Following the acquisition of Enpocket, Nokia has announced that its mobile advertising unit has landed a new client – Land Rover. The famous SUV maker is using Nokia Ad Platform for its “targeted interactive mobile Internet experience” to promote the LR3 model. Under the deal, Land Rover is getting a mobile web site where consumers…
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Two Astro Boy mobile games coming next year
Tezuka Production, owners of the Astro Boy intellectual property, will release two Java-based mobile games next year — Astro Boy Game Flight and Astro Boy Reversi — based on the popular 1950’s Japanese manga character. In the first title, Astro Boy Game Flight, we’ll help the famous robot boy fight crime in three different environments…
Verizon makes good on disconnecting “unlimited” data accounts for heavy usage
When is “unlimited” not really unlimited? When it applies to a wireless carrier’s data package, that’s when. Verizon has is finally making amends for disconnecting “unlimited” data users for “heavy” wireless broadband throughput. In other words, Verizon pulled the plug on unlimited data packages that were using too much bandwidth. Sounds ludicrous doesn’t? Well, Verizon…
Could this be the Palm Treo 800w?
With the Palm Centro and the Palm Treo 500v already out and confirmed, we’re just waiting on the rumored Palm Treo 800w to show itself. What you see to the right is a mockup of what could be the successor to the venerable Palm Treo 7xx series Windows Mobile smartphones. Word on the street has…
Gmail goes IMAP!
Gmail’s finally answered the call of email geeks everywhere. After recently upping the capacity of their free mail service, Google has enabled IMAP Gmail support. What does an IMAP-enabled Gmail account mean? Well, Gmail users can keep their accounts sync’ed up across their desktop, laptop, mobile phone, or any other device that you use to…
vlingo voice Program for mobile application providers announced
Vlingo, the voice-powered interface technology we’ve wrote about before, is launching a program for developers to allow them to use Vlingo’s tools and APIs. With other active players in the speech-to-text field, the idea is obvious — to make mobile companies use Vlingo’s technology rather than some else’s. In addition, this is certainly one move…
RIM secures BlackBerry 9100 and 9300 domains
We’ve already posted that RIM is reportedly working on the 9000/9xxx series of devices. Now, we have Boy Genius spotting that the BlackBerry maker secured all the appropriate domain. Apparently, they now own blackberry9110.com, blackberry9120.com, blackberry9130.com, blackberry9310.com, blackberry9320.com, and blackberry9330.com, meaning we could expect to see them releasing new devices at some point in the…
North American carriers lead when it comes to data ARPU
Calling and texting may be cheapest in the U.S., but when it comes to data – North American carriers make more money per user than their European counterparts. According to the September 2007 edition of Informa Telecoms & Media‘s World Cellular Data Metrics (WCDM), subscribers in North America generate monthly data ARPU (average revenue per…
Clearspring goes mobile; Launches mobile syndication widgets
Widget platform and directory, Clearspring, has decided to mobilize its widget offering. No, they’re not providing a mobile widget application that can access content from Web. Rather, their idea is in sharing content from a mobile phone to web pages, start pages and social networking profiles. So, you won’t get your weather update or whichever…
Hutchison’s 3 network in Hong Kong launches MusicStation, unlimited music downloads
Just recently, Hutchison’s 3 network in Hong Kong has partnered with MusicStation to bring the popular unlimited download service to its subscribers. Already used on 27 other mobile network operators around the world, including Vodafone in the UK, MusicStation is among the best known “all you can eat” music download services and has all major…