• Mobile company TigerSpike is making buzz all over London with its work on a collaboration between Time Out Magazine and Smirnoff Vodka. The app is designed to help Londoners plan their social lives by incorporating geo location, the social ability to share what events you are at with friends and update event listings.
• Mobile commerce company B33hive has entered into two deals to deliver music and information to customers mobile phones. A deal with BaZook allows users to tag a song by letting it play into the service on their mobile phone and have the artist and title identified for 1.10. The offer is similar to Shazaam but promises to ignore background noise and work even in noisy nightclubs. A deal with Buzzword will allow customers to sms a “buzz word” to a number and receive a message, that can be regularly changes, in return. The examples B33hive offers for the utility include nineMSN using the service to follow stock quotes or a coach using it to allow parents to stay abreast of team changes.
• Canberra-based startup Cloud Central has opened a private beta launch of infrastructure-as-a-service, hosted from the TransACT data centre in Australia’s capital. Cloud Central is the result of 12 months research and a further 12 months of development and engineering by Kristoffer Sheather, who formerly worked as a software developer and architecture engineer for multiple Federal Government departments. The service offers bundles of compute power, memory and storage from as low as $0.03c per hour, plus GST, network traffic fees and third party software licenses.
• Timely with the Copenhagen Climate Change conference, Volvo is hoping to reduce consumers carbon footprint with a new app from Aussie developers Pocketweb. The sponsored Commute Greener app calculates how much carbon you have used with your method of transportation
