Nokia has a music store, albeit only in the UK right now. Sony Ericsson will be launching Play Now Arena in the first half of next year. Now Microsoft has just purchased Musiwave for an undisclosed sum, giving them a foot in the content delivery business. Musiwave wasn’t a very profitable company, but they did…
Alltel gives parents control over mobile content
We already saw AT&T launch their parental-control service, Smart Limits, and now it seems Alltel is getting with the family-friendly game-plan. Alltel will be rolling out its “Parental Control” service in early 2008, giving parents control over what content their kids will be viewing online. Parents can set viewing filters to keep the mobile web…
Verizon beats T-Mobile for top spot in J.D. Power Customer Satisfaction Suvery
Why do we always have good things to say about T-Mobile? It’s not their wireless service (reception and data speeds are a bit lackluster), but rather their customer service that keeps the Magenta-trademarking company at the top of our list of US carriers. You see, T-Mobile has been on a customer satisfying stint – T-Mobile…
Juniper Research: Mobile casino wagers to hit $5bn by 2012
According to the Juniper Research’s latest report, the growth in usage levels of both single-user games such as slot machines and of multiplayer gambling tournaments will help drive the total annual wager on mobile casino services to more than $5bn by 2012. Apparently, in the coming years mobile gambling services should thank to such factors…
Nokia is trying hard, really hard, to become an internet company
When CEO Olli Pekka Kallasvuo decided to call Nokia an internet company people around the world thought he was stark mad. With 1 in 3 mobile phones consistently being purchased quarter after quarter by consumers around the world, healthy margins even on low end devices and over 4 billion Euros in the bank, why would…
Sprint and Clearwire call it quits on partnership plans
We knew Sprint and Clearwire’s relationship was on the ropes, but we still had in the back of our minds that those two would work things out. We think a partnership between the two would make perfect business sense in the US’s nascent WiMAX environment. The Clearwire/Sprint team could have made a cohesive WiMAX network…
Visto Mobile for Apple iPhone now available
We’ve already talked about Visto and their plans to support Apple’s handset. Well it’s started happening and now users of the “leading global provider of mobile email services” will be able to get their Visto fix right from their shiny phone. According to Visto, business iPhone users will certainly benefit from the secure access to…
Sprint’s on board too – Sprint plans to allow pro-rated Early Termination Fee
No, you can’t use the recently increased SMS text message rates to cancel your plan sans Early Termination Fee (ETF), but starting in 2008, Sprint customers will be able to take advantage of pro-rated ETFs. Like Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and T-Mobile before it, Sprint will only charge ETFs commensurate with the remainder of the customer’s…
Mobispine available on 3 Denmark’s Planet 3 mobile portal
Mobispine, the company behind the popular Java ME-based mobile news reader, has just landed an important deal with Hutchinson’s 3 network in Denmark. Under the agreement, the carrier will include Mobispine’s free client on its Planet 3 mobile portal, allowing its customers to quickly get their daily dose of news directly from their handsets. Commenting…
ShoZu goes beyond media uploading; Enables Flickr photo, top YouTube video sharing directly to handsets
I’m sure most of smartphone users have heard about ShoZu, the mobile image and video uploading application. Well, they’ve realized there’s more than uploading in the mobile Web 2.0 space, hence their latest update enables users to have friends’ latest Flickr photos as well as the top YouTube videos sent directly to their handsets. To…