O2 UK has announced it is launching Business Broadband, along with making their home broadband truly nationwide. As you might know, O2 were later to market with their BBand offering, but, I take that as a sign of making sure things were tested fully, and dare I say it, working consistently (unlike some other notable…
SpinVox: What is the future of voice?
(BTW, the chap in the cup is a SpinVox “Mobster”….) My favourite VTT (Voice-to-text) company, SpinVox, have raised an interesting thread for conversation in their blog (read it here). More accurately, James Whatley, their “chief of interweb wizardry and bloggery“, has written an inciteful and thought provoking piece on where “voice” (as in one of…
Update: Moto DirectorMe competition now has YouTube channel up for video submission!
Update time for y’all – remember I spoke about the very very cool Moto Z10 competition that’s happening? If not, read here. Well, I’ve just been informed that the YouTube channel, to submit videos to, is up and running – you can find it here: http://www.youtube.com/motoroladirectorme If you are stil none the wiser, check out…
UK: Nokia and Sagem PAYG handsets for £5 at Asda
Asda has announced Britain’s lowest priced PAYG (Pay As You Go) mobile phones deal, selling handsets for £5! Apparently it’s a “no strings” deal so you can buy just the device, without needing to buy an credit (although clearly you’d need some to make calls…..). Over 50,000 of the handset will be available at stores…
Sony Ericsson enhances Web Video Discovery with Veveo
Veveo™ Inc., has announced an “extraordinary” new web video experience for Sony Ericsson Mobile phone owners. Through the SE video-enabled mobile/web portal, customers will have access to over 150m (!) web videos via vtap – which is an apparently unique mobile web video service. vtap allows rapid search and viewing of web videos from sites…
Spike Lee and Nokia take film Mobile
Director Spike Lee has hooked up with Nokia to direct a movie made with Mobile phone video footage from “everyday people”, in what he is apparently calling the “democratization of film”. The film will be by Nokia Productions and will be over 3 acts – an “assignment” will be announced online for each act, adn…
StarHub Launches First Nation-Wide LBS Mobile Advertising
StarHub recently announced that it has now officially launched Singapore’s first nation-wide LBS (location-based service) for mobile advertising. For advertisers, the fit is obvious – send marketing/promo messages (SMS) to subscribers when they are in contextually relevant location. For customers, they get appropriate messages to what they are doing, both on a where and when…
Echostar to go DVB-SH….?
Short but sweet – Echostar were very successful in the recent FCC spectrum auctions in the US – and a lot of people were pointing to the fact that the Satellite Pay-TV operator was going to go Mobile. As some of you probably already know, Echostar also snared SlingMedia not so very long ago, so…
More Mobile Phones in Australia than people!
Apparently, there are now more mobile phones in use in Australia than the nation’s population – to be exact, 21.26 million of them! Of these, 4.5m are 3G, an increase of nearly 200% on mid-year figures between 2006 and 2007. In the same period, fixed line services dropped away slightly (hardly surprising, it’s happening everywhere!).…
UK: Orange subs consuming an increasing amount of content
UK Operator Orange has reported strong growth in content consumption, with some stats to back it up too…. Apparently Orange World (the Orange portal) now has 2.64mil monthly users, which is up 12% from the last quarter. Each user is also looking looking at more pages (termed “impressions”), which is up by 33%. In terms…