It’s all about social networking nowadays. Both carriers and handset makers are eagerly adding support for various social services to their offerings/phones. And now, we have Vodafone introducing a new service called “InsideOut,” allowing users to interact with characters from Second Life right from their mobile phones. Just like with most of the modern services,…
Google launches SMS search In China
Google may be the leader in the western world, but in China it still lags behind Baidu. And of course the search giant — like any other big company — bets heavily on the ever-growing Chinese market. That being said, they’ve just launched a new service – SMS Search, allowing people in China to search…
ShoZu adds MMS uploading; Social network users rejoice
We’ve already posted that ShoZu supports file uploads to popular social networking services like nowadays everyone’s favorite – Facebook. But now they went one step further allowing upload of photos via MMS along with the mass publishing ability, allowing users that for a cost of a single MMS sent, instantly upload their photos to all…
Sign up for T-Mobile myFaves contract and get a free round-trip flight
In their latest marketing push to sign-up more wireless subscribers, T-Mobile has announced that they will be giving away free round-trip flights to 10 destinations in the US. All you have to do to get a free flight to, say New York, is sign up for a 2-year contract on a T-Mobile myFaves rate plan…
FCC threatens to shutdown portion of Sprint Nextel’s iDEN network
Sprint just can’t seem to catch a break these days. Still without a CEO, the iDEN network operator has just come under fire from the FCC for their failure to vacate a portion of the 800Mhz frequency spectrum. Apparently, a swath of the Nextel iDEN network’s radio frequency spectrum occupies the same frequencies as public…
Google Maps now native on Windows Mobile
Following the release of the native Symbian S60 application, Google decided it’s time to also upgrade its Windows Mobile-based Maps application. It’s no longer Java-midlet, rather it’s a native app – meaning it should run much faster. And even though I haven’t been able to try it out myself, the new Google Maps for Windows…
Handmark’s on board of Nokia Ad Business media offering
Nokia Ad Business has announced a new media partner, Handmark, for whom the Finish giant will provide an end-to-end mobile advertising solution for its Pocket Express mobile data application. As part of the deal, Nokia will serve mobile ads, participate in media sales, and offer additional mobile solutions for advertisers. Handmark is an important addition…
Samsung A747 SLM goes live on AT&T
The slim Samsung A747 clamshell that we spotted on the FCC’s website has finally come out of hiding and into AT&T’s stable handsets. We speculated that the Samsung A747 flip-phone would be the dual-band successor to the music-centric AT&T SYNC and it seems we were right. The Samsung A747 will be hitting AT&T’s network as…
LouderVoice makes sure your voice gets heard
There are many review websites on the web today. Actually, you can send your two cents about virtually anything. Or if you’re that delighted about some product/service you can start blogging about it. The same goes if you hate and/or despise some product/service and want to warn other people. However, sometimes people forget to write…
YouMail partners with Salient Media to provide comedic voicemail greetings from Katt Williams
I don’t know have you heard about YouMail. They have created a service that (among other things) recognizes people who call and allows users to record a different greeting tailor-made just for them, either by the user or chosen from YouMail’s archive of thousands of pre-recorded greetings. And now, they’re announcing their first premium content…