Push-email solutions provider Emoze unveiled what they say is the first “pushed content” application dedicated to football/soccer news – Soccer Updater. The app release doesn’t come as a surprise considering that we’re slowly approaching the 2010 World Cup that will take place in South Africa. The application costs $5 and once you grab it, there are no other fees involved — you’ll get the latest news from now until after the tournament’s final in July.

In addition to the latest news, Soccer Updater also features player of the day pictures (in html format), game venues, scores and of course full tables of the team groups. The opening splash screen features a real-time countdown to the big games in South Africa, and then once the tournament starts, countdowns to individual games.

As for the platforms supported, Emoze’s app works on any Symbian and Windows Mobile powered smartphone, with Java phones to follow shortly. Download is available from Emoze’s website.

Israel may be finally getting their first iPhone once the 3G S launches, according to official distributor iDigital. In addition to the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) store, both Pelephone and Orange should be getting the iPhone 3G S, but pricing still hasn’t been announced. When it comes to the timeframe, Israel wasn’t on the list of launch day countries during the WWDC announcement, so it’s safe to assume they’ll be getting it in the following weeks. In any case, good on Israel – it’s something of a mobile tech hub with innovative developers like Modu, Fring and Emoze operating from there, and it’s high time they have the chance to get on the iPhone bandwagon.

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Israel-based mobile operator Pelephone is set to start offering Emoze’s suite of services to its 2.4 million-strong user based. As a result, customers of the Israel’s first mobile service provider will be able to get their email, calendar and social networking messaging pushed to their phones in real-time.

Commenting on the announcement, Emoze’s CEO, Eitan Linker, said: “Pelephone has joined the messaging innovators by extending Emoze to its millions of customers, ensuring that communication on-the-go is always a great user experience; transforming technology into a lifestyle.”

Emoze aka push email provider for the rest of us (not just BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) users) has two announcements for the Mobile World Congress:

First they unveiled a new partner – India’s Tulip Telecom, which will offer its business customers mobile business email, calendar and contacts information, providing employees and business operators with the “most efficient combination of connectivity on the move.” For the record, Tulip enjoys a near 38% market share in India and in that sense this announcement is a major step forward for Emoze.

Then we’ve learned that “HotMail just got hotter,” meaning that it’s now fully supported by Emoze. As a result, Windows Live Hotmail users can now experience the “ultimate in mobile messaging” and get their email delivered to them not matter which handset they use…

As always, more information waits at Emoze’s website.

We all know about the Facebook apps readily available for the iPhone and BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM)… But what if you’re running another device and simply need that Facebook fix? No need to pout, as today Emoze announced the availability of a new Facebook messaging support for Symbian devices.

The new offering will allow you to read, reply and send messages. It will even auto-populate your friends list for you. If you’re on a Symbian powered device and want to get on this, head on over to emoze.com from your device for full details. Emoze will also have the Windows Mobile and Java clients available at some point this week. That should make just about everyone happy, should it not?

I will keep my eyes open for the Win-Mo and Java version as soon as they become available. Until they arrive, may the Symbian-powered Facebook addicts enjoy themselves more than ever, wasting time away on that beautiful productivity killer we know and love as Facebook.

For more info read the press release from Emoze.

Note: Had to add here… of all the Mobile Facebook apps I’ve tried thus far, the Facebook for iPhone app is killer. I don’t even know where to start… But if you’re a fan of Facebook, and you have an iPhone, you’re going to want to get it. It’s free, and you can download it right here (iTunes link alert).

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Emoze has announced what they say is “the next generation of mobile push email” – Emoze 2.0. I love Emoze and I’ve no doubts they will deliver on their words.

In a nutshell the new version of Emoze brings three key improvements:

• Support for multiple mobile email accounts
• Optimized battery performance
• Even better user experience

Commenting on the announcement, Emoze’s co-founder and CTO, Moshe Levy, said: “Making life easier is the name of the game. The ability to deal with all email traffic from one mobile phone on-the-go saves time and effort scrambling for access or running around to find an internet cafe in a time of need.”

