Buongiorno has revealed plans to roll out it’s Mobile Social Networking service (called ‘Bing’) in several countries, including Australia, New Zealand, India, and Indonesia. This is after successful trials in South Africa and Austria, where 380,000 users were sending over 5m messages/week, and registering over 850,000 downloads – impressive numbers! The Java app apparently combines…
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Sprint and Clearwire come to terms on WiMAX roaming
Sprint and Clearwire barely started talking to eachother again and it looks like they’re rearin’ to tie the knot. After calling off negotiations, then getting back together again, Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff has announced that Clearwire and Sprint have come to terms on how the two companies will handle roaming customers between their WiMAX networks.…
Free porn…coming soon… in the US….
In some news that aroused my interest (yes, my ears pricked up), US phone companies are going to relax their stiff regulation of adult material on mobile. In Europe, things are already quite loose, with a fairly erect market of £390m! Previously those regulations bound up tightly companies looking to release their material, but…
Must Listen: 1 hour of Niklas Savander at Capital Market Days
When Nokia published a press release talking about how they plan to purchase Trolltech and how doing so will strengthen both S60 and S40, it immediately dawned on me that I heard this somewhere before. I couldn’t quite put a finger on it, until now that is. During Nokia World there was an event called…
Verizon Wireless may have to refund up to $1 billion for “illegal ETF”
We all hate Early Termination Fees (ETF), that much is undisputed. What is disputed is just how legal it was to charge 70 million of its former customers an ETF. Well, former Verizon Wireless subscribers that got burned with an ETF will be happy to hear that an arbitrator has cleared the way for a…
Nokia set to demo S60 Touch UI at Mobile World Congress 2008
We’ve seen some simple demonstrations of Nokia’s S60 Touch interface before, but Nokia’s going to really kick things up into high gear with their full-on S60 Touch demo at Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona (MWC). According to the official Symbian Series 60 blog, Nokia will be showing off some added Touch UI features at…
O2 and Endemol create ‘cell’ – mini Mobile TV series!
O2 has teamed up with Endemol to create a 20-Episode TV series called ‘Cell’, which has been made exclusively for Mobile. It starts off tomorrow, with 3 episodes coming per week at 50p each, or a package deal for £3.50.You have to be an O2 sub, and from NOW, you can text ‘cell’ to 2020…
Official: Motorola considering getting rid of its mobile phones division
Motorola, which made the one hit wonder RAZR and has been in slump ever since, has admitted that they’re considering splitting the company up to separate the bleeding phones division from the rest of the company. According to Reuters Motorla is said to be considering: “structural and strategic realignment of its businesses to better equip…
MTV use Flixwagon software on N95s to cover Super Tuesday…
MTV today announced that it is using Flixwagon’s mobile broadcasting technology to equip an army of street team citizen journalists with the capability to deliver the first-ever live “mobile-to-Web” video broadcasts from polling stations, caucuses, candidate rallies and everywhere young voters will congregate on during February 5th’s Super Tuesday event. You can find the…
HP iPAQ 210 finally hits the market after delays
It’s been a long-time coming, but the sleek HP iPAQ 210 Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional handset has finally hit the market. This WinMo jobby from HP has seen delays that would make Microsoft cry, so it’s good to see that it’s available. With a glorious 4-inch 480 x 640 touchscreen display, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR,…