British GPS-mongers can now sleep well. TeleNav has launched on T-Mobile UK! Right, if you feel like paying monthly/yearly for a GPS navigation application on your mobile phone, T-Mobile UK has started to offer the TeleNav Navigator application for just £49.99. But, you do get what you pay for. TeleNav Navigator in the UK will…
The Weather Channel revamps its mobile website
The Weather Channel Interactive has a new, much better mobile website. Aside from improved and easier to use user interface thae was “based on customer feedback and usage,” the redesigned mobile website also features new maps, which now offer more surface level detail on radar and satellite maps. In addition, just in time for the…
JiWire brings free, ad-supported WiFi access to iPhone, iPod Touch users
JiWire announced that it has officially opened its network for the iPhone and iPod Touch users. Not that you couldn’t access their network before, it’s just that the members of the JiWire Wi-Fi Advertising Network will now be able to display ads optimized for viewing on iPhone/iPod Touch’s screen. Initially, the new option will be…
3UK is first to launch Google Maps v2
3UK have announced they are the first MNO in Europe to launch Google Maps version 2. The new version of Google Maps requires a 3G connection, and uses GPS to find your location – in addition to being able to provide you directions to service you might require. I don’t know about you guys, but…
Wireless carriers gouging customers on SMS text message rates
The one thing that wireless operators love more than data revenue is SMS text message revenue. Data connections require more bandwidth than SMS text messages, which means that carriers make more money for less cost with text messages. Carriers have been hiking-up the price of SMS text messages over the past year, and it seems…
Juniper Research: Mobile entertainment service market to increase threefold to $64bn by 2012
According to a new report by Juniper Research – it’s the music, games and mobile TV that will contribute the most to the global mobile entertainment market which will rise from just over $20 billion in 2007 to more than $64 billion by 2012. Other mobile entertainment sectors include user-generated Content, gambling, adult and infotainment.…
Strategy Analytics names Vodafone Live! best portal
Strategy Analytics have named have rated Vodafone Live! as the number one portal, in new report they have published. They tested the portal over criteria including usability, download speeds, and ease of purchase. So here’s your opportunity – what do YOU think of the Vodafone Live! portal – with the number of subs that Vodafone…
Mobile WiFi router in a box – Sprint mobile broadband card powers iBox2Go mobile router
We love the idea of sharing your mobile broadband connection with more than one device. The only other solution along that line of thought was the WMWifiRouter application that turns your WiFi-enabled 3G WinMo smartphone into a wireless broadband router. With WMWifiRouter, you can share your data connection with multiple WiFi-enabled devices – an elegant…
Trimble goes BlackBerry
During the CES, Trimble has announced that three of their GPS apps — AllSport GPS, Geocache Navigator and Trimble Outdoors — are now available for CDMA-based GPS-equipped BlackBerry smartphones. The three applications allow select BlackBerry device owners to use their smartphones as they participate in outdoor activities such as hiking, backpacking, fishing, biking, running, walking,…
Cellyspace launches mobile virtual tours; Makes real estate buying easier
Cellyspace has introduced a neat web application called “MMS Composer” for realtors to create and send virtual property tours to the potential home buyer’s mobile phone. The system allows realtors to easily compose property slideshows using images, audio, video and text, choose a unique keyword for their content and then promote the keyword on signs…