Big in Japan Issues Newest Release of ShopSavvy, Featuring More than 1,000 Additional Participating Retailers.ShopSavvy Version 3.5.0, Code Name Rodan Rodan (ラドン Radon) , Enhances Mobile Shopping Application with Faster Scanning and Load Times, Improved Battery Life, and Improved Accuracy in Product Search DALLAS Dallas, city (1990 pop. 1,006,877), seat of Dallas co., N Tex., on the Trinity River near the junction of its three forks; inc. 1871. The second largest Texas city, after Houston, and the eighth largest U.S. -- Big in Japan, a Dallas-based idea factory for mobile applications, today announced details of the latest release of ShopSavvy, the award-winning Adj. 1. award-winning - having received awards; "this award-winning bridge spans a distance of five miles" personal shopping assistant. The new version 3.5.0, called Rodan, includes more than 1,000 new retailers and 750,000 new products, as well as enhancements such as faster scanning and load times and improved battery life. ShopSavvy is one of the most downloaded applications on Google's Android An open platform for cellphones from the Open Handset Alliance (OHA). Based on Linux, Android includes a library of Java classes for building mobile applications. Android and GPhone mobile platform, where more than one million users can employ it on their Android-powered phones to scan barcodes For the machine-readable representation of information in a visual format on a surface see barcode. For the British Blues Jazz group see The Barcodes and comparison shop in real time. With the Rodan release, ShopSavvy offers users comparison shopping of more than 20 million products at more than 22,000 retailers. "ShopSavvy has really come a long way since we released version released version - release 1.0 last year," said Alexander Muse, co-founder of Big in Japan. "We've we've Contraction of we have. we've have worked hard to listen and respond to the feedback of users and retailers to continue to enhance the application. We are determined to build upon our position as the leading comparison-shopping service for mobile users." Enhancements in ShopSavvy Rodan include: * More than 1,000 additional participating retailers * More than 750,000 additional scannable products * Faster barcode scanning * Faster, more accurate product search * Faster load times * Faster animations * WiFi and GPS setting retention * Notification of whether or not an item is in stock or out of stock * Improved battery life * Optional registration * Option to search by title if product is not found * Google Product Search A search service from Google that specializes in finding products and the stores where they can be purchased. Originally known as "Froogle," merchants do not pay Google to rank their products, and there is no wallet or shopping cart function. integration * Ability to visit retailer Web sites inside or outside ShopSavvy * Additional polish to user interface ShopSavvy enables customers to comparison shop on the go, simply by scanning any product's barcode using a Google (Google, Mountain View, CA, www.google.com) The largest search engine on the Web, founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford University students. In 1996, they developed their "BackRub" search engine, named after its unique page ranking method (explained below). Android phone's built-in camera. Using the barcode information, ShopSavvy searches the Web for the best prices on the product, displaying the lowest prices online as well as at nearby brick-and-mortar retailers. ShopSavvy looks up product reviews to further assist with purchase decisions. Big In Japan was one of the original winners of the Google Android Challenge in September 2008 for its development of ShopSavvy. The application has since won a 2009 Netexplorateur of the Year award at the French Senate in Paris. Big in Japan also was a finalist for the international MobileMonday Mobile Peer Awards as well as the 2008 Crunchies. The Rodan release of ShopSavvy can be downloaded at the Android Market at http://www.android.com/market or at the Big in Japan Web site at http://bit.ly/sslatest. About Big in Japan Big in Japan Inc. is a Dallas-based idea factory for mobile applications, building software for Google's Android mobile platform and Apple's iPhone. Big in Japan's ShopSavvy application -- a personal shopping assistant -- is one of the most popular applications designed for the Android operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. for mobile phones. For more information, visit www.biggu.com. |
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