There’s no secret Google wants to rule our mobile lives, hence they keep pumping their mobile offering with new apps and services. Lately we’ve spotted they’ve bought mobile social networking start-up Zingku. Those not familiar should know Zingku “integrates” a mobile phone with a personalised website so that users can easily move (zing) things back…
Mobilize your website with Myxer
Myxer is a neat new service designed to help web publishers mobilize their content. Launched at DEMO, Myxer works like a widget which, thanks to the drag’n’drop magic, allows site visitors to easily send content from the website to their mobile phones. Users can send both images and videos to their mobile devices, while sending…
FCC to change rules for upcoming 700Mhz frequency spectrum auction
All the whining, suing, and petitioning from the likes of Verizon Wireless, AT&T and Frontline have prompted FCC Chairman Kevin Martin to take action . The recently approved open-access rules (for which we applauded the FCC) are now the target of revision by Martin. As you’ll remember, the 22Mhz block of the 700Mhz frequency spectrum…
Mobile gambling wagers to approach $12 billion within 3 years
This one’s actually not for our U.S. readers — at least not at the moment — but it’s important nevertheless. According to Juniper Research, thanks to the increasing deployment of multiple mobile payment technologies and liberalisation of remote gambling legislation in key markets, mobile gambling wagers will approach $12 billion by 2010. Of that amount,…
DataViz adds Motorola Z8 support to RoadSync
DataViz, the company which developed the popular mobile office suite – Documents To Go, announced the availability of its Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync client RoadSync for the Motorola’s Symbian UIQ 3.1 powered Z8 smartphone. Based on Microsoft’s Exchange Server ActiveSync protocol, the latest version (2.003) of RoadSync for UIQ is the only Z8 solution to provide…
Pudding Media wants to monitor what you talk about and serve relevant ads in exchange for free phone calls
Pudding Media is a San Jose-based start-up that aims to intrude our privacy more than any other company. Their idea is to provide users with free, advertising supported phone service via Internet. When you’re using their service, voice recognition software monitors the calls, selects ads based on what it hears and pushes the ads to…
Nokia to publish 29 minute movie about music to advertise their new store
Using Firefox? Then no music recommenders website for you! Reuters is saying that instead of Nokia dropping some serious cash on a world wide marketing blitz, they are going to post a 29 minute video, as well as bite sized portions of it, on video sharing sites such as youtube in the hope that people…
Australian mobile users getting blocked from MySpace Mobile – down with MySpace
As if MySpace wasn’t having enough trouble keeping up with the looming threat that is Facebook, the social-networking uber-site is blocking Australian mobile users from accessing the MySpace Mobile site. Apparently, MySpace has an exclusive deal with Australian wireless carrier Optus and is blocking mobile access to any user not logging in through the Optus…
What’s taking T-Mobile’s 3G rollout so long – slow, bumbling government, that’s what
Leave it to governmental agencies and bureaucratic sludge to gunk-up the 3G-rollout process for T-Mobile. As you’ll recall, T-Mobile spent a good chunk of change ($4.2 billion) to acquire 120 spectrum licenses for the 1700Mhz frequency spectrum – with the intention of using the spectrum to launch their 3G network. So what’s taking them so…
DoubleClick goes mobile
Mobile advertising is as hot as never before. Previously we saw Google’s AdSense and AdWords going mobile and now DoubleClick — also part of Google — rolled out its DoubleClick Mobile solution. The new DoubleClick’s offering integrates with the existing DART solution and should help media companies sell and manage their inventories across multiple channels…