Microsoft and CNBC have recently reached an agreement under which the Redmond giant will be the exclusive third-party provider of mobile WAP site display advertising to CNBC.com‘s U.S. mobile audience of 1.1 million unique monthly visitors. The software maker’s first mobile ad syndication deal in the U.S. will see Ford as one of the first…
Vodafone Spain and Qualcomm help the Elderly
The Vodafone España Foundation (FVE), the Spanish Red Cross (CRE) and Qualcomm have announced an alliance to launch a pilot project named “3G Connecting Generations.” The project aims to take advantage of HSPA broadband technology to connect the elderly to their caregivers and families by unifying voice and videoconferencing through a familiar device like television.…
EA and Eidos team up for Mobile Games
EA (Mobile) and Eidos have done a deal whereby Eidos will give EA the rights to mobile versions of some of its big name titles, such as Tomb Raider and Minesweeper. The complete list of (current) games also includes California Games X, and Just Cause 2. As well as this (!), EA will also get…
Video: Tennis player Caroline Wozniacki promotes Sony Ericsson W760
This isn’t the first time we’re seeing the teenaged Danish tennis player promoting a mobile phone for Sony Ericsson. Last time we saw Caroline Wozniacki playing against a transformer robot which was actually the W580 model. Now, the Swedish-Japanese handset maker has invited Caroline to make a video for their W760 Walkman phone, which is…
Sony Ericsson will use Zi Corp’s user input technology on the majority of its phones
Zi Corporation, which is also known as the T9 competitor in the text-input business, has announced that its long-time client, Sony Ericsson, has agreed to “significantly expand its existing licensing relationship” with them. This is good news for the Canada-based Zi Corp, as the new arrangement will increase their revenues up to 33% per year.…
Samsung bids $5.8 billion for SanDisk, gets rejected
Flash memory and the costs associated with integrating massive storage into higher-end mobile phones are apparently enough to drive one of the world’s largest mobile phone makers to put the moves on SanDisk. Rather than pay hundreds of millions of dollars a year in royalties to use SanDisk’s technology patents, Samsung has just made a…
Nokia N-Gage and Nokia Maps hitting Rogers Wireless
Nokia is teaming up with Rogers Wireless to bring its popular services, N-Gage and Nokia Maps, to the subscribers of the Canadian carrier. We’ve already covered both the N-Gage and Nokia Maps in the past, so I won’t go into much details there. I’ll only say that the first device sold through Rogers to support…
Greystripe to provide ad-supported games for NBC’s mobile websites
Greystripe scored a new partner, and it’s big one – NBC Universal. Under the partnership agreement, NBC will provide Greystripe’s entire catalogue of games on its mobile web properties. In addition, Greystripe will distribute select NBCU mobile game titles from Bravo, SCI FI Channel and NBC to users through their 100 distribution partners. Initially, Greystripe…
Yahoo! oneSearch now a default mobile search engine on AT&T MEdia Net
AT&T and Yahoo! announced it’s Yahoo! oneSearch that will power mobile Internet searches made through AT&T’s on-deck MEdia Net portal. Yahoo! oneSearch will provide customers who search AT&T MEdia Net with access to news, financial information, weather conditions, Flickr photos and Web images, as well as Web and mobile web sites. Yahoo! oneSearch will also…
Mobispine and Telenor team-up to deliver PC-to-mobile messaging to Swedish mobile subscribers
Our friends from Mobispine have recently announced that they’ve partnered with Telenor Sverige AB to offer Telenor’s mobile subscribers in Sweden the opportunity to send PC-to-mobile messages. Apparently, this technology will be particularly useful for corporations who frequently send (or want to send) SMS and MMS to customers and will also be embraced by consumers…