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A year after launching the original iFood Assistant , Kraft Foods has released a new version (2.0) of the application with enhanced content and made the application available in Canada, too — for some reason it was not available there before. Among the features included in iFood Assistant 2.0, we highlight: Offline access to Shopping List, Recipe Box, and Daily Recipes Ability to set alerts for “Recipe of the Day”, “Dinner Tonight” and “Special Offers” New content including a “Holidays & Entertaining” section and expanded “Budget Wise” section In addition, Kraft has also released a free version (the price of the full version costs 99 cents ) of the application called iFood Assistant LITE , which gives users a free taste of the application’s basic features, such as recipes and tips. This free version is also available for the iPhone and will be released for BlackBerry ( NSDQ: RIMM ) devices in mid-December.

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Kraft Foods launches iFood Assistant 2.0 for the iPhone; BlackBerry app coming soon

Yahoo expects its mobile division to grow “exponentially,” even as the overall market is only starting to emerge from recession. In that sense, the company is focused on boosting the number of mobile users as a way to attract more advertisers, Hilary Schneider, Yahoo North America’s executive VP said at the Reuters Global Media Summit in New York. She went on to add: “If you just look at the growth rates on mobile, they’re incredible, they’re extraordinary, but you have to just remember that they’re starting with a small base.

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Yahoo’s mobile division set for exponential growth

Nokia ( NYSE: NOK )’s Ovi Mail Setup , application that allows users to setup an Ovi Mail account directly from their S60 devices, has been updated. The new version extends device support, fixes several bugs and is localized in total of 18 languages: Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malay, Brazilian Portuguese, English (UK), English (US), Finnish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese (PRC), Spanish, Spanish (Latin America), Tagalog, Thai and Vietnamese

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Ovi Mail Setup for S60 gets an update

Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) has been raking in cash with its iTunes music store over the past several years, in the process forcing the music industry and consumers to get comfortable with paying $1 per downloaded song. These days, you’ll find iPod and iPhone users toting around dozens of gigabytes worth of downloaded music with them wherever they go. Soon though, Apple might just side-step the download process and stream your music library directly to your iPhone.

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Apple’s LaLa acquisition points to streaming iTunes music

I don’t know about you, but I’m actually quite curious to see what Samsung has up their sleeves with their home grown Bada operating system . You may not know this, but Samsung is the second largest handset maker in the world. They’re not a little fish in the sea, and depending on which analyst you ask, the South Korean company whose name translates to “three stars” and who started out as nothing more than a trading post, may very well become the next Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) in terms of unit sales.

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T minus 2 days until Samsung reveals Bada; EA and Twitter to be at the launch event

Clearly Sony Ericsson ( NYSE: SNE ) has decided to use the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ as a major Promo push – and so has already started offering people a way to get themselves their as winners of a competition they are now running: The 2010 FIFA World Cup™ is next year and we want to reward the ultimate football parent with the ultimate football prize. And we don’t think it gets any better than this.

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Sony Ericsson start their 2010 FIFA World Cup™ Promo

Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) has released a new firmware update for its QWERTY keyboard-equipped E75 smartphone. The 153MB-heavy update brings firmware to version 201.12.01, bringing tons of improvements, including: Integrated Ovi Contacts New shortcuts in Applications folder – Facebook, YouTube and MySpace Calendar speed improvements and synchronisation bug fixes Updated clients: N-Gage, Share Online, Nokia Messaging Contacts speed improvements Web update to next-gen browser, v7.1, which is faster Overall UI speed improvements Quickoffice updated to v5.3, with Office 2007 support (v6.0 is a free upgrade within the app) AllAboutSymbian calls the new firmware a must-install, and we’ve nothing to add. Make sure to backup your data first, though.

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Nokia E75 gets a new firmware update – v201.12.01

EezeeRator is a neat and quite useful mobile application, which provides users with a simplified way to share real-time flight information and reviews via Android and iPhone — an Android version is already available while iPhone app is coming next month. From the application, users can search for airline and flight information, post reviews, and send messages, tweets and pictures in real-time.

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EezeeRator brings real-time flight reviews to the iPhone and Android smartphone users

Unlike the iPhone apps, Android apps are not pure gold, as not that many people actually buys them. According to the recent Skyhook Wireless’ survey, Android developers are frustrated with multiple issues, including: 82% of those surveyed indicated that the design of the Android Market makes it difficult for apps to be noticed; 57% are not satisfied with the profits to date; 43% report that they would sell more apps if Android used a carrier billing or another simpler billing system (other than Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) Checkout); Only 10% of Android developers are currently serving ads. Finally, as we see Android evolving with the day, developers don’t like the idea of having multiple versions of the OS available for the users – 46% were certain this would make development more difficult.

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Skyhook Wireless survey: There’s still no money in Android apps

HowStuffWorks.com is expanding its content offering to the iPhone platform with a dedicated application called “Stuff to Rattle Your Brain.” The application is actually a trivia game that lets you play multiple quizes, including “20 Random Questions,” “Keep Going ’til I’m Wrong” and “Practice, Practice, Practice.” There over a dozen categories available, covering everything from sports trivia to geography, all drawn from HowStuffWorks.com’s content.

