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A survey commissioned by dotMobi, the people who are trying to push the world to register URLs that end in .mobi so that users know that a specific site is going to work properly on their mobile phone, has found that the amount of mobile websites has increased from 150,000 in 2008 to 3.01 million…
Deutsche Telekom and Google are teaming-up in a deal that would see the search giant providing mobile search services to T-Mobile users across Europe. The deal has already started, making Google the pre-selected search partner for mobile phone internet searches by T-Mobile’s European customers. Moreover, Google can be quickly accessed from the operator’s “web’n’walk” portal…
If you’re jonesing for a T-Mobile G2 (check out our excellent review) but can’t see yourself committing to two, long years, T-Mobile has your back with a slate of new prepaid voice and data offerings. The fourth-largest U.S. carrier is now offering multiple prepaid monthly phone data plans and these are pretty well-priced: $70/month Unlimited…
Facebook is using SMS and texting to try and make logging in more secure. On its blog, the world’s largest social network said: Simply text “otp” to 32665 on your mobile phone, and you’ll immediately receive a password that can be used only once and expires in 20 minutes. In order to access this feature,…
Opera Software announced its participation in the Adobe-led Open Screen Project, which consists of more than 70 industry leaders who are working together to make Flash run on an array of platforms and devices. The maker of the wildly popular Opera Mini browser said that partnership with Adobe “ensures compatibility and easy deployment for OEM…
Opera Software is teaming-up with NetSweeper to provide added security and Internet content filtering to operators who ship and distribute the Opera Mini browser. Using the new technology, mobile operators will be able to block phishing, fraud, viruses, trojans, malware, access to adult content or other sites and services that are deemed inappropriate. Likewise, they…
Opera Software is joining the mobile ad market with the newly launched Open Mobile Ad Exchange service, offering cloud-based advertising on both feature phones and smartphones. There are now about 66.5 million Opera Mini users, making it the world’s largest mobile audience. Here are the key features of the new service: Publishers maximize their revenue…
BitStream’s Bolt browser has been updated to version 2.3, which includes new features like syncing with the cloud so you can get links to all of your favourite sites restored whenever you switch devices. The last update handled HTML5 and Flash video streaming, but 2.3 is tacking on audio streaming as well – handy for…
Verizon Wireless has agreed to send refunds to more than 15 million customers which were wrongly charged for Internet access. The total could end up being over $90 million, Verizon said. The beef was that many Verizon customers would accidentally hit some buttons on their phone which would access the Internet of the Verizon V…
Web discovery service StumbleUpon has just gone mobile with their first Android and iPhone apps. As you can expect, the applications allow you to rate pages, set stumble preferences and categories (like photos, YouTube, and news), all while keeping in sync with your existing StumbleUpon account. For those times you find some especially cool stuff,…