AAC Acoustic Technologies Holdings (not to be confused with the AAC that is Advanced Audio Codec) has announced that it expects Nokia to overtake Motorola as it’s largest customer this year: “Revenue from Nokia would account for more than 25 per cent of AAC’s total sales this year….compared with 10 per cent last year, while…
Motorola buys in to Mobile Virtualization company
Motorola is in the process of investing in a company called VirtualLogix – their tech makes it possible for handset makers to use virtualization to run two OSes on a single phone – not unlike the virtual machines that we know and love in the PC world… Apparently the idea is not actually to run…
Orange’s Read&Go newspaper reader
Orange France has announced a new e-book reader – cunningly titled the Read&Go. Whilst devices such as Amazon’s Kindle are more book-focused, this little chap is pretty much just for newspapers – Le Monde, Le Parisien, Les Echos, L’Equipe and Télérama for example. Apparently these get hourly updates, via a mixture of 3G and wifi…
UK: Vodafone: knocks 10 squid off tariffs…
Vodafone UK is offering a £10/month discount on two of their tariffs (£35/month and £40/month) when customers sign up for 18 months – they have even done a bit of research to show why this is so important! Apparently, 52% of us Brits say that on at least one occasion, £10 had made a significant…
SpinVox Stat attack: uplifting messages
SpinVox, the rather excellent voice-to-text company have mailshotted me to let me know about some of their latest stats – I thought I would share these for your edutainment: Our Carriers are reporting a 33% uplift in Voicemail deposits, as the calling party knows their message will be seen in minutes. 87% of people…
UK: Motorola Z10: Make a film and win one (and £10K!)
Motorola have gone live with an awesome competition for those of that are a bit creative with old digital video – how do you fancy winning (a) one Motorola Z10, and (b) £10,000? Yes? Then read on! The competition The competition is extremely easy to enter. Entrants should pick a ‘logline’ (‘logline’ being film industry…
UK: Beta test a games service – get free games!
Mobile Advertising Solutions, a new player in the Mobile Ads space, have contacted me regarding a Beta version of a new free Mobile games service they are offering (sadly at the moment only for those in the UK). You can download some pretty good games, for free, and the only you thing you have to…
3 brings mobile gaming and movie headsets to UK
3UK customers are going to being offered the “Vuzix iWear AV920 3D headsets” from this month. This is apparently the equivalent of a 62-inch screen! Althoughthe iWear kit can be hooked up to any device that can play video, clearly 3’s take is that owners of high-end devices will use their headsets with their phones…
Swiss to get access to more TV channels
A new service is to be added to Swisscom’s mobile TV menu – Bluewin TV mobile will available on the new DVB-H network that is being rolled out, giving a quality that is claimed to be as good as home TV sets, with customer having access to 20 channels! Swisscom already has a pedigree in…
O2 & Qualcomm in line for L-band spectrum in UK
The names of the nine applicants for the L-Band spectrum in the UK have now been made public – O2, and (an offshoot of) Qualcomm are in there, making us wonder not very much about what they might be planning…I’ll give you a clue….Broadcast Mobile TV! For those of you not up on your radio…