Recently, AT&T and Research in Motion launched BlackBerry Professional Software for AT&T’s small business customers, which provides a “wireless communications and collaboration solution with advanced security features designed specifically for small and midsize companies.” BlackBerry Professional Software is a logical and intuitive wireless communications and collaboration solution that provides small business-focused features, security performance and…
Fandango partners with Tellme to bring voice-activated movie information to BlackBerry users
The popular moviegoer destination Fandango along with Microsoft-owned Tellme announced the addition of voice-activated movie information for mobile phones. Consumers will be able to simply hold down the “talk” button, say a movie title or local theater name, and see showtimes, purchase tickets and get driving directions to the theater — all from the comfort…
Nokia Music Store opens in Australia, France
Following Ireland and Netherlands, Nokia is bringing its music store to Australia and France. Again, users can download music from major record companies as well as independent labels and the top local artists. In Australia, the Finish giant partnered with rock legend Jimmy Barnes, who will be the first local music recommender, suggesting his top…
SpinVox Stat attack: uplifting messages
SpinVox, the rather excellent voice-to-text company have mailshotted me to let me know about some of their latest stats – I thought I would share these for your edutainment: Our Carriers are reporting a 33% uplift in Voicemail deposits, as the calling party knows their message will be seen in minutes. 87% of people…
Helio serves up push email for any POP/IMAP email account
In a confusingly enterprise move, youth-targeting Helio has just announced that their “Ultimate Inbox” service available on the Helio Mysto, Helio Fin, and Helio Ocean handsets is now push-email enabled. Not only will Helio actively push emails to your Helio from any Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail email account, but the new push-email service is said to…
Alltel launches PhotoCopter, a photo auto-saving service
Alltel is bringing Ontela’s PhotoCopter service to their customers to allow them to “finally unlock the photos trapped inside their phones.” PhotoCopter saves every camera phone picture customers snap to their home computers and favorite web photo albums. PhotoCopter automatically transfers the taken picture to the PC with no extra buttons to push. The PhotoCopter…
Mobilemo launches beta site to allow anyone to create its own mobile website
Here’s something for all of you that wanted to launch a mobile website, but just couldn’t find a way around it. Note that I’m not talking about way-too-simple WAP websites, but fully fledged mobile websites for users with more powerful handsets. The process is now easier than ever, thanks to Mobilemo. Mobilemo provides a simple…
Google AdSense adds images to mobile ads
Google AdSense’s mobile division announced the launch of mobile image ads, which are still priced on a cost-per-click basis, yet can also serve as a branding tool for advertisers. Apparently, they have shown to have good click-through rates. Interested mobile publishers will need to update their AdSense code to start displaying mobile ads with images…
Juniper Research: Over 800 million consumers will use mobile banking services by 2011
A new Juniper Research’s report titled “Mobile Financial Services: Banking & Payment Markets 2007-2011” suggests that the number of consumers accessing banking services and products via their mobile phones will reach 816 million by 2011, a tenfold increase on the number using such services in 2007. Financial institutions are bringing an increasing number of products…
Raketu launches social network
As far as as Raketu is concerned, social networking is a missing component from their offering. So, in addition to its voice calling, SMS, information and entertainment services — they’ve launched a mobile social networking application. Raketu Social Networking provides the ability for users to post blogs, bulletins, comments, upload pictures and video content, create…