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Developers can already use a number of third-party SDKs to integrate such things as maps, ads, videos and so on into their apps. How about ticket sales? That’s now possible as well thanks to the new SDK from the online ticketing marketplace Seatwave.

The functionality provides developers with a new way to monetize their apps, without the need for banner ads, making for a much better experience (as far as I’m concerned). The problem, however, is that not every app is suited to offer tickets. Music-based apps work perfectly and so does those dealing with sport. Moreover, location-based services could also provide its users with nearby events with the option to buy tickets right from within the application.

Interested developers can check out Seatwave’s dedicated developer portal from where they can also check out a number of launch partner apps.

Final note, if you happen to make some cool app that integrates the capability, make sure to send us an email – we may be interested to check it out and let our readers know what you’ve come up with.

[Via: MobileBusinessBriefing]

About The Author

Dusan Belic

Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The “convergence” is what he’s most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do.

In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it’s an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he’s there to try it out. He admits though, he’s still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which “sings” perfectly with the mobile PIM application.

Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in

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‘Tis the season for giveaways, fa la la la la, la la la la.

That’s right folks, it’s the most wonderful time of the year right now and what better way to celebrate the holidays than by giving away some sweet, sweet tablets.

For this giveaway, we’ve teamed up with our friends at Gameloft to help celebrate the launch of The Oregon Trail: American Settler by giving away your choice of an iPad 2 or Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. This giveaway won’t be one of our traditional “leave a comment, tweet this, etc.” types of giveaways, instead, this will all be taking place via Gameloft’s Facebook giveaway app that they’ve painstakingly made just for us.

If you haven’t played The Oregon Trail: American Settler, it takes the classic Oregon Trail and twists it with a micro-managing sim similar to FarmVille. There are a bunch of challenges to complete, resources to collect, and wild animals to shoot. I’m not usually a fan of these kinds of games, but I enjoyed my time with this game, that is, until I received my new iPhone 4S and my game save mysteriously vanished. I guess I wasn’t cut out for a job in the old west.

So without further ado, here’s what you’ll need to do in order to qualify for an entry to this giveaway:

• Visit the Gameloft Facebook giveaway app
• Like Gameloft IntoMobile via the app
• Answer some questions regarding The Oregon Trail: American Settler

About The Author

Daniel Perez

Daniel is a Jersey boy, born and raised. He currently lives in the Northern NJ area, close to New York City. He prides himself in being known as a geek and knows his way around technology. He’s the kind of person that if he can’t figure out a solution to a tech problem, it’ll keep him up at night.

Daniel has experience in editorial from his previous work with Ziff Davis Media. With a strong background in the journalism field,

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Today the new Timeline Facebook layout has been rolled out to the general public to mixed reviews, and that launch includes mobile. The official Facebook app for Android now sports the new look, as well as the mobile site for iOS devices. This isn’t to say the iOS Facebook app won’t be getting Timeline at some point; in fact, the original launch showcased an iPhone running the feature just fine.

If you haven’t had a chance to check it out, the new layout offers a nice big banner image behind your profile picture, then blasts through your updates in a chronological order. The main idea is to present your whole life as a timeline, which in the long run actually makes a fair bit of sense, given how much people use Facebook. On Android in particular, Facebook has managed to compete with most of the preloaded Google apps for popularity. Of course, every time Facebook changes anything, there’s a ton of public backlash, but at this point, we should all be getting used to the arbitrary changes Lord Zuckerbeast implements.

Though Facebook is saying that the timeline changes are applicable to their “touch” site,  I’m not seeing the changes on anything other than an iDevice. Feel free to check for yourself at m.facebook.com.  Android users can update their app in the Market.

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Simon Sage

Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement.

With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching

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Minneapolis, MN, December 15, 2011 –(PR.com)– Ultralingua, well known for their wide array of language reference applications, is pleased to announce the availability of their popular French-English translation dictionary in the Mac App Store this week.

