Motorola is bringing its award-winning Good Mobile Messaging 5 software and services to India. Naturally, the idea is to meet needs of the enterprise mobility market and deliver “an unparalleled user experience aimed at making the mobile workforce more productive while strengthening security and IT control.” Good, which has over 12,000 enterprise customers with users…
Archives for March 2008
India to overtake US to become second largest mobile phone market
We’ve already covered India’s mobile phone market in the past and they keep growing like crazy. That being said, they are about to reach somewhat important milestone to become the second largest mobile phone market in world, trailing only China. At the moment, China leads the world with 540.5 million subscribers and is followed by…
Sony Ericsson’s head of marketing leaving at end of March
Sony Ericsson announced today that Dee Dutta, Corporate Vice President and Head of Marketing, has decided to leave the company on March 31st. Dee joined the Swedish-Japanese handset maker in 2002, and since 2003 he has held the role of Head of Marketing. During his time at Sony Ericsson he has built the marketing organisation…
Paul Frank iPhone cases spotted
iPhone owners and fans of Paul Frank’s work — most notably Julius the Monkey — may be glad to know that the famous designer is now making cases for their beloved handset. Actually, we’ve nothing confirmed at this stage but we spotted what seem as authentic Paul Frank accessories. In addition, browsing through the official…
My Touch Keys adds makes typing on the iPhone easier, protecting the screen
Here’s an interesting accessory you may want to consider getting in case you own the iPhone. First of all, My Touch Keys has nothing to do with the iPhone haptic feedback keyboard prototype we wrote about a month ago. It’s a thin sheet of plastic with holes for the on-screen keyboard which mounts onto the…
Comcast, Time Warner, Sprint, and Clearwire may jump into WiMAX; Google, Intel to help too?
Rumor on the street is that Time Warner Cable and Comcast are in talks with Sprint and Clearwire to help them in their WiMAX plans. The idea seems to compete with the recent FCC auction winners, AT&T and Verizon, in voice and data services. That would certainly explain why the cable companies weren’t interesting in…
Microsoft mulls iPhone application development – MS Office and voice recognition for iPhone
Microsoft may not have cashed in on the initial iPhone hype, but that doesn’t mean the behemoth tech company doesn’t have plans to milk the cash cow from Cupertino. Upon reviewing the recently released Apple iPhone SDK and Apple’s announced support for Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft says it is seriously considering a push into developing applications…
Bollywood: Jalsa Movie coming to a Mobile Game soon!
Game licenses of blockbuster films are a very common occurrence within the PC/console gaming industry, and increasingly the same is true for Mobile. Now this process has percolated through to Bollywood, where a game based on the film Jalsa is being prepared, with caicatures of Pawan Kalyan, and Ileana D’Cruz. Producer Allu Aravind says, “We…
Internet Access on Demand with Speech Enabled Web-browsing
Audiopoint has announced an agreement with Earthlink, one of the nation’s leading internet service providers, that will give Earthlink’s users the ability to access speech enabled Web information from their telephone. The News and Information Service combines EarthLink’s popular Email By Phone application with Audiopoint’s voice-enabled Web content. News, weather, stock quotes and other customized…
Mpowerplayer Users hit 12Mil Mobile Games Played milestone
Mpowerplayer has announced that it has surpassed a milestone of 12 million mobile game demos, played by over one million consumers. Users have embraced Mpowerplayer’s PC-based try and buy storefront solution. As the PR goes on to say: “We’ve brought the iTunes approach to mobile gaming,” said CEO Michael Powers. “Now everyone can easily find…