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Google’s upcoming Chrome operating system was supposed to come out by the end of this year, but that’s officially not going to happen says eWeek. It’s a shame since we were really looking forward to looking at what the Mountain View, California based company could do given complete control over the BIOS and other system…
Like it already doesn’t have a full portfolio of different cases, case-mate is teaming-up with modern industrial designer Erik Arlen to create an “edgy new line of mobile tech cases.” Arlen, who also designed for Nike, adds bold colors, textures and modular pieces to the case-mate’s offering. More precisely, the two parties unveiled four distinctive…
The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) announced the winners of its Sixth Annual Global Mobile Marketing Awards during the Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony at the Mobile Marketing Forum in Los Angeles. Winners are selected by the MMA Awards Selection Committee comprised of global industry leaders from wireless carriers, technology and content providers, agencies and industry…
Chillingo is teaming-up with “branded and lifestyle app developer” VEEMEE to bring “Bear Grylls: The Bear Essentials” to the Apple AppStore. The application will obviously feature the renowned adventurist and survival expert as he shares his survival skills with the iOS device users. Included in the app are films, photos, illustrations, quizzes, quotes and interactive…
Like we don’t already have enough mobile advertising networks and standards – The Weather Channel, Crisp and TringApps are teaming-up to launch ORMMA, the Open Rich Media Mobile Advertising initiative. Along with the announcement, rich-media advertising specifications and open source code are released to any publisher who wants to serve campaigns across all mobile platforms…
Kyocera RIO is a new all-touchscreen device in Cricket Wireless’ portfolio. It’s a low-end device made for users who really dig touchscreens but don’t want to pay a premium for features they won’t use anyway. Specs wise, the RIO comes with a 2.8-inch QVGA display, 1.3-megapixel camera, media player, Bluetooth, 3.5mm headset jack, optical trackpad,…
GreatCall, the company behind super easy to use Jitterbug phones for the elderly (at least we see them that way), announced two new Unlimited monthly rate plan options: Simply Unlimited plan, which offers Unlimited Anytime minutes, unlimited Night and Weekend minutes, unlimited texting and no data charges for $79.99 per month. In addition, it also…
GSMA launched the Mobile Energy Efficiency (MEE) Network Benchmarking Service with the idea to provide a benchmark measurement of network energy efficiency and help operators lower their energy costs and carbon footprint. Created in cooperation with China Mobile, Telefónica and Telenor – MEE will quantify cost and CO2 savings for operators, promote a consistent methodology…
Having been in full out beta mode for some time now, I’ve been keeping my eye on HootSuite for iPad… Honestly, I couldn’t wait for it to hit the App Store. You know where this is going, right? That’s right, HootSuite for iPad is now available for download. If you’ve never used this powerful tool,…
The Wholesale Applications Community (WAC) announced an additional nine new members to the organization, bringing the total member count to 57. New members to the organization include Aepona, Camber Tech Inc (BVI) Limited, GClue, Gemalto, Infraware, KT Innotz, Sharp and Sony Ericsson as Associate members while the Russian operator VimpelCom has joined as an Operator…