This year’s Mobile World Congress has its own social network. Zerista is the company behind the solution, which is made for all parties at the show — attendees, exhibitors, press, etc. — and can work on any web-enabled device. Here are the highlights: Smart mobile feed that combines filtered public social media channel with private…
Sprint offers 60,000 free apps from GetJar’s catalog
Sprint is teaming up with GetJar to bring more than 60,000 free apps from GetJar’s catalog to its users. Under the deal, Sprint has linked to GetJar catalog from its mobile portal (in the “downloads” category) and I’m guessing this is only the first step – the final deal should involve making a private-label store…
IKIVO launches Enrich 4, UI framework/toolset
IKIVO has released Enrich 4 UI framework/toolset for the mobile handset and consumer electronics market. According to the official release, it provides best-in-class performance through a combination of software- and hardware-accelerated rendering (including OpenVG and OpenGL ES), optimized for each specific device. I’m not sure how that exactly works, but hey, that’s why I’m going…
Opera: We have 50 million people using Opera Mini at least once a month now
There is a debate as to how companies should define their metrics, without including a lot of hype. The definition of an “active user” that Facebook has, is not the same that Google, or even Nokia have. For Opera, an active user of Opera Mini is one who uses the application at least once a…
RealNetworks to streamline Sprint’s music-related offerings into a single mobile store
RealNetworks scored a deal with Sprint to make them a digital music storefront, which will combine all of the carrier’s existing music-related offerings — including ringtones, ringback tones and full-track music. The two companies will work together to provide the “same choice and convenience to customers that Sprint provides across all its mobile services, while…
T-Mobile UK trialing iSkoot Notifier, social media app
T-Mobile UK is trialing iSkoot Notifier, a free social media application that allows users to simplify their mobile social networking with a single app. In addition to singing along popular social networking services such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter – Notifier also provides access coupled with real-time notifications for over 50 customer-selected feeds. In real-life…
Derdack launches SMS/MMS application store solution for carriers
Mobile messaging platform provider Derdack unveiled the latest version of its message master nx solution, enabling carriers to transfer the “app store concept” to SMS/MMS messaging. In other words, Derdack’s solution is made for all mobile phone users, not only those with smartphones. Here’s how it works (from the press release): message master nx uses…
WordPress Mobile now available, free and open source, for BlackBerry, Android and iPhone; Nokia soon!
WordPress, the gold standard in blogging platforms, has just announced that they now have WordPress applications for RIM’s BlackBerry platform, Google’s Android, and the iPhone. They’re all free, and they’re all open source, so the community can help make them better. They’ve also announced that in a few weeks they’ll be playing with Qt and…
Loopt now integrates local deals and coupons in San Francisco
Mobile social networking service Loopt has expanded its offering with local deals. I guess they needed to expand and eventually monetize their offering, and is there a more obvious way than providing users with local deals and coupons? I don’t think so. 😉 Mobile Spinach is Loopt’s “partner in crime” and it provides users with…
Motorola Ventures leads a new round of investment in social music player – TuneWiki
Motorola Ventures, the company’s VC arm, is leading a new round of investment in TuneWiki, the company behind the popular social media music player. In addition, four other VCs participated in the round, including Intellect Capital Ventures (TeliaSonera’s VC company), HillsVen Capital, Novel TMT and Benchmark Israel. TuneWiki will use the new money to expand…