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Netflix product developer Greg Peters confirmed on Friday that Netflix streaming will come to select Android handsets in early 2011. In a lengthy blog post, Peters discusses Android and the problems Netflix has encountered while trying to develop a version of its popular streaming application for this mobile platform. According to Peters, Netflix has struggled…
Palm is launching its Pre 2 handset in the UK starting on November 15th but the handset will not land on the shelves of any major wireless carrier in the UK. According to Pocket-Lint, a quick perusal of wireless carriers reveals that none of the four major wireless carriers in the UK have plans to…
Best Buy Mobile usually always has great deals for phones, and Black Friday ensures the same great deals. The day after Thanksgiving, Best Buy will be selling a couple of Android handsets for only a dollar on a new two-year contract, as well as discounting the Samsung Galaxy Tab. Funny enough, as good as this…
As expected, Cricket Wireless has started selling the successor to the original TXTM8 phone. The new device is called TXTM8 3G (aka TXTM8 II), implying it supports the carrier’s CDMA-based 3G network. Cricket emphasized it’s the first 3G phone to cost less than $100 sans any contracts signed. As you can presume, the TXTM8 3G…
It’s unfortunate when a service like the one I’m going to talk about is actually required… Israel’s Defense Forces are about to announce the details of a long-planned SMS alerts service to warn citizens of incoming missile attacks. The application was developed by Israel-based eViglio in cooperation with Ericsson, and is expected to be activated…
An Amsterdam, Netherlands-based SoGeo launched a promising iPhone application called Whatser. Available as a free download, Whatser connects to other social networks while also using data of its own to suggest places you may like. For a start, you (and other users) connect your existing social networks from Facebook, Twitter, Gowalla and Foursquare and let…
One must admit China is increasingly becoming an important player in pretty much every industry, mobile included. That prompted GSMA to launch a new Chinese-language edition of its popular Mobile Business Briefing news service. Chinese edition will be published on a weekly basis and offered as a free service that covers global industry developments. The…
American Express is going for the iOS device users. But they’re not announcing yet another calculator or ATM finder app — rather the company has teamed-up with Fishlabs to launch a free game called Cash IQ and promote its Platinum Cashback Credit Card offering. The new title is actually a series of mini games, “designed…
The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) and its official research partner, Luth Research, released the October 2010 U.S. Mobile Consumer Briefing, which is MMA’s monthly survey of U.S. adult mobile phone users about their mobile marketing behaviors and opinions. The survey found that 59% of mobile consumers plan to use their mobile phone for holiday shopping…
We know India is on its way to introduce mobile number portability, how about China? Well, it seems things are moving forward in that direction in the world’s most populous country as well. According to a document released by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), Mobile Number Portability (MNP) tests will start in…