AT&T has teamed up with 1-800-FLOWERS.COM to develop the customized Cupid Goes Wireless campaign in time for the Valentine’s Day. The program enables the carrier’s subscribers to order flowers through MEdia Net and/or to send free animated floral bouquets from 1-800-FLOWERS.COM to friends and family. In addition, subscribers are also encouraged to enter for a…
Archives for February 2008
Gamevil releases Baseball Superstars 2008; Baseball fans rejoice!
Here’s one for baseball fans around the world. Gamevil has released Baseball Superstars 2008, the newest instalment in their Baseball Superstars mobile game series. There are 8 different teams to choose from, 4 unique stadiums to compete in, and 3 (Season, Exhibition and My League) modes to play in. You can also create, customize, and…
Finns can now open public toilets with SMS
Those high-tech Finns are now able to open select public toilets with SMS. The move comes after continued and endemic vandalism, and the country’s Road Administration hopes the “open by SMS” can reduce the number of toilets beings demolished. The system is easy to use, and in order to do “their thing,” people will have…
UK: 3G USB sticks taking more than 15% of contract sales
You may remember I’ve mentioned about these USB sticks before (here and here), however, this post is regarding how well they are selling – and the answer is VERY! Apparently nearly 20% of 3 and T-Mobile contract sales are for these 3G USB sticks, and in some locations that figure is closer to 40%! Interestingly,…
Into Mobile Voicemail #3
Tired from having too much fun on Saturday night and desperately in need of a shave edition:
UK: Gemma Atkinson Launches NFS-M with Three
OK so there is some (albeit small) Mobile news here: Gemma Atkinson was on hand to help 3 launch the Sony Ericsson W910i (with Need for Speed Mobile preloaded) the other day at their Islington store. Good, that’s the serious part done. [Via: pocketgamer.co.uk] Now, moving on swiftly, for those of you that don’t know,…
EA vs Gameloft for games publisher top spot
EA and Gameloft just announced their financials for the last quarter of 2007, which lets us see how they did in respect of each other…. (note: there is some dollar/euro conversion fun going on here, as EA is US-HQ’d, where as Gameloft is based “dans le France“) 🙂 For the WHOLE year, it was tight…
MVNO deathroll – Voce goes belly-up?
We’re not sure if we should chalk up Voce as just another MVNO gone belly-up or an incredibly unreliable network operator. You see, the luxury MVNO, leasing AT&T’s spectrum, has apparently ceased all operations on the start of the new month. Voce customers are reporting that they woke up Feb. 1 to find that their…
Google lauds iPhone
What does Google think about the iPhone? Well, even with the competing mobile platform, Android, that Google is currently pushing to develop, it seems that the higher-ups at Google really like the iPhone. Jonathan Rosenberg, Google’s senior vice president for product management, said that, “[Google is] particularly interested in looking at the iPhone because the…
iPhone Dev Team’s secret jailbreak for sale on eBay
The iPhone Dev Team has been keeping their alternative jailbreak method under wraps in hopes of using against Apple in the event that they patch the current jailbreak method with the release of the iPhone SDK. The iPhone v1.1.3 firmware looks to be the one that will play nice with Apple-sanctioned third-party applications, but that…