Microsoft has put a cash and shares bid on the table for Yahoo!, which values it at…….wait for it……ready…… $44.6bn! With Google being the Gorilla of internet companies right now, clearly Microsoft thinks that acquiring Yahoo! would bolster their position. Apparently the Yahoo! board is currently considering the offering. I wonder if that conversation went…
Update: ‘cell’ is available on all UK networks!
Update: Yesterday you may have read my story about O2 subs being able to access the new ‘cell’ TV series, made exclusively for Mobile. I also told you that it’s looking pretty darn good indeed, with great production quality, and that it’s something you should check out -well now, more of you can! Sean, the…
Buongiorno puts it’s backing behind Bing
Buongiorno has revealed plans to roll out it’s Mobile Social Networking service (called ‘Bing’) in several countries, including Australia, New Zealand, India, and Indonesia. This is after successful trials in South Africa and Austria, where 380,000 users were sending over 5m messages/week, and registering over 850,000 downloads – impressive numbers! The Java app apparently combines…
Free porn…coming soon… in the US….
In some news that aroused my interest (yes, my ears pricked up), US phone companies are going to relax their stiff regulation of adult material on mobile. In Europe, things are already quite loose, with a fairly erect market of £390m! Previously those regulations bound up tightly companies looking to release their material, but…
O2 and Endemol create ‘cell’ – mini Mobile TV series!
O2 has teamed up with Endemol to create a 20-Episode TV series called ‘Cell’, which has been made exclusively for Mobile. It starts off tomorrow, with 3 episodes coming per week at 50p each, or a package deal for £3.50.You have to be an O2 sub, and from NOW, you can text ‘cell’ to 2020…
MTV use Flixwagon software on N95s to cover Super Tuesday…
MTV today announced that it is using Flixwagon’s mobile broadcasting technology to equip an army of street team citizen journalists with the capability to deliver the first-ever live “mobile-to-Web” video broadcasts from polling stations, caucuses, candidate rallies and everywhere young voters will congregate on during February 5th’s Super Tuesday event. You can find the…
Sunrise relaunches musicworld
Sunrise has relaunched it’s OTA music download service for mobiles, called musicworld. It’s powered by 24-7 Entertainment, and offes dual-download (PC and Mobile) on over 2 million tracks. Full-track singles are 2.50 CHF, and albums 19 CHF. Additionally there is preview and recommendation functionality to enhance the service further. This has got to be a…
UK: the cost of texting from abroad could drop
BBC’s Radio One Newsbeat is reporting that the cost of texting from abroad could be set to drop (grrrrrrrreat!). After roaming calls were addressed last year, Ofcom is now demanding that the cost of texting and using the mobile internet is also reduced. Apparently the average cost of sending a text in the UK is…
Fring: new version imminent!
I was just informed by email that Fring is due to launch a new version of it’s software next Tuesday, 5th February. We’ll tell you more as we learn more – in the meanwhile you can read some of our past coverage of the service here and here.
Google mobile search knows where you are (kinda)
Google has added some code to it’s “Mobile” search [engine], that allows it to recognise where you are (to some extent) – so you’ll get the right search page, and then relevant results. Oh, and also there is this teeny point about Google being able to deliver the right advertising (targeted is the word in…