With more than 26 million members and one billion unique photos stored online, HP’s Snapfish is one of the leading online photo services. Snapfish members can share, print and store their most important photo memories at the lowest prices – online or off. Now, Hewlett-Packard and Nokia struck a deal to enable direct photo print…
Sony Ericsson builds M-BUZZ
Sony Ericsson today announced a new service called “M-BUZZ” for breaking new and developing artists. Complementing the company’s unique music offering of Walkman branded phones, services and accessories, M-BUZZ is yet another building block in Sony Ericsson’s extensive mobile music offering to music fans worldwide.
Mobile printing comes to Nordic region
Nokia and Sapio, a developer of application-based services for wireless devices, today announced that they have signed an agreement where Sapio is to develop, promote and facilitate mobile printing solutions and services in the Nordic region. Based on the agreement, Sapio is to identify and collaborate with interested service providers in Finland, Sweden, Norway and…
Mobile search: Reality check
We’ve already had some mobile search related numbers from the Mobile Marketing Association. Apparently, the mentioned figures were too optimistic. A new report from M:Metrics suggests that only about 5% of all mobile phone users in the US use mobile search. The number one reason for this low figure is a bad user experience. Advertising…
Sony Ericsson to extend its PlayNow service
Everyone wants a piece of the digital music market, currently dominated by Apple’s iTunes. Nokia recently acquired Loudeye and I believe we can expect to see Nokia’s fingers entering this (very) lucrative market. Also, by being one of the major labels company, Sony is certainly an important “player” in this market. They’ve already had some…
HelloSoft joins Symbian Platinum Program
If you haven’t heard of HelloSoft, you should know that their products enable mobile device manufacturers to design and architect products that are power-efficient and provide substantial cost benefits. HelloSoft has a range of VoIP and wireless products to meet the price and performance needs of multiple high-volume markets, including multi-mode devices which enable OEMs,…
Dual-Mode Telephony from Nokia and SingTel
Nokia and SingTel announced their collaboration to bring together the best of two worlds, 2G/3G and WLAN in an integrated dual-mode telephony solution on three of the Nokia’s devices with SIP-based VoIP support – E60, E61 and the newly launched N80 Internet Edition. SingTel’s VoIP on mobile service combines the mobility of cellular and the…
MINO – VoIP application for low cost calls
MINO Wireless, a Sunnyvale, