YouPoC has announced that it is the exclusive distribution partner for Sonim Technologies award-winning range of Push-To-Talk (PTT) applications. YouPoC will develop, promote and sell Sonim’s ‘best-in-class’ PTT solutions via its channel and to end-user customers. YouPoC will also be offering Sonim’s range of Xtreme Performance (XP) rugged mobile phones, the XP1 and the recently-launched…
Archives for April 21, 2009
UK: Flirtomatic: Miss Great Britain 2009!
Flirtomatic have announced that over 3000 people have entered the Miss Great Britain 2009 competition via their mobile. Since the competition began on March 23rd, more than 3000 contestants have sent over 10,000 virtual gifts, been rated more than 100,000 times and received 1m messages, all to try and win a place in the final…
Microsoft Exchange 2010 will synchronize and archive WM 6.5 SMS text messages!
Microsoft is apparently looking to integrate Windows Mobile more tightly with the Windows computing experience. The newly available Exchange Server 2010 beta has shed some light on an upcoming Windows Mobile 6.5 feature – the ability to synchronize and archive all SMS text messages on the Exchange Server! Never again will you have to worry…
Elvis at the O2! Er… what?
Yep you didn’t read it wrong – I got an email from the UK’s leading entertainment venue, The O2 – and it said: Elvis Presley. In concert. At The O2. As you can imagine, I was a little bit “WTF?!” until I read the explanation: See highlights of Elvis’s greatest concerts on ‘King’-size video screens.…
iPhone 3.0 Hosting Voice Recognition?
Just when you thought iPhone OS 3.0 had been sufficiently plumbed for secrets, another has popped up. Some APIs surrounding something called Jibbler seem to suggest that the next operating system upgrade will include both voice recognition and text read-back capabilities (kind of like with Apple’s latest iPod Shuffle). Of course, none of this was…
UK: eXpansys: WinMo handset offers!
The venerable online mobile tech store that is eXpansys has let me know about a bunch of offers on WinMo smartphones. I’ll let them take it away: The Toshiba Portege G710 has the ideal form-factor for email on-the-move – with a QWERTY keypad and Windows Mobile 6 Standard, it also features an in-built GPS receiver…
NetLingo: inner geek
Here comes NetLingo with another classic tech-term: inner geek The techie deep within each of us. It’s what we turn to when we’re searching for that abstract clue to help us unlock the secret to our favorite game or when we’re trying to remember how we did something in a software program. For example, “If…
US DoE awards Sprint $7.3M for hydrogen fuel-cell research
Quick! What’s the first thing that pops into your mind when you think government-funded research? Words like “university,” “NASA,” “military” or something along those lines are likely your top-picks. US wireless carrier Sprint is pretty much the last entity we’d expect to score a research grant from the US Department of Energy (DoE). And yet,…
LG Reports Q1 Loss, Not as Bad as Expected
It’s pretty much a given that everyone’s hurting from the recession, even the kings of the mobile castle, but LG has managed to make it through the first quarter of 2009 not quite as badly as investors were expecting. The world’s number 3 handset manufacturer took a 25% hit in operating profit to 456 billion…
App Incubator from MEDL Mobile Urges App Ideas, Originality and Fun
Have a great idea for an iPhone app but don’t know where to get started? Worried that if you share your idea, some developer may take the idea and run? Now, thanks to the folks at MEDL Mobile, you can become an iPhone app developer, right from the comfort of your own home… and if…