If you’re like many of us working types, you probably have at least two different phone numbers and voicemail inboxes to deal with. Some of you might even have two mobile phones on two distinct wireless accounts. So, to help the average Joe deal juggle all their phone lines, Google is looking to turn its…
Buzzwire adds March Madness content to its mobile website
Buzzwire has recently announced that it has spiced up its mobile website, m.buzzwire.com, with fresh content from the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Interested users can visit the optimized-for-mobile site to access the best mobile tournament sites to check scores, see video highlights, get analysis and much more — all while on-the-go. The Buzzwire March Madness…
mSpot consumer music website launched
mSpot has recently opened virtual doors of its consumer website, mSpot.com, featuring the company’s Make-UR-Tones service that allows users to edit, purchase, and download custom ringtones directly to their mobile devices. From the official release: To purchase ringtones, customers first select a favorite song from mSpot’s vast song collection, then employ the Make-UR-Tones intuitive editor…
Mercedes Benz does in-car Mobile TV in Italy
Mercedes has decided that it’s going to do a Mobile TV solution for the Italian car market – the Mercedes Classe B Special Edition, of which there are only going to be 500, is being sold in collaboration with Sky Italia, and Garmin (the Sat Nav manufacturer). So on board the car is a…
Europe gets movie downloads from Samsung
The iPhone helped reshape the way consumers view their handsets, but it also changed the way manufacturers are looking at the mobile space. It’s no longer good enough to have some bang-wizz hardware mated to some funky-cool user interface. No, these days, manufacturers have to offer more value and integration with multimedia services in order…
Mobile social address book Xumii launches iPhone app
The mobile social address book, Xumii, has recently released a free application for the Apple iPhone. Those not familiar should know that Xumii brings your contacts from social networks (like Facebook, MySpace, imeem, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, MSN and Flickr) to a single address book. As a result, you can see everyone’s status in…
Ballmer Says iPhone is Too Pricy for Mass Market
Even though the iPhone 3G is down to a somewhat reasonable $199 on most carriers, it’s still too much as far as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is concerned, and thinks the iPhone will ultimately fail at becoming a mass market device. “No one’s going to pay $500 more for a logo… iPhone is a very…
Nokia to close Mosh, integrate it to Ovi Store
We knew Nokia will combine/integrate Mosh, Download! and WidSets into its Ovi Store, but somehow I always thought Mosh will keep living a parallel life, considering it’s pretty much ran by the community. Guess I was wrong, as the Finnish giant is moving towards closing the service, which apparently had stoked tension between Nokia and…
Aircell cuts price on GoGo in-flight mobile data service
In-flight WiFi has the potential to save you from hours of agonizing boredom when flying to and fro. But, the lack of power ports and personal space in coach class can really make it hard to use your laptop for casual outings to the interwebs. Cramped and bored airline passengers looking to get hop on…
Tanla Mobile selected by AEG Live to provide mobile registration for Michael Jackson’s comeback tour
Following on from the Media frenzy that was the announcement and sale of tickets for Michael Jackson’s final shows in the UK, we have some Mobile-related news dovetailing in to it… Tanla Mobile was selected as AEG Live’s partner to provide a mobile short code and be involved in a mobile direct response campaign…