Motorola and Nokia jointly announced that the companies have entered into a 4G license agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies have extended the companies’ existing intellectual property licensing agreement to include 4G technologies, such as LTE, WiMAX and LTE-Advanced. The terms of the agreement are confidential. Plus we have comments from…
Google displaces Yahoo as T-Mobile’s mobile search provider in Europe
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…
GetGlue Partners with HBO for In-Store Discounts on True Blood Swag
Entertainment check-in app GetGlue has cemented their existing partnership with HBO even further by today offering in-store discounts to fans of the series True Blood. Anybody using GetGlue to check-in their viewing of True Blood gets 10% right off the bat, but anyone who does so regularly and earns the Fan badge gets 15% off…
Opera to participate in Open Screen Project; Flash coming to their mobile browsers?
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…
Sybase 365, Western Union team-up to support mobile wallet platforms
Sybase 365 is extending its partnership with Western Union, with the completion of the Western Union Mobile Vendor certification process. The alliance will enable Sybase 365 to support Western Union services in its mobile wallet platforms and enable mobile operators and financial institutions to mobilize Western Union Money Transfers to users all around the world…
Opera Mini to get content filtering capabilities thanks to partnership with NetSweeper
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…
NTT DoCoMo, Pioneer team-up on smartphone navigation
NTT DoCoMo and Pioneer Corporation are teaming-up to work on navigation services compatible with the “docomo Drive Net” service in Japan. Under the agreement, a mobile car-navigation application for smartphones, docomo Drive Net powered by Carrozzeria, will be developed by Pioneer and offered by DOCOMO starting from the fourth quarter of the fiscal year ending…
Microsoft to Acquire Adobe to Team Up Against Apple?
Rumour has it that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen had a chat recently about how to deal with iPhone in the mobile marketplace, and whether an acquisition between the two companies was an option. Both have good reason to be aggressive towards Apple: Steve Jobs has laid out in plain English…
Fifth Third Processing Solutions teams up with Bling Nation to bring mobile payments to the U.S. financial institutions
Payment solutions provider Fifth Third Processing Solutions is teaming-up with mobile payments experts Bling Nation to allow virtually any financial institution that is part of the Fifth Third Processing Solutions network to enable the Bling services for their financial institutions’ debit card customers. The main idea is to provide clients of Fifth Third Processing Solutions…
Skype names new CEO – Will mobile be a priority?
It looks like Skype will be swiping Cisco executive Tony Bates as its CEO and he will be heading a company which has the opportunity to be a major disruptor in the mobile space. Skype has more than 560 registered users and about 124 million of those use the VoIP-calling service on a monthly basis.…