Oh, it’s all going off in the UK at the moment, with the news that thousands of UK subs on the T-Mobile network have unknowingly had their data sold on to third parties, for what is apparently substantial sums of money! For those that don’t live in the UK, we tend to take our data…
Orange new social media service: People Projects
Orange is launching People Projects, a new Facebook application that lets people communicate with their social network and create groups online that want to support, or be part of community projects. This is in line with Orange’s “brand vision” ( which is “Together we can do more”). The new service encourages web users to discover…
Orange and Twitter get it together, with MMS support included!
Orange today announced a partnership with Twitter, which will enable customers to send and receive Twitter updates directly from their mobile phones using text messaging. It also sees Orange become the first mobile phone operator to enable customers to upload and share photos on Twitter via MMS. The partnership has been designed to give Orange…
O2 Litmus targets over 1 million O2 Customers
O2 Litmus (which is the mobile and web application development community from O2) is ready to spread it’s wings – and they’ve decided the best way is a targeted marketing campaign for 1 million O2 UK customers. For developers this is a bit of a boon, since there should be a steady flow of consumers…
O2 Joggler Gets Internet Radio
O2 has today announced the addition of Internet Radio to the O2 Joggler, bringing over 100 radio stations to the device for free. The service, which is delivered by PURE, has now been switched on over-the-air. O2 has also reduced the price of the O2 Joggler to £99.99. PURE, working in associated with OpenPeak (the…
Brief: Big Buck Hunter Pro for iPhone on sale!
Hang on! I’ve only just reviewed Big Buck Hunter Pro for iPhone, and it’s on sale – for a limited period! Yep, the App that was previously £1.79 (UK), is now £0.59. That’s a bargain! For those of you that haven’t guessed what the game is about from the image above, check out the screenshot…
Hands-on Review: ‘Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs’ for iPhone
Sometimes you know when you are going to get a quality iPhone gaming experience, and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs was no exception – developed by and Two Tribes (and distributed by Chillingo) for Fox Mobile Entertainment, this game oozes quality! In case you were wondering what the game is about: In Scrat’s new…
Sygic’s turn-by-turn navigation compatible with new Nokia Maemo phones
Sygic has extended its Mobile Maps application coverage to include the Maemo 5 OS – adding to the existing iPhone, Symbian, Android and Windows Mobile support. All the current regional versions of the app for other operating systems are in the progress of being converted for Nokia Maemo: Australia & New Zealand South East Asia…
eBuddy Selects InMobi to Deliver International Mobile Advertising
InMobi and eBuddy have announced a partnership for Mobile Advertising. For those of your not so familiar, eBuddy is touted as being “the world’s leading independent web and mobile messaging service” and InMobi as being “the largest mobile ad network for international markets” It’s an interesting one, the Mobile Advertising market – not so very…
Cool tech: PIR Security Sensor with build-in SMS Alerts
SeNd Technology have emailed me to let me know about their cool piece of tech – a connected S-PIR sensor, that uses text messaging to alert you – nice! The S-PIR is a self-contained motion detector with build in GSM modem for sending a SMS Text message to you when the zone is breached. Just…