biNu’s Popular Wordnik Dictionary App Wins Best App for Languages and Translators Opera have concluded their Top App Awards 2012 competition an announced the winners for the year, based on votes by millions of users across the globe. We are proud to announce that biNu’s popular English Dictionary app, which is powered by Wordnik, has [...]
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New Social Features on biNu
Posted by tim.wightman, June 13th, 2012
We have a number of new social features either complete or slated for development in the near future. The first cab off the rank is the ability to search for other biNu users in order to meet new people in the biNu community from all over the world, and communicate with them using biNu’s messaging [...]
Worldreader Partner Update
Posted by tim.wightman, May 9th, 2012
By Clare Joy Did you know that you have a library full of exciting material on your phone? With Worldreader Books in a few easy clicks you could be reading our free articles on health, falling in love with a contemporary short story or browsing classic fiction from some of the best writers of our [...]
biNu Messenger In-app Notifications!
Posted by tim.wightman, March 7th, 2012
This long awaited feature is now live on biNu! The way it works is as follows: If a new biNu-to-biNu chat message is received in your Messenger Inbox while you are inside biNu, the notification icon will appear. The notification is a green button with an asterisk (*) located at the bottom of the screen [...]
New languages supported in Google Translate API
Posted by tim.wightman, March 2nd, 2012
Finally! Google just added more languages to their translate API. For a few months, some languages were supported via the web interface but not via the API. We are sure that this will please so many of our users who have been eagerly awaiting their languages to be supported, especially Bengali and Urdu. The new [...]
Happy Valentines Day!
Posted by tim.wightman, February 14th, 2012
To show love to our users out there, we gave away an extra 4 bonus free credits to all registered users today! These credits can be used to send messages to loved ones or even transferred to friends as a gift. baby i Need u! :)
Onward and upward!
Posted by tim.wightman, February 4th, 2012
January 2012 – a new year bringing millions of new biNu users and very strong growth in sessions and page views! Monthly page views saw an 11-fold increase over the year, from 29m to 341m. Monthly user sessions grew from 1.3m a year ago to 15.7m, and unique monthly users rocketed from 370k last year [...]
Facebook Messenger (Chat) now on biNu
Posted by tim.wightman, February 4th, 2012
With the popularity of instant messaging exploding across the mobile world, especially in emerging markets, we are pleased to be able to offer unlimited access to Facebook Messenger on our platform. The Messaging interface can be accessed via the main Facebook app or directly from the biNu home screen. We intend to add other messaging [...]
Snaptu users: get Twitter on biNu
Posted by tim.wightman, November 1st, 2011
Warning: This post contains a lot of number 1s. Today, on 1/11/11, biNu released a new app for Twitter users on feature phones and smartphone Twitter users seeking a faster experience. This announcement comes close on the heels of the super-fast Facebook app released by biNu a few weeks ago. With Snaptu officially ending its [...]
biNu books – Hundreds of books now available on your mobile phone via Project Gutenburg
Posted by mark.shoebridge, October 13th, 2011
We have released our first version of biNu books for mobile phone users. Today over 300 books are available via Project Gutenburg, but in the near future the entire library will be available and all for free. Project Gutenburg http://www.gutenbergnews.org was conceived by Michael Hart who recently passed away. Hart’s vision was to make “everything available [...]
Share biNu content with friends via beats or Messenger
Posted by tim.wightman, October 8th, 2011
You can now share some of your favourite biNu content with your friends or the wider biNu community using biNu beats or biNu Messenger. So far we have enabled sharing in these apps: Quran Bible Wordnik English Dictionary Football biNu Books All News applications! This is how you share: First find one of these mentioned [...]
biNu’s new Smart look for non-Smart phones
Posted by tim.wightman, October 7th, 2011
biNu has always had a large catalog of apps that are accessible from every installed app – but for some of our users it hasn’t been obvious how to find them. biNu v3.2.1 changes all that with a new icon-based home screen that will be familiar to smart phone users. Not only does this provide [...]
Facebook on biNu
Posted by tim.wightman, September 21st, 2011
biNu already offers access to some of the most popular services on the Internet today, including Google search, translate, Wikipedia, Wordnik and many more. But none comes bigger today than the social networking giant that is Facebook. Today biNu released its first version of the Facebook app, opening up the hugely popular service to users [...]
Translate your messages! आसान
Posted by tim.wightman, August 26th, 2011
Upgrades to the biNu Messenger app and Google Translate mean that you can now translate messages in your inbox to any language. If you wish to translate an outgoing message, enter your text in the Google Translate app, choose translation language and then use the ‘Send’ option in the menu. This will take you to [...]
Rebranding: biNu Messenger
Posted by tim.wightman, August 10th, 2011
Today we renamed our messaging product to “biNu Messenger”, to reflect the broader nature of communication modes we now support. What started out as a purely SMS product, is now a truly unified messaging platform, allowing users in 208 countries to send messages via SMS, chat (biNu to biNu) or email on almost any mobile [...]
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