A new research from Compass Intelligence indicates that businesses in the US will spend $3.8 billion on mobile applications this year, while that number is expected to reach $9.0 billion by 2011. To improve productivity and collaboration across businesses, business will be spend on mobile and wireless-based custom-coded and packaged applications, including productivity, ERP, e-mail,…
Archives for June 2007
AT&T launches International Long Distance Texting plan
Beginning June 3, AT&T will start offering the International Long Distance Text Messaging plan to make texting to other countries cheaper to its customers. The new plan is ideal for U.S. residents that enjoy sending SMS messages to their friends and relatives on the other side of the pond — for $9.99 a month you…
Hey Nokia Irving, could you host or sponsor BarCampDallas?
BarCamp is a meeting of the minds. Recently Nokia showed off Project Sombrero at BarCampNYC/MobileCamp and I was just wondering if anything special could be planned for the Dallas event in August. I’ll volunteer, I can evangelize the pants off the Mobile Web Server! I already have the proper attire:
Anycall Mini Skirt – Samsung’s SCH-C220 for Chics
Samsung has released their SCH-C220 Anycall Mini Skirt. No, we’re not making up that slightly chauvinistic moniker, that’s all Smasung’s doing. The Samsung SCH-C220 Anycall is a new slider, available in white, garnet red, and sapphire blue, for mini-skirt-wearing Koreans. Samsung has endowed this SCH-C220 Anycall Mini Skirt, “chic phone,” with Bluetooth, Mp3 Player, 2MP…
China pushes Universal Cell Phone Chargers on Citizens
When you are the most populous nation in the world, trash is a big issue – especially refuse that could be prevented. Apparently, the trashing of old and unused cell phone accessories, like phone chargers, is a big enough problem for the Chinese government to consider enforcing a “Universal Phone Charger” standard. The ruling is…
Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs seeks revenue from Cell Phone Signals
In an unprecedented move by the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, the Manitoba tribe is seeking payment for cell phone signals that pass over the Manitoba’s land. This is a complicated matter, to say the least, as it involves Aboriginal, property, and communications law. The Chiefs claim that since the Manitoba tribe claims sovereignty over its…
Motorola’s Zander: Motorola will make comeback with new handsets
Just one day after announcing that the mobile phone manufacturing giant will execute another round of employee lay-offs – this time to the tune of 4,000 employees – Motorola’s CEO, Ed Zander, says that he will turn the company around by releases a bevy of multimedia handsets. This represents a change in strategy – from…
Samsung Ultra Edition A717 and A727 announced for AT&T
After the discovery of the Samsung A717 Ultra Edition’s user’s guide on AT&T website, we have been expecting this pair of 3G phones to drop on AT&T network. Today, Samsung has announced that their Ultra Edition duo will be hitting AT&T with a one-two punch of beautifully thin, quad-band GSM, dual-band HSDPA, Bluetooth, microSD slot…
Apple Patent Application hints at Accessory Detector for Apple iPhone
Good ole’ Steve Jobs sure is getting ready for the launch of his precious baby, the Apple iPhone. First he opens up the iPhone to limited third-party development, and now we find this Apple patent application that outlines an accessory detector for a “mobile handset” of some sort. We fairly certain that this “mobile handset”…
Verizon serves up Free Mobile Downloads of Prince’s New Single – Guitar
Looking to generate hype around his upcoming “Planet Earth” album, Prince has teamed up with Verizon Wireless to offer free downloads of his new single – Guitar. Verizon Wireless subscribers using the carrier’s Vcast song ID feature will be able to download the new single, free of charge. The innovative new feature allows users to…