AT&T released a new AT&T Music application that combines popular mobile music services such as song and album downloads, streaming radio, song match, lyric search and an enhanced music player – into a single application. The new application allows users to: Listen to 40 commercial-free genre radio stations; Customize unlimited personal radio stations; Use song…
AdMob unveils results of its developer survey
While AdMob was announcing its first developer’s conference, they also invited all interested companies and individuals to fill out a special survey. And voila… the results are here: 31% of AdMob developers are working across multiple mobile platforms today and almost half (47%) said they plan on developing on more than one platform in the…
GSMA pilots mobile spam reporting tool
The GSMA is piloting a solution to address mobile spam, which is a growing issue for both consumers and mobile operators. The GSMA Spam Reporting Service will provide a worldwide clearinghouse of messaging threats and misuse which have been reported by mobile users. Here’s how it works (from the press release): The GSMA Spam Reporting…
DVB-H Mobile TV service replaced by Swisscom
Another ones bites the dust – well that’s my thinking anyway, since it really isn’t going to be too long before all DVB-H services are switched off, or marginalised to the point of irrelevance. Case in point: Swisscom, who have replaced their DVB-H service (as reported by Broadband TV News) with one using packet-switched data. The…
BBC pushing iPlayer to your Mobile
The other night I happened to be watching TV (time-shifted, of course), when I caught an Advert for the iPlayer. Nothing special you might think, but in this case it was an Ad I’ve not seen before, and was focusing on Mobile devices for service delivery. Cool! The pic above is an on-the-fly snap I…
Slacker Radio goes Windows Mobile; Coming pre-loaded on the HTC HD2 from T-Mobile USA
Slacker is out with a Windows Mobile client, which is debuting pre-installed on the HTC HD2 from T-Mobile USA. In addition to the HD2, the application is designed for work with any WVGA touchscreen-equipped WinMo smartphone, and I presume version of the application that works with smaller screen devices is in works as we speak.…
Yowza!! now allows any business to offer mobile coupons
Yowza!! is expanding its mobile couponing service to reach small businesses that haven’t before had the opportunity to take advantage of this growing trend. Interested companies can sign-up from a dedicated page, where they will be prompted to list their location and then present their offers to the world. The new service costs local businesses…
Novatel Wireless’ NovaDrive brings cloud-based storage to MiFi users
Novatel Wireless has officially launched NovaDrive application/service for its MiFi “Intelligent Mobile Hotspot” product. I’m saying officially, as we’ve seen them demoing the service at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, when they also announced apps for MiFi. The new service, powered by Nomadesk technology, allows MiFi users to share, synchronize, encrypt, backup and store…
MetroPCS’ music store coming in H2 2010, compliments of RealNetworks
MetroPCS will be launching its own music store called MetroMusic Store in the second half of the year. RealNetworks’ Media Entertainment Platform will be used to power the fully branded store, making it easy for subscribers to find, play and manage their digital content. That’s the main news. The rest of the press release talks…
Opera counting the time it takes until Opera Mini is approved by Apple to go into the App Store
Opera has some serious balls, and judging by people’s reactions to the video they posted yesterday of Opera Mini running on the iPhone, we know where they’ve found this immense source of confidence. Their product is spectacular, but they can’t offer it to consumers without the thumbs up or thumbs down from Steve Jobs and…