Gartner is forecasting 2.3 trillion messages will be sent across major markets worldwide in 2008, a 19.6% increase from the 2007 total of 1.9 trillion messages. In addition, as a result of competition and market saturation, mobile messaging revenue across major markets will grow 15.7% in 2008 to $60.2 billion, up from $52 billion in…
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SiRF starts implementing key end-to-end location-enabling features to Android
Guess Android is still in the “over-hyped phase” hence media keeps bugging all of the founding members what’s happening. That being said, SiRF released a strange “working on it” announcement, stating they’ve started the process of “rapidly implementing key end-to-end location-enabling features” to ensure that GPS-enabled Android-powered mobile devices provide an optimal location awareness experience…
Nokia brings classic detective game Dirk Spanner and the Fallen Idol on N-Gage
Nokia will be bringing classic detective game Dirk Spanner and the Fallen Idol to its N-Gage platform during the H1 2008. The game is featuring Dirk as the lead private eye and it’s your job to propel into “mysterious adventures, battling an array of femme fatales and gangsters.” According to Nokia’s release — which follows…
Upcoming Motorola’s 5 MP camera equipped phone caught in the wild?
Back in May, we’ve reported Motorola is teaming up with Kodak to develop 5 MP camera equipped mobile phone. Then in October, we saw the American handset maker’s leaked roadmap for the next year with the X PIXL phone… Back to the present day. We have an image that apparently show us how will the…
Sony Mylo 2 leaked? Ready to go head to head with the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet?
First of all I never like the original Sony Mylo. The screen resolution just wasn’t there and instead I went for the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet which has that gorgeous 800×480 screen. Now, we’ve spotted something what seems like the second generation of Sony’s portable communicator. We know it will have WiFi, but other than…
Cubic Telecom wants to hear your roaming horror story and is ready to pay for it
Cubic Telecom, the company behind roaming-friendly MAXroam SIM card, is organizing a neat competition to get some media traction. And as you can see from this article, they’ve certainly managed to caught our eyes… Their idea is to ask people to send them their roaming horror stories. By simply sharing your “roaming experiences” with them,…
Bytemobile to allow carriers to serve ads in off-portal web pages
Just recently, Bytemobile has announced its new product/service called Unison Advertising Module (UAM) to allow mobile operators to serve ads in off-portal web pages on virtually all mobile devices. And while at first reading this may sound like a nightmare comes true, the end result looks very promising despite the fact that users may see…
Unlocked iPhones from France’s Orange still locked – Round 3
Ok, so first we got reports that unlocked iPhones coming out of France’s Orange network were actually only kind of unlocked. You see, the iTunes-based unlocking method for Orange iPhones still requires Apple’s blessing to roam free on non-Apple-sanctioned networks. It looked like Orange and Apple had colluded to give unlocked-iPhone customers a semi-unlocked handset…
T-Mobile sues Telus over use of ‘My Faves’
Good news, and bad news. The good news is that Telus Mobility launched a T-Mobile-esque unlimited-calling feature this past May. Like T-Mobile’s myFaves program, Telus’s Canadian users can choose up to 5 wireless numbers with which they are allowed unlimited voice minutes and unlimited SMS text messages. Now, the bad news is that Telus decided…
Wateen Telecom teams with Motorola – Launches huge WiMAX network in Pakistan
While us Yankees have to wait on Sprint to complete their employee-only WiMAX/XOHM network trials, the super-advanced nation of Pakistan has just launched the largest WiMAX network we’ve ever seen. Now, we’re not exactly sure what a huge network looks like, but we’ve been told this one looks fairly big. Motorola and Wateen Telecom have…