Iridium Holdings LLC, which you may know as a Sat Phone company, is being bought by private equity firm Greenhill & Co. for $591 million. Iridium has said that the deal allows it to be debt-free, and also puts it in a good position to replace it’s 66 satellites. Iridium was around in a different…
Cortado Corporate Server Professional targets small businesses
Cortado has announced Cortado Corporate Server Professional, its new mobile application for BlackBerry smartphones that scales to a maximum of 30 users. The easy-to-use software enables BlackBerry smartphone users to securely access their company network files and folders, including shared drives and document management systems like SharePoint or SAP enterprise portal. In addition, users can…
Verizon Wireless’ SocialLife offers mobile access to popular social networks
Verizon Wireless has a brand new application called SocialLife, which acts as a mobile gateway that connects users to popular social networking sites. SocialLife smartly and simply brings together numerous social networking sites catering to different communities, including MySpace, into one easy-to-use application. With SocialLife, Verizon Wireless customers will be able to view messages, approve…
Oracle Business Approvals coming to iPhone
iPhone is now definitely ready for enterprise and Oracle knows that. Hence the enterprise software maker has announced Oracle Business Approvals for Apple’s handset. The application includes two Oracle’s apps — Oracle Business Approvals for Managers and Oracle Business Approvals for Sales Managers — that deliver “targeted and task-oriented information to help managers make informed…
UK: Lloyds TSB to do mobile banking!
Lloyds TSB has announced that it is planning to launch a new service for its customers to manage their accounts via mobile. The move will enable people to move money instantly between accounts held with the bank, view their account balances and check their last six transactions through their phone. Customers will also be able…
Verizon Wireless’ City ID gives users more information about incoming calls
It was back in May when we saw Alltel rolling out its City ID service. Now, the big dady of U.S. CDMA networks and a new owner of Alltel, Verizon Wireless, launched its own “enhanced mobile Caller ID application” which displays the city and state of incoming calls. Developed by Cequint, City ID features information…
Nokia Photos 1.5 beta released
Nokia Beta Labs has recently released the new version of Nokia Photos. While still in beta, the version 1.5 adds many improvements to the application, including: New look with better user interface and Ovi branding (Timeline and Organise views) Improved support for importing images from non-Nokia devices Tools for adding and visualising geo-tagged images (Maps…
T-Mobile throttling 3G data speeds after 1GB soft-cap
We’re not surprised to hear that T-Mobile is enforcing a 1GB soft-cap on 3G data transfers. Afterall, big-dog carriers like AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint have all jumped on-board the bandwidth throttling train – it makes sense for T-Mobile to keep as much of their 3G pipeline as traffic-free as possible. It’s not something we like…
Share on Ovi goes mobile
Guess we all expected this to happen. After all, we’re talking about Nokia’s service here and we just waited for the Finnish giant to release the mobile-friendly version of its file-sharing service. That has happened recently and now Ovi users have full control over their “Share on Ovi” account, including the ability to create new…
Nokia Media Network gets new members
Nokia Media Network is expanding and the Finnish giant has recently announced new members of its mobile advertising network. According to the official release, it [Nokia Media Network] now reaches more than 100 million consumers around the globe. New members to the network are: Agence France-Presse, France RTL Mobile, Germany Cuatro, Spain Grupo Prisa, publisher…