Opera Mini 5 Beta, one of my favorite mobile applications of all time, has come out for Google’s Android operating system. Usually I’d be thrilled about this, but after installing it this morning and having a go with it, I’m really disappointed. The font rendering is terrible compared to the default browser on my Nexus…
Ovi Mail now integrated with Contacts and available in Arabic
Ovi Mail 2.0 is out and the big news is integration of Ovi Mail contacts and Ovi Contacts into a single list. You can view, edit, delete or create new contacts from both Ovi Contacts or Ovi Mail, as well as sync your mobile phonebook with any (or both) of the services. According to Nokia…
SMS Text Messages Sent En Masse Thanks to Betwext
Betwext has just launched a new SMS text message service that allows you to send a single message to multiple recipients. They’re calling it n SMS chat room, but if you were to take on an e-mail analogy, this would be like adding CC: and Reply All features to SMS. Those registered with Betwext would…
OpenFeint’s Free Game of the Day generates 5 million iPhone game downloads in a month
OpenFeint, which is known as an iPhone’s social gaming network, is launching a dedicated website for its Free Game of the Day program that until now was available only inside the OpenFeint iPhone app. Their idea is simple – there are more than 120,000 applications and games in the AppStore and users have hard time…
Vodafone’s unified comms solution wins at European IT Excellence Awards 2010
Vodafone UK have announced it has won ‘The European Unified Communications Solution of the Year’ title at this year’s European IT Excellence Awards, held in London late last week. Vodafone was presented with the award for its unified communications solution for Carole Nash Insurance. By overhauling the motorcycle insurance specialists’ call centre operations, Vodafone’s solution…
World’s First Third Party Help Desk for Smartphones
AetherPal has announced that Scicom has become the first helpdesk to install the AetherPal remote control solution for Smartphone support. Using AetherPal, Scicom will be able to remotely handle and resolve any issues that occur on a Smartphone, independent of its location. Mobile subs should experience faster Trouble Ticket resolution and will not need to…
Orange partners with Netvibes to offer world’s largest collection of mobile widgets
Orange and Netvibes have announced a partnership to bring the world’s largest collection of mobile widgets to all types of mobile phone user across an extensive range of handsets. Netvibes’ huge catalogue of nearly 200,000 real-time widgets will be available on Orange widgets, a service featuring on 80% of handsets shipped by Orange. It will…
comScore: 30.8% of smartphone users accessed social networking sites via their mobile browser in January 2010
According to hated-by-Jason Calacanis, comScore, 30.8% of smartphone users accessed social networking sites via their mobile browser in January 2010, which is 8.3 points more from one year ago. Facebook grew 112% in the past year, while Twitter experienced a 347% jump. 11.1% of all mobile phone users accessed a social networking site via mobile…
Truphone acquires Australia’s Startel Communications, enters wholesale agreement with Optus
Mobile VoIP service provider Truphone is on the rage, expanding to Australia as we speak. The company announced two things: Their first press release (PDF) announces the acquisition of Startel Communications, which is a specialised mobile and fixed line telecommunications provider to Australian businesses and consumers. Truphone will take advantage of Startel’s large distribution network…
AppShup is an SMS app store for emerging markets
SMS GupShup, Asia’s 25 million user-strong mobile social network, launched an app store called AppShup to promote and distribute SMS applications. Here’s how it works (their words): The system requires developers to have only a basic knowledge of any programming language, understanding of web applications and familiarity with JSON and XML. Developers can use the…