Mobile payments solution provider Obopay has announced partnership with Grameen Solutions, the company globally recognized for promoting economic and social development through information and communications technology, to deliver mobile banking services to a billion of the world’s poorest people by 2018. The Grameen-Obopay Bank A Billion Initiative will provide access to affordable financial services, including…
fring out with the Olympics fringAdd-ons
Like any other smart company, fring wants to use a major event like the Olympics to promote its offering. Being a small company prevents them from buying expensive media space, but as an underdog they’ve managed to find their way around and get piece of the glory. Their idea was to create dedicated fringAdd-ons that…
FindMe Facebook app goes Symbian S60
Popular Facebook app, FindMe, is now available for Symbian S60 smartphones, allowing you to let your friends know where you are and find out where they are at any point. With a mobile FindMe client, you can completely control what your friends see, “At home”, “Office”, “Playing Soccer”, etc, or add such information like zip…
Sprint and Clearwire defend merger against AT&T’s objections
With Sprint struggling to turnaround their business and working hard to bring their high-speed WiMAX-based XOHM wireless data network online, some big-dogs in the wireless industry are opposing the Sprint and Clearwire merger deal currently under consideration by the Feds. AT&T has voiced their opposition to the merger, claiming that both companies were misrepresenting their…
Rogers’ Home Calling Zone becomes Talkspot
Canada’s Rogers Wireless is renaming its in-home WiFi calling service (think T-Mobile’s HotSpot@Home) from Home Calling Zone to Talkspot. The much-easier-to-remember name is the only change you’ll see. Scrap that, if you’re not visiting Rogers’ stores or look at their ads, you won’t even see that. It’s just another way to trick new user to…
Prepaid BlackBerry Internet Service launched in Indonesia
Indonesia’s Indosat Tbk and Research In Motion announced the launch of prepaid BlackBerry Internet Service in Indonesia called “BlackBerry On Demand.” Available as a 7-day or a 30-day data plan, the new service is designed for small businesses and mobile professionals with a flexible approach to access the BlackBerry platform, and for those that want…
Delta Air Lines to offer fleet-wide broadband WiFi internet access
Congress has officially put the kibosh on any plans to introduce cellphone voice calls to in-flight passengers looking to annoy fellow travelers with their obnoxious phone calls. That’s great news and all, but banning voice calls in airborne airplanes doesn’t do anything for busybody passengers with a constant need for data access. Today, frequent fliers…
Files on Ovi leaves beta stage
Nokia’s Files on Ovi is leaving the beta status behind. The service is free for anyone, allowing you to share documents, PDFs, music, photos and more between you PCs and a handset. However, there’s a paid feature called Anytime Files, using which you can backup certain portions of your hard drive in the cloud and…
T-Mobile already lighting up 3G network in Las Vegas and Austin?
T-Mobile’s 3G network has been a long time coming. After winning the 1700Mhz AWS spectrum that it needed to launch its own special flavor of 3G networks in the US, T-Mobile was forced by the US government to stand-by as bureaucratic agencies proceeded to vacate the spectrum. And, after initially launching their 3G network in…
Steve Jobs: My bad, MobileMe launch was a mess
Apple is known as one of the most secretive tech companies in the world. They rarely disclose product plans and never let the public know just what’s going on inside the Cupertino headquarters’ buildings. That is, until the MobileMe launch-fiasco drew the ire of email-less customers and Apple shills David Pogue and Walt Mossberg. In…