now, the special offers and check-in deals were available, but users can now click the “Deals” icon on-the-go to search for deals on-the-spot and use them right in the location from their mobile devices.
About a year ago, Yelp brought out the “Deal of the Day”, which was its answer to the online coupon hype. Now there are about twenty metropolises deal offerings available. The mobile coupons are definitely stirring up a commotion in the couponing competition and joining the bandwagon in location-based services. The user number are definitely making a point: Yelp counted 50 million users just in the month of May, and 4.5 million mobile users.

After the release app for the iPhone and Android, the coupon portal DailyDeal has released its mobile app for the iPad. Users can now use the tablet on-the-go to find the best deal. Read the rest of this entry »

Das Telefonbuch has optimized its app for the iPhone and iPad. With the release of the 3.0 version, new features have been added and now there are even more possibilities to customize the search function. The app is also approaching its one-millionth download.
For the occasion, Das Telefonbuch is raffling off an iPhone and iPad in a package. It’s possible to participate through Facebook. Users can try their luck by guessing when the millionth download will happen. The first person to have guessed correctly is the winner. For 24 others, Das Telefonbuch is raffling off iTunes gift cards. Read the rest of this entry »

For iPhone, iPad, and Android users, it hasn’t been an issue. For Blackberry users, it has: DasTelefonbuch’s smartphone app. But now, the mobile address directory is also available for Blackberry devices.
The free app is available for download in the BlackBerry-Appworld, and opens up a valuable resource of over 30 million addresses from dastelefonbuch.de, all from a smartphone. In addition to the individual local or national search for telephone, fax, mobile, and service numbers, as well as addresses from businesses and private people, users can also use the vicinity search: through GPS, the app automatically recognizes the location of the user and delivers requested addresses from restaurants, pharmacies, taxi stands, and other POIs that are ready to view on the map. And just because Blackberry users don’t have the other smartphone operating systems, doesn’t mean they don’t get to have all the features: they can also use the integrated route planner as well as a number of other options, such as the processing of contacts or direct connection.

The Das Örtliche app is now available for Blackberry after its launch for the iPhone, iPad, smartphones featuring Android and the Windows-Phone-7 operating system.
With the free local search application, private and business contact data can be searched for throughout Germany. So telephone numbers are always handy, and users can search for practical addresses on-the-spot – whether it be restaurants, cafés, hotels, or the nearest hair salon, or ATM. Read the rest of this entry »