In a move that is “destined to define our mobile millennium,” CloudTrade announced the beta launch of its new secure software platform to enable web-enabled mobile phone users to share their content using the peer-to-peer technology. Once again we hear the popular “access your content anytime, anywhere” phrase, making me think why they’ve decided to…
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Clickatell and Dontgo launch SMS customer feedback service
Global provider of mobile messaging solutions Clickatell and online consumer advocate service Dontgo announced the launch of the new mobile customer service notification system to help companies maintain excellent customer service. Using the service, Dontgo provides consumers with the power to easily send text messages directly from their mobile phones at the time of service.…
PimpMyNews brings talking news to iPhone
During this year’s Macworld, a startup called PimpMyNews.com launched a “talking” news application for the iPhone and the iPod Touch users. The Web-based application, accessible through the Safari browser, searches the Internet for the latest news and converts text-based stories to audio, enabling users to get their daily dose of information while on-the-go. At the…
Treasuremytext goes iPhone
Don’t know have you heard about Treasuremytext, but it’s quite a neat service. Basically, they are providing users with an SMS archive service, and as you can guess – they’ve just announced support for the Apple iPhone. The application, still in beta, requires Jailbroken iPhone with “Installer App” and a Treasuremytext account. After you’ve installed…
I-play brings Bubble Town to Facebook
I-play is certainly not the first company to Facebook-ize its mobile game, but their offering is certainly a compelling one. By bringing their Bubble Town mobile game to Facebook users, they’ve decided to shoot for the mass audience or the so called casual gamers. By now, you’ve probably already played something similar — Bubble Town…
Police to use SMS to fight underage drinking
The police of St Joseph County (IN) plans to use SMS to crack down on underage drinking. The idea is to allow anyone to send anonymous text messages to police about local stores selling alcohol to kids who aren’t 21, and parties where underage kids are drinking. The program will be launched before prom season…
5 of Japan’s top 10 selling books started out on Mobile…
… and that’s not all – books sold on Mobile generated 82 million dollars annually! It’s the first stat that amazes me though – it turns the concept of books, and how we consume them on their head (not that reading a book whilst on your head is an enjoyable experience). The whole delivery model…
Ad Infuse gets $12m financing
Ad Infuse (a mobile advertising company) recently announced it has received $12m in funding, which came from a mixture of new and existing investors. The money will be used to further develop the adInMotion platform, which is capable of dynamically inserting (targeted) ads in to video content. Ad Infuse is one of the newer mobile…
Update: AT&T to launch Broadcast Mobile TV in next couple of weeks?
Apparently AT&T is due to launch it’s own MediaFLO-based broadcast Mobile TV in the USA in the next few weeks, after Verizon’s launch last year. Now we’ve mentioned this story before (here and here), but this most recent update states the launch is immiment – exciting times indeed! There will be 8 linear 24hr channels,…
CeBIT – right after MWC!
For those of you gadget-heads that don’t get enough of a fix at MWC (Mobile World Congress, formerly known as 3GSM), CeBIT only a few weeks in Hannover, Germany. The main difference between the two shows is that whereas MWC is more of an Telecoms industry show (and is located in the very lovely Barcelona),…