Mobile messaging vendor Acision has raised an additional $100 million to build on its position in the mobile data market. The new investment was led by existing shareholders Access Industries, with co-shareholders — International Investment and Underwriting (IIU) and Atlantic Bridge — also participating. According to the leading research forecasts, global mobile data traffic is…
Archives for 2010
NTT DoCoMo, Pioneer team-up on smartphone navigation
NTT DoCoMo and Pioneer Corporation are teaming-up to work on navigation services compatible with the “docomo Drive Net” service in Japan. Under the agreement, a mobile car-navigation application for smartphones, docomo Drive Net powered by Carrozzeria, will be developed by Pioneer and offered by DOCOMO starting from the fourth quarter of the fiscal year ending…
Mobile banking and payments solutions provider ClairMail raises $13.8 million in a round led by Investor Growth Capital
Mobile banking and payments solutions provider ClairMail announced a $13.8 million late stage round of funding to grow its technology infrastructure and service capabilities. The round was led by Investor Growth Capital (IGC), the wholly owned venture capital arm of Stockholm-based Investor AB, and it also saw existing investors (JAFCO Ventures, Northwest Venture Partners and…
T-Mobile confirms that root access on the G2 is temporary
The T-Mobile G2 is one of the hottest handsets to land in the hands of Android fans over the past few weeks. That is quite an honor when you consider all the new Android handsets that were recently introduced at CTIA. All was milk and honey with the G2 until an insidious self-repair mechanism was discovered…
China Telecom in talks with Apple to offer a CDMA version of the iPhone?
According to a report in the South China Morning Post, China Telecom is making plans to offer the iPhone when China Unicom’s exclusivity deal ends with Apple early next year. The SCMP report cites a research note from a Deutsche Bank analyst who writes, “Although China Telecom management in a recent lunch meeting refused to confirm whether…
greenpois0n jailbreak for latest generation iOS devices coming October 10th
Good news for iOS owners as the Chronic Dev Team is close to releasing its SHAtter-based greenpois0n jailbreak for iOS devices. A series of tweets suggests the tool is ready to roll and points to an availability date of 10/10/10 at 10:10:10 AM GMT. The update will most likely debut on the greenpois0n website which…
Skype for Android gets 3G calling through hacked application
It’s only been a couple of days before the Skype application escaped the shackles of Verizon, and was released for all Android 2.1 phones, and now there’s a hack to enable 3G calling. Unlike the Verizon’s version, the application didn’t allow for 3G calling, but now it’s become a reality thanks to a hack. Some…
Hands-on video of the new T-Mobile myTouch [HD Video]
The T-Mobile myTouch is shaping up to be a monster of a superphone and we were able to get some hands-on video with the device. Well, we got video of the myTouch but we weren’t allowed to turn it on. While that really sucks, I’m sure the software isn’t final yet and the carrier didn’t…
Skype, Jabra team up for Skype-tastic headset
We like to cover Bluetooth headsets from time to time but those are normally only for phones. We did want to take a little time to notice the latest Jabra headset for the PC though because it has been certified to work well with Skype. The Jabra Extreme will come with a pre-pared USB adapter,…
Hands-on video of the T-Mobile Optimus T with Android 2.2 [HD Video]
We were the first to break news that the LG Optimus T was hitting T-Mobile and we were able to get our hands on the thing during CTIA San Francisco. It’s aimed at first-time smartphone buyers but does that that mean this Android 2.2 phone is not on par with high-end offerings like the G2?…