They’re making uploading and sharing content easier, similar to what was done with Flickr and VOX in Europe and the states.
Archives for 2007
Nokia has become the first mobile phone maker to license the Moore Microprocessor Patents
Cellphones are starting to sound more like computers every day: Three of the patents are: U.S. Patent 5,809,336, which covers the separate clocking of a CPU and its I/O; U.S. Patent 6,598,148, which covers the use of multiple cores and embedded memory; and U.S. Patent 5,784,584, which covers fetching multiple instructions.
Former Nokia designer Frank Nuovo leaves to start up his own studio
Send key on the left, end key on this right, Frank is responsible for that. Update: While trying to locate a picture of Frank I found out this news is 2 years old.
ScreenTonic: Mobile advertiser gets bought by Microsoft
Microsoft has announced their recent acquisition of mobile advertising pioneer, ScreenTonic. As mobile technology, especially smartphones, become more and more ubiquitous, the drive to capitalize on said tech grows larger. Microsoft has taken a huge step into the mobile advertising game – by leveraging ScreenTonic’s market experience against Microsoft Digital Advertising Solution’s deep pockets. Advertising…
Consilient: Push E-mail Revisited
It looks like the push email industry is going to be battling it out for market share. Consilient is the latest push email provider to jump into the fray. Going up against the venerable BlackBerry, the Consilient push email system offers users free (ad supported) access to the servers that will push email to Windows…
Feds Want to Turn Your Mobile Phone into Anti-Terror Device/Nuke Detector
The Department of Homeland Security has revealed their research into possibly embedding sensors in mobile phones – allowing the lowly cell phone to become part of a network of anti-terrorism sensors. The research is exploring the use of a network of cell phones, equipped with detectors for nuclear isotopes, toxic chemicals, and biological agents, to…
Operator-branded handsets will generate over $10 billion in sales this year
In addition to having handsets from leading handset makers in their portfolios, operators are looking for opportunities to forge partnerships with manufacturers, who are also more willing to accept operators’ customization and branding needs. According to ABI Research, mobile operators will make approximately $10.7 billion worldwide through the sales of private branded handsets in 2007,…
Video walkthrough of Microsoft Silverlight for Windows Mobile
By now you’re probably aware of the upcoming Silverlight — Microsoft’s cross-browser, cross-platform, Flash-competing technology. Interesting thing about Silverlight is that it will work on mobile devices right from the start (when it becomes available), even offering video based content to the Windows Mobile users. Something, Adobe is hoping to accomplish with Flash Lite 3.…
Nokia’s Mobile Museum of Extinct Technology celebrates the launch of N95
To celebrate the launch of its flagship N95 smartphone in the UK, Nokia is organizing an exhibition of the extinct mobile technology in London and Birmingham. With the latest campaign, the Finish company wants to remind users that the N95 is a true convergent device that is set to replace the paper maps, a camera,…
BlueQ: Bluetooth wristband for vibrating incoming call alerts
BQ Wireless has announced their BlueQ Bluetooth wristband that gives you a vibrating heads-up on incoming calls. It seems somewhat puzzling as to why someone would need a vibrating alert via their wristband, but BQ Wireless says the BlueQ is supposed to appeal to people who keep their cell phones in a backpack or purse,…