Much as Motorola were the other day, now Samsung are busy mailshotting me, to let me know about the Tocco (F480). I got a lovely email inviting me to check out the website, which I duly did. On arrival, I landed on a very busy homescreen, but on clicking through to the Tocco, found a…
MOTODEV Symbian Foundation Announcement
Crumbs, it’s a busy day on email today – and Motorola seems to be the cause of it. This time it’s MOTODEV (the developer forum for Moto) firing out a mail to clarify their position on the Symbian Foundation Announcement. Luckily it seems to be business as usual, you can read the full text of…
UK: MOTOROKR E8 now available – according to Moto!
We’ve mentioned the Motorokr E8 several times before on IntoMobile, but the bods at Moto were nice enough to send me an email yesterday telling me where I could buy it in the UK – and basically that boils down to Orange shops, O2 stores, and also the Carephone Warehouse stores. Just to remind ourselves,…
Worldwide Mobile gaming revenue to hit $4.5bn this year
Well they are, according to Gartner at least! I am just going to pull some very brief highlights here: Mobile game revenues will reach $6.3 billion in 2011 North America will pull ahead of Western Europe over the next few years and be a larger market as Americans adopt more data services in general Asia…
Garmin and GyPsii sign multi-year agreement
Garmin has signed a multi year global agreement with GyPsii according to a statement from GyPsii. As we are aware, Garmin is known for it’s Sat Nav hardware, whereas GyPsii is a “geo-location and mobile social networking provider”. As per the agreement terms, GyPsii will provide technology, products, worldwide data center infrastructure, development licenses and…
EU legislation plans 70% cut in MTRs
Only yesterday did I report on the somewhat confusing statement from the European Commissioner regarding RPP (receiving party pays), but now we have more TLAs (three letter abbreviations) flying at us – now it’s MTRs, or Mobile Termination Rates… read on to see why although a 70% cut sounds good, it could actually mean things…
Blyk to enter 3 European Markets
Blyk has said that it is going to enter the German, Spanish, and Belgian markets next year. As we know, the network offers free calls and texts, to it’s 16-24 yr old demographic “members”, in return for accepting Ads. Strategy Analytics analyst Nitesh Patel said Blyk’s continued growth depended on demonstrating value to advertisers through…
Rumour Mill: Sony to go it alone, for the PSP phone…
Pocket-lint is reporting that Sony is considering to go it alone for production of the oft-rumoured “PSP Phone”. Previously we have seen patents, mock-ups, fakes, and suchlike – but no phone! Apparently the relationship between Sony and Sony-Ericsson has become somewhat frosty, over what sony considers the “strategic error” of giving SE it’s “Walkman” brand…
Cisco says Mobile data traffic could double annually up to 2012
No, not Simon says, but Cisco says… … and they are saying, that according to their Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast there are several IP networking trends we should expect – some highlights below: IP traffic will increase at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 46 percent from 2007 to 2012, nearly doubling every…
AlcaLu and SpeedCast form JV to offer DVB-H-based mobile TV in Asia
Alcatel Lucent and SpeedCast Ltd announced a tie-up to develop and commercialize a shared, hosted DVB-H platform for mobile TV operators in Asia.The companies are going to work together to leverage their tech, content delivery, and infrastructure solution to build a new Moby TV platform, that should deliver 20 TV channels for broadcast. Offering this…