Our friends from Mobispine announced a licensing agreement with Sony Ericsson to provide localized and categorized RSS feeds to all handsets the company delivers worldwide. Commenting on the deal, Mobispine’s CEO Dusyant Patel said: “By partnering with a respected industry leader like Sony Ericsson we can offer its end-users speedy access to localized content and…
Vringo brings its video ringtone service to France’s Bouygues Telecom
Following their deal with Turkish carrier Avea, Vringo announced that they have yet another operator on board – France’s Bouygues Telecom. Under the agreement, the two companies will bring Vringo’s video ringtone application to millions of French subscribers. The Vringo application, along with its burgeoning library of thousands of video ringtones, will be available for…
mFoundry-powered Alltel Wallet to debut next year
Alltel Wireless will launching the mobile wallet service powered by San Francisco, California-based mFoundry — the same company that powers mobile banking solutions for Verizon and Sprint. The so called Alltel Wallet will initially provide access to a consolidated mobile banking service, allowing customers to access a wide variety of financial institutions. mFoundry’s technology combines…
Juniper Research: Mobile betting is recession-proof; Set to hit $3.6 billion in 2009
Juniper Research’s latest report titled “Mobile Gambling: Casinos, Lotteries and Betting (5th edition)” argues that despite global economic recession, mobile gambling will perform strongly in 2009. In addition, the report found that total wagers on mobile phones will more than double in 2009, reaching more than $3.6 billion, where as user spending on mobile TV…
Nokia extends its mobile email offering
The new version of Nokia Maps is not the only service Nokia has introduced at this year’s Nokia World. The Finnish giant also introduced two messaging products/services: First comes Nokia Messaging, which mobilizes consumer email and instant messaging (IM) on Nokia devices. Once available (in Q1 2009), Nokia’s service will provide users with access to…
Nokia Music Store hits United Arab Emirates
Nokia keeps expanding its online music stores around the world. This time, though, they’re going outside Europe, bringing its service to the Middle East, to United Arab Emirates. As it’s the case with all other Nokia Music Stores opened elsewhere, the twelfth store globally is part of Nokia’s OVi offering, tightly integrated with Nokia NSeries…
Nokia Maps gets an update!
Nokia has released the updated version of its mobile mapping and navigation service – Nokia Maps. The same has “happened” to their “personalized online mapping experience” on Ovi, creating the first free service that allows people to pre-plan journeys from a PC and synchronize them with a mobile phone. In addition, the new version of…
Sprint Picture Mail updated to allow instant sharing to MySpace, Photobucket and YouTube
Sprint has recently announced an enhancement to Sprint Picture Mail to allow its customers to send photos and videos straight from their phones to popular social media sites, including MySpace, Photobucket and YouTube. The Picture Mail enhancement uses the VeriSign Xoomerang platform to provide uploads from the user’s Sprint phone to a variety of social…
Hotspot Shield ensures your data doesn’t get share while accessing Internet on the iPhone
Require additional privacy? Don’t want to leave your data on the table while surfing the web on your iPhone? Lucky you, AnchorFree made its popular Hotspot Shield security solution available for free for the iPhone users. Whether you’re using a 3G or WiFi, the application will keep Internet sessions 100% secure and anonymous. Hotspot Shield…
GyPSii now available on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
Popular geo-mobility social networking platform GyPSii has announced support for the latest Nokia’s touchscreen-enabled wonder – 5800 XpressMusic. According to GyPSii’s official release, they are the first location-based social networking application that works on the Tube. GyPSii members can uniquely experience a broad range of location-specific functions and mobile lifestyle services – including user generated…