With less than three months until the the biggest football event of the year and over one million fans expected to travel to the Ukraine and Poland this summer, SoftTechnics has announced the update of their Euro2012: Travel Assistant app for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

Euro 2012: Travel Assistant, a comprehensive mobile app developed by SoftTechnics, is making it easier for sports fans to search and find any piece of information needed, be it up-to-the-minute reports & live news feeds, or places to see around and comfort oneself after thrill games day.

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Robin Bollen // Brussels :: Apr 02 2012

In the beautiful central station of Brussels (EU capital) a new virtual shop has been installed. One of the biggest food stores in Belgium called Delhaize has extended its online shopping experience to smartphone users on the go. The Delhaize Direct-Cube consists four panels (you guested it right), on which 300 virtual products are displayed.

image (c) http://www.levif.be

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Brussels :: Robin Bollen

One of my relatives asked me to look at the new iPhone he bought for his wife recently. He did not get the SIM card to work and the iPhone did not close very well while inserting the SIM???

I saw immediately that it was a fake iPhone and it even had a stylus in the bottom of the phone, go figure, Steve killed the stylus altogether with the Newton when he came back to Apple. He payed 200 euro for it in a gas-station in Spain, go figure. The phone works when you insert the SIM good but that is all there is to say about it, what a piece of crap.

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My friend is trying to buy a new iPad and asked help because he gets errors all the time while trying to preorder an iPad. Yesterday just after the lauch the stores were worldwide also erroring out on many occasions.

After checking the French store, it gives about the same result, just a different message that your basket is empty.

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Belgium students invention: the USB-Bike, always juice on the go

Five Industrial Engineering students from the Karel de Grote Hogeschool Hoboken, which all have selected an entrepreneurial profile needed to develop a real product. This innovated product needed to be also strategically marketed and financially managed correctly.

They came up with the idea of the USB-Bike, which is a device attached to your bike that charges while you’re biking. You can connect your iPhone or other USB device to it, so it charges on the go. This can be enough to get this urgent message or email out, or just being reachable again instantly. Another big advantage is that you can use your power-draining navigation apps now on your bike, so for trips more than 2 hours.

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Mobile navigation provider NDrive announced today it is powering the successful release of Mappy GPS Free, the free turn-by-turn, voice guided navigation application of the well known French mapping portal Mappy.

Launched on iPhone (Dec. 13) and Android (Dec. 14), Mappy GPS Free is a fully featured mobile navigation application with on-board maps of France. Furthermore, PagesJaunes, , is providing its local search capability within the app. With a local business database of more than 770,000 results, this allows users a search experience more detailed and accurate than what global search engine companies offer today.

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Ready for your next winter vacation? Thanks to Maps 3D (formerly GeoGuide 3D) you will never get lost on the slopes again. The outdoor tracking app retrieves the required off-line maps for the category “Ski, Bike & Hike” before the start of a trip, marks waypoints and keeps an eye on the destination. As a special Christmas present the new version 2.5 offers 340 ski areas in 3D. This way the next ski lift is easily located, even in heavy snowfall. In addition, runs can now be tracked. Till December 20th the app is being offered at only $ 1.99 instead of $ 2.99.

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KLM has launched the KLM Passport app which turns people’s journeys into inspiring movies. Within the free iPhone app users can choose from one of the seven fun themes, and select their best pictures and videos taken during their journey. KLM Passport then turns these experiences into a movie that can be shared directly via Facebook or saved on the iPhone’s camera roll to be shared elsewhere. The app can be downloaded for free in English in the iTunes Store

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This week I received a SMS from my iPhone provider Mobistar, to announce the fact that Visual VoiceMail was about to become active soon. Well today is the day that is has gone live, after so many years finally. I don’t complain about it, better late than never. Next up is hopefully the data sharing feature also known as Tethering, who knows one happy day in the near future?

Visual VoiceMail explained by Apple like this; Visual voicemail presents a list of your voicemail messages. Just tap to listen to any message you want, in any order you want.

For the people who forgot how to configure it, keep reading for the instructions;

On 17th October 2011, the country was greeted by what has now become a familiar site: hordes of people camped outside Apple stores to be the first to own the new iPhone. The iPhone 4S is the fifth iteration of Apple’s popular smartphone. Its external design is almost identical to the iPhone 4, but this newer version features an improved CPU, a better camera and the most up-to-date operating system, iOS 5. The new software boasts a number of improvements including a swipe menu for notifications, access to Apple’s new iCloud service and, most interestingly of all, Siri.

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