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FarmVille Coming to…Your Cell Phone?

Tiffany Nevin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:45:00 +0000

Normally, this might pop up solely in mobile or casual game news, but with more active players online every day than even World of Warcraft, this little FarmVille tidbit is worth mentioning – looks like the game isn’t sticking to your computer for much longer.

A sneaky person over at Supererogatory noticed that a few new FarmVille domain names were popping up – namely, Farmvilleandroid.com, Farmvilleipad.com, Farmvilleiphone.com, and Farmvillesms.com. A little WHOIS registry digging turned up the brand-new domain owners – an address that matches Zynga’s already-operational FarmVille.com.

You can’t just leave it at that, though. Joystiq got a comment from Zynga about the situation: “Zynga plans to expand to various mobile platforms, but unfortunately, we cannot provide additional information at this time.” (I should also mention that I totally took our image for this post from their article, because I’ve never seen anything that so perfectly encapsulated my feelings about the “game.”)

So, not only is your farm going to follow you around in your pocket – if you’re not lucky enough to have one of those smartphone-doohickeys, you might even be able to play via SMS. Because it just wasn’t enough to complete your microtransactions on Facebook. Now you get to text your money away, as well.

Are you looking forward to these developments? This is the next logical step for Zynga, after all.

iSpeech Announces DriveSafe.ly Nomination

GamergirlSB — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:05:22 +0000

iSpeech has released a new innovative app everyone should check out. DriveSafe.ly is designed to prevent drivers from texting. With out any action from the user, the app reads text messages and emails in real time preventing driving distractions.The latest versions activates when users enter or exit the vehicle. DriveSafe.ly has been nominated for the 2009 Mashable Open Web Award for Best Mobile App. DriveSafe.ly is available for BlackBerry and Android at no cost. DriveSafe.ly is coming soon for the iPhone.

To download the app, visit www.DriveSafe.ly

Pinger Textfree: Text Messing for Free on your IPhone/IPod Touch

netzach — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:24:42 +0000

Here on Gadget Angels we may appear to have gone a little, IPhone crazy. I know I know, there are other wonderful gadgets to talk about, but when it save on text messaging charges, you can’t really blame me.

We all know how expensive text messaging can be, firing off a few messages to a friend to ask them where the hell they are, or sending a little message of love to a friend who has a bad day, or just responding to twitter messages, can really rack up your phone bill.

Well for the IPhone users there is an App that will TextMessage for free, within the US. You heard me F-R-E-E.
Of course there are little catches but I shall explain them later.

There are 2 Version:
Textfree Lite: Which is the completely free app that has ads, and has a limit on how many text messages you are sending per day/
Textfree Unlimited: No limit on the number of messages per day, no ads, yet costs $5.99 (US)

The Catches:
1) In order for you to receive for free, your friends need to reply to the textfree message you sent. If they send to your regular phone number, (not as a reply but as a new message) you will be charged the regular rate.
2) If your friend does not have textfree, regular charges will apply to then to send and receive. This can be avoided by having your friends get Textfree, and you set up the Textfree to Textfree settings.

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