Two months ago I wrote about Mobispine, the free Java-based mobile RSS reader. I’ve argued that Mobispine is not just a yet-another feed reader — they are also aggregating and filtering feeds, thus saving the still expensive mobile bandwidth. Well, it seems I’m not the only one who agrees with it… Swedish Industry Magazine “Mobil”…
NTT DoCoMo to launch Japan’s first all-you-can-eat mobile music download service
To catch-up with its rival – KDDI, NTT DoCoMo is launching a new offering to permit its i-mode customers to download an unlimited number of full-length songs for a fixed monthly fee of around 2,000 yen ($16.77) a month. Contrary to DoCoMo’s all-you-can-eat plan, KDDI sells full-length songs on per download basis via its popular…
Vodafone partners with Google, Yahoo; Sets the stage for ad-supported services
Vodafone will partner with Google and Yahoo to launch a suite of advertising-supported mobile services, including mobile Internet, games and other downloads, this year. The Big Red is already negotiating with two unnamed clients, a soft drink producer and an automaker, to provide a mobile platform for direct pan-European advertising campaigns. Presently, the carrier is…
Nokia Video Manager released
Nokia has just released Nokia Video Manager, the free applications that allows users to manage and transfer their video clips from their phone to the PC and the other way around. The new application supports all Symbian S60 3rd edition devices and is very easy to use, even boasting the transparent on-the-fly transcoding — you…
iStockphoto, AMUSE launch mobile imaging service
Calgary’s iStockphoto is set for entering the mobile space, and is rolling out an initial stock photographic image offering in Europe. Getty Images owned iStockphoto is working with AMUSE Entertainment Group B.V. to allow mobile users to download wallpapers from a selection of 5,000 iStockphoto’s images. Two companies are working with the UK carriers to…
Mobile advertising to reach $3 billion by 2008, $19 billion by 2011
A new study by ABI Research predicts that the global mobile marketing and advertising market will be worth about $3 billion by the end of 2007/Q1 2008. By 2011, the value of this market will reach $19 billion, including mobile search and video advertising. Next, ABI Research expects some of the highest levels of spending…
Mobile Streams to mobilize PEANUTS; Brings Snoopy and Charlie Brown to your phone
Mobile Streams and United Media have signed a distribution agreement for the popular cartoon brand, PEANUTS. Under the agreement, Mobile Streams will be distributing images, videos and mobile games to network operators in Germany, Switzerland and Austria from the PEANUTS animated TV series. The full release is available on Mobile Streams’ site. In the meantime,…
How Do You Design An Awesome Phone?
Well, we can’t go into exactly how to design a great phone, but hipstop over at Core77 found this great 5-minute documentary on the design of cell phones. The video features an interview with an industrial engineer, mechanical engineer, and “human factors” (whatever that means) expert from Motorola.
Rhapsody to Go works well with Nokia N800 Internet Tablet, N73, N91 and N95!
Recently Real announced the Rhapsody’s availability for Nokia N800 Internet Tablet. That sounded cool, but people were wondering why they can’t access Real’s popular service on their mobile phones.
3 Reasons Why Nokia’s N95 Is NOT A Smartphone – It’s Not Replacing MY Smartphone
Yes, yes, the Nokia N95 is a great phone. It has a badass 5MP camera rocking those high-quality Carl-Zeiss optics – like only “ze Germans” can do. It boasts quad-band 3G GSM and GPS radios. It’s got that beautiful, dual-sliding screen. If only it were a smartphone. You don’t get to be a smartphone by…