3UK has just introduced mobile Skype for business, according to The Inquirer. Apparently the plan is to create tariffs for sub-20 person businesses/self-employed, then chuck in free Skype calling. The tariffs are post-pay and as a result, don’t require regular topping up – as users of 3’s pre-pay will know, monthly top-ups become a (very)…
Five upcoming mobile social networking services
Great, I managed to answer my own question regarding further upcoming SN services….! Fierce Mobile Content has picked out 5 Mobile SN services that it thinks you should keep an eye on – I’ve provided a very brief summary, together with links, below: Meet Now Live – location-based, mobile social networking service which involves you…
Sniff ‘Friend-tracker’ launches in UK
A mobile phone service that lets users track the location of friends and family is launching in the UK. The Sniff application sends users a message showing the position of the person they are trying to find – who must also have signed up to the service – and a map. The sign-up procedure is…
3 Italia introduces free mobile TV service
3 Italia has decided to give it’s DVB-H users free access to a whole bunch of channels: RAI 1, RAI 2, Mediaset, Sky Meteo 24, Current TV, and La3. This is at the same time as offer free internet acccess, up to 50Mb/day! At the press conference regarding this, it was explained that this is…
MTV and SpinVox Partner to Launch First Ever Integrated Voice Powered Social Networking Campaign
MTV’s Staying Alive Foundation, SpinVox and Causes on Facebook yesterday announced the launch of their joint campaign, ‘Stand By What You Say’. The groundbreaking initiative encourages young people to speak openly about sex, sexual health and HIV/AIDS, with a view to increasing awareness and breaking down the stigma and discrimination which so often accompanies the…
Virgin Mobile offers Sugar Mama on Facebook
Normally, Virgin mobile offers free airtime when a customer listens to Adverts on their Moby (not dissimilar to Blyk by the sounds of things), however, via a new Facebook app, users can have their Facebook mates earn then free minutes by listening to the Ads on their PC! “Fund My Phone” is an extension of…
Location-Based Ads getting closer to reality…
According to MobiAD News, two stories that it has covered recently are indicating that Location-Based Advertising (LBA?) is becoming more of a reality – by the way, the companies involved in those stories are Skyhook Wireless, Loopt/CBS Mobile. Skyhook Wireless have announced that they have introduced location based advertising to their software development kit. The…
Jaguar goes Mobile to launch new XF model
Jaguar recently launched their new XF model in the US, and went big on Mobile Advertising to do so – details below….. First of all, what does the XF look like? Well for all you petrol-heads out there: Jaguar wanted to communicate the vehicle’s break through styling and unique features to a target audience that…
Touch control is turning Japanese, I really think so!
Apologies for the shocking pun in the title – just for a microsecond, I was feeling a bit funny… Synaptics announced today that its ClearPad™ solution is driving the interactive touchscreen in NTT DOCOMO’s new Sharp SH906i clamshell handset. The SH906i uses Synaptics’ ClearPad technology to enable finger-input character recognition capabilities for Japanese character entry.…
MusicStation is now the UK’s Largest Unlimited Music Service?
Lookout – impressive claims incoming…… MusicStation, the unlimited download service from Omnifone (and available exclusively on Vodafone UK) is apparently now the UK’s largest digital music subscription service, overtaking even PC-based services….crumbs! We’ve written about Omnifone’s MusicStation offering numerous times before, but this really is quite an impressive achievement. The CEO of Omnifone was quite…