When Google Goggles came out, it brought with it a lot of promises, a lot of hype, but failed to deliver an amazing experience. Letting you search via typing, speaking, and snapping photos is all well and good for people who want choice, but in most cases you type in what you want faster than…
Qtel to bring mobile money services across markets it serves
The Qtel Group announced plans to make mobile money services available for customers across its international operations, covering 17 countries and more than 53 million customers. The company wants a piece of the lucrative remittances from the Gulf region to Asian countries, but also to serve other mobile phone users in the region. In that…
Vopium now offer its mobile VoIP/Instant Messaging service as a white label solution
Denmark-based Vopium announced that it has started offering its Global Mobile VoIP and Messaging Service as a white label solution. The company also said that the first partner will be unveiled shortly. Those not familiar should know that Vopium offers easy to use (and affordable, since it’s VoIP) international mobile communication service that works from…
Ultrabrief: Nokia X6 16 GB to launch February 24th, new “Come Get Entertained” marketing campaign
Nokia is going to release the 16GB version of the X6, the version without “Comes with Music”, on February 24th in the United Kingdom. They’re going to be advertising it under a new campaign called “Come Get Entertained”. No word on price, but we’ll find out soon enough. For those unfamiliar with the Nokia X6,…
Good Technology to offer Quickoffice Mobile Office as part of Good for Enterprise
Good Technology announced that it is teaming up with Quickoffice, to bundle their popular Quickoffice Mobile Office Suite Viewer and Editor in its Good for Enterprise mobile collaboration and management suite. The idea is to enhance Good’s mobile client’s capability across platforms — including iPhone, Android, Microsoft Windows Mobile and Symbian. In other words, by…
SEVEN unveils Ping services to “push enable” messaging, social networking and apps
Mobile cloud services are set to boom and smart companies know that. Hence, we have SEVEN — which is usually known for its push email solutions — launched a new suite of services called Ping to allow operators and handset makers to “push enable” messaging and social networking on a range of devices, feature phones…
EPIX teams up with Adobe to bring its service to mobile users
EPIX — the service formed by such giants as Viacom’s Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Lionsgate — announced that it has added mobile capabilities to its multiplatform offer, “expanding the viewing experience across the third screen.” As a result, all interested parties (including cable, telco and satellite distributors) will be able to expand the EPIX…
Dial2Do launches an Android app
Dial2Do, the company/service which we already talked about in the past, launched its voice activated mobile app/service for the Android platform. Here’s how it works, and it’s not just how it works with Android smartphones (from the press release): The application intercepts incoming text messages so the driver does not even have to look at…
Noser launches DROIDcloud, a white label solution for Android mobile apps
Noser Commercialization for Android, a division of the Swiss based Noser Engineering which is one of founding member of the Open Handset Alliance, has launched a white label solution for Android mobile apps called DROIDcloud to allow carriers to offer branded products and services with each Android mobile device rollout, and eventually increase customer retention…
LG to pre-install Good Technology’s messaging software on many of its phones
Good Technology is teaming up with LG to include “Good for You” offering on a range of LG mobile phones across markets of Europe, Asia and Latin America. The first devices with Good’s software are also announced and they are GW520, GW550, GW620, GD510, GM730 and GM750. These phones packed with Good’s software will be…