I can not believe what I just heard while listening to music this morning. Nokia is advertising their “Comes with Music” service on Spotify. That would be like Boeing putting up a billboard on the opposite side of the Taliban’s cave advertising free flying lessons. Or it would be like MySpace telling everyone who just…
Kirusa’s Call-N-Tweet service lets you speak your Twitter updates
I’m not sure just how “mobile” this news is, but it’s interesting nonetheless. The company called Kirusa has launched the Call-n-Tweet service, which allows Twitter users to send Voice Tweets (short audio snippets) to update their Twitter status! The service is still in alpha and is available to U.S. residents, only, but we expect it…
Google mobile web apps (GMail included) slightly changed, improved
Google has tweaked some of its mobile web apps for Android-powered smartphones and the iPhone. Affected services include GMail, Latitude, Calendar and Tasks. The whole point of the tweak is to make the services slightly user friendlier with a bit larger, darker buttons. The image above illustrates best what’s new, so I’ll stop there leaving…
Social networking set for explosive growth in Latin America and Africa due to increased use of mobile phones
Social networking in Latin America and Africa is set to increase ten-fold to 527 million users by 2015, according to research by Frost & Sullivan and Colibria. Within six years, the research company estimates the combined market will be worth almost $2.4 billion, with growth being driven by increased availability of the mobile internet. In…
Opera State of the Mobile Web October 2009: 39.6 million people accessed 17.2 billion pages
As we near the end of the month, it is time to read the latest “State of the Mobile Web” from Opera. Thanks to Opera Mini’s server-client architecture, the Opera folks in Norway have the ability to provide detailed analytics and insight as to what is popular in various parts of the world. This month’s…
Text to Piss: SMS enabled public toilets in Copenhagen, Denmark
Denmark. Beautiful country, filled with beautiful people, and one of the leaders in green thinking. Like many countries in Europe, Denmark’s public toilets are not free. This explains why no one goes out for a nice walk on Sunday morning, those are not rain puddles if you catch my drift. The capital of Denmark, Copenhagen,…
Taptu releases an Android application, makes mobile search touch friendly [Verdict: Who cares?]
Taptu has grown up quite a lot since I last played with their service. In my September 2007 review I said: “If you’re adapt at Google (NSDQ: GOOG) than Taptu may or may not be useful to you. Simply adding words such as “wiki” or “lyrics” after a search query usually makes Google get an…
Google adds coupons to the mobile local search
I’m not sure whether to call an end of the mobile coupon services, but when Google enters your market, you know there’s a reason to worry. On that note, the search giant is bringing coupons to the mobile local search, just in time for the holiday season. So, if a business adds a mobile coupon…
Onebox announces BlackBerry and iPhone apps
Onebox — a service that brings voice, fax, email and conference calling together into a suite of communications services — is mobilizing its offering with dedicated apps for the BlackBerry and iPhone platforms. These applications are designed to extend the functionality of Onebox’s web-based interface for mobile users, adding “Message Center” access, voicemail search/display/playback, voice-to-text…
Video: 6.5 minute Nokia Money demonstration
Nokia Money, which was announced in August, and is expected to launch in Q1 2010, is being shown off in the video below by Waltteri Karhusari at the Nokia “Way We Live Next” conference in Finland. The UI is fairly basic, but that’s do to the demo being done on a fairly low end device.…