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"Ingress, the Alternate/Augmented Reality (AR) game from Google's Niantic Labs, is a major evolution of mobile gaming. Apparently, it's also a good way to get arrested. According to a post on Reddit (I know, I know - but stay with me on this), an Ingress player in Ohio was detained by police for his in-game actions. Specifically, he was "hacking a portal" near a police station. His phone had technical difficulties, which led him to linger by the portal/police station for a bit, catching the eye of local law enforcement and leading to the detention. After the original post, other Ingress players responded with similar stories. One aroused suspicions by wandering around an empty parking lot at night. Another, trying to hack a portal next to an air traffic control station, had to run from the local sheriff. A third was called in for questioning after hacking a portal outside of a "high-traffic drug area.""

"Line, a Japan-made WhatsApp rival that is owned by Korean content giant Naver, just announced that it has hit 10 million registered users in Thailand at a press conference in Bangkok today, marking the first time it has provided a figure for a market outside of its native Japan. The company has more than 75 million users worldwide, so a pretty significant chunk of its user base is in Thailand, but more impressive than that is the fact that Facebook itself has 17.9 million users in Thailand (it is Facebook's 17th largest market)."

Power users accounted for 78% of the total time spent in apps in the first quarter, accounting for nearly five times more sessions per month than average users. "Power users" are defined as the third of people responsible for the most in-app actions on its rewards-based network in the quarter, according to new data from mobile ad platform SessionM.

Research firm Informa believes nearly 19 billion instant messages were sent per day in 2012 through chat applications, which has finally overtaken SMS texts which only 17.6 billion texts were sent in the same year. The 19 billion instant messages were spread across six of the most popular mobile chat applications: WhatsApp, BlackBerry Messenger, Viber, Nimbuzz, Apple's iMessage and KakaoTalk.

first consumer app for pfizer

Macy's was one of the first retailers to roll out Shopkick's mobile rewards program, and now two years later, it is finally rolling out the technology to all 800 of its stores.

Tabbedout- lets users pay for their restaurant bill with their phones

On Tuesday it introduced its first stand-alone app outside of Facebook called "Facebook Messenger,

The Army's announced the winners of their first-ever mobile phone app development contest. And the general behind the program says some of the applications will be in the field "within a year."

In terms of Lexus' marketing purposes, it is the first automotive advertiser to employ brand-specific color schemes in Draw Something. Players will also be awarded in-game coins if they virtually draw Lexus-oriented items. And many of the drawings created on the mobile app will be uploaded onto the Draw Something Facebook page, where users will have a chance at being featured as the "Lexus Stunning Doodle of the Day." The "Stunning Doodle" theme appears in the mobile ads that will be served up to Draw Something users on iPhones, iPads and Android devices during the next several days.

I don't understand all the details of this but I like it.

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Nexus S 4G the first phone to support Google Wallet - wireless mobile payment solution

First phone launched in UK with deep Facebook UI/skinning