Handango is teaming up with Best Buy to bring smartphone apps to Best Buy’s retail stores nationwide. Through the partnership, Handango will offer Best Buy Mobile customers its content catalogue for Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Palm, and Symbian S60 smartphones. As a result, the apps now can be purchased for specific devices at the point of…
RIM Acquires Chalk Media
RIM has just gobbled up a solution developer by the name of Chalk Media, who allow enterprises to push content (video, text, images and otherwise) to their workforce’s BlackBerrys, as well as receive feedback and statistics on its usage. The acquisition cost upwards of $CAN 23,125,000, or $0.142 per share, and should be fully completed…
Ericsson and 3 Scandinavia to bring first 21Mbps mobile broadband network to Europe
Ericsson and 3 Scandinavia have signed a contract to upgrade the operator’s HSPA network to 21 Mbps downlink speeds. This will raise mobile broadband speeds in Scandinavia to a new level by dramatically improving quality and capacity. The upgrade will give 3’s customers improved access to mobile broadband services, including Internet and downloading of music…
Blockbuster, Microsoft team up on mobile video
Bluckbuster is co-operating with Microsoft to bring video to handsets and other portable devices. The idea is to allow customers to get their content from wherever they want, hence the movie rental chain wants to rely on the Redmond giant’s Live Mesh data synchronization software platform. In an interview to The Dallas Morning News, Blockbuster’s…
Clearwire and Sprint close WiMAX deal, launches Clear WiMAX service in Portland
Sprint Nextel has been working to go live with its WiMAX service in the US, and it looks like WiMAX is about to become a reality for some areas of the US. Sprint and Clearwire have finalized their deal to combine WiMAX network assets and roll out a nationwide 4G WiMAX wireless network, just in…
Land Rover to enter mobile phone game next year with rugged handsets
What better way to show the world that you and your Land Rover SUV really do get down and dirty than with a rugged Land Rover-branded mobile phone? Following in the footsteps of fellow SUV-maker Hummer’s move to push their own-branded cellphones, Land Rover has apparently teamed up with Sonim to offer water-, temperature- and…
HTC acquires One & Co. for iconic handset designs
HTC has been on something of a hardware-blitz recently. The HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch Pro represent a distinct departure from HTC’s usual design philosophy. But, just how did HTC manage to push out one of this year’s most iconic handset designs? HTC had San Francisco-based lifestyle consultancy firm One & Co. design the…
RIM Attempting to Buy Out Security Firm for $66 Million
As if RIM’s BlackBerrys weren’t secure enough, they’re initiating a takeover bid for Certicom, a security firm based out of Mississauga, Ontario. Certicom has worked with RIM in the past to provide public-key and elliptic curve cryptography technology to BlackBerrys, but they’re holding onto upwards of 350 juicy security patents, ones used by even the…
Yahoo OneSearch coming to T-Mobile phones in the USA?
File this under “rumors,” but according to a report from InfoWorld, T-Mobile USA is in talks with Yahoo to include their OneSearch product pre-installed on some of the T-Mobile handsets. And while this is far from being confirmed at this stage, it would make sense for T-Mobile not to put all eggs in a single…
Verizon bringing mobile magic to Walt Disney Parks in the U.S.
Verizon is teaming up with WaltDisney Parks and Resorts to “enhance the guest experience” before, during and after guests arrive at Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort in the U.S. As a result, guests will have a personal tour guide in their mobile phones along with new services at the parks. Beginning next year,…