Handango has announced an agreement with EA to publish EA Mobile’s games – these would be games such as Madden NFL 08, The Sims 2, The Sims Bowling, MONOPOLY Here & Now, TETRIS, Bejeweled. The games will be available through it’s “InHand” on-device application. The InHand client is by enlarge a Smartphone client stack, so…
orkut’s mobile website optimized for Symbian S60 smartphones
Google is paying more attention to the Symbian S60 devices. I never realized why it took them so long to optimize some of their services (Picasa Web Albums) for S60, when we know there are few times more S60 devices out there than any other smartphones. Anyway, the search giant has announced that it has…
Sprint taking @sprintpcs.com email offline
There are any number of things that a struggling wireless carrier can do to help cut costs, and shutting down oft-overlooked services is definitely one of the better moves. In that vein, Sprint will be shutting down its @sprintpcs.com email service on December 31. So, as of the last day of this year, Sprint will…
Amazon’s Kindle is selling very well indeed!
Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney is saying that Amazon.com will sell nearly 400,000 Kindles this year, which could build up to account for 4% of Amazon’s total revenues, projected in to 2010. Okay, it’s not a Mobile phone as we know it, but it represents one of the splinter technologies that may end up partly or…
Scanbuy’s ScanLife 2D barcode app goes iPhone
Scanbuy has announced that its ScanLife 2D barcode application is now working on one more platform – iPhone – and is now available for free on the iPhone App Store. Those not familiar should know ScanLife uses the phone’s camera to give users an “instant connection to information, without needing to search by keyword or…
Nokia Email service hits Nokia Beta Labs
Nokia Email service/app is now available as an early release through Nokia Beta Labs. The application is designed to help users easily manage their emails on the go. Supported email services include GMail, Yahoo! Mail and “thousands of personal email accounts offered by other ISPs.” Unfortunately, at this stage corporate email and MSN Hotmail are…
MetroPCS announces 4G LTE plans
CDMA carriers are definitely wising up to their network standard’s doomed fate. While the likes of Verizon, Alltel, and MetroPCS will have their customers believing that their CDMA-based network is superior to the GSM standard that is used in ubiquity throughout the world, it’s an inevitable fact that CDMA’s days are numbered. As such, MetroPCS…
Joikusoft, FON partener on mobile WiFi HotSpot software
Joikusoft, the maker of the mobile Wi-Fi HotSpot software JoikuSpot, has announced a collaboration with the world’s largest WiFi community – FON. The two companies are releasing an exclusive version of Joikusoft’s mobile hotspot solution called FonSpot, which turns a mobile phone into a WiFi HotSpot. FonSpot with Wi-Fi will effectively replace Bluetooth, cable and…
Verizon officially official with its Visual Voice Mail service
We’ve talked about it few days ago, and now Verizon has issued the official release announcing that its Visual Voice Mail service is readily available for the owners of the LG Voyager. From the press release: Visual Voice Mail allows customers to see a list of all of their voice mail messages with important information,…
Steve Jobs confirms remote iPhone application disabling
In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Steve Jobs confirmed that Apple did indeed build a remote iPhone application disabling feature into the iPhone’s Mac OS. The remote application disabling feature has been referred to as the “Blacklist” feature because it allows the iPhone to connect to Apple’s servers to check for any…