Newsy (which is a ‘multi-source video news service producing daily videos for web and mobile devices’) has debuted a new version of its free iPhone app. Newsy is the only news service that analyzes the key differences in how a story is being reported by various news organizations around the world. Version 1.5 of the…
Telefónica Rolls Out Mobile Advertising Globally with Amobee Media Systems
Amobee Media Systems has announced it has successfully delivered a global mobile ad serving and campaign management platform for Telefónica across all of their 18 markets world-wide. The majority of the launches – including Telefonica’s O2 businesses in UK, Ireland, Germany and Czech Republic as well as in Spain, Mexico, Argentina and Chile – are…
CoPilot Live iPhone app update adds stack of features!
ALK Technologies has announced the latest free update to the CoPilot Live UK & Ireland GPS navigation app for iPhone. Users can now access premium Live Services (via a mobile internet connection) including Live Traffic information, Live Local Search and Live Fuel Prices via in-app purchase for £19.99. Live Traffic information provides high quality, constantly…
HTC Sponsors Wallpaper* Design Awards
Wallpaper* (an international design, fashion and lifestyle bible), has announced HTC as its new headline sponsor of the Wallpaper* Design Awards. The six-figure partnership will span global activity in the magazine, on wallpaper.com and at the Awards event. The link, in case you were wondering, is very much along the idea of HTC Sense –…
Guardian Newspaper iPhone App looks very good indeed
One of my fellow editors (Simon!) alerted me to the presence of this – the Guardian newspaper iPhone App! We *think* it’s a new one, certainly I’ve not heard of it before – but at any rate, it works very nicely indeed! There’s a stack of features on-board the App, including support for offline news-reading,…
Brief: Nokia N900 coming soon on Vodafone UK!
Good spot by Mobileburn – they’ve seen that Vodafone UK now has a dedicated page up for the impending arrival of the Nokia N900! It’s interesting to see a carrier picking up should I suppose be considered the premier device by the Finnish giant – even if it is with quite some lag in time…
What are the independent mobile phone shops promoting in the run up to Xmas?
So, on my travels this December, I’ve been checking out retail estate in the UK, specifically pertaining to the mobile carriers (see here and here). I got a bit of time to check out a couple of independents in the mobile phone retail space though – namely Carphone Warehouse, and Phones4U. For those of you…
What are the carrier shops promoting in the run up to Xmas? (Pt. 2)
On my ongoing travels around the local shopping centre, I also managed to catch up with the shop frontage for Vodafone and T-Mobile (to see what Orange and O2 have in their shop windows, check out Pt. 1 here). Vodafone Vodafone had an interesting mix in their shop window on the day that I walked…
What are the carrier shops promoting in the run up to Xmas? (Pt. 1)
Yep, I’ve been out with my mobile device and it’s camera, and have been surveying the shops in the UK to see what they are aiming to sell us in the run up to Xmas this year. First, for part 1, are Orange and O2. What do the two (current) iPhone carriers have for us?…
Quick Review: ‘The Dr. Seuss Camera – The Grinch Edition’
You may have seen my post about the release of two new Grinch games for the iPhone/iPod touch – I’ve reviewed the first one here – but what about the second one – ‘The Dr. Seuss Camera – The Grinch Edition’? Well this isn’t quite so much a game – although you can certainly derive…