Mobile Applications
Anyone who’s used Nokia’s Ovi services of late, ragerdless how well they performed individually has commented on how crazy it is to co-brand maps, photo sharing, gaming and music without any actual integration at all. Looks like that’s about to change.. even if it is just sign-on:
OK. So it is only single sign-on [...]
Continue ReadingI’m into my second week looking at Nokia’s Ovi suite of services. So far N-Gage has impressed, Share on Ovi holds it’s own against Flickr and the music store worked, but was a nasty click-fest experience. That left Nokia Maps to look at…
London is covered in Nokia Maps advertising at the moment. [...]
It seems that mobile networking users are sticking to their old favourite platforms from the fixed Internet world: MySpace and Facebook are the most popular social networking sites across both mobile and fixed usage.
Nielsen reckons around 1.6 percent of UK mobile users now access social networking sites on their phones, compared to 1.7 percent of [...]
RIM might be best known for mobile email, but that’s not stopping it having a crack on popularising other enterprise applications on the BlackBerry. The latest contender is SAP’s CRM products, which the company is now integrating with the BlackBerry platform.
The pair said their first joint offering will be a “native BlackBerry smartphone client that [...]
There’s no denying haptics have a certain cool factor. Obviously they’re appealing to venture capital firms right now: motion-sensing software company InvenSense has attracted $19 million in a series C round of funding, led by Sierra Ventures and a load of other big names like Qualcomm Ventures and DoCoMo capital.
InvenSense, whose applications include image stabilisation [...]
Buzzd, which specialises in location-based city guides and social networking, has reeled in its first round of investment led by Greycroft Partners and Monitor Ventures but so far hasn’t put a figure on the funding.
Buzzd says it’s going to put the funding towards “product development and distribution” and will get a new board member in [...]
It’s the end of day 2 with my new Nokia Ovi equipped phone. Over the next fortnight I’ll be giving the various services a workout, but this time it’s just about first impressions.
Continue ReadingMore doom and gloom from the handset people. After Nokia said it though the worldwide mobile phone market might shrink next year, Sony Ericsson has reported its profits have nosedived over the last quarter, its market share has dropped (enough to see it slip behind LG to number five in the biggest device makers) and [...]
Continue ReadingMobile software management outfit Red Bend has got itself a $10 million in funding this week, thanks to Coral Capital Management, which was joined in the investment round by Red Bend’s existing investors: Carmel Ventures, Greylock Partners, Pitango Venture Capital, Poalim Ventures and Infinity.
According to Red Bend, the company will use the investment for sales [...]
Linux is finally set to make its mark as a significant operating system in the coming years, analysts reckon. According to ABI Research, one out of every five mid and high-end handsets will be sporting Linux come 2013.
ABI says that the new acceptance for Linux will be spawned by the likes of Google’s Android, the [...]
According to PC World, today will see Motorola join a list of investors which includes Cisco, Intel, Cisco and Texas Instruments by funding mobile virtualisation company VirtualLogix.
VirtualLogix lets a user can access two separate operating systems on the same handset - allowing them to share some resources like memory, but also keeping other areas, such [...]
Gizmodo has some interesting tidbits on the upcoming release of Windows Mobile 7, courtesy of a now defunct article from Pocket Now, who’ve seen the OS in action.
Apparently, Window Mobile 7 “basically addresses everything wrong with WM6 today”. While there’s no hard details on what that might mean, I’m guessing this, along with the purchase [...]
KDDI is the latest operator to try out new methods of mobile search: the operator has announced from the spring, it’ll be offering visual search to users with an au cameraphone. The technology, ER Search, will be provided by Bandai Networks and powered by Evolution Robotics’ ViPR visual pattern recognition system.
According to the company, users [...]
I got this email in from an avid SMS Text News reader today. Have a read. Any ideas? I’m scratching my head with this one.
Hi Ewan,
We’re trying to organise a team challenge for our colleagues here. We’re going to do some kind of treasure hunt with a mobile twist - GPS, [...]
I’ve picked up my MusicStation handset yesterday. I popped by and met Omnifone’s top PR chap Tim. He walked me through the service offering and kindly offered me a handset to borrow.
Only half way through Tim’s demonstration did I stop and think, ‘Er, it would have been good to QIK this,’ but, [...]
Microsoft has finally completed its buy of smartphone software maker Danger. Now part of the Redmond fold, Danger will be part of the Premium Mobile Experiences team, a group within the Mobile Communications Business of the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft.
Apparently, according to Microsoft, acquiring Danger will let it “deliver cool, new, fun [...]
Mowser was a browser that would take sites designed for the web and render them for mobiles, launched last year. I say was, because its founder, Russell Beattie has decided to pull the plug after struggling to find funding.
Aside from his debts, Beattie said on his blog that he decided to stop development on [...]
I’ve been playing a lot with QIK recently — it’s very smart, but there’s one issue I’ve got with it: If I don’t have network coverage, I don’t appear to be able to stream my videos.
FlixWagon sent me through a newsletter this morning — it’s second item contained this paragraph:
Can you hear me [...]
I’ve been wanting to try out Omnifone’s MusicStation for absolutely ages. It looks like a rather graceful method of accessing and playing music on one’s S60 handset, plus it is also the only decent alternative to iTunes that I’m aware of.
I’ve been trying to get a demo but I’ve not been crazy-keen enough to [...]
Andrew over at StrategyEye published news this morning that CNN has knocked up a deal with mobile manufacturer, Samsung, to preload their java news application on their upcoming range of five megapixel handsets.
The news application gives users access to CNN reports, images and video. Users can also submit their own images and videos to [...]
I really don’t make many phone calls. At all. I’m not doing much mobile e-mail of-late either.
It’s not that I’m a particularly anti-social sort (honest!) it’s just that my current project keeps me in an office surrounded by the people I need to speak to routinely. Similarly as I’m commuting by car [...]
Whatleydude is thoroughly enjoying using Mobbler — recently blogged by Dotsix over at Symbian Guru:
Michael Coffey has just posted a beta of Mobbler, an S603rd Edition client that will scrobble your played music to your Last.fm account. The beta now has a very easy and simple interface where you only enter your username and password, [...]
Mobile web browsers are about to get a whole lot better, according to analysts ABI Research, with open-Internet browsers (browsers which sport capabilities like AJAX and RSS) for mobiles growing from 76 million in 2007 to nearly 700 million browsers in 2013.
“The move towards web-based applications means browser and web services engines will become increasingly [...]
Opera Mini has just unveiled a version of its mobile browser for Google’s Android platform. The company wants developers to get involved with testing it, so if you fancy experimenting with the browser, it’s available here.
Once the feedback is in, Opera has promised the Android-specific Opera Mini will enter beta form soon, with the usual [...]
It seems Microsoft could be following Yahoo into the world of voice-enabled search: the company has released a research paper which shows its been working on a product called BlindSight, which promises “eyes-free access to mobile phones”.
Microsoft, along with the University of California, is looking into ways to recover information, like checking a calendar or [...]
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