By Will Park on Tuesday, March 27th, 2007 at 12:29 PM PST
In Announcements, Services, Sprint, Technologies
Sprint took the wraps off their quad-play service today with the announcement of their Pivot service. Now subscribers can get their voice, wireless data, broadband data, and cable tv plans from a single provider. Presumably, the convenience of a single bill and integrated service will attract users looking for lower monthly bill than if they had subscribed to each service individually.
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By Dusan Belic on Tuesday, March 27th, 2007 at 5:41 AM PST
In Announcements, CTIA Wireless 2007, Services, Sprint, WiMAX
At CTIA, Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel announced further progress with the development of its upcoming Mobile WiMAX advanced multimedia network.
In addition to previously announced WiMAX U.S. service areas (Chicago, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio), the carrier also named new service markets – Detroit, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Boston, Philadelphia, Providence, Denver, Portland, Salt Lake City and Seattle.
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By Dusan Belic on Tuesday, March 27th, 2007 at 4:52 AM PST
In CTIA Wireless 2007, Services
At CTIA Wireless, MobiMate Ltd. announced details of its next generation mobile travel service code named “WorldMate i10.” The service is the first of its kind, as it combines context based push and pull services culminating in a “Personal Travel Assistant” experience.
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By Will Park on Tuesday, March 27th, 2007 at 1:38 AM PST
In AT&T, Announcements, Partnerships, Services
Remember when all your (geek) friends would keep saying that, in the future, the cell phone would replace everything, including your wallet? Well, that day is nigh! With converged devices already combining a mobile phone with a PDA, digital camera, GPS unit, mp3 player, radio, and even TV, the convergence of a digital wallet is really all that’s left.
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By Will Park on Tuesday, March 27th, 2007 at 12:26 AM PST
In Announcements, Partnerships, Services
Just what we’ve all been wishing for. Advertising on our mobile phones! It can’t get much better than this. It’s such a relief, not having to worry about going without an ad for whole minutes at a time. Come Tuesday, Yahoo! will start offering new tools through its Yahoo Mobile Publisher Service.
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By Will Park on Tuesday, March 27th, 2007 at 12:15 AM PST
In Announcements, CTIA Wireless 2007, Services
Mapquest is making it easier to use their mapping service on your mobile device. With the “Send to Cell” option on Mapquest’s website, users can send directions and maps to any browser-enabled mobile phone. So just what are they doing that’s so new? Well, until now, Mapquest’s mobile offerings were pay services – like Mapquest Navigator. But, with today’s announcement, most phones (to the tune of roughly 179 million phones) with mobile browsers will be able to access maps and directions for free!
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By Will Park on Saturday, March 24th, 2007 at 8:35 PM PST
In Announcements, Services, Sprint
Sprint announced that they will start to offer a GPS and data bundle on their service plans. This would allow subscribers with GPS-enabled cellphones to actually use the feature without an extra heavy surcharge for doing so. Sprint (NYSE: S)’s Power Vision Navigation pack subscribers will be able to pull down unlimited data and GPS coordinates for $20 a month. And those Sprint Power Vision Ultimate and Sprint Power Vision Business packs can also join in on the unlimited GPS fun! If you don’t want to shell out all that dough for unlimited data and GPS, you can opt for the lower data basic plan for $15 a month and use GPS on a $2.99 per diem basis – not a bad plan if you just want to use GPS for that one road-trip.
By Dusan Belic on Saturday, March 24th, 2007 at 12:44 PM PST
In Services
It’s been some time we’ve been hearing that popular PayPal service will be available from mobile phone. Well, that finally happened and millions of PayPal users will now be able to get “what they want, when they want it.”
To use the service, you need to register your phone and create a PIN. After that, PayPal uses an automated system to call you on the number provided to verify the PIN, and voila, you’re set to start using it.
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By Will Park on Friday, March 23rd, 2007 at 6:36 PM PST
In Applications, Services, Sharp, T-Mobile
T-mobile (NYSE: DT) will be updating their Sidekick 3 to include its popular new service, myFaves. The changes will be painless and easy and done “over the air” through firmware updates broadcast over their networks. Users will not only get myFaves support, which allows unlimited calling to any 5 numbers in the U.S., but will now be able to call, email, text, or instant message friends directly from their contacts address book. There is also a new text messege counter, so you know how close you are to maxing out that text package, and a new feature that lets you save attached photos to your SK3. So if you get a prompt asking permission for an update, just click “yes,” you’ll be glad you did.
By Dusan Belic on Friday, March 23rd, 2007 at 11:01 AM PST
In Announcements, LG, Services
Amnesty Wireless is a new cell phone services launched by Amnesty International USA. Their service is unique in a sense that by signing with them you agree to donate a 10% of the service’s charges to the Amnesty International. Basically you use your phone regularly, and donate money at the same time.
The service doesn’t cost subscribers anything extra. For $29.99 per month you get 200 minutes to talk, plus unlimited nights and weekends. Furthermore you will get a free 30 minutes of “support calls,” with political leaders that Amnesty is targeting. Finally, if you persuade your friends to join, you can call them for free. Read the full article »
