NVIDIA Corporation and Opera Software are collaborating to bring the full desktop Web-browsing experience — including support for JavaScript, accelerated vector graphics, and video content — to smartphones and mobile Internet devices. As a result, NVIDIA will offer an optimized Opera 9.5 browser in its suite of pre-integrated, in-house and third-party software for the NVIDIA…
Sprimp to support Zeemote, too
Everyone and their mama is partnering with Zeemote these days. We saw Sony Ericsson and Nokia announcing they will bundle the Zeemote JS1 Controller with their devices in select markets. Even before that, Gameloft said that their games will sing along the mobile gaming controller. Now a new player is entering into the mix. It’s…
Nokia buys out Samsung’s Symbian shares on road to Symbian Foundation
Nokia’s road to establishing an open-source Symbian Foundation has just been cemented with Samsung’s reported acceptance of Nokia’s offer to buy-out Samsung’s shares in Symbian. Samsung is the last remaining share-holder in Symbian that stands between Nokia and their Symbian Foundation initiative. With their offer accepted by Samsung, Nokia will have ownership rights to the…
Zeemote, Nokia to partner in Germany
Zeemote’s biz dev team is working round the clock for the summer. Following the announcement that they will partner with Sony Ericsson, the maker of the award-winning Zeemote JS1 Controller announced a deal with Nokia in Germany. Under the terms of the agreement, the Finnish giant will advertise the Zeemote JS1 Controller in its German…
Rock The Vote, AT&T and FunMobility partner to mobilize the youth vote
Rock The Vote, AT&T and FunMobility announced the launch of downloadable mobile content to “help encourage young people to leverage their voting power in the political process.” Rock The Vote’s mobile campaign brings together popular music, artists and mobile technologies. On its end, FunMobility — which is known to have the largest inventory of free…
Best Buy to sell iPhone 3G on September 7
Apple is apparently pushing to increase sales of the already popular iPhone 3G. Best Buy has reportedly inked a deal to sell the iPhone 3G starting September 7 in 970 of its US stores and 16 Best Buy Mobile outlets. The announcement comes on the heels of Best Buy’s joint venture with European mobile phone…
Boeing taps AT&T to restructure communications infrastructure
If there’s one thing that AT&T knows how to do well, it’s building and maintaining telecommunications infrastructure. Boeing, the airplane manufacturer, has tapped AT&T to help enhance Boeing’s business productivity through a more efficient communications system. AT&T will be overhauling Boeing’s wireless and wireline services with an IP-based system that includes wide area network services,…
Joikusoft, FON partener on mobile WiFi HotSpot software
Joikusoft, the maker of the mobile Wi-Fi HotSpot software JoikuSpot, has announced a collaboration with the world’s largest WiFi community – FON. The two companies are releasing an exclusive version of Joikusoft’s mobile hotspot solution called FonSpot, which turns a mobile phone into a WiFi HotSpot. FonSpot with Wi-Fi will effectively replace Bluetooth, cable and…
Leap moves to block Verizon-Alltel merger
It’s not just AT&T and the Rural Cellular Association that are asking the FCC to help muck-up competing wireless carriers’ merger deals. Leap Wireless has asked the FCC to block the $28.1 billion Verizon-Alltel merger deal that would have Verizon becoming the top wireless provider in the US. The merger between Sprint and Clearwire would…
Obopay, Grameen Solutions partner to Bank a Billion
Mobile payments solution provider Obopay has announced partnership with Grameen Solutions, the company globally recognized for promoting economic and social development through information and communications technology, to deliver mobile banking services to a billion of the world’s poorest people by 2018. The Grameen-Obopay Bank A Billion Initiative will provide access to affordable financial services, including…