We’ve almost missed this. It’s not Mobile World Congress related, but it’s important nonetheless. Nokia announced that their Nokia Music Store is now available to the people of Austria and Switzerland. As usual, aside from offering music from the major labels, the Finnish giant also made sure local artists are in the database, as well.…
ABI Research: Push-to-Talk to reach 8.5% penetration in North America by 2013; What about the rest of the world?
Push to Talk (PTT), the feature that enables users to connect virtually instantaneously with other users, is forecast to find its way into 8.5% of the North American market by the end of 2013. But in no other world region will it even begin to approach that market share. According to ABI Research senior analyst…
Telmap brings its offering to MIDs
Even though we still wait to see an uptake in Mobile Internet Devices (MID) adoption, that doesn’t stop Telmap to bring its location-aware software to the platform based on the Intel Atom processor and Linux-based Moblin. Guess the idea here is to “go multi-platform” no matter what. This is not to say I’m against MIDs…
JAJAH adds calling and text messaging capability to the iPod Touch
JAJAH, the company we know as a provider of low-cost and easy-to-use callback solutions, announced its new offering that aims to turn the iPod Touch into a “fully functioning mobile phone for consumers.” The new capability, available as a white label solution, enables carriers and other interested parties to launch the service under their own…
Google Docs now Editable on Mobile
Google Docs went mobile a little over a year ago, but only let you view the documents you had made on your desktop computer. Well, Google Docs Mobile has recieved a little bit of a feature upgrade,now allowing you to edit, sort and filter existing spreadsheets on S60, Android and the iPhone. This is a…
Juniper Research: Streamed subscriptions and videochat drive mobile adult revenues to $2.2 billion in 2008
According to a new Juniper Research’s report, the global mobile market for adult content grew by around 36% to an estimated $2.2bn in 2008, driven by streamed subscription services and a burgeoning video chat market. The report titled “Mobile Adult: Subscriptions, Downloads, Video Chat & Text-Based Services 2008-2013 (Fifth Edition)” found that the adoption of…
SpinVox goes from strength to strength…
2008 saw a series of great achievements for SpinVox. Conversion numbers and revenues continued to climb as we completed 25 deals. Highlights included launching on our fifth continent – Latin America – with Movistar Chile and entering the Unified Communications market with Avaya. We launched SpinVox Messenger with Vodafone Spain, secured a $100m funding round…
Clearwire WiMAX infrastructure expansion hung up on funds-shortage
Chalk up another delay for Clearwire and Sprint’s national WiMAX network. In its push to bring WiMAX coverage to half of the US population by 2010, Clearwire sought investments from industry heavy-weights like Intel, Google and Time Warner. Unfortunately, the $3.2 billion already invested into the WiMAX network isn’t enough to meet Clearwire’s goals. Bloomberg…
Proof of BlackBerry Visual Voicemail in AT&T’s online account management webpage
If you had any doubts that Visual Voicemail functionality was en route to your BlackBerry, let this latest find put that uncertainty to rest. Boy Genius Report has found that the BlackBerry Visual Voicemail option is now visible on AT&T’s online account management web page. The appearance of Visual Voicemail in AT&T’s own internal BlackBerry…
Vringo 2.0 released; Download and sharing of video ringtones gets better
Vringo has launched version 2.0 of its popular video ringtone application for Symbian- and J2ME-enabled phones. The most important change is in the user interface — i.e. new mobile browser — which allows users to more easily find and share video ringtones. From the official release: Vringo 2.0 turns the ringtone on its head in…