At CTIA, Sprint Nextel announced further progress with the development of its upcoming Mobile WiMAX advanced multimedia network. In addition to previously announced WiMAX U.S. service areas (Chicago, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio), the carrier also named new service markets – Detroit, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Boston, Philadelphia, Providence,…
MobiMate tease frequent travellers at CTIA with WorldMate i10
At CTIA Wireless, MobiMate Ltd. announced details of its next generation mobile travel service code named “WorldMate i10.” The service is the first of its kind, as it combines context based push and pull services culminating in a “Personal Travel Assistant” experience.
Cingular Launches US Mobile Banking!
Remember when all your (geek) friends would keep saying that, in the future, the cell phone would replace everything, including your wallet? Well, that day is nigh! With converged devices already combining a mobile phone with a PDA, digital camera, GPS unit, mp3 player, radio, and even TV, the convergence of a digital wallet is…
Yahoo! Mobile Ads Are Here!
Just what we’ve all been wishing for. Advertising on our mobile phones! It can’t get much better than this. It’s such a relief, not having to worry about going without an ad for whole minutes at a time. Come Tuesday, Yahoo! will start offering new tools through its Yahoo Mobile Publisher Service.
Mapquest To Offer Free Services For Mobiles
Mapquest is making it easier to use their mapping service on your mobile device. With the “Send to Cell” option on Mapquest’s website, users can send directions and maps to any browser-enabled mobile phone. So just what are they doing that’s so new? Well, until now, Mapquest’s mobile offerings were pay services – like Mapquest…
Sprint GPS/Data Bundle – Finally
Sprint announced that they will start to offer a GPS and data bundle on their service plans. This would allow subscribers with GPS-enabled cellphones to actually use the feature without an extra heavy surcharge for doing so. Sprint’s Power Vision Navigation pack subscribers will be able to pull down unlimited data and GPS coordinates for…
PayPal goes mobile
It’s been some time we’ve been hearing that popular PayPal service will be available from mobile phone. Well, that finally happened and millions of PayPal users will now be able to get “what they want, when they want it.” To use the service, you need to register your phone and create a PIN. After that,…
Sidekick 3 Gets OTA Updates From Tmobile
T-mobile will be updating their Sidekick 3 to include its popular new service, myFaves. The changes will be painless and easy and done “over the air” through firmware updates broadcast over their networks. Users will not only get myFaves support, which allows unlimited calling to any 5 numbers in the U.S., but will now be…
Amnesty Wireless: Make phone calls and donate at the same time
Amnesty Wireless is a new cell phone services launched by Amnesty International USA. Their service is unique in a sense that by signing with them you agree to donate a 10% of the service’s charges to the Amnesty International. Basically you use your phone regularly, and donate money at the same time. The service doesn’t…
Belgium – World’s First To Pay By SMS Text
Yahoo! News is reporting that Belgium is rolling out a “world’s first” service in their payment-via-sms texting service. Those residing in the home of that famous waffle will be able to pay for those waffles (and pizza or taxi rides) by simply texting the retailer. As long as you have a Belgian bank account and…