Buongiorno have just published research that tries to understand the “mobile browsing behaviour” of 18-34 yr olds in the UK. Fortunately it shows a positive trend in terms of amount of access (phew, I almost thought mobile browsing was going to be a failure for a second there! 😉 ), and divides users in to…
Gorillabox and WRN partner on Mobile TV services
Gorillabox has announced it is partnering with WRN to provide Streaming video Mobile TV services to media companies. Gorillabox is making the G-Box platform available to WRN’s client, inlcuding notable broadcasters such as Virgin Radio and Voice of America, amongst others. The content and platform will be Gorillabox’s responsiblity, whereas WRN will handle the marketing…
UK: Toshiba close to launching handset with MNO
Toshiba has announced it’s close to signing a deal with a UK MNO to take one or more of it’s new handsets (the ones launched at MWC). Tosh isn’t really well-known for handsets in UK, although some people may be familiar with it’s Portege range (a brand shared with it’s Laptop division). If this deal…
MWC: alternative stats
I think this is the last 3GSM08 post (yes, still refusing to called it MWC) I am going to make, but hey hey, it’s a light-hearted one, so why not one more…. OnePointSurveys and mBlox have released their final “Alternative Congress Stats wrap-up” – for those of you not familiar, mBlox commissioned OnePointSurveys to conduct…
N-Gage gets Glu’d
Glu Mobile have announced their initial line-up of games for the N-Gage platform this year. Two of the titles are based on films (Speed Racer, and The Dark Knight), and there are also ‘Super Slam Ping Pong’, and ‘Super K.O. Boxing!”. Comment: it’s great to see titles coming to the N-Gage platform – if you’ve…
Follow-up: video: Imagination Techologies
Remember a few days back I mentioned about gaming, and how it should be advancing due to things like hardware acceleration? Well there is a nice short video on the BBC News website, which features a mini-interview with a spokesman from Imagination Technologies – one of the companies involved in this next generation of boosting…
UK: Daily Mail announces free text service
…. but not quite as you think. You were probably thinking it was some kind of SMS alert service, right? Wrong. The MailTXT service is a downloadable Java application, that should work on any mobile phone. MailTXT messages sent by users through the app will be free (apart from the Operator’s data charge). Messages to…
Shazam announces Facebook app
Shazam has announced the launch of a Facebook app that enables Shazam users to put on their Facebook profile songs that they have recently captured vua Shazam’s service. (For those of you that don’t know, by dialing 2580 in the UK, you can hold the phone to any music source, and after 20 seconds or…
UK: Vodafone and Orange to share mast sites
Vodafone and Orange have announced plans to share mast sites, whilst still competing with one another – the joint sites are apparently due to start later this year. Both 2G and 3G coverage will be involved in the scheme, and it is understood this will mean about 15% less sites – equivalent to about 3000…
O2 sponsors Wireless Festival 2008
(note: yes, I know this is the poster for 2007!) O2 has announced itself as the lead sponsor of the Wireless Festival this year, making it four consecutive years. The festival will have a selection of international artists across four dates in July, as well new music from artists on the O2 blueroom stage. As…