All Posts Tagged With: "voice"
In the US and want free minutes? Time to install a new Facebook application. It’s called Fund My Phone and it’s part of Virgin Mobile USA’s Sugar Mama service, which lets customers rack up free minutes, usually by sitting through advertising.
Fund My Phone works slightly differently: it gives you free minutes if you encourage [...]
According to a number of reports, T-Mobile is finally - finally! - launching its 3G network in the US from today.
The 3G network will be switched on across 20 cities this year including Las Vegas and Los Angeles, with New York being the first to get the third-generation nod, and those hungry to test out [...]
More 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 ReadingIBM has been touting the latest initiative to come out of its Research Labs, aimed at building a slew of services for the developing economies where mobile phones are the de facto web access device.
There’s a lot of fluff around the initiative (social networks go mobile - who’d have thought it?), but some potentially [...]
Bored with text input for mobile search? Yahoo has taken the wraps off voice enabled search for its oneSearch product for the BlackBerry users in the US, with more devices and countries coming soon. The base of the service is Vlingo’s speech recognition, which grabs the spoken search terms and enters them into oneSearch.
Yahoo is [...]
The US could be getting another mobile TV service, according to The Financial Times. The paper quotes analysts as saying broadcaster Dish Networks “could be considering launching a mobile TV service to compete with the leading US mobile phone companies” after bidding at the US 700 Mhz spectrum auction and winning enough licences to “create [...]
Continue ReadingThe world has finally got its first commercial in-flight mobile service, thanks to Emirates and supplier AeroMobile. Emirates saw its first call on flight EK751, on a plane travelling between Dubai and Casablanca yesterday.
According to AeroMobile, it’s the first time that voice calls have been allowed on commercial airline flights, after the European Aviation Safety [...]
The Competition Appeal Tribunal has referred the question of wholesale mobile termination rates - the fee each operator charges another to connect a call on their network - to the Competition Commission after appeals by BT and 3.
The appeals come after Ofcom changed the controls on mobile termination rates early last year, which it said [...]
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