Mobile imaging software company Scalado is joining forces with Eastman Kodak Company for the newly announced SpeedTags technology, which will be implemented in Kodak’s upcoming KSP-720060 TRUESENSE enabled image signal processor (ISP), as well as follow-on stand-alone ISP companion chips. As a result, the future camera-equipped device — yap, that includes camera phones, too —…
Lenovo Syncs BlackBerry E-Mail to Laptop via Bluetooth
Lenovo has announced new laptop card that communicates with your BlackBerry via Bluetooth to sync up e-mail, ensuring you can still read and send full-bodied e-mails when you’re outside of a Wi-Fi zone. It’s a little curious, since Bluetooth internet tethering really isn’t that complicated, and certainly doesn’t necessitate a new piece of hardware. Constant…
Viigo Scores Vodafone Deal
There’s a dream that one day Viigo, a popular RSS reader and mobile content-delivery app, will someday be preinstalled on every BlackBerry. Well, the first steps are being made on that front, now that the boys out of Toronto have locked down a deal with Vodafone Australia to be their first Application Center app on…
ZTE extends its partnership with T-Mobile for handsets and data cards
/China-based ZTE announced that it has established a cooperation with T-Mobile for handsets and data card devices for mobile applications. The two companies declared a new strategic partnership spanning all the European markets of T-Mobile. The signing of the so called General Framework Agreement (GFA) emphasizes the intention to strengthen the cooperation between T-Mobile and…
Mobile industry unites for universal, energy-efficient chargers
You know how it goes when you switch from one handset maker to the other one? Your old cables are useless with the new phone. Handset makers know that but they don’t seem to care much. No more! At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the GSMA along with 17 leading mobile operators and manufacturers committed…
LG to pre-install GyPSii software on its devices
LG and GyPSii announced a partnership to embed GyPSii’s “location-enabled mobile digital lifestyle application” on a range of new mobile devices. Under the agreement, LG mobile phone users will have access to utilize GyPSii services — including user generated content sharing, friend finding and social networking application, as well as the ability to view it…
Blyk, Velti partner for new content service
Mobile marketing and content services technology provider Velti and ad-supported mobile operator Blyk have partnered to launch the new Blyk content portal called “On Blyk.” Built primarily on messaging, the new service is already available to Blyk’s UK customers. Here’s how “On Blyk” works (from the press release): The new portal acts as a conduit…
Opera Software strikes partnership agreements with Yahoo!, Vodafone
Opera Software just got stronger for two partnership. First they announced a deal with Yahoo! to bring Opera Mini to more mobile phone users around the world. Under the agreement, Yahoo! will distribute Opera’s Java ME browser via Yahoo! Mobile and also as a standalone download from Yahoo!’s mobile web sites. In the other news,…
Nokia, T-Mobile team-up on integrated mobile content marketplace
Nokia and T-Mobile issued a release today saying that they’ve agreed to promote together their respective offering for widgets, applications and other content. There are some things I don’t quite understand. Here’s an excerpt from the press release: The customer can browse and download widgets from both the T-Mobile widget gallery and Nokia’s Ovi Store…
Nokia announces new partnerships with Qualcomm and Broadcom
Today Nokia announced two partnership agreements. The first of the two involves Qualcomm, along with whom the Finnish giant will work together to develop “advanced UMTS mobile devices,” initially for North America. The idea is to use Nokia’s S60 platform and leverage Qualcomm’s advanced Mobile Station Modem MSM7xxx-series and MSM8xxx-series chipsets for “cutting-edge processing performance…