Konami has announced the release of DanceDanceRevolution® S, now available in North America for the iPhone™ and iPod® Touch. The next iteration in the popular music rhythm franchise has been re-designed to take full advantage of the iPhone’s capabilities by utilizing the Accelerometer and Multi-Touch interface. With 26 songs and 18 playable characters, DanceDanceRevolution S…
Konami Mobile unveils screenshots for Metal Gear Solid Touch
Konami Mobile has released all-new North American screenshots for the highly anticipated Metal Gear Solid® Touch, the next installment from the top-selling videogame franchise. Developed by Kojima Productions and designed exclusively for the iPhone™ and iPod® Touch, Metal Gear Solid Touch covers the final chapter in the legendary saga of Solid Snake. For those of…
comScore says: Light PC Internet Users are 30 Percent More likely than Heavy PC Internet Users to Access Mobile Internet Content
comScore has reported the results of the first study of its cross-media panel of PC and mobile Internet users in the U.S., finding that light PC Internet users are 30 percent more likely than heavy PC Internet users to use their mobile devices to access Internet content. In total, 42 million people used their mobile…
Econet Wireless sign up 200K subs in 3 months in Kenya!
Apparently Econet Wireless have signed up 200K subs in 3 months in it’s newest network in Kenya – astonishing – that comes out pro-rata 800K subs per year…. but their aspirations don’t stop there – they want to be at 4-5mn within a couple of years! These are good growth rates for Econet (which uses…
Movistar planning to extend 3.5G coverage to 74% of country
Well, it’s all about the 3.5G/HSPA+ in my posts today….! Movistar (which is part of Telefonica Moviles Group) is extending it’s coverage to 74% of the country by mid-2009. As you can probably imagine, and as I’ve said before, one of the main uses of this boost in wireless bandwidth is mobile broadband modems (you…
“Walt Disney World Secrets” Notescast for iPhone Upgraded with More Secrets & Fun Facts
I’ve posted about Notescasts before, as quite an innovative service, making use of some native functionality in iPods – well new TimeStream Software has announced the upgrade of its “Walt Disney World Secrets” Notescast for the iPhone and iPod touch. Rated in the Top 25 of paid Travel Apps, this upgraded Notescast title now contains…
ChaCha: Fastest Growing SMS Search Provider Achieves 70% of Google’s SMS Search Volume in Q4
Apparently, In a head-to-head comparison between ChaCha and Google SMS, ChaCha achieved 70 percent of Google’s SMS search volume in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to data from the Q4 Mobile Messaging Report from The Nielsen Company. Of all SMS traffic measured in Nielsen’s report, which is comprised of all incoming and outgoing text…
Vodafone NZ will finish 3G upgrade early
Vodafone NZ has said it plans to finish it’s 3G rollout to a level of 95% coverage by the end of May – a full year ahead of schedule! Well someone has sure got good project managers!! 🙂 On the infrastructure duties this time are Nokia Siemens Networks – with their quality, and Vodafone’s 900Mhz…
O2 Germany to be up to HSPA+ by mid-09
O2 Germany has stated it’s intention to be up to HSPA+ (that’s one step up from 3.5G by the way) by mid-2009. Rollouts, as with all things network-related, will be phased, and starting in Munich. Whilst there’s a theoretical max of 28Mbps, the reality will be about 8 Mbps, thinks O2. Huawei is the vendor…
Nokia Siemens Networks wins big in China
China’s leading telecom operators, China Mobile Communications Corporation (China Mobile) and China United Network Telecommunications Corporation Limited (China Unicom) today signed agreements to purchase 2G and 3G mobile equipments and services from Nokia Siemens Networks during 2009. Under the framework agreements Nokia Siemens Networks will roll out WCDMA networks for China Unicom in 11 provinces…