I wrote a post the other day about how (apparently) the BBC were none too amused that Apple isn’t willing to budge in terms of licensing FairPlay DRM. The context of the post was that the BBC iPlayer team, on the back of uproarious success in the last 12 months, were seeking to add download…
dotMobi announces Instant Mobilizer, an easy solution for small busineses to “go mobile”
has recently announced Instant Mobilizer, a new service created to help small and medium businesses reach their customers quickly and affordably through the mobile web. Without any need for technical knowledge or development efforts, Instant Mobilizer automatically converts a small business’s existing PC site to ensure the best customer experience regardless of phone model or…
Juniper Research: More than 400 million mobile ticket users by 2013
According to the latest study by Juniper Research, there will be over 400 million mobile subscribers worldwide that will use their mobile phones for ticketing by 2013. The report found that the leading sector will be transport, followed by entertainment and then sporting events. The Far East and China region is leading the market, driven…
Virgin America to debut fleet-wide in-flight WiFi early next year
Chalk up another airline to add to Aircell’s growing list of customers expected to offer in-flight WiFi internet connectivity. Virgin America, voted “Best Domestic Airline” in Condé Nast Traveler’s 2008 Readers’ Choice Awards, has announced that it will be rolling out Aircell’s GoGo in-flight WiFi service throughout its entire US-based fleet. Virgin America has been…
Qualcomm and Amobee deliver Ads in Widgets
Amobee Media Systems and Qualcomm have announced that they are partnering to enable Ads in mobile widgets, distributed by Qualcomm’s Plaza platform. Given the growth in popularity of widgets, this is potentially quite an impactful event for the Mobile Internet. As we know, widget are (typically) mini-apps that have some kind of stovepipe task –…
Truphone goes BlackBerry
Truphone has recently launched a beta of its mobile internet telephony service, Truphone Anywhere, for BlackBerry smartphones. The service works in 33 countries worldwide and it’s designed to save BlackBerry users’ money on international calls. The service works alongside domestic service providers, but reduces international call costs to as little as $0.06 per minute. Here’s…
GooSync releases Google gadgets for contact and task management
If you’re relying on to keep you calendar in sync with GCal, you may want to use their service for contact and task synchronization as well. Until now, in order to manage your contacts and tasks, you needed to login to their website and modify task and calendar entries from there. Luckily, GooSync is a…
UK: BA rolls out check-in via Mobile
British Airways has rolled out check-in via your Mobile for those people with InterWeb access. The serivce apparently allows users to get up-to-date flight arrival/departure info, as well as select seats, and check yo’self in within 24 hrs of departure. This leads on nicely from the iPhone app – in fact, I think the iPhone…
Turkey’s Avea launches video ringtone service
Vringo has announced an agreement with Turkish mobile operator Avea to provide Turkey’s first video ringtone service. Touted as the world’s first carrier-led video ringtone subscription service, it allows Avea’s subscribers to grab Vringo’s video ringtone application and from there pick any of the more than 4,000 video ringtones. Vringo and Avea are launching the…
RoadSync 4.0 for S60 adds support for HTML email, tasks, contact photos and more!
DataViz is out with the latest version of their Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync client, RoadSync 4.0. This version is the first Exchange ActiveSync solution to richly display HTML formatted e-mails on all Symbian S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 and Feature Pack 2 mobile devices. In addition, new features include tasks and contact photo synchronization, pop-up…