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HowStuffWorks.com’s Stuff to Rattle Your Brain hits the AppStore

We love the mobile banking and payment provider Obopay, and perhaps more importantly, Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) loves them — hence they’ve launched the Nokia Money service in partnership with Obopay. In that sense, I’m glad to report that Obopay has been chosen by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer 2010 for its “innovation, transformational technology, leadership and substantial long-term impact on businesses and society.” Obopay is one of 26 companies from around the world to be honored with this prestigious award, which the company will “pick up” at World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in January

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Obopay honored with World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer 2010 award

Whenever companies do something inexplicable, the nerd in me always comes back to that scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind when Richard Dreyfus keeps building models of a mountain, culminating in a huge, muddy mess in his kitchen. Throughout it all he keeps saying “This means something.” Well, the latest molehill into a mountain is the move by Time Inc. and Conde Nast , among others, to build a tablet-based interface for their flagship titles

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“This means something:” Why the magazine industry is suddenly crowing about tablets

This particular issue is far from settled, since it is a fact that certain levels of radiation lead to transcription errors and such, but at the very least, studies like this one reinforce the idea that we’re not all of us going to drop dead in a couple years. The study, performed by the Danish Cancer Society and documented in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, studied brain cancer rates in Scandinavian countries over a period of 30 years.

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Huge Scandinavian study suggests no link between mobiles and brain cancer (so relax)

Remember when I told you about Google Maps 3.3 around 72 hours ago? They’ve issued a small update, 3.3.1, to fix a problem that some people have been having with Layers.

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Ultrabrief: Google Maps hits 3.3.1 to fix a problem with Layers [Symbian, Windows Mobile]

You may recall Best Buy Canada launching the Nokia 2720 ‘Fold’ just ahead of the main carrier launch at Fido. We’ve seen this before, and weren’t surprised… But when I read this bit of news, for some reason I was caught a little off-guard. The Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) 2720 is now available at Petro-Canada and Sunoco locations for $95 prepaid

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Nokia 2720 ‘Fold’ Now Available at Petro-Canada and Sunoco Locations

Patrik Andersson, formerly Channel Manager at LG, is now Head of HTC Sweden. Having recently took office his first order of business was to recruit 10 people under him to handle sales and marketing in the land of IKEA and meatballs. He says that standing in a room full of people arguing about megapixels and other useless specifications is not the type of environment where HTC thinks it should be, instead they’re focused solely on user experience and that the iPhone is a huge inspiration

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Head of HTC Sweden: Hero successor to be shown in February 2010, will be in stores shortly thereafter

The folks over at Astro Gaming wanted to share some holiday cheer and are giving us one of their new Astro A40 BxR SE Audio Systems to hand out to one lucky CrunchGear enthusiast. The new BxR system comes with a headset, in either red, blue or military green (we’re giving the green one away), and a MixAmp. This headset comes with 5.1 Dolby Digital Sound, allowing you to hear everything around you in any game that supports it, and a noise-canceling microphone.

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Weekend Giveaway: Astro A40 BxR Special Edition Audio System

Motorola made an investment in Sensitive Object, a company that focus on multitouch technology development. Sensitive Object’s Anywhere MultiTouch platform extends tactilization to any surface of a device allowing for virtual controls and next generation user-interfaces. The unique software technology leverages acoustics to analyze sound waves departing from the point of a touch to precisely and cost-effectively transform any product into a touch device. Sensitive Object’s ReverSys software can be deployed in any product benefiting from “touch-based” user interfaces including touch screen and touch control in various markets such as mobile devices

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Motorola Invests in Sensitive Object

Nimbuzz has announced the launch of its new app for BlackBerry smartphones, that runs as a native application enabling users to connect with each other via their favourite social networks. Just one of a number of industry ‘firsts’ contained in the new release, native functionality allows Nimbuzz to run constantly in the background, have alert notifications ‘pushed’ to the home screen and integrate notifications with sound profiles, ensuring users never miss another message

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Nimbuzz Launches Social Networking App For Blackberry Smartphone

What you’re looking at is an installation by Gebhard Sengmüller called “A Parallel Image.” Technically, it’s art, but it’s more of an interesting deconstruction of technology than anything else. Instead of transmitting a video signal digitally via HDMI or VGA, this contraption does it in analog: 2500 photoconductors in an array, individually wired to 2500 bulbs on the other side

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“A Parallel Image”: a novel way of transmitting a video signal

Motorola’s LaJolla handset was revealed today in the Motorola ( NYSE: MOT ) CLIQ’s source code. The codename, in Spanish, means “the jewel,” but given the lowly specs of the Android phone, it’s unlikely to be anything close to a “gem” in Motorola’s Android portfolio. Still, the idea of the lower-cost LaJolla could very well end up being the jewel in Motorola’s Android strategy

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Motorola ‘LaJolla’ could be the jewel of Motorola’s Android lineup, here’s why

Moneymoneymoney…. maaah-naaay… Stefan and I run down a whole lot of mobile banking news in this week’s podcast. The new startup Square and their 3.5mm-based peripheral take up the bulk of our interest, but we explore SMS, NFC, QR, and straight-up application-based solutions and which works where.

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The Signal 50: Mobile Banking and Super Monkey Ball 2 for iPhone Giveaway