dotMobi, the company behind the “.mobi” domain, updated its “content mobilization platform” goMobi. There are few cool features included in the update like: Support for multiple languages — including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Simplified Chinese. Site Visitor Translation – which allows the mobile site visitors to view a goMobi site in the language…
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Tru launches its local rate-local number service in Australia
Tru, which we used to know as Truphone, has expanded its local rates and local number proposition to Australia. As a result, customers of Tru’s GSM service in the UK and US will be paying only local rates instead of roaming rates for all calls and texts to and within Australia, as well as local…
HP trademarks Gyst, Myte, and Veer product names [New Palm devices for 2011?]
Companies trademark names and purchase domains all the time. Whether or not they use them for a final consumer product is another question all together, but let’s assume for a minute that the 3 products HP trademarked last week, the Gyst, Myte, and Veer, are actual devices. Can you say Palm webOS product family? It’s…
Samsung Hummingbird declared the fastest chip on the planet by GLBenchmark 2.0
Benchmarking is an interesting sport, and yes I use the term sport, because people spend far too much time crunching numbers that absolutely don’t matter in order to prove something that’s relevant to less than 1% of the population. Take this from a guy who used to scour junk yards for radiators to optimize a…
*Spark by Hiplogic offers a hyper connected alternative to the boring default Symbian homescreen
One of the reasons we prefer the Symbian and Android smartphone operating systems to something like Apple’s iOS is that it’s totally possible to replace the homescreen, otherwise known as the first thing you see when you unlock your device. Hiplogic recently went public with a Symbian homescreen alternative called *Spark, and if you’re one…
Apple iPhone now the 5th best selling phone in Japan [12.2% market share]
Mobile geeks adore the Japanese mobile phone industry because their devices, although nothing more than glorified dumb phones, come packed with features including ultra high resolution cameras, the ability to capture 1080p video, NFC to pay for items at a grocery store, hop on public transportation, or even open your front door, and they also…
Deal Alert: Nokia N8 only $399 straight from Nokia themselves [USA Only]
With less than 10 days to go until Christmas, is there someone out there you forgot to buy a present for? Fear not, because Nokia USA is offering the Nokia N8 for only $399. All you have to do is go to nokiausa.com, find the N8, add it to your shopping cart, then use promotion…
Apple App Store pricing, platform, and categories visualized [Infographic]
Apple’s App Store is bursting at the seams with over 300,000 applications and that number is growing each day. The folks at App of the Day analyzed the App Store’s applications and compiled a clever infographic detailing the pricing, target platform (iPhone, iPad, or Universal), and most popular categories in the App Store. The most…
Chitika: Windows Phone accounts for 0.45% of web traffic
Windows Phone launched in the late fall and the mobile operating system is not yet making a dent in web traffic, according a new report out of Chitika. In the months since launch, Windows Phone has topped out at a mere 0.45%, a number that is about 100 times less than Android. The top mobile…
Nexus S rooted with ClockworkMod recovery already – surprised?
Even if you’re not impressed with the Nexus S, you should be impressed by the enthusiast developers who have already given the handset a proper rooting, complete with a custom recovery image. At the same time, is anyone surprised that the Nexus S is already rooted and ready for custom ROMs? Unlocking the bootloader of…