O2 UK is building on the success of its 'Priority Tickets' service by launching a new location-based offers scheme called Priority Moments. It'll rival existing 'voucher' discount services such as Groupon and will be available to O2's 22 million customers across the UK.
The deals could save O2 customers over £100 per month.
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Google has added an experimental feature called 'Download map area' to Google Maps for Android.
It allows customers to save a 10-mile radius of any chosen place before arriving there, enabling them to reduce data costs or prepare for locations without mobile connectivity.
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In The Fonecast feature this week we're looking at mobile applications and trying to work out exactly what makes a good app.
We start by talking to Colin McCaffery, Product and Technology Director at 2ergo, before calling Carsten Frien, CEO & Co-Founder of madvertise.
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This week's edition of The Fonecast covers a wide range of subjects from within the mobile industry. We start with Symbian before moving on to 'white space' spectrum trials involving BT, the BBC, Samsung and Nokia. There's also time to talk about funding, favourite apps, legal action and some notable moves.
You can download this week's show from iTunes... or listen to the podcast by using the audio player on our website.
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Location-based social network Foursquare has just raised raised $50 million in new funding, with much of the money coming from its current investors.
It says the money will help it hire more engineers, develop its services for merchants, expand into new countries and "try a ton of new things".
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