Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) has said it won network infrastructure orders worth $865m from China Mobile in the first half of this year. Interestingly, this announcement comes not long after Alcaltel-Lucent (AlcaLu) announced a $1bn win from the same Operator! Of course, the market for the infrastructure vendors now is quite hard, with falling…
Orange and Bic to sell BicPhone
Orange and disposable pen maker Bic are joining forces to launch a 49 EUR BicPhone, that will come with the battery pre-charged, and one hour of call time. The phone will be widely available across France from 7th August. The phone is made by a Chinese ODM called TCL, and will support just voice and…
Disney and Einstein help you train your brain
Disney are planning to release a “brain training” style game under the “Einstein” tagline. Much, I would imagine, like many other Mobile games of this genre, there are a mixture of ways to stress your brain cells. The game features 20 brain training exercises which take you on a journey through Einstein’s theories of relativity…
The Dark Knight gets Glu’d
Glu Mobile has released “The Dark Knight” mobile game, in advance of the Cinema release on July 25th. Glu will also be offering other mobile content, such as wallpapers, ringtones, and screensavers. This is the second Warner Bros title for Glu, the first being Speed Racer earlier this year. [Via: Mobile-Ent.biz]
UK: Channel 4 looks at Mobile games
UK broadcaster Channel 4 is looking at Mobile as part of a “cross-platform games strategy”, according to Mobile Entertainment. Games content is now officially being commissioned alongside other media efforts. Apparently, the channel is also looking to fund games for the likes of Miniclip.com and Kongregate.com, plus console downloads, mobile games and ARGs. The broadcaster…
Phones microwave Popcorn and pop it?!
In recent weeks, there have been a series of videos on YouTube, showing how how you can use a cell phone to pop popcorn! In the video (here), you see 4 cellphones used to pop kernels on a coffee table by calling the handsets. The videos ended up being emailed around the world, with the…
General media downturn not affecting Mobile Ad budgets
According to a new survey by “Advertising Perceptions”, advertisers and agency media buyers are anticipating a raise in their mobile advertising budgets, despite optimism declining across the traditional categores. Apparently, buyers are most pessimistic about traditional channels like broadcast TV, magazines, newspapers, radio and outdoor, with a majority of respondents stating they expect to decrease…
Telstra trialling 4G Mobile Broadband
Telstra and Ericsson are claiming, post-trials, that they will squeeze 21-42Mbps out of the Next-gen network next year – and all this from enhanced-HSPA?? Interestingly, ZDNet looks at the server infrastructure and software that is going in to providing these new blistering speeds – a blade cluster architecture will be used, significantly reducing the floorspace…
3 aims to double it’s customer base
3 is apparently aiming to double it’s customer base to nearly 7m by 2012. Kevin Russell recently spoke to the Financial Times and laid down the gauntlet with this challenging stat. Russell has apparently spent his first year cutting costs, and it now looking to boost profits – and a good part of that is…
Social Networking = Orange World (at least for Orange users)
Orange has decided to wrap access to the most popular social networking sites in to one place on it’s Orange World portal. This new service allows access to the various sites’ popular function, from a single destination. Those services accessible are: MySpace Facebook Bebo Skyrock Pikeo Flirtomatic DailyMotion Meetic Apparently it works by displaying the…