The results of Economic Times-Brand Equity’s annual “Most Trusted Brands” survey for 2010 in India are here and they say Nokia is the country’s most trusted brand, again. The Finnish company has appeared in the survey from 2005, and has held the first position since the year 2008. From the rest of the press release…
US Cellular to use Loopt’s location platform
The location-aware mobile social service Loopt will be integrated in (I guess select) phones from US Cellular. No financial details were disclosed. The carrier will implement the Loopt Location Platform, providing users with more frequent and accurate location updates. Loopt is working with US Cellular on various location experiences, including mapping and geo-location apps. In…
Mobile Marketing Association repositions
On the heels of the feedback from a survey of member and non-member companies, the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) recently announced a repositioning to “enhance its effectiveness at the global, regional and national levels,” and to create additional membership benefits. As a result, MMA will focus on the following activities: Promote the channel, the industry…
LG Optimus 7 Windows Phone with DLNA Makes Appearance at IFA
LG has been showing off a new Windows Phone publicly at IFA, the Optimus 7, which uses DLNA to shunt media from the device to home entertainment over the local Wi-Fi network with simple swipe gestures. We’ve seen this thing pretty regularly as the GW910 Panther since its first appearance on the Engadget Show about…
Rhomobile unveils RhoSync 2.0, open source sync server for enterprise data
Rhomobile announced RhoSync 2.0, the latest version of what they say is the “only open source sync server for enterprise data.” It is a standalone server that keeps application data current and accessible on users’ smartphones even when offline, and is available both as a hosted Software as a Service (via RhoHub) and as on-premises…
ColorWare BlackBerry Torch 9800 Customizations Now Available
If you’ve got a BlackBerry Torch 9800 in-hand, and want to kick things up a notch or two on the customization scale… it looks like you’re in luck. ColorWare has just announced that the Torch 9800 is available for your color customization needs. You can send in your device for $250, or buy a new…
TELUS HTC Desire Temporarily Out of Stock
I pegged the TELUS HTC Desire as a hot seller (in my mind). To backup my case, Simon posted a mostly glowing review of the device… in fact, if you give the review a look, you might even catch Simon say something like ‘why do I use BlackBerry again?’. Check it out and give his…
The Weather Channel App for iPhone Goes to Version 3.0
The Weather Channel, One of the best (if not the best) weather apps for iPhone was updated the other day, and I figured it was worth a mention here. This latest version brings the app up to version 3.0, and it packs a couple of very new features. First of these new features is something…
Truphone slashes calling rates
I’m not sure is it a response to the wildly popular VoIP phone calls Google has introduced recently, but whatever the reason is – we salute Truphone‘s move to slash calling rates. The new rates are now as low as 2.1 cents per minute, meaning that calls to some of the most popular destinations such…
Gameloft unveils H1 2010 results: 11% sales growth, net profit up 140%!
We don’t usually post financial results of the gaming publishers but somehow Gameloft is an exception. The reason is simple – they point us to interesting trends which we (or that’s just me) think are worth sharing. First the boring numbers – the company achieved consolidated sales of €66.6 million for H1 2010, up by…