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If you haven’t seen this weeks Mobile Industry Review Show, then go and check it out now!
If you have seen it then you can now play with Android yourself here.
As you can imagine all the functions are not available, however for those of you who have only read about the device this is your opportunity [...]
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CellSpin Launches the First Mobile Blogging Service for Twitter and Pownce to Support Audio, Video, Picture and Text Posts
CellSpin enables users to post audio, video, pictures and text ‘tweets’ from 300+ phones worldwide
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 11 /PRNewswire/ — CellSpin (http://www.cellspin.net/) today announced its support for sending ‘tweets’ in all four media types (audio, [...]
Our very own James Whatley, (well we have to share him with SpinVox) implied something big was coming on last week’s Podcast (if you haven’t heard it yet, where have you been!?) and here it is.
TV AND SPINVOX PARTNER TO LAUNCH FIRST EVER INTEGRATED VOICE POWERED CAUSE-RELATED SOCIAL NETWORKING CAMPAIGN ‘STAND BY WHAT YOU SAY’
CAMPAIGN [...]
Caught this on thestar.com
With an updated version or, possibly, versions of Apple’s iPhone expected this summer, the rumour mill surrounding BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd.’s much-anticipated response has officially kicked into overdrive.
Waterloo-based RIM has said little about its upcoming wireless email devices, but there are nevertheless dozens of photos circulating on the Internet that purport [...]
Ewan sent me this link today.
Well, things are looking up for Rogers customers. Word on the street has it that the Nokia N95 is due to hit Rogers’ GSM network on May 2. The Canada-bound variant of the Nokia N95 should hit market sporting the same 5 megapixel camera, GPS receiver, WiFi, TV-out, and [...]
I was chatting briefly with Bruce Renny about their spectacular arrival on the OTC Bulletin Board yesterday at around $1 billion. I was in and out of meetings the whole day (glued to my Nokia E61i — I think I walked from Euston to Charlotte Street without hardly looking up, knocking out the emails) [...]
Continue ReadingI got this email from Ewan this morning with this picture attached. At first I thought he was just taunting me, cause I’ve been bugging him forever to buy me an iPhone. (By the way, Christmas is coming! then I looked a little bit closer and saw what the article was really about. Someone [...]
Continue ReadingNot a shocker here I don’t think, but Time has named the iPhone the invention of the year.
Read more here
(I just love how they call it touchy-feely :D)
Great news from the team at SpinVox, their new service has enabled Voice-Driven posts to popular social networking services such as Facebook, Jaiku and Twitter. Just speak your post into any mobile handset and Social Networks through SpinVox will create the text and post it for you. No need to send an email, SMS etc.
London, [...]
With the end of the year getting closer and closer, SMS Text News wants to know…
What do you think was the one biggest thing in the mobile industry this past year?
and
What are your predictions for the biggest thing to come next year?
ROK Entertainment Group, the specialist mobile technology and applications developer, today announced ROK Talk, its new and wholly unique mobile conference-calling application, with an invitation for 500 people worldwide to join a BETA trial.
ROK Talk enables simple and affordable group calling, all managed directly from the user’s mobile phone. In just a few seconds, subscribers [...]
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/openiphoneletter/
To all iPhone customers:
I have received hundreds of emails from iPhone customers who are upset about Apple dropping the price of iPhone by $200 two months after it went on sale. After reading every one of these emails, I have some observations and conclusions.
First, I am sure that we are making the correct decision to [...]
http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/05/technology/apple_announcement/index.htm?postversion=2007090513
Well there you go. Now that I’m now twitching with my typical “ooh it’s pretty I want one” that seems to come over me with all Apple products, *Looks lovingly at her iMac, MacBook and first generation iPod Mini in pink, of course.* Apple has unveiled the new iPod touch, and the ability to buy [...]
We’re putting together a promotional piece for SMS Text News and could use your help.
We’re looking for what you think about us and how SMS Text News is beneficial for you. You know, your typical quote or testimonial type thing.
If you’d like to lend us a few of your words, drop me a line and [...]
Mobile entertainment company ROK have just unveiled their brand new ‘iPod killer’ mobile music service - ROK Media Store.
The service is a free web-based application which lets you upload your music collection to your PC and transfer - or ’sideload’ it - to your mobile phones memory card. In addition, you can also purchase music [...]
There’s a really hot announcement in the field of mobile music brewing. It’s so hot, in fact, it’s got potential to completely kill off a certain device that we all know and love, and totally change the whole entertainment arena.
I should be able to spill the beans tomorrow - in the meantime keep watching this space..
Link: Truphone press office
Literally just popped into my inbox, is the news that Truphone have won their court injunction against T-Mobile. The judge in the case has instructed T-Mobile to stop blocking calls to Truphone.
An electronic version of the judgement is expected tomorrow - in the meantime you can read the Truphone blog entry for [...]
Link: Euro iPhone launch will reveal 3G handset for Vodafone, T-Mobile | Reg Hardware
I like rumours and gossip. They keep the industry interesting - although they don’t always come true.
Veteran tech and mobile journo Guy Kewney has reported that Apple are about to announce the launch of the European version of the iPhone. It’ll be [...]
I can’t tell you how long I have been waiting for this sort of thing to be implemented.
FINALLY.
It makes SO much sense:
Link: St. Michael’s School in Kent gets SMS text system to contact parents :: PublicTechnology.net :: e-Government & public sector IT news + job vacancies:
St. Michael’s School, an independent school in Otford, Kent, [...]
Link: MusicStation…the future of mobile music!
Omnifone have today launched a brand new all-you-can-eat mobile music service, called MusicStation. In an attempt to steal some of the thunder from iTunes and the forthcoming iPhone, MusicStation allows mobile phone users to gain unlimited access to full music tracks on industry-standard mobiles for a small weekly fee.
They’ve got [...]
Link: Mac Rumors: iPhone Details from AT&T’s Sales Training Workbook
Apple news website Mac Rumours has got hold of a copy of the full iPhone Training manual provided to AT&T employees - and a quick scan through reveals some interesting details about Apple’s new long awaited product.
Here’s some interesting highlights:
No MMS messaging support for photos or videos
SMS messages [...]
Link: nuTsie
Now this *is* cool. Been itching to post about this since the press release came in yesterday, but it was embargoed until Tuesday.. and now that it is indeed Tuesday, let me spill the beans..
Built on top of Meledeo’s mobile streaming technology, nuTsie allows you to get your whole iTunes library on your mobile. [...]
Link: BBC NEWS | Business | Deutsche Telekom backs VoIP firm
Deutsche Telekom is backing the internet telephone company Jajah, becoming the first major phone company to support such technology.
T-Online Venture Fund chairman Andreas Kindt said in a company statement: “By investing in companies like Jajah, we will be able to continue to bring users around [...]
Link: fring » Twitter inside!
I’ve been waxing lyrically about Fring to my mates after finding it a couple of weeks ago. If you don’t know about Fring, go to their website and check it out - or alternatively wait a day or two longer til I get my arse in gear and finish off the review [...]
There’s been a few postings recently on here about Nuance, who are a leader in the speech recognition arena. Dave at Schwartz PRÂ has just been in touch with the rather hot piece of news that Nuance has just bought VoiceSignal, another company in the same arena.
According to Nuance’s chairman and CEO, Paul Ricci:
“Today, more than [...]
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