TerreStar has announced the successful launch of TerreStar-1 – the world’s largest, most advanced commercial communications satellite. Today’s launch is a major achievement in TerreStar’s strategic vision of delivering voice, data and video services on an all IP next-generation mobile broadband network that combines the power of TerreStar-1, an all-IP core network, and the latest…
Flirtomatic gives users targeted exposure with Flirt-words
Flirtomatic has announced the launch of its Flirt-word service. The new service gives users the opportunity to buy the rights to a certain word for a 24-hour period, giving them the chance to be ‘hot’, ‘cool’, ‘London’ or anything else for the day. For the last six weeks, Flirtomatic has given users the ability to…
Remember The Milk iPhone app gets push notifications
Now that the iPhone 3.0 OS is live, we’re starting to see a flood of updates for the existing apps. One of the most popular to-do list management apps/services, Remember The Milk, is no exception and it now supports push notifications, enabling “instant task reminder alerts to your device.” Aside from this important and way…
NTT DoCoMo to launch PayPal-like service on July 21st
NTT DoCoMo is joining the mobile money market with its own remittance service. Starting from July 21st, individual users (as opposed to corporate customers) of the carrier’s i-mode service will be able to remit up to 20,000 yen (about $208) per transfer by simply inputting the payee’s mobile phone number. The payee then receives a…
GyPSii secures “friend finding” patent in the EU
GyPSii has announced that it has secured EU-wide “friend finding” patent, which describes the transmission of location-based information between devices and the subsequent publishing of that information for viewing on a map. From the press release: This significant Friend Finding patented technology enables GyPSii users to locate and share information with friends to view on…
Wattpad adds support for Android phones, too
Wattpad keeps conquering new mobile platforms. After BlackBerry and iPhone, the popular “YouTube For Ebooks” is hitting the Android world, too. A dedicated application is available in the Android Market, using which users can discover new ebooks, share their collection with the world, and download ebooks other people have shared. According to Wattpad, each month…
SHAPE Services updates GPSed for all platforms
Some time ago we wrote about SHAPE Services’ trip-trackin’ app GPSed for the iPhone. Well, it has been updated recently, not just for Apple’s handset, but for all other platforms supported — including BlackBerry, Java ME and Windows Mobile. Among the features GPSed 1.4 packs are: Ability to attach a photo directly from the application.…
GyPSii makes JavaME app available in English, updates its BlackBerry and iPhone apps, and debuts in the Ovi Store
The folks behind the popular mobile social networking service, GyPSii have been busy these days. As a matter of fact they had few news items to share with us: There’s now an English version of GyPSii JavaME mobile app, which works on feature phones; BlackBerry and iPhone apps have been updated; GyPSii now lives in…
Vringo and Innova Group deliver video ringtone service to VivaCell-MTS
Vringo and its partner, Innova Group, have announced a partnership with Armenia’s leading mobile operator VivaCell-MTS. Through the partnership, Vringo’s video ringtone service will be available to more than 2,000,000 mobile subscribers of VivaCell-MTS in Armenia through a co-branded VivaCell-MTS-Vringo online platform and will constitute the first deployment of such innovative and stimulative technology in…
Google Launches SMS Services in Africa
Google has just launched three new SMS services geared specifically towards Africa: Search, Trade and Tips. There are already plenty of SMS Google services available in North America and elsewhere, but Africans’ needs require a little bit of tweaking. Tips, which can be accessed by texting 6001, is broken down into three subections: Clinc Finder…