From today in the UK, new measures are being put in to place by the Ministry of Justice, to try and curb the usage of mobile “devices” whilst driving. These measures will act of the components of the offence which is called “Causing Death by Careless Driving”. Essentially they consist of the various distractions that…
O2 continuing England Rugby sponsorship
O2 has announced that it is continuing it’s sponsorship of the England Ruby team for another four years – this will mean it will run beyond the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. The deal is worth about £4 million per season, and run to 31st August 2012. O2 is promising it’s customers more…
Carphone Warehouse stands alone in wanting to market Mobiles to kids
Carphone Warehouse Chief Exec Andrew Harrison recently called for sensible marketing of mobile phones to kids, according to Mobile News. Unfortuntely, it doesn’t appear he has much backing, as Child safety organisations wouldn’t back him, and the industry at large didn’t have anything to say in support either. Harrison said last month the industry should…
O2 introduces new upgrade checks
O2UK has issued a new set of criteria for channels partners, regarding the upgrade of customers. Dealers must now check details against a database of O2 subs, to verify the “ownership” of the customers, and also to gain approval. The point of the checks are to see how the customer was acquired before they can…
RSPCA releases free Mobile game for animal welfare
The RSCPA (an Animal welfare charity) has launched it’s own mobile game called MobiDog, developed by UK company Lateral. This game is following on from a web-based cyberpet concept, also launched by Lateral. However, MobiDog isn’t a virtual pet game, it’s a collection of dog-themed mini-games, which are a spin on arcade classics. The overriding…
EA Mobile acquires rights to “Deal or no Deal”
EA Mobile have just acquired the rights to the popular moneyed-quiz game “Deal or No Deal”. They snapped up the rights from Endemol, who we all know as the creator of Big Brother. Interestingly, Gameloft had previously owned the Mobile rights, where the game had become a top-seller. So this is a major coup for…
Mobile Revenues in India to be $8.3bn by 2013!
According to Juniper Research, Mobile data revenues on the Indian subcontinent (which includes Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) should be up around the £8.3bn mark by 2013 – having been driven by pruchasing of music, browsing, and games. Apparently ringtones are currently the most lucrative service right now, but the usual suspect are…
EA Mobile and Handango do a distribution deal
Handango has announced an agreement with EA to publish EA Mobile’s games – these would be games such as Madden NFL 08, The Sims 2, The Sims Bowling, MONOPOLY Here & Now, TETRIS, Bejeweled. The games will be available through it’s “InHand” on-device application. The InHand client is by enlarge a Smartphone client stack, so…
Samsung announces new SW to boost mobile phone memory
Samsung has announced some new software that will boost the built-in memory on it’s Smartphones. The memory in question is the embedded flash memory portion within devices (i.e. OneNAND, Flex-OneNAND and moviNAND). Apparently the “boost” is that of performance – as we know, with any kind of request/retrieve operation to memory (be it solid-state or…
Use your iPhone as a wireless hard drive!
A new app from Veiosoft, called the DataCase, lets you use your iPhone as a wireless HD. You can then pull the info to any PC, Mac, or Linux-based computer when you need. The software works with both Bonjour and Finder, allowing rapid drag and drop functionality. In addition, the DataCase app also has can…