ipadio is neat service that allows people to stream their voice to the Internet and/or record it for later playback. Once uploaded, the recording can be geo-located on a Google map, tagged, shared with the world, and later downloaded as an MP3 file. The service is free and easy to use. All you have to…
Austria’s A1 brings Nokia Messaging to its users, too
Nokia keeps announcing new partners for its Nokia Messaging offering. Latest carrier to jump on board is Austria’s A1, part of mobilkom austria, which will start offering the Finnish giant’s consumer email service starting from May 2009. As a result, A1 will offer users Nokia Messaging app/service bundled with a special plan of 5 EUR…
vufone syncronizes data between handsets and web services
vufone is brand new service, designed to help users share, manage and unify all the social content between their mobile devices and the Internet through a single interface. Launched in the UK, the service allows users to automatically synchronise and share their mobile content across the spectrum of popular social media websites such as Facebook,…
America Movil launches Nokia 5800 Comes With Music, too
Following Brazil, Nokia is launching its all-touchscreen 5800 XpressMusic handset bundled with Comes With Music offering in Mexico. Telcel subsidiary, America Movil, is the Finnish giant “partner in crime,” which will officially start offering the device through its Authorized Customer Centers and Authorized Distributors, starting from tomorrow, May 1st. The special version of the device…
MTS and Sicap team up to offer Dynamic SIM services in Belarus
MTS Belarus and over-the-air Device and SIM management specialists Sicap have today announced the imminent marketing of a new credit screening service for MTS prepaid customers.Sicap credit screening gives mobile users a zero-touch, always-on glance at their pre-paid balance. Real time information is enabled by connecting a Sicap over the air SIM applet to…
Air France trials NFC ticketing
According to Silicon.com, Air France is testing out NFC-enabled mobile boarding passes. It’s in pilot (no pun intended) right now, and the trial will run till October – with those who frequently fly between Nice and Paris being the Guinea Pigs Early Adopters 🙂 The NFC enablement means that passenger info can be read…
Handmark unveils Mobile Store Platform, mobile store solution for partners
Handmark, the company which we know for their PocketExpress application, has a new offering called Mobile Store Platform. Touted as the “turnkey solution for handset manufactures and carriers,” the platform offers interested parties an ability to launch their own native, on-device mobile store which is full of the best mobile games, apps, ringtones, themes and…
ABI Research: Personalized services to make $2.9 billion for carriers in 2011
Personalized mobile services are potentially a new revenue stream for carriers, according to a new ABI Research study. In 2008, service customization returned only about $806 million to operators, but by the end of 2011 it will deliver about $2.9 billion in annual operators revenue. Moreover, ABI argues this market will continue to grow strongly…
Get the Latest Swine Flu Updates by SMS
So long as you’re out stocking up on masks, alcohol hand cleaner, hazmat suits, ammunition and firearms for the apocalyptic swine flu pandemic to come, might as well get your mobile phone loaded up as well. By texting PIGFLU to 41411, and you’ll get pinged one to three times daily regarding CDC/WHO updates, information about…
Samsung Propel Pro gets push-email support from Good Technology
Good Technology, the company which Motorola sold to Visto, has recently announced that users of the AT&T’s Samsung Propel Pro are now able to use Good for Enterprise 6.0, the company’s “platform for managed mobile messaging and application access” which sings along Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino. From the press release: Mobile professionals will…