Archive for January, 2008
AT&T and 1-800-FLOWERS are seeing a greenish-red this year for Valentine’s Day. The largest GSM carrier in the United States has added a link to the 1-800-FLOWERS mobile shop to its MediaNET deck, as part of their ‘Cupid Goes Wireless’ campaign. AT&T subscribers can login to send their special someone a free animated flower bouquet [...]
Continue ReadingThe FCC’s 700MHz frequency auction is in full swing, and hit an important milestone today. The “C” block, the one everyone wants, finally reached the reserve price of US$4.6 billion. This triggers the requirement that whoever wins this particular block of airwaves is required to operate it ‘open’, allowing any compatible device to access it. [...]
Continue ReadingYeah, I know, I couldn’t resist the title, really. American Airlines has officially launched its mobile website, though unfortunately it only uses auto-redirection, and no m.version is available. Hopefully they’ll fix that. Anyways, Mobile AA.com offers a simple mobile-optimized interface for mobile flight check-in, as well as the ability to check flight schedules and get [...]
Continue ReadingWe let you know about Flixwagon a while back, and the service has now entered Alpha mode, allowing anyone to sign up and give it a spin. To celebrate the launch, Flixwagon is also announcing a partnership with MTVnews.com and ChooseorLose.com to bring reports from the ‘Street Team ‘08′, along with Nokia Nseries.
MTV’s got [...]
This week Whatley is going all Web 2.0 on your ass. It’s all very well having these magnificent tools at our disposal — but how do you actually get them working? I’ve always liked the concept of geotagging my images — but haven’t quite got round to working out how to do it. [...]
Continue ReadingIf you’ve been one of the people trying to use Gmail via IMAP on your Windows Mobile device (and experiencing quite a few weird issues), the Google Mail team have news for you — they’ve fixed the problems.
Link: Official Gmail Blog: IMAP on Windows Mobile devices
There are a lot of email clients out [...]
Garmin surprised the world last night by announcing its new Nuviphone. The handset is a solid block with a full touch interface, camera, HSDPA, and, obviously, GPS. That’s about all the details that Garmin released, in terms of technical specifications. Honestly, if the iPhone is any indicator, actual specs don’t really matter much, specifically in [...]
Continue ReadingAre you sitting comfortably? There’s a bit of shock news. Lenovo is selling off its mobile unit. What do you mean you’d forgotten it had a mobile unit?
Lenovo is set to make $100 million on the sale, with a bunch of VCs led by Hony Captial taking it over. The company said its hand [...]
Continue ReadingThey’ve arrived! The first tranche of SMS Text News 2007 Annuals have arrived!
To those who’ve already ordered, your Annuals will be dispatched first thing tomorrow.
Here are some photos:
Yours for $50 plus postage at the SMS Text News Shop.
Continue Reading The keen-eyed folks over at Wireless and Mobile News have spotted Google is experimenting with QR codes — which it calls 2D barcodes — in print ads.
The codes can be snapped with a cameraphone and then decoded by QR code reading software. You can encode whatever you like in a QR code, but typically [...]
Well for the second time ever, we’ve not been able to actually *send* flowers to the person we wanted to. The first failure, late last year, was when we couldn’t find a florist willing to deliver to Afghanistan Mobile.
This time, well, we couldn’t find the address for John Hadl, founder and CEO [...]
The next SMS Text News Unlimited Drinks is on Friday 22nd of February 2008 here in San Francisco.
I appreciate that this might be a big ask if you’re currently sat in London, Moscow (Hi everybody at MTS Russia) or Sydney. But you know, it’s a global village. And you could even [...]
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The Wall Street Journal has a report that Sprint and Clearwire, who previously were chatting about going in together on a nationwide WiMax network, have started talking again, this time looking to outside investors such as Google, Intel, and Best Buy to help fund the high-speed network. Sprint’s WiMax network, dubbed ‘Xohm’, is set to [...]
Continue ReadingVision Objects recently announced the integration of MyScript technology into the Pulse smartpen and Livescribe Desktop software. This allows the smartpen to track your handwritten notes, transmit them to the Livescribe Desktop software, and then manipulate the words, including the ability to search through your handwritten notes. The Pulse smartpen sounds fantastic, it records an [...]
Continue ReadingMTV’s Executive VP or Digital Distribution and Business Development, Greg Clayman, was recently caught at a National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) event and asked about mobile. The video can be found on MoCoNews.net, it’s under 6 minutes long and he gives a bit of insight into where mobile content will be headed in [...]
Continue ReadingContinental Airlines, the 5th largest in the U.S., announced recently a partnership with LiveTV to offer inflight email and IM capabilities to passengers by January 2009. Set to be added to its fleet of Boeing 737 aircraft, the service will be free to all passengers and available on laptops as well as WiFi-enabled smartphones. They [...]
Continue ReadingI was recently introduced to MiniFriday, a Mobile Virtual World, currently only for Nokia S60 handsets (available for both 2nd edition and 3rd edition). MiniFriday is developed by Sulake, the same company behind the successful virtual world ‘Habbo’. The interface looks a bit like SchoolHouse Rock, but it’s fun, looks great on my N95, and [...]
Continue ReadingBored of waiting for Apple to launch the iPhone on the network you like? You and a great big wodge of US iPhone users. According to an analyst quoted by Reuters, one quarter of iPhone owners are using their Apple mobiles on networks that aren’t AT&T’s.
If that’s the case, then it’s Apple that should be [...]
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AT&T has struck with a multi-year pact with Yahoo which will see the internet company’s search and display ads appearing on AT&T handsets, and a new co-branded portal for mobile web users emerge. The deal will also see the pair cosy up with joint services for AT&T’s broadband customers.
The union comes on the back [...]
So I am in love with my N95. (How could you not be?) It’s been two whole days now and I don’t know how I lived without it.
Since it’s one slight downfall is battery life, I decided to go out and buy a car charger for it.
Off I go to the mall, and to [...]
“Living through the 90s and not getting involved in an internet start-up is like living though the 60s and not smoking,” — so said Serena Doshi (one of my co-founders from Liv4now.com — a long, long time ago).
I reckon, to paraphrase Serena, that living through 2007 or 2008 and NOT launching a Facebook application [...]
Since the iPhone came out, accelerometer-based applications have been all the rage, specifically in the S60 world, since Nokia admitted the popular N95, as well as the recently launched N82 features a built-in accelerometer, and made it easy for developers to take advantage of this. The newest application to make use of the chip’s motion-sensing [...]
Continue ReadingShoZu is hands-down one of my favorite applications on my Nokia N95, and is among the first that I install whenever I get a new S60 handset. ShoZu is now compatible with over 300 different handset models, from high-end to low-end, and allows you to quickly and easily upload videos and pictures to your favorite [...]
Continue ReadingNFC trials are nothing new, both in the United States and abroad, but it’s interesting to know that the testing is getting more and more popular. The latest includes Nokia, a usual suspect, along with Mastercard and U.S. Bank, in the Spokane, WA area. NFC, or Near-Field Communications, allows two equipped devices to exchange information [...]
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