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This new line of dictionary software for the Mac App Store grew from Ultralingua’s long history of developing for Mac OS. The application draws on the same established French-English dictionary data that powers Ultralingua’s desktop, mobile, and web-based products to provide Mac users with all of the tools they need to study French and English languages successfully.

The French-English language software includes a suite of reference features designed for ease of use and reliability.

• Bilingual dictionary includes nearly 300,000 translations, usage examples, related phrases, and more. Entries include parts of speech, gender, and pronunciation guides to help language learners choose the right word among various translations for each entry.
• Ultralingua’s unique verb conjugation tool allows users to conjugate thousands of English and French verbs in all standard tenses and forms. Users can search conjugated or irregular verb forms to determine the infinitive, and browse or study the full conjugation lists to master each tense.
• Users can create, organize, study, and edit flashcards to meet their unique needs. Create new cards from dictionary entries or from scratch, and review them in full-screen playback mode at the speed and order of your choosing.
• The number translator instantly provides written forms of any number in French or English.
• A references section includes complete grammar and usage instructions for everything from written correspondence to prepositions and modal verbs. It’s full of helpful information for language learners and fluent speakers alike.

http://www.ultralingua.com/products/french-english-dictionary.html

Chief Technology Officer Jeff Ondich commented on the launch, “This company was founded on a French-English dictionary for the Mac nearly fifteen years ago. We’ve grown alongside Apple, moving into new platforms and technologies over the years, as each step represented a natural progression for our users and our company. Needless to say, when the Mac App Store was announced earlier this year we couldn’t wait

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Jan-Michael Cart is best known around the Internet for working with MacRumors to create a concept design of the iOS Assistant, which would later become Siri on the iPhone 4S. The mockup shown in the photo above turned out to be remarkably accurate. He certainly proves his design skills here. Oh, but don’t take my word for it, Apple just gave him a seven-month internship.

Is it odd that Apple snatched up someone who actually aided in leaking one of their biggest products this year? Yes and no. Yes, simply because of Apple’s well-known reputation as being one of the most secretive companies on the planet, if not the most secretive. No, because the Cupertino-based technology giant previously hired Peter Hajas and Nicholas Allegra, two jailbreak experts. Steve Jobs always did have respect for rebels.

When he’s not envisioning iOS improvements (and interning at Apple) Cart is a student at the University of Georgia — a student that may be on his way to a career earlier than planned. Though Apple didn’t exactly hire Cart just yet. He was only given a temporary internship presumably involving user interface design. While he did create that mockup of Siri, he’s also known for other impressive concept designs for Notification Center, iMessage on Mac OS X Lion, iOS widgets, and more.

[via MacRumors]

About The Author

George Tinari

George has followed technology news for quite some time, but he only started writing about it a few years ago. He’s a self-professed Apple fanboy, but that doesn’t stop him from covering a wide range of topics in the mobile area. When he’s not reporting for IntoMobile, you can usually find George listening to a wide array of music, trying to be funny and sarcastic, eating, or voicing his opinions about all things tech on his personal blog, GT Daily.

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Every leading mobile platform has its own cloud solution. iOS has iCloud, Android has Google’s range of services, and Windows Phone has Microsoft’s SkyDrive. Unlike its competitors, Microsoft is reaching out to other platforms and releasing a SkyDrive app for iOS as well as Windows Phone.

SkyDrive is the company’s cloud computing solution that lets you store music, photos, documents, and more. The new apps will let you browse folders, share files, delete files and read their OneNote notebooks. Some of this functionality is built into Windows Phone, but it’s all new to iOS owners. The SkyDrive app for iOS is available for free from the iOS App Store. The Windows Phone version will be available soon.

[Via Microsoft Windows Live Blog]

About The Author

Kelly Hodgkins

Kelly spent the last three years covering mobile technology at
places like BGR, Gizmodo and The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Before writing, she
spent a few years working with and teaching others how to use Adobe
Flash and Macromedia Director. Even earlier than that, she spent six
years working on my Ph.D in Microbiology. When she’s not writing, she
can be found fishing the lakes and hiking the mountains of Western
Maine with her husband and children.

