Gameloft and Endemol USA signed the licensing agreement, giving the game maker exclusive rights to develop the mobile game based on the popular TV game show “1 vs 100.” In the mobile game, just like in the TV show, players will have a chance to take on a “mob” of 100 opponents from their mobile…
Archives for May 2007
Local.com goes mobile
Local search engine Local.com joined the mobile fray with the launch of the free, ad-supported Local Mobile service. The new service enables customers to quickly search based on a simple “what” and “where” query, access business profiles with maps and get driving directions. The click-to-call functionality is also implemented, as well as sharing function —…
China launches its own mobile TV standard
Why use some of the existing technologies when you can have the technology of your own. Obviously, T-DMB and DVB-H were not good enough for the Chinese authorities, as they’ve just approved and issued the China Digital Multimedia Broadcast (CDMB) mobile TV handset standard. The new standard is mainly drafted by CECT, the operating subsidiary…
Yamgo partners with Tom Horn; Set to launch mobile video sharing service, mobile TV network
Extreme sports mobile TV company Yamgo announced a partnership with software development company Tom Horn to enable Yamgo to launch a global cross-platform mobile video sharing service and the free mobile TV network. The new service enables Yamgo users to create their own mobile video pages, upload and share videos from their handsets or via…
WidSets reaches 1 million users
If you’re have widgets running on your mobile phone, you’re likely using WidSets – Nokia’s Java-based widget service. Today they’ve announced that WidSets has reached 1 million registered users worldwide, making it the single most used mobile widget platform on the market. Commenting on the announcement, Ulla Särkikangas, Director of Consumer Internet Services at Nokia…
Fake PSP, Fake Windows Mobile, Fake Phone – Another PSP Rip-Off
It looks like the “Sony Gaming Device” rip-off is the more popular direction for mobile phone “manufacturers” these days. This time around, the PS3 Phone you see here comes to us from Koera (sic)! The Amycoll PS3 Phone uses a fake Windows Mobile UI and pretends to be a PS3 made in “Koera” but is…
Fish Finding, Mosquito Repelling Mobile Phones from SK Telecom
Korean wireless operator, SK Telecom, will be rolling out a new service for the outdoors-y types. The fish finder works in conjunction with an ultrasonic float that, when placed in the water, can show fish position right on the mobile phone’s display. Korean outdoorsman can also use the mosquito repellent feature provided by SK Telecom,…
HTC Kaiser Up Close and Personal!
BGR has some live shots of the HTC Kaiser. This incredible Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional phone may just be the slickest smartphone to blip our radar in recent months. This bad-boy packs in quad-band GSM/EDGE with tri-band HSDPA/UMTS, 3 megapixel autofocus camera, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, qwerty-keyboard, and that awesome tilting slider into a 58 x…
Nokia Handsets to Become Lightning Detectors
What else are they going to come up with? Nokia must really be running out of ideas for features to pack into mobile phones. In what must be more marketing than practicality, the n handset manufacturer has started development on software that will allow their handsets to warn the user of incoming lightning. We can’t…
iPhone to get a GPS in 2008
We still wait to see the first iPhone released, and the first tidbits of information are slowly appearing on the Web about the second generation. Apparently, the next iPhone will debut in spring 2008 at MacWorld, and will come with a built-in GPS. For the future iPhone, Apple will most likely use Assisted GPS technology,…