I’m not sure whether you’re familiar with Lala, but basically they provide a neat service allowing users to upload their music collection to the web and access it from anywhere. And now they’re extending their offering with a new 10-cent a song deal. Before you jump from your chair, let me add that 10 cents…
Vodafone and O2 launching mpass payment service in Germany
O2 and Vodafone are launching the new mpass payment service in Germany, allowing more than 70 million bank and mobile phone customers in the country to “enjoy secure online shopping on their mobile phone or PC.” Retailers are also convinced of the benefits associated with mpass and so far a number of them [retailers] have…
T-Mobile USA 3G coming to Memphis, Tampa and Washington D.C.
We can’t help but rejoice on T-Mobile USA’s news of new areas where users can finally use 3G. After “going 3G” in Sacramento, California this week, the Deutsche Telekom owned mobile operator wowed to speed-up its network in Memphis, Tennessee and Tampa, Florida during next week. Afterwards, Washington D.C. is slated to get some 3G…
Channel 10 and nana10 launch a mobile video portal
Israeli Channel 10 (the second largest TV Channel in Israel), with its Internet arm nana10 (www.nana10.co.il), launched a mobile video portal – *977. The digits 977 stand for the Hebrew word for “ten” which is the name of the channel … With the launch of Channel 10’s portal added to the existing services of Blockbuster…
Hutchison coming to market with INQ Mobile devices
GSMworld.com has an interesting story about a new mobile handset player coming to market, backed by a seriously big parent company. The vendor will be called INQ Mobile (check out their holding website here), and Hutchison is the parent company – so you can expect a seriously competent “connected” device (or devices!) from them… On…
ChaCha provides election information via SMS
Remember ChaCha, the human-powered search engine? We’ve already covered it on IntoMobile and now they caught our attention again by expanding their offering beyond pure search results. They’ve recently announced the cooperation with youth voting initiative Rock The Vote! to help people get election-related facts via SMS. To get your election info fix on your…
MetroPCS unveils Screen-it, ultimate caller ID name service
MetroPCS has launched a new service called Screen-it, to “allow consumers to more successfully manage incoming calls to their phone by seeing the caller’s name before answering the call.” As you’ve probably figured out, Screen-it displays the calling party’s name on a subscriber’s mobile phone. This includes unknown callers, too, as the service will try…
Qik taps the feature phone market
today announced that their live mobile video streaming product is coming to a feature phone near you. The Java ME-based application is available in alpha, allowing users with select Nokia and Sony Ericsson feature phones to record and stream video from wherever they are. Initially Qik supports the following handsets: Nokia 5300, Nokia 6300, Nokia…
UK: Poppy appeal arrives on Mobile
The Poppy Appeal this year has a Mobile channel (powered by a company called Tanla Mobile), and is running the ‘Poppy Download’ service – where members of the public can make a donation using their mobile phones, in return for a poppy mobile wallpaper (thus mirroring the traditional process of donating some cash for a…
Citi and Obopay pilot person-to-person mobile payment service
It was back in July of last year when we first posted about Obopay and Citi’s partnership. Now Citi announced that it has launched a pilot program to provide mobile person-to-person money transfer service to all its customers in the U.S., with a focus on Boston, Chicago, Maryland, Philadelphia, and New Jersey. Citibank customers participating…