Seniors get discounts for almost everything – movie theaters, restaurants, car insurance…you get the point. Now it seems AT&T is catering to the Sexagenarian set – that’s the 60-something year-old set, it has nothing to do with bedroom behavior (you perv). As our aging population grows, there’s a substantial market in simpler phones and lighter-weight…
Qantas extends test of in-flight cellphone use
We mentioned some time ago that the Australian airline, Qantas, was testing in-flight cellphone use over Australian domestic airspace. Well, Qantas has announced that the trial run has been extended from it’s initial three-month window – it’s now slated to wrap up testing in February 2008. Qantas is apparently committed to bringing mobile phone use…
Want to cancel your Sprint service? Sprint will unlock your Sprint phone.
Well, well, well. Look what we have here. Sprint, the No. 3 US wireless carrier, has just agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit by providing unlock codes to customers leaving Sprint’s networks for greener CDMA pastures (Verizon, Alltel). Customers wishing to change their CDMA service provider will be given an unlock code once their phone…
Get T-Mobile HotSpot access for FREE!
That’s right. Coffee loving WiFi users will be happy to hear that T-Mobile is currently offering 30-days of no-pay T-Mobile HotSpot access for the low, low price of nothing. If you just can’t be bothered to seek out coffee houses with free WiFi access, you might want to give T-Mobile’s HotSpot service a try. It’s…
Unyverse Mobile Wiki Platform launched; Mobile access to Wikipedia, Contacts, RSS feeds and notes
Mobile wiki service provider Unyverse has launched the new site to provide users with one-stop access to all their information on-the-go. From public sources of news or reference content like Wikipedia to indispensable personal or company data (i.e. Contacts), Unyverse makes it easy to exchange and share information between a mobile phone and the web…
Facebook platform goes mobile
At the CTIA, Facebook has announced their mobile platform to allow deeper integration between mobile phones and the website. As far as we can tell, the platform has been improved with two key additions. First, Facebook introduced a new FBML tag, “fb:mobile”, to allow Facebook application developers to show content exclusively to mobile phones. Second,…
Distracted driving contest reveals the obvious: texting while driving is dangerous
Who woulda thunk it? Apparently, there’s some rhyme to the reason behind the recent outlawing of typing SMS text messages while driving. Nuance, makers of speech recognition technology for mobile phones held a contest in Florida to see just how dangerous a distracted, SMS texting driver was, compared to a driver using Nuance’s speech recognition…
Videos: Bjorn Wigforss demos Nokia’s Music Store and N-Gage
Having briefly bumped into Björn at the smartphone show in London it was nice to see that Unwired View was there to record his demo of the new N-Gage platform and Nokia Music Store. Going to have to wait until November 2nd for the proper launch to try it out, personally I can’t wait to…
RIM launches Facebook application for BlackBerrys
We never doubted in RIM. They know their customers best, hence they’ve decided to provide them with an additional tool and as a result enhance their addiction to nowadays everyone’s favorite Facebook. Yes, they’ve launched a dedicated application to make CrackBerry users do their “Facebook thing” wherever they are. This way it will look like…
AOL unveils new mobile services
The good ol’ AOL is expanding its mobile offering in an effort to grab a piece of the mobile action. The idea is of course to use the popularity of AOL’s existing applications and services and hope users will enjoy using them on their mobiles as well. First, AOL announced the new AOL.com mobile web…