MTS Belarus and over-the-air Device and SIM management specialists Sicap have today announced the imminent marketing of a new credit screening service for MTS prepaid customers.Sicap credit screening gives mobile users a zero-touch, always-on glance at their pre-paid balance. Real time information is enabled by connecting a Sicap over the air SIM applet to…
Air France trials NFC ticketing
According to Silicon.com, Air France is testing out NFC-enabled mobile boarding passes. It’s in pilot (no pun intended) right now, and the trial will run till October – with those who frequently fly between Nice and Paris being the Guinea Pigs Early Adopters 🙂 The NFC enablement means that passenger info can be read…
More on the PSP2…
Following from my post the other week about the potential successor to the original PSP, there is more info courtesy of TechDigest. They are saying that in fact the PSP2, as it has been called up to now, will be called the PSP <subtitle>, with the subtitle being something suitably catchy. Bambino perhaps. Or…
NetLingo: Clunky
I regularly get my tech-talk update from NetLingo, the best techie dictionary on the InterWeb I reckon! Today is no different we have the grand term: clunky A term used to describe something slow or outdated, as in, “That dinosaur browser sure is clunky.” It implies you can hear the machinery hobbling about trying to process your…
Walt Disney World Resort Notescast – Now on the iPhone & iPod touch
You might remember I have posted up about Notescasts before – well now guests of Walt Disney World Resort can access a powerful new vacation planning and in-park guide on their iPhone or iPod touch. At over 200 pages, including over 150 photos, they now can have all of Walt Disney World Resort in the…
UK: Vodafone: Nokia: N97: July!
Yep. It’s a comin’ very soon indeed – and now there are nice new and shiny Vodafone UK website pages showing the N97 device in all it’s glory (see pic above). Yum. The uber-device does come with quite a spec list, but rather than repeat previous posts we have written, I’ll throw this one out…
UK: BT blocks mobile broadband subs from Pirate Bay
BT, and a number of other mobile broadband providers are apparently blocking access to The Pirate Bay, according to PC Pro. Interestingly if you try and access the site, you get a message saying the page has been blocked in compliance with a new voluntary code – now, that code has come from an organisation…
Vidiator and Sun Microsystems collaborate to offer (Mobile) Streaming Solutions
Vidiator and Sun Microsystems have announced that they have jointly developed an integrated video streaming solution that allows service providers to deliver the highest quality video experience to consumers, while enabling network operators to offer the same video content on both a television and a mobile hand-set. Now I know Vidiator from some time back,…
UK: Radio Times does iPhone App
It’s been years since I have read the Radio Times – in fact it was at my Grandparents that I even saw one, so far out of my sphere of circulation have they been…. but all that could be set to change with the release of an iPhone App! Check out the feature highlight list…
3UK goes big with Skype offering
GoMoNews.com is reporting on a move by 3UK to continue it’s innovation with Mobile Internet Services – in this case Skype. Apparently from later this year there will be a new SIM car that will allow users to make Skype calls completely free – and the SIM card will only cost a couple of…