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Overall, it was another banner year for Apple and iOS. The platform had its ups and down, but remained strong in the face of stiff competition from Android. Throughout the year, the iPad was the leading tablet and the iPhone was at the top of the smartphone market.

iPhone 4 on Verizon

Apple kicked off the year with the launch of the highly anticipated CDMA iPhone 4. The handset landed on Verizon with lots of fanfare, but surprisingly small lines. Analysts predicted the CDMA version would take customers away from ATT, but that mass exodus did not happen. Early sales revealed both the Verizon and ATT version sold well. It was Verizon customers who were scooping up the iPhone, not ATT customers jumping ship. Apple sold 18.65 million iPhones in the first three months of 2011. Of those 18 million, Verizon sold 2.2 million and ATT sold 3.6 million.

iPad 2 launch

Soon after the iPhone 4 launched on Verizon, Apple released the iPad 2 . The iPad 2 was a nice, but not extraordinary, upgrade from the original iPad. The tablet included a dual-core A5 processor, front and rear-facing camera, and a thinner profile. It replaced the original iPad and came in at the same price point. People lined up for the iPad when it launched in March and inventory plummeted as Apple faced the “motherload of all backlogs.” Apple couldn’t make the devices fast enough, and quarterly sales fell. The company only sold 4.69 million iPads during the quarter which was significantly less than the 7.33 million iPads the company sold during the holiday 2010 quarter.

WWDC and iOS 5

After a difficult spring, Apple was ready to kick it up a notch and introduced iOS 5 at WWDC. The latest version of OS included several notable features including iCloud syncing, a new notification center, iMessages, reminders and more. Steve Jobs, in what would become his last public keynote, detailed iOS 5 in a lively presentation. Developers were able to download the iS 5 beta right away while consumers had to wait until the fall for the next generation mobile OS to launch. Apple did well in this mid-year quarter and sold 20.34 million iPhones and 9.25 million iPads.

iPhone 4S launch

After much speculation, the iPhone 4S launched in October of this year, and people lined up to grab Apple’s

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Once again the iPad validates itself as the number one desired tablet in a new survey by Maritz Research. In addition to the iPad being the most popular brand among businesses, people that own Android, BlackBerry and Microsoft Windows mobile phones show a preference for iPads over any other tablet else. This is interesting because you would think people who have a particular type of OS would pick the same OS when it comes to purchasing a tablet. Wrong.

This is how the numbers shake out:

• BlackBerry users - More than half (53%) of survey respondents who identified themselves as BlackBerry users said they would like an iPad if they were to buy a tablet.
• Android users - Respondents who identified as Android phone users favored the iPad over the Kindle Fire and Galaxy Tab with 41% indicating preference for the iPad.
• Windows Phone users - Lastly, WP users exhibited comparable characteristics with 40% selecting preference for the iPad.

This doesn’t really surprise me because the survey reflects my feelings on the tablet market as a whole. Personally, I prefer Android as my mobile operating system of choice, but objectively speaking, I’ve yet to see a better tablet experience than the iPad. So, if you were to ask me if I’d take the iPad 2 over what’s available now, I’d say yes. That said, Android tablets are getting much better, and at a fast pace. Case in point – the Asus Eee Transformer Prime is a beastly quad-core slate that is far ahead in specs when compared to the iPad.

[via Forbes]

About The Author

Charles West

Charles has been a cannibal of all things handheld and gadgety for years. Originally from Hartford, CT, where he resides, he longs for great Mexican food and even better technology. Charles considers himself a music snob and sports fanatic who loves occasional benders with friends and family. He has written about the mobile industry for TMCnet, Androinica, and Unwired View. He also writes at his own blog, The Trendaholic

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