Motorola is bringing its award-winning Good Mobile Messaging 5 software and services to India. Naturally, the idea is to meet needs of the enterprise mobility market and deliver “an unparalleled user experience aimed at making the mobile workforce more productive while strengthening security and IT control.” Good, which has over 12,000 enterprise customers with users…
Internet Access on Demand with Speech Enabled Web-browsing
Audiopoint has announced an agreement with Earthlink, one of the nation’s leading internet service providers, that will give Earthlink’s users the ability to access speech enabled Web information from their telephone. The News and Information Service combines EarthLink’s popular Email By Phone application with Audiopoint’s voice-enabled Web content. News, weather, stock quotes and other customized…
ABI Research: Mobile messaging revenues to reach $212 billion by 2013
With SMS taking off in the Americas, mobile e-mail continuing strong growth in developed regions, subscriber growth driving messaging adoption in Asia-Pacific, and social networks lifting the messaging boat across nearly all regions — revenues from mobile messaging are set to hit $212 billion by 2013. According to the new study from ABI Research called…
Virgin Mobile USA announces new monthly and Pay As You Go pre-paid plans, Roll Forward minutes
Virgin Mobile USA is poised to break further into the US wireless market. Following Virgin Mobile’s dismal financial performance recently, Virgin Mobile UK launched their “Liberty SIM” pre-paid calling plan. And, now Virgin Mobile USA is taking another crack at pre-paid offerings in the US. The new pre-paid offerings from Virgin Mobile USA are made…
Dial2Do lets you do common tasks by calling a number and speaking
Earlier we talked about Jott, and here’s another service that helps you drive safer. When you need to do a common task like record note, send email or SMS, update your Twitter or Jaiku status and you’re in the middle of the road — or just don’t want to type anything at that moment —…
Google LCB – new Google service for mobile searching sans typing
Tapping away at a mobile phone’s keypad can get to be a real bother – and in some cases, a real medical condition. So, it seems that Google has set out to improve the mobile-search experience on handsets. Dubbed “LCB,” Google has tipped their newest mobile service in their robots.txt file – a file that…
Cricket does unlimited EVDO data for less
The word of the month seems to be “unlimited,” and we’re loving it. With wireless carriers battling to match or beat their competitors’ pricing schedules with all-you-can-eat, flat-rate, unlimited calling/data plans, it’s the consumer that ultimately comes out on top. The latest wireless operator to adopt the “buffet-style” pricing scheme that’s rolling through the country…
Qantas in-flight email and SMS text messaging set to take off on domestic Australian flights
We’ve been following Qantas’ in-flight email and SMS text messaging trial for some time now. And, after successful testing during the extended trial period, Qantas has announced that the airline will be rolling out the in-flight messaging service to its fleet of domestic Boeing 767 and Airbus A330 flights. Starting next year, when you’re traveling…
Spice Telecom to launch UGC Mob TV services
Spice Telecom is soon to launch UGC content for it’s Mobile TV offering, according to Telecom Tiger. Obviously the idea with UGC is that “citizen reporters” (I love that term!) can submit content for others to download and consume. With some existing services, the mechanisms for this are MMS on the upload leg, and…
Sprint brings MySpace Mobile to all its data subscribers
Following the recent launch of MySpace’s mobile offering, Sprint decided to offer the popular social networking site to its data subscribers for free. Note the “data” part, as you must have an appropriate plan — the $15 unlimited mobile web will do just as well as $99 Simply Everything. MySpace Mobile allows you to manage…