With 2.5 billion mobile phones used around the world, mobile advertising is set for growth. London-based research firm Informa Telecoms & Media predicts within the next year that a sharp rise in mobile advertising will become noticeable to consumers. Furthermore, with the wider adoption of the mobile TV, according to Informa, mobile advertising market will…
Archives for September 2006
PodLounge Mobile launched
The PodLounge, one of the world’s leading podcast directories, announced the launch of its new mobile phone-compatible podcasting directory, The PodLounge Mobile. For the first time ever, there is a major podcast directory that has been built specifically for mobile phone users to find, listen and subscribe to their favourite podcasts or vodcasts anytime, anywhere…
Resco Photo Viewer
Introducing Resco Photo Viewer, the software that lets you turn your Symbian smartphone into a mobile digital photo album. Yes, an image viewing application is already present in any Symbian smartphone, but it lacks some functionality. Separate programs like already described PhotoRite SP and Resco Photo Viewer gives you more power and control.
Nokia to offer direct printing through HP's Snapfish
With more than 26 million members and one billion unique photos stored online, HP’s Snapfish is one of the leading online photo services. Snapfish members can share, print and store their most important photo memories at the lowest prices – online or off. Now, Hewlett-Packard and Nokia struck a deal to enable direct photo print…
Carbide Development Tools updated
If you’re still not familiar with Carbide, it is new generation of mobile development tools from Nokia based on the open Eclipse framework. Nokia has introduced Carbide.c++ Developer Edition and Professional Edition, the latest additions to the Carbide.c++ family of mobile development tools. Carbide.c++ Developer Edition features a UI Designer that enables developers to quickly…
Handy Taskman – manage the running programs
Epocware just release Handy Taskman utility for Symbian S60 2nd and 3rd Edition smartphones. Handy Taskman enables to switch to, close and kill any application or close them all in one click. Additionally Handy Taskman provides user with the complete information about running programs and phone memory left, and easier access to applications. Handy Taskman…
Microsoft Live Search on Nokia smartphones
Nokia today announced that it has reached an agreement with Microsoft to integrate Live Search into its Mobile Search platform, thus enabling consumers access to Live Search directly from their Nokia S60 smartphones. Live Search will provide advanced web search results in 14 languages to enable on-the-go access to the information and content consumers want…
Extending business telephony: Alcatel and Nokia
The two giants, Alcatel and Nokia, have announced a collaboration which extends Alcatel’s business telephony offering to the mobile workforce by way of the Nokia Eseries, a range of business class devices. The Intellisync Call Connect for Alcatel, is a Nokia offering designed to integrate Nokia Eseries devices into the Alcatel IP Communication server. Intellisync…
Apple to go Symbian!?
I’ve stumbled upon an interesting article on the::unwired. The author, Alfredo Padilla, discusses some issues about the highly-anticipated Apple’s iPhone and sees some very interesting possibilities in a potential Apple/Symbian partnership. The rest of this post is a combination of Alfredo’s opinion and my own. Nokia already uses Safari’s code for its S60 web browser,…
Manhattan Story Mashup – The urban storytelling game
Nokia Research Center’s SensorPlanet project organizes the new kind of real-life game where approximately 250 players run around Manhattan, New York City with their Nokia N80 smartphone and take photos that illustrate words in stories written by other players and the visitors of the official game’s site. The resulting illustrated stories are shown on large…