Veveo’s New WikiTap for iPhone and G1
Permalink: Veveo’s New WikiTap for iPhone and G1 by Alan Harten
Wikipedia is one of the world’s top 10 websites and now a new innovation for iPhone and G1 owners allows an instant connection to the website with just one keystroke.
Veveo have added it to their new application that they call WikiTap, which is based around the iPhone and Google Android platforms.
WikiTap allows users of [...]
Black Berry Storm Leaked Pictures Surfaces
Permalink: Black Berry Storm Leaked Pictures Surfaces by Franz Bicar
The Black Berry Storm has made an apperance to the public. The guys over at T3 got their hands on what it looks to be a prototype of the BlackBerry Storm. The Storm is RIM’s forthcoming handset that is supposed to contend with Apple’s iPhone popularity.
As seen on the picture below, the Storm is thicker [...]
Timico offers hosted email service
Permalink: Timico offers hosted email service by Jan Harris
Timico Ltd, the unified communications provider, has launched a Hosted Exchange solution, along with a Hosted BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) service which together offer SMBs professional email service, both in the office and on the move.
Timico’s new solutions can help SMBs save costs, both on capital outlay and administration.
Futhermore, the Hosted Exchange [...]
$8m Investment For mobilePeople
Permalink: $8m Investment For mobilePeople by Jan Harris
mobilePeople, which specialises in local mobile search and advertising solutions for directory publishers and directory assistance providers, has secured an $8 million investment from venture capitalist, Via Venture Partners.
The funding will allow mobilePeople to expand internationally, and consolidate its position as the leader in the global mobile search and advertising space.
Peter Thorlund Haahr, Senior [...]
Shropshire Newspapers Expand Mobile Content
Permalink: Shropshire Newspapers Expand Mobile Content by Alan Harten
That not so well known hub of high tech innovation, Shropshire, is under the spotlight as two of its newspapers Express & Star and Shropshire Star are to engage in a new mobile content service for their readers.
Just over a year ago the papers began to offer their rags as mobile websites. The papers are [...]
China Hotel Info on Your Mobile
Permalink: China Hotel Info on Your Mobile by Alan Harten
Looking for a hotel room in over 400 cities in China?
The country’s major travel agent, eLong, and social networking platform, GyPSii, believe they can help.
The two have joined forces to produce the giant country’s first mobile phone based reservation service.
eLong have a huge selection of hotels and GyPSii can let people use their [...]
123play.com Now Offers Free Games in Europe
Permalink: 123play.com Now Offers Free Games in Europe by Alan Harten
123play.com has had some success with its free mobile games offerings in the UK that were launched just a few months ago, and now the company has opened up their advertising backed game play to Europe.
Now mobile users in France, Germany, Italy and Spain can play games for free on their handsets.
These games are [...]
Seesmic Adds Video Conversation to Nokia N95
Permalink: Seesmic Adds Video Conversation to Nokia N95 by Alan Harten
Seesmic, who operate their own online video conversation platform, have released a new application that is intended for use with the ultra-popular Nokia N95 model of cell phones.
The new system will allow users to take advantage of video conversations via their mobile from any location.
The company have been working on a Symbian application for [...]
Huawei May Be Next Big Mobile Infrastructure Player
Permalink: Huawei May Be Next Big Mobile Infrastructure Player by Alan Harten
ABI Research has been looking into who owns the world’s mobile infrastructure and has come to the conclusion that the market leader is Ericsson, with the best part of 29% of the worlds infrastructure needs.
Not to far behind is rival Nokia Siemens with more than 23% of the infrastructure, but they see Huawei with [...]
DeviceAnywhere Test Games on Real Mobiles
Permalink: DeviceAnywhere Test Games on Real Mobiles by Alan Harten
Two well known producers of games for mobile publishers, Playphone and Tapatap, have joined forces with DeviceAnywhere in order to have a testing ground for their games.
They want to find out in advance just how the games perform on actual devices, especially in more remote regions of the world.
DeviceAnywhere have a network of real [...]
PNY Offer Free EA Mobile Games
Permalink: PNY Offer Free EA Mobile Games by Alan Harten
PNY Technologies has unveiled plans to give away a free EA game to its customers.
All phones on its network will be compatible with the available game.
The idea behind the giveaway is to promote the concept of using phones for other applications, not just voice calls and text.
They are also using it to promote [...]
123play.com & Dennis Publishing Offer Mobile Games
Permalink: 123play.com & Dennis Publishing Offer Mobile Games by Alan Harten
123play.com have teamed up with publishing house, Dennis Publishing, to offer four sites that will allow free downloads of various mobile games for free.
There is, of course, a slight catch - the games are not free, someone has to pay for them, but luckily Dennis has persuaded some big companiess to foot the bill.
Household [...]
Mobile Marketing Has To Offer Something Back
Permalink: Mobile Marketing Has To Offer Something Back by Alan Harten
Mobile marketing technology company, Velti, has released the findings of a survey it commissioned that claims that up to 79% of UK consumers consider that the growth of mobile advertising is inevitable.
Over 1,600 people were asked various questions regarding their mobile usage habits.
According to the company the public is beginning to accept that [...]
Nokia ships N96 early
Permalink: Nokia ships N96 early by Jan Harris
Nokia is already shipping its long-awaited N96 multimedia phone, despite announcing in July that the device wouldn’t be available until October.
Nokia claims that the Nseries phone takes mobile entertainment and communication to a new level.
The phone features the usual Nokia Nseries dual slider mechanism, but on the N96 the second slider is dedicated [...]
140 Million Social Networker Users by 2013
Permalink: 140 Million Social Networker Users by 2013 by Alan Harten
Online social networking is clearly a huge market and not only is it already big, it continues to grow in strength, but what happens when all those virtual best buddies step away from their beloved PCs?
Not very long ago that meant that they were lost in the boring real world until they could make [...]
Clippz brings free mobile videos
Permalink: Clippz brings free mobile videos by Jan Harris
Clippz, a UK-based company with headquarters in Bridgend, South Wales, is enabling over 600,000 users in India to enjoy free mobile videos
Clippz is the first service in the world to allow mobile phone users to watch video clips on their handsets for free.
It has now successfully established itself in the Indian mobile video market, [...]
AdaptiveMobile says adapt, don’t block international roamers
Permalink: AdaptiveMobile says adapt, don’t block international roamers by Alan Harten
The European Union is not happy with the amount that operators charge their broadband customers when roaming in another EU country. There are rumblings of discontent and veiled threats of legal action to force changes in how roaming charges are implemented.
The EU wields a very big stick and is not afraid to take on all [...]
Consumers Using Mobiles For Price Comparison
Permalink: Consumers Using Mobiles For Price Comparison by Alan Harten
High Street retailers need to be ready to face a new threat to their business as more consumers move towards shopping with the help of mobile devices. Broadband Anywhere BT ToGo smartphone commissioned research to try to discover what people have been actually doing with their internet enabled mobile devices when they are on the [...]