We’ve seen consolidation happening in the mobile advertising space and now the same is true for the analytics solution providers. In that sense we bring you this announcement involving Flurry and Pinch Media, which have signed a definitive agreement to merge. As a result, the new company’s analytics services will be running on more than…
shoot it! brings postcard messaging to the Android platform
shoot it! is bringing its postcard messaging application to the Android Market, allowing users to take a picture, create a personal message and send it as a real, paper postcard from anywhere to anyone in North America, Western Europe and parts of Asia (other countries coming soon). The application comes with an easy to use…
Vonage World plan now available for Vonage’s mobile app
Vonage is bringing its popular Vonage World calling plan to the users of its mobile app for iPhone/iPod Touch and BlackBerry devices. The plan includes unlimited international calls to over 60 countries for one flat monthly rate of $24.99 when calling from a mobile device. Subscribers also get free unlimited domestic calling over Wi-Fi on…
Bell Launches Visual Voicemail on BlackBerry
Good news, everyone! Visual voicemail on BlackBerry, a feature heretofore unseen north of the border, is now available to Bell Mobility customers. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, it allows you to cruise through your voicemail messages in a list, complete with dates and caller IDs, and listen to them on-demand, rather than having to…
BlackBerry Suffers Two Service Outages in One Week
Anyone on a BlackBerry will have noticed a few… irregularities in their e-mail delivery over the last couple of days. Two (some say three) separate data outages across North America have have rendered BlackBerrys as unresponsive and frustrating as their owners usually are at the dinner table. All data to and from BlackBerrys is routed…
Indonesia’s Telkomsel joins the Nokia Messaging scheme
And the latest carrier that will offer Nokia Messaging to its users is… Indonesia’s Telkomsel, which users will be able to sign-up for the service starting from December 26th. Nokia’s press release says Telkomsel is the first operator in the country to offer the service, as well as the first operator worldwide to offer Nokia…
Nokia Introduces Image Space
The latest out of Nokia’s wonderful, magical Beta Labs is Image Space, which stitches together pictures shared from their phone to Flickr into a 3D environment. By combining GPS coordinates and compass metadata, pictures are arranged and overlapped with one another to create a location-contextualized slideshow. Image Space is basically identical to what Google has…
Opera: State of the Mobile Web November 2009: 41.7 million users viewed 18.8 billion pages
Opera, the browser vendor based in Norway, has released their latest “State of the Mobile Web” report, based on Opera Mini usage. The top 10 countries using Opera Mini are: Russia, Indonesia, India, China, Ukraine, South Africa, United States, United Kingdom, Vietnam and Poland. In November 2009 Opera Mini had 41.7 million users who viewed…
Spotify updates its Symbian S60 app
We’ve already talked about Spotify for Symbian S60. The popular music service has released an updated version (0.3.22) of its client for the platform, fixing some of the known bugs and also adding support for new devices: Disappearing offline tracks bug is fixed Fix for the problem when adding tracks to existing playlists on touchscreens…
BlackBerry 8520 Announced for China Mobile Alongside IM and E-Mail Services
RIM has been making some serious inroads with China lately, between locking down a distribution deal with Digital China and China Telecom, but China Mobile is still the biggest deal. They kicked off with the BlackBerry 8700 awhile back, but we haven’t heard much about other BlackBerrys available in the area (although apparently the Curve…