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Mobile payments are the wave of the future; they make spending money far too easy, requiring you to remember only your phone number.  While payment platforms such as Boku and Zong have made strides in online goods and virtual games such as popular Facebook titles, in-app mobile payments are the next frontier.

Already, the Android platform has become a battleground for Boku and Zong, with both companies releasing Android-specific tools for developers.  The tools enable in-app payment options, which are far more integrated and less controlled than what’s available for iPhone apps.  The result is seamless payment

Continue Reading Zong and other Android app payments (Appolicious)

LeNewz isn’t your typical news aggregator. Focusing on the U.S., UK and France, the free app mines the Internet to find the latest news stories and hottest topics. These topics are sorted into six standard categories. Popular story subjects will be displayed as tappable words around each category, or you can tap on the category icon itself to see more subtopics.

Once you’ve selected a topic, you’ll see all its websites displayed as a swipeable coverflow. Tapping a news page loads it directly in-app. This can be a little slow, but the pages aren’t mobile versions. If an

Continue Reading Access the news with leNewz’s touch coverflow interface (Appolicious)

Google has launched Maps Navigation, which includes free turn-by-turn voice guidance, in 11 new countries and also made it possible for French, German, Italian, and Spanish speakers to take advantage of its Search by voice feature, the company said Wednesday.
By downloading Google Maps Navigation version 4.2, users in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland can now get turn-by-turn voice guidance, as long as they have a smartphone with Android 1.6 and higher, according to a Google blog post.
Previously, turn-by-turn voice guidance worked in the U.K. and the U.S.
Google first

Continue Reading Google’s Turn-by-turn Navigation Comes to More Countries (PC World)

Harry buzzed up: Diplomats say US, Russia, France dismiss Iran deal (AP)
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Continue Reading BP buys search term "oil spill" from Google (Reuters)

NEW YORK – A sharp rise in revenue helped video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. post a profit Tuesday for its fiscal second quarter, reversing a year-ago loss.
The company also said it expected to report a smaller loss for the fiscal year than it had originally forecast and raised its revenue guidance.
For the three months ended April 30, the company earned $16.8 million, or 20 cents per share, compared with a loss $10.1 million, or 13 cents per share, in the same period a year earlier.
Excluding stock compensation costs, non-cash interest expenses, a loss on

Continue Reading Take-Two posts 2Q profit, reversing loss (AP)