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If you’re a bit of a book buff, you’ll soon be able to have a gander at the Man Booker Prize shortlist on your mobile. The Prize has teamed up with GoSpoken to make extracts from the soon-to-be-announced shortlist available by mobile.
Once the shortlist is published next month, Booker fans can SMS a shortcode to [...]
According to a a Reuters report, Orange isn’t having any trouble drumming up interest in the iPhone launch in Poland today - in fact, it’s already got queues forming outside its shops. Nothing new there you might think.
Think again. The queuers are being paid to stand in line. From the article:
“We have these fake queues [...]
If you want to get your hands on 3’s Skypephone S2, the operator’s already taking pre-orders for the device through its website, and it won’t be long til the device is out in the wild (next week online, 1st September in store).
The S2 looks like a series step up from its predecessor, with a 3.2 [...]
According to a notice on O2’s website, there appears to be a bit of a shortage of the Apple devices: there’s no iPhones to be had online according to the operator, and stores are also running a bit short.
The operator says:
We are experiencing unprecedented demand for the device and whilst we are confident that all [...]
AOL has spiffed up AIM AIM Express, a Flash based web version that means users can have AIM conversations over the web without having to download any software.
AIM Express sports tabbed IM conversations and text message mode - users can SMS anyone on their buddy list - and the apps works with all the major [...]
HSPA is taking over the world. According to the GSM Association, there are now 50 million users on HSPA networks around the globe - a massive leap from last’s year’s figure of 11 million connections. The association reckons that new users will be joining HSPA networks at the rate of around 4 million a month [...]
Continue ReadingIt looks like the similarities between the BlackBerry Bold and Apple’s iPhone are stronger than we thought: according to one analyst who’s been tinkering with RIM’s latest, the device has been experiencing the same sort of 3G problems as its Apple rival.
Jim Suva of Citigroup wrote in a research note quoted by Barrons that:
We had [...]
It had to happen, really. After all the to-ing and fro-ing with the iPhone’s 3G problems
Continue ReadingWhile Vodafone might think the time is right to hike up call prices, others have decided they’re ripe for the chop: step forward Asda. The supermarket giant has announced a new pay as you go pricing structure, with per minute call costs to landlines and mobiles dropping to 8p a minute and texts to just [...]
Continue ReadingEricson and STMicroelectronics have announced a deal to combine Ericsson Mobile Platforms and ST-NXP Wireless into a joint venture into a single, 50-50 joint venture, with ST planning to buy the 20 percent of ST-NXP Wireless it doesn’t already own from fellow chipmaker NXP.
The companies already have the likes of Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG [...]
Nokia has teamed up with Lonely Planet in a deal which will see the travel guide giant’s content distributed via Nokia Maps. Travellers can get their hands on the Lonely Planet guides via Nokia Maps for €7.99, with over 100 destinations already available and the pair promising more guides on the way.
Users will get [...]
Fancy paying more money for your call charges? Then you’re in luck - Vodafone has had just the idea for you: it’s decided to hike up its per minute call costs for both pay as you go and contract customers.
The price rises, which go into effect next month, will see call costs rising by [...]
Apple has released a new firmware update for the iPhone, OS 2.02.2, promising rather obliquely ‘bug fixes’. Apple being Apple isn’t saying what the bugs are and how they might need fixing, but more than a few commentators are pointing the finger at the 3G problems that seem to have plagued users.
If that was the [...]
Visa has announced a new scheme to warn customers about potentially fraudulent transactions by SMS.
Using 2,000 guinea pigs, Visa is testing a new service which will send out text or email alerts to bank customers when certain transactions are carried out on their accounts, such as when a payment is made over a certain [...]
According to this article from The Press Association, Japan is planning to agressively push its mobile technology abroad, particularly focusing on the wallet phone - that’s devices which incorporate a type of NFC or ‘wave and pay’.
The particular type of wallet phone tech they’re talking about here is FeliCa, developed by Sony and very popular [...]
Android is getting closer and closer to hitting the shelves. Google’s Android developers blog has just announced that a beta SDK of Android is now ready for use.
Google released a very early version of the SDK late last year and after gathering up all the feedback, it’s now releasing a beta proper, which it’s promising [...]
Sweden has a new fastest texter: it’s 17 year old student My Svensson, who beat her nearest rival by seven seconds to win the SMS Swedish Championship in Stockholm, according to RTE News.
To claim the title, Svensson rattled out a 141 character SMS in 61 seconds. To soothe her aching thumbs, Svensson will take home [...]
It looks like Apple is trying to restore itself in users’ good graces after a series of access problems and outages with its MobileMe online back-up service. After offering subscribers an extra 30 days on their subscription last month, the company has announced it’s now giving away another 60 days free.
From Apple’s support website:
The transition [...]
British mobile email and synchronisation company Synchronica has gone shopping, buying consumer mobile email outfit AxisMobile for $4.9 million in shares, bringing the provider new capabilities like email-to-SMS gateway and open up Synchronica’s service to lower end devices.
And that’s just the start of it: the company’s just announced that its raised another $10 million in [...]
As Google hunts for new ways to make money from wildly popular YouTube - make that any way to make money from YouTube - it’s started testing ads on the mobile version of the video sharing site.
From Google’s mobile blog:
You may have noticed that we started running a test of display ads on select [...]
Continue ReadingWhat better way to convince people to buy your mobile broadband than by giving them a free laptop? That seems to be the thinking behind Orange’s latest move in the 3G data world.
Now, for anyone who fancies signing up on a two year mobile broadband contract, Orange is giving away a dinky Asus eee [...]
Reminder service Kwiry has announced some nifty little updates, bringing Amazon and Netflix into the fold. Kwiry works essentially like clever Post It notes - you text reminders like ‘pick up dry cleaning’ or the name of a song you’ve heard and want to write down before you forget it to a short code. Kwiry [...]
Continue ReadingIt looks like rumours of the death of Motorola have been greatly exaggerated. According to those whose jobs it is to pontificate on companies’ state of health or otherwise - the analysts - struggling Motorola has turned a corner and things are looking up.
Citi analyst Jim Suva said in a research note quoted by AP [...]
Over the past few days, a series of reports have been turning up of 3G iPhone users complaining that the signal on their device is a bit, well, crap - dropped calls particularly during handoff between two networks and poor 3G coverage.
The Infineon chipsets seems to be tipped as the problem by a number of [...]
Samsung smartphones have been given a bit of a speed boost thanks to a new bit of software the handset giant’s developed. The software will make any handsets using its own proprietary embedded flash memories, OneNAND, Flex-OneNAND and moviNAND, complete the sort of multimedia-heavy actions devices do regularly - like booting, downloading and searching - [...]
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