If social networking, random dating, and Boost Mobile are all part of your life, you may want to check out Boost Mobile’s newest service – “Crush or Flush.” Well, it’s not really Boost’s service, but they’re offering their subscribers a chance to get their mobile-social-network-dating fix with IceBreaker’s “Crush or Flush” service. The mobile social…
Sprint planning to rollout WiMAX service as “XOHM”?
We’re used to seemingly random naming conventions in the mobile marketplace, but this one takes the “Doesn’t-make-a-lick-of-sense” cake. Sprint’s WiMAX service, slated for a late-2007 rollout, is rumored to be launched as Sprint’s XOHM service. Say what? According to an anonymous source (those are the best kind) at Engadget, Sprint’s WiMAX venture with wireless ISP…
Swamble launches, mobile betting starts
I’m not actually sure this is the first mobile betting service, but there’s certainly something innovative about it. As the U.S. government bans all kinds of online gambling that involve money, at least initially Swamble allows bets to be settled only with things other than cash. For instance, one of the first bets on Swamble…
Juniper Research: Mobile social networking set for explosive growth
According to the Juniper Research’s report “Mobile User Generated Content“, mobile social sites are set for explosive growth. From the current 14 million this year, the report predicts more than 600 millions people will use these sites by 2012 — in terms of revenues, user-generated content content will account for $5.7 billion, up from this…
Web-based Skype for iPhone
Earlier in July, we saw how you can use Skype on your iPhone via SoonR. Now, the same company that makes popular IM+ mobile instant messaging clients (SHAPE Services) made available web-based version of Skype to the iPhone users. Located at SkypeForIphone.com, the new service allows iPhone users to make Skype calls using nothing but…
Verizon launches new Mobile Web 2.0; Adds more content, services
It’s a competitive world out there among the carriers. Every new service and/or device counts, hence Verizon Wireless decided to redesign its Mobile Web 2.0 offering and add more reasons for its existing subscribers to pour out additional five bucks on top of their monthly bills. The newly redesigned service builds on top of the…
ESPN launches PodCenter for the Apple iPhone
Even with the limitations of the iPhone, ESPN has chosen to partner with Apple to release an iPhone-specific version of their PodCenter. The service will bring “a network of 35 different podcasts and a portfolio of 15 to 20 sponsors” to the iPhone, Andrew Hampp reports for AdAge. Marc Horine, ESPN’s VP-digital partnerships and radio,…
Huawei EC360 wireless broadband card brings Alltel’s high-speed EVDO to notebooks
Chinese manufacturers aren’t just bringing the mobile phone goods to US shores anymore. With Huawei’s launch of their new EC360 data card, on Alltel’s network, the Chinese contingent is officially in US wireless network data-game. The Huawei EC360 serves up 2.4Mbps of downstream data through Alltel’s EVDO network and is offered for free after rebates…
Palm: Treo 700p/w/wx software update makes your data connection bug out – our bad
You know that little software update that Palm released for its Treo 700p, Treo 700w, and Treo 700wx? Well, Verizon customers definitely do. They’ve been experiencing buggy data connections after updating their precious Treo 700s with the presumably benign patch. In response, Palm has pulled the update from their website, citing users’ complaints that the…
University of Edinburgh launches Spellbinder – “Invisible Graffiti” only viewable through mobile phones
Ahh, graffiti, the universal art of street artists and ruffians alike (depending on how you look at it). The ubiquitous “street art” has taken a high-tech twist at the University of Edinburgh. The BBC reports that researchers at the Division of Informatics have launched their “invisible art” project, dubbed Spellbinder. As the title suggests, the…