Google Checkout is ready for the mobile world, as the search giant announced that its PayPal-like service is ready to be used on any WAP–enabled site. The Checkout experience has a couple differences in the mobile world — for example, buyers verify their identity with a PIN rather than with their full Google login. On…
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Samsung E590, 3.2 MP cameraphone with tripod
The Samsung E590 may be small and light, but it brings much on the table nevertheless. Made through the partnership with the industrial designer Jasper Morrison, this stylish little candybar fella’ (94x42x13.5 mm) sports a 3.2 MP camera with Auto Focus and Half-shutter, Panorama shot features. There’s also the small 1.79″ screen, 90 MB of…
T-Mobile UK names mobile TV content providers
T-Mobile UK has picked the partners for its mobile TV service. The so called “nine hot channels” include such names as Channel 4, ITN, MTV, Eurosport, Nickelodeon, Big Brother, Pocket Comedy and Paramount Comedy. In addition, T-Mobile is reportedly negotiating with BBC and Sky to add their content to the service. At the moment, T-Mobile…
Crisp Wireless launches mLogic MicroSite Builder
Mobile technology solutions provider Crisp Wireless launched its mLogic MicroSite Builder 1.0 tool, developed specifically to give mobile publishers and ad agencies the ability to quickly and easily create robust mobile websites for advertisers. According to Crisp, all sites created using the new tool will benefit from the mLogic technology platform, which offers device detection…
Poor UIs cost carriers $100 millions a year
Last month we posted how mobile content discovery on U.S. carriers is everything but a seamless process in the eyes of consumers. Now, the same market research firm Strategy Analytics went one step further to quantify its findings. According to them, U.S. carriers are loosing more than $100 million in annual gaming revenues as a…
$6 million in Vertu Phones stolen from delivery truck
BBC is reporting that a thieving quartet used their Suburu to run a Vertu delivery truck off the road and steal £3m (about $6,000,000) worth of shiny new Vertu mobile phones. The heist went down on the M3, near Farnborough, Hampshire this past Wednesday. Police chased down the Suburu and apprehended two of the theives,…
Apple iPhone release date confirmed – iPhone Launches June 29!!
The Apple iPhone’s launch date has been (finally!) confirmed! Apple’s own web-ad and TV commercial nail down the release date for a June 29 launch! We just wet our collective underpants, a little. After rumor upon rumor about the hottest device launch in recent memory, we can confidently tell you that you have 25 days…
Drunk Salary Man cell phone straps
Japan, the land of the coolest mobile phones on the planet… But it’s not just the phones – there are also a variety of phone accessories available only in the Land of the rising Sun. Emily from Textually spotted these (hmm, let’s say) interesting “Drunk Salary Man” cell phone straps. The idea seem NOT to…
Nearly $6 million dollars worth of Vertu phones stolen
BBC News: Masked men in a black Subaru forced a van from mobile phone firm Vertu off a link road near junction 4a of the M3 in Farnborough, Hampshire, on Wednesday. Four men from the car stole the phones. Police chased a Subaru which crashed and was abandoned in Slough, Berks. Two Hertfordshire men, aged…
Leisure Suit Larry goes mobile
Vivendi Games Mobile has announced plans to release a series of Leisure Suit Larry for mobile phones. In the first title, called “Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail” we’ll have popular Larry Laffer embarking on the holiday of a life time. Locations will include a cruise ship, a casino and a beach, and the game…