Booking.com has unveiled a new Passbook feature for the latest release of its iPhone app.
Passbook allows users to access easily accommodation and hotel bookings and associated entry tickets, boarding passes and more in the same location.
Adding Passbook to the app builds on the seamless multi-device experience Booking.com seeks to offer its growing user base of more than 10 million Apple iPhone and iPod Touch users.
“I am very pleased that we can offer our iPhone users Passbook to …

NVIDIA has released its new CUDA 5 production release, a powerful version of the world’s most pervasive parallel computing platform and programming model to accelerate scientific and engineering applications on graphics processing units (GPUs).
With over 1.5 million downloads, supporting over 180 leading engineering, scientific and commercial applications, the CUDA programming model is the hottest method for developers to capitalize GPU-accelerated computing.
Hinging on its successful …

Microsoft introduces Xbox Music, a service that allows users to access a global list of around 30 million songs. This new service will be free for tablets and personal computers running Windows 8, and it will also run on the Xbox gaming console.
By integrating two of Microsoft’s biggest brands, Xbox and Windows, Microsoft hopes that this new service will be more successful than the now phased out Zune, which was rated only second to the more popular Apple

Maluuba has released on Wednesday a Siri-like voice-enabled “do-engine” for Android-powered devices worldwide.
A do engine, according to the company, allows users to talk to smartphones and receive answers to requests with accuracy.
Maluuba is the natural evolution of search, which provides users direct results rather than a slew of web links delivered by search engines.
For example, users can ask if it will rain tomorrow and Maluuba understands they wish to receive tomorrow’s weather …

NICE Systems today announced the industry’s first mobile workforce optimization suite, which enables customer service managers and employees access to operational and personal data at any time, from anywhere, using their mobile phone or tablet. This set of applications falls in line with NICE’s vision for the engaged enterprise, helping to facilitate an atmosphere and business operation where employees interact in a more social and engaging manner for enhanced customer service and …

Just one day after it was released, Mozilla took down its latest version of Firefox after it was detected to have a security weakness.
Firefox 16 was discovered to allow “a malicious site to potentially determine which websites users have visited,” according to Mozilla.
As such, users were prompted to downgrade their Firefox version 16 to the earlier release, which was safer.  Those who got the version automatically were advised to downgrade as well.

Mozilla Firefox’s latest version …

myTaxi, the world’s largest taxi booking smartphone application, has launched in Washington, D.C., its first introduction into the U.S. marketplace. The announcement was made during a live-streaming press conference given directly in a moving taxi.
myTaxi is a pioneer and was first launched in Germany in June 2009. It currently connects 2.3 million users to more than 18,000 taxis worldwide. Today marked the first time consumers in the U.S. will have access to the app. myTaxi’s …

AT&T and the Pew Center on the States and Politics-360 announced the 2012 debut of VoterHub, a smartphone application designed to serve as a nonpartisan clearinghouse for essential voter information for the upcoming November 2012 General Election. The VoterHub app provides voters with national and statewide candidate information, and also provides a platform for voters to connect and share with one another.
The smartphone app hosts many additional features such as: voter registration …

Last month, Android users got their first glimpse of TomTom’s new app at its preview during the IFA consumer electronics show. Today the TomTom Navigation app for Android is available to download from Google Play for the first time. The new app is an addition to TomTom’s existing, highly-rated navigation app for iPhone and brings TomTom’s world-class navigation to millions more smartphone users.
Available at a special introductory price, the TomTom Navigation app for Android …

Just in time for World Space Week, NASA has released a new mobile application that challenges gamers to take on the role of a space communications network manager and puts them in charge of building a communications network to support scientific missions.
The educational application, “Space Communications and Navigation: NetworKing,” was developed at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., for the iPad and iPhone. NetworKing provides an interactive, 3-D …