It’s CTIA Wireless time and the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) is using the event to formally launch the MMA Canada Council, as part of its efforts to establish regional presence with local focus across the globe. The new council is led by Michael O’Farrell, Country Manager for the MMA; along with co-chairs Ross Buchanan, Director,…
Google Voice updated with push notifications
Ahh Google Voice, we meet again. Voice has a lot of things going for it, but shortly after the application was released for Android, I slowly realized that the downfall of it was its timing. While not horrible, having to wait an extra 15 made me just want to use the stock messaging application. one…
Kyocera Zio M6000 rocks Android, WVGA display and a low price!
In October 2009, Kyocera said their Android phones are coming, and at the CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas – they unveiled their first smart baby in years – Zio M6000. As it’s usually the case with Kyocera phones, they are not shooting for the stars — rather, they are made for the mass market. But…
AT&T WorkBench for iPhone is made to connect to AT&T’s cloud (Mobile Enterprise Applications Platform)
AT&T unveiled a new native iPhone application for enterprise users – AT&T Workbench, using which businesses can “easily provision, deploy and control enterprise web applications for work in a highly-secure, reliable and manageable fashion.” As an integral part of AT&T MEAP (Mobile Enterprise Applications Platform — essentially AT&T’s cloud), the application provides: Role-based deployment of…
Zerista launches mobile community platform at DEMO Spring 2010
Zerista — the company that powered the mobile social network for this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona — announced that it will launch what they say is the world’s first Mobile Community Platform at DEMO Sprint 2010. According to the press release (which I got via email, if you wonder), it’s the only hybrid…
Yahoo! to provide Telefonica’s Spanish mobile portal with search results, ads
Yahoo! scored a big contract in Europe, as it has signed an agreement with Telefónica España — Spain’s largest operator network — to power the mobile Internet search experience and sponsored search advertising on Telefónica’s emocion portal. The new deal builds on top of the earlier partnership deal Yahoo had with O2 Germany that was…
Verizon announces Skype Mobile application for select 3G phones
As promised, today Verizon Wireless and Skype announced Skype Mobile, an application that allows customers to call any of the 500 million customers for free. It was at Mobile World Congress that Verizon and Skype announced that they were joining forces, and now we the announcement of the goods to be shown Starting Thursday, the…
Hands-on the HTC EVO 4G – Well done, Sprint!
Sprint just unveiled the HTC EVO 4G as the first 4G (WiMAX) Android phone to hit the US scene, and you know what that means. Yup! It’s time to put our dirty mitts all over the latest media-monster from HTC. The HTC EVO 4G was previously known to us as the “Supersonic,” but Sprint apparently…
iPhone and iPod touch get the djay Remote App
algoriddim has today announced the release of djay Remote, an app that turns a user’s iPhone or iPod touch into a fully-fledged DJ controller. Wirelessly syncing with algoriddim’s djay software on the Mac, djay Remote enables users to mix and play their iTunes music, whether they’re mingling with guests or mixing it up on the…
LG Remarq Eco-Friendly, Coming to Sprint
Sprint has announced the LG Remarq at CTIA Wireless, their second eco-friendly phone after the Reclaim. The LG Remarq is a modest little slider with a 1.3 megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth, and a 16 GB-capable microSD memory card slot, but the whole phone is 87% recyclable, and is itself made of 19% post-consumer plastic. The…