Samsung Electronics has announced the bada 2.0 smartphone platform, which includes support for Near Field Communication, web applications, multitasking and voice recognition. There’s also an improved Software Development Kit for developers.
The news comes a year after bada was launched at Mobile World Congress 2010.
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James Rosewell and Mark Bridge present this week's final podcast from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
They look at innovative mobile apps and also discuss the technologies that could be on next year's mobile phones.
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Digital security company Gemalto has announced a new service called Facebook for SIM. It embeds Facebook in a SIM card, enabling mobile network operators to offer the service to customers without a data connection.
Participating networks can offer the service free for a trial period before introducing a flat-rate subscription charge.
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The GSMA has announced the winners of its Mobile App Challenges competitions.
The Brand App Challenge, the Band App Audition and the mWomen Base of Pyramid App Challenge were aimed at the developer community, with winners being chosen for their creativity as well as their ability to address the criteria set by the Challenge partners.
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Apple has announced a subscription service that's available to anyone publishing a content-based app on the App Store.
It means the digital subscription service recently launched with News Corp.'s ‘The Daily’ app is now available to other digital magazines and newspapers, along with video and music services.
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