Emoze works on a wide variety of mobile devices from expensive smartphones to standard Java-enabled handsets. To start using it – simply visit Emoze’s website, download the application and take it from there.

We told ya’ this is coming. Emoze is officially out with the “world’s first push mobile email solution for Java handsets.” The idea is logical – to further expand to feature phone users, who may like the idea of push-email but hate all the hassle and complexity of today’s smartphones.

According to emoze’s official release – Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE), Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and Samsung users will be able to get emoze push mail on their handsets. The deployment will be in stages – Nokia feature phones will be the first to be added, followed shortly after by the rest.

Emoze’s Java client is easy to use and supports web-like graphics, flexible layouts and animated screen transitions. Of course, just like the version for smartphones, the Java client also supports a range of personal and corporate data sources including Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Exchange (Outlook), POP3/IMAP servers, as well as Web mail servers like Gmail.

Enough said, hop over to emoze’s website and try them out for free!

In its effort to reach the wider audience, the free push-email provider emoze has announced the JavaME-based application. The idea is to get all those users who don’t like all the mambo-jumbo of today’s smartphones, but prefer using somewhat more stylish feature phones — yet still like the idea of pushing email to their mobile phone. The new application will be released next month and will work on an array of devices made by Samsung, Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE), Motorola (NYSE: MOT), Nokia (NYSE: NOK) (Series 40), among others.

emoze will be the first in the world to use the not-yet-released Lwuit technology in push communication, to provide users with a preferred web-like view of email, calendar contacts and soon social networking apps.

In related news, emoze also announced an improvements to its user interface. According to the official release, we should expect to see such things as swivel-screens, cool theming and animated screen transitions — all things that may not directly drive your productivity forward, but will certainly make your mobile email management more enjoyable.

As usual (when it comes to emoze), hop over to their website for more information. While there, you can also register for the service and give it try.

BlueWhaleMail is a new service, launched by a former RIM’s employee Michael Maguire, which aims to deliver free push email and push Facebook service to the regular folks, who may not have a BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) or some other smartphone. What this means is that users with regular phones — although only Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE) feature phones and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) S60 smartphones are supported at the moment — will be able to securely send and receive email messages from services such as Yahoo! and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Mail. In addition, they (users) will be able to receive Facebook notification as well as send their Facebook buddies a message or even write on their wall. As expected (with push-based services), messages and notifications are displayed as soon as they are received without requiring users to manually connect to their inbox.

Founder Michael Maguire believes that there are some great dedicated mobile email devices out there, which unfortunately are hard to configure for email. “With BlueWhaleMail, we’ve gone back to the drawing board so that people can keep the phone they like and still stay in touch on the go,” he added.

In addition, he said they want to make social networking (messaging, news feeds and status updates) as much a part of mobile life as SMS. We’ll see whether they’ll succeed. There are some serious contenders on the market, as well (emoze?).

There’s a new kid in the so called “push-email block” called Emansio. As far as I can tell they provide the same — or at least very similar service — as emoze, so I’m not sure just how they mean to “revolutionise the way that users of mobile phones in the Consumer and Small Business sectors can access their email on the move.” Not that I have anything against them — it’s just the fact that we see “revolutionary” word being used so many times in the press releases we get.

Anyway, similarly to emoze’s consumer offering, Emansio Push Mail software provides a direct connection between the user’s mobile device and existing email server. And under “existing email server” they also mean that you can push your email from popular email services like GMail, Yahoo, and AOL to your mobile phone.

Emansio is based in the UK and they have a website where you can learn more about their offering and download a fully functional trial version of their software.

UPDATE: We’ve heard from Emansio in the meantime. Their advantage is that they remove the middle man from both the information AND value flows between the mobile device and the email provider. That being said they are targeting email providers, ISP and mobile operators, which could provide an additional value to their users without any particular dependence on a partnership with a mobile communications network.

Windows Mobile users can see how they can make GMail push their email directly to their handsets from Emansio’s video tutorial.