Popular outdoor GPS navigation software, ViewRanger, is now available for the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and other upcoming Symbian S60 touchscreen mobile phones (i.e. N97). As expected, the application is fully optimized to work with the 5800’s touchscreen to “put detailed topographic maps at your fingertips.” ViewRanger is a sophisticated but easy-to-use off-road satellite navigation application…
Twitter to Begin Charging for Commercial Use
Twitter CEO Biz Stone has revealed some upcoming plans for their popular microblogging service which has seen significant enterprise adoption (yep, even by us). “We are noticing more companies using Twitter and individuals following them. We can identify ways to make this experience even more valuable and charge for commercial accounts.” Twitter is an incredibly…
Kindle Content Coming to Other Mobile Platforms?
During the Kindle 2 press conference yesterday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos hinted that in the future, their e-books would also be readable on other mobile devices. There are plenty of good things about reading electronic books, newspapers and other text on the Kindle (namely the super low-contrast screen and built-in wireless capabilities that don’t require…
Microsoft rebrands MobileMe-fighting SkyBox as My Phone
It seems the higher-ups at Microsoft took a bit of a disliking to the SkyBox name and have decided to rebrand their cloud-syncing service as “My Phone.” These days, data synchronization services that store information on third-party servers (the “cloud”) are becoming increasingly important, and Microsoft apparently wants to ensure that their own cloud-sync service…
Google launches Google Sync beta for iPhone, Windows Mobile
Looks like Google Sync isn’t just for BlackBerry users anymore! Google has just flipped the switch on Google Sync for iPhone and WinMo devices. iPhone and Window Mobile users can now keep their calendar events and contacts synchronized between mobile phone and the “cloud” in much the same way that Apple’s MobileMe service keeps contacts,…
IM+ for Skype hits the AppStore
While we’re still waiting for the official Skype application to hit the AppStore, other companies are not standing still. You can already use Fring or Truphone to conduct Skype calls and now a new contender, SHAPE Services with its IM+ for Skype, is entering the market. Actually, it’s not new, as their application/service was already…
Juniper Research: Contraction in migrant workers to impact mobile money transfers by 50% by 2011
According to Juniper Research, the mobile money transfer market will be particularly vulnerable to the effects of the global recession due to job losses in the migrant worker population. Under the worst case scenario the market will reach $73bn by 2011, some 50% less than previously forecast. Report author Howard Wilcox points out that workers…
Bebo Open Mobile launched to spread Bebo across mobiles
Social network Bebo launched Bebo Open Mobile, a new global partnership program which offers operators, handset manufacturers and mobile software developers a suite of tools to provide their customers/clients access to the Bebo social networking experience. Bebo Open Mobile packages the company’s mobile services into a single integrated program for mobile industry partners. It offers…
Apple to allow user-selectable iPhone application to run in background?
For months now, we’ve been waiting for Apple to make good on their promise to bring push background notifications to the iPhone. Apple announced the iPhone push notification feature back in the middle of last year, but has since gone silent on the development of the technology. The release of the iPhone 2.2.1 OS without…
Sprint rolls out Sprint Premier customer-loyalty program
Sprint’s efforts to turn its wireless business around hinges on its ability to retain as many customers as possible. Sprint recently saw 1.3 million customer defecting from its CDMA-based wireless network in the US. And, following on announcements from the company that will have thousands of Sprint employees losing their jobs over the next couple…