Few days ago, Nokia announced that it has a new partner for its clever “Comes With Music” scheme – Sony BMG Music Entertainment. And while we still wait to see the first devices that will “come with the music” to be released, it’s nice to know the Finish bosses prepare us quite a catalog of…
Apple secures ‘iPhone’ trademark in Japan – 3G iPhone coming to Japan?
Apple has reportedly gotten friendly with Japanese company Aiphone. The two companies have apparently come to terms with the use of the iPhone trademark in Japan, allowing both Apple and Aiphone to use the trademark. Aiphone has reportedly been talking to Apple since last summer over the iPhone trademark. While Aiphone isn’t exactly the same…
DomainsBot helps you find .mobi domain
dotMobi announced that it has partnered with the leading domain name suggestion and search engine company DomainsBot which will now include .mobi in their domain name search and suggestion tool. DomainsBot’s “name spinner” tool is designed to help developers, site owners and marketers find available domain names when a first-choice domain name is already registered.…
Yahoo oneSearch live on T-Mobile
We’ve mentioned Yahoo! oneSearch many times before (here, here, and here) – however it has now officially gone live on T-Mobile across Europe. Sky News reports that the service is now available for T-Mobile “Web’n’walk” subscribers. As you might remember, oneSearch is designed for mobile users, which basically means optimised navigation for ease of use…
Microsoft completes Danger acquisition – Danger integrated into Premium Mobile Experiences Division
If there’s one thing that Microsoft does well, it’s acquiring companies that might offer benefit to its operations in any market. As you might recall, Microsoft recently put up a cool $500 million in a push to buy Sidekick-maker Danger. Well, it looks like the acquisition has been completed and Microsoft is celebrating by integrating…
Mobispine partners with SmartTrust to reach more users
Our friends from Mobispine announced a partnership deal with SmartTrust, a global leader of SIM software technology and SIM management, to reach more users via the installed base of 600 million global SmartTrust WIBTM browsers. In addition, Under the agreement Mobispine will reach 200 operators via SmartTrust’s global network and provide access to SmartTrust’s worldwide…
STMicroelectronics and NXP combining their wireless businesses
STMicroelectronics, the people responsible for the Nomadik chipset inside the Nokia N96 that has yet to ship and the 5th largest player in the semiconductor, and NXP, the people who built the PNX4903 chipset that enables ridiculopusly cheap mobile phones with multimedia capabilites to be created and the 9th largest semiconductor company, are merging their…
Fring partners with Boingo Wireless
The popular VoIP application that also allows you to chat and swap files with your IM buddies Fring has announced partnership with Boingo, allowing Boingo Mobile users to talk, chat & interact at over 60,000 Boingo hotspot locations around the world. To be fair, I’m not sure how’s this different than standard Boingo’s mobile client…
Greystripe and MoCondi partner to bring free mobile games to MoConDi’s MeYou community
If you’ve been reading IntoMobile carefully, you’re already familiar with what Greystripe and MoCondi do, as we’ve covered the both companies in the past. The former is the leader in ad-supported mobile games, while the latter runs a popular mobile social commerce community MeYou in Europe. Under the agreement between the companies, Mocondi is entering…
Sprint pushing “real web” on all data-enabled handsets
Sprint isn’t doing so well as a traditional voice-carrier amidst its more popular competition. So, the struggling network operator is re-focusing its resources on the data-side of mobile communications. Apple’s iPhone has forced the industry to re-think how mobile phones deal with web-content. The fake internet that’s served up with those crappy, bundled WAP browsers…