Recently, I’ve came across Mobilehood – a new service designed to connect users by allowing them to share mobile content with the rest of the world. As a member you can share ringtones, wallpapers, videotones and screensavers — and/or download any of those, absolutely free. In a nutshell, it’s a social network designed around mobile…
Local.com, Virgin Mobile USA launch Local Mobile directory service
Local.com and Virgin Mobile USA recently launched the Local Mobile service, an ad-supported local mobile site that provides users with easy access to directory services and search results for local businesses, products and services via their mobile internet service. Local Mobile enables users to access: Local business information based on simple “what” and “where” directory…
Okay Skype we get your message: call cheaply abroad from your Mobile!
Well you can’t put down a try-er can you? Skype are nothing if not persistent with hammering home the message of calling abroad cheaply, using your Mobile (on 3UK!). They have now got quite a range of handsets with the Skypephone S1 and S2 (review here), and also the just-released INQ1. This is in addition…
T-Mobile Sued for HotSpot@Home Patent Infringement
T-Mobile could find themselves in some hot water as patent-holder Calypso Wireless begins legal actions to protect their cellular-to-Wi-Fi handoff technology. T-Mobile’s HotSpot@Home lets subscribers have unlimited calling when using their Wi-Fi-capable handset within their home Wi-Fi network, or when using one of T-Mobile’s thousands of hotspots across the U.S. The tricky part is making…
Verizon Wireless offers Photobucket mobile photo uploading app
Verizon Wireless and Photobucket announced a new mobile photo service to allow users with select devices to upload photos to a Photobucket album directly from their mobile phones. To utilize the application, users first need to sign up for a Photobucket account and enter their log-in information to link their Verizon Wireless account to their…
Phone as airline boarding pass coming to American Airlines
The US airline industry, with airlines still using decades-old planes and FAA air-control computers running less processing power than the smartphone that’s being used to write this post, isn’t exactly quick to adopt new technologies. But, they’re slowly starting to catch on. In their search to attract more customers and streamline operations, American Airlines has…
INQ1 – “The World’s Most Advanced Social Networking Phone”
INQ¹, the world’s most advanced social networking mobile phone, is unveiled today and brings Facebook to the core of its user experience. The phone will be available exclusively from 3. The Headlines for the device are: INQ, a new mobile handset manufacturer backed by Hutchison Whampoa, unveils first device based on a radical new user…
Visual Voicemail Coming to the T-Mobile G1 via PhoneFusion’s Fusion Voicemail Plus App
PhoneFusion announced today an upcoming Fusion Voicemail Plus app that will bring visual voicemail to the T-Mobile G1 handset. The app will let G1 users centralize their voicemail boxes in one place, and allow them to visualize voicemail messages right on their screen. Louis Libin, CEO of PhoneFusion commented: “Our Fusion Voicemail Plus application is…
ABI Research: 82 million location-based mobile social networking users by 2013
According to ABI Research, mobile location-based social networking is expected to become a key driver for the uptake of location-based services as it provides a unifying framework for a large set of applications such as friend finders, local search and geo-tagging. The research company argues that while many LBS applications will include features allowing the…
Synchronica launches SimpleMail, push email solution for feature phones
Synchronica has recently announced a new consumer push email solution for feature phones called Synchronica SimpleMail, which they tout as an ideal service for mobile operators in emerging markets. That being said, they [Synchronica] also announced license agreements for the new technology with two mobile operators in emerging markets and has received an expansion order…