Helio’s iPhone-fighting Ocean handset just got another weapon in its arsenal – Exchange ActiveSync support! Contacts, calendar, and email (as long as you have the support of an Outlook Exchange server) are all synced on your Helio Ocean. And, the new Helio file Viewer makes viewing all those Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF file attachments…
Online storage service Box.net adds support for iPhone
Everyone needs additional storage space these days. Yeah, hard drives are cheap as never before, but having some of your stuff online gives you that edge of mobility, many of us are looking for. So it doesn’t surprises online storage providers are having more and more users every day. One of the most popular such…
Sprint does first iDEN-CDMA cross-network walkie-talkie call
In their push to introduce a CDMA equivalent to Nextel’s iDEN-based Push-To-Talk feature, Sprint has announced the first cross-network walkie-talkie call last week. The call connected a CDMA and iDEN phone, and represents a major advancement in Sprint’s efforts to integrate the walkie-talkie feature on the CDMA Rev. A network. The tricky part is emulating…
Akoo wants you to control in-store advertising from you iPhone or Windows Mobile handset – m-Venue
In the age of digital advertising, consumer interaction is king. What better way to capture your advertising audience’s attention than by having them actually interact with the ad-media – even controlling what gets displayed. Akoo International Inc. has announced the launch of their new m-Venue application. Specifically created and optimized for the iPhone’s Safari browser…
Free map app for GPS-enabled phones – AmAze from LocatioNet
We hate getting lost on the road (especially when we have a GPS-phone by our side), and we love anything free. That’s why we love the new AmAze navigation software from LocatioNet. It’ll keep us from getting lost and it’s free! This one goes out to our friends in the UK – LocatioNet is touting…
Sprint teams with Google to deliver WiMAX services
While there’s still plenty of time till Sprint’s launch of commercial WiMAX services in Q2 2008, that doesn’t stop the carrier in building its WiMAX ecosystem. Lately, they’ve teamed with Google to bring WiMAX mobile Internet customers search, interactive communications and social networking tools though a new mobile portal. According to Sprint’s release, the two…
Obopay partners with Citi; Set to rule the mobile payments
Forget PayPal for mobile, Obopay is set to rule mobile payments! First they’ve partnered with Verizon to offer their services to the carrier’s subscribers. Then we saw more merchants jumping in to the platform, and now… no one else but Citi is partnering with the mobile payment provider to pilot a new mobile peer to…
Save your mobile phones’s battery while your searching the web – Blackle is the power-saving Google
Forget Qualcomm’s battery-saving tech patents for 3G chipsets, we’ve got a better, home-grown tech to save your mobile phone’s electrical juice. Next time you’re surfing the web and you find the need to hit up Google, try Blackle instead. Yea, we know, Google is the end-all-be-all for internet search, but Google’s all-white background can be…
Springdoo’s new service enables instant video broadcast from mobile to web
There’s nothing new in the fact that you can embed video on your blog or on your page on a social networking site. However, sometime it’s a painful process if you don’t have a mobile phone which can upload a video directly to the video sharing service like YouTube or Vox. That’s why the provider…
Amp’d Mobile extends service termination deadline – the dream dies on July 31st
It looks like Amp’d Mobile has changed their service termination deadline – “Amp’d is potentially suspending US operations on July 31st.” What’s this “potentially” talk about? Could it have something to do with the updated FAQ mentioning “discussions with several parties” regarding a possible buy-out of the defunct MVNO? The previous shut-off date seems to…