As everything in our lives becomes more closely tied-in with mobile technology, we’ll see many of our daily activities start integrating with our mobile phones. Mobile payments, for example, are just starting to gain steam and will undoubtedly be the future of retail. Why carry around multiple credit cards and a wallet if you can…
Emoze gets into Nokia NSeries’ Download! folder
We’ve already covered emoze‘s service in the several posts before. I’ll only recap that by using their service you’ll get the free push-email functionality as well as over-the-air syncing of your calendar and contacts information. And now they’ve managed to get into Nokia NSeries’ Download! folder, enabling millions of “multimedia computer” owners to seamlessly download…
WidSets goes out of beta
So far we’ve mentioned Nokia’s Java ME-based mobile widget platform, WidSets, at least a dozen times. In case you haven’t figured all this time it was in the beta stage. That’s about to change, as Nokia has announced that it’s ready for the prime time. Initially WidSets users may not notice any difference — except…
Snap.Send.Get from SnapTell – get product information from advertisements with your camera phone
Ever passed by a billboard and wondered what’s up with that product? SnapTell wants to help you find out with their new service – the appropriately-named Snap.Send.Get marketing service. All you have to do is “snap” a pic (with your camera phone) of any advertisement, “send” the picture to SnapTell’s image recognition servers, and you’ll…
Yahoo launches Chinese-langage Yahoo! Go 2.0
The Chinese wireless market is a formidable force. With their hundreds and hundreds of millions of wireless subscribers, it makes sense for Yahoo to cater to the Chinese market. The search-giant has announced that they will be releasing their Yahoo! Go 2.0 mobile service in a Chinese-flavored version. The US has had Yahoo! Go 2.0…
Pandora streaming radio on your AT&T handset – Pandora and AT&T, together as one
We love Pandora. It’s like having your own, personal radio DJ in your computer. Following on their partnership with Sprint, the streaming internet radio service has teamed up with AT&T to bring the customizable online radio service to 3G handsets on the AT&T network. Pandora radio stations can be personalized to your liking (limited to…
AT&T launches Sierra Wireless USBConnect 881 HSUPA USB modem
With AT&T’s high-speed upload network now online, the wireless carrier is starting to roll out wireless data HSUPA modems. AT&T’s first HSUPA data card offering was the Sierra Wireless AirCard 881, and now they’re offering us the Sierra Wireless USBConnect 881 HSUPA USB modem to surf the full HSPA data highway. If expresscards aren’t your…
Samsung’s all about WiMAX – new lineup of WiMAX devices for South Korea
WiMAX is really starting to come into its own recently. We know, there have been WiMAX devices in Asia for quite some time, but now that the US is on the verge of getting our own WiMAX network we actually care about these Asian WiMAX handsets. Actually, Sprint’s been dangling WiMAX in front of us…
AT&T launches nationwide mobile banking
It looks like AT&T is getting down with mobile banking. The No. 1 US wireless carrier has just launched their nationwide mobile banking service. Wachovia and SunTrust customers will be able to check balances, pay bills, and transfer funds using their AT&T cellphone – all for free. AT&T has partnered up with Wachovia and SunTrust…
Lebanon gets its WiMAX on
While the US’s WiMAX future is still being hashed out by the likes of Sprint and Clearwire, our friends in Lebanon have already nailed-down their plans for getting a WiMAX network deployed in 2008. Redline Communications has announced that its RedMAX WiMAX solution has been tapped by Lebanon’s Comium Data Lebanon to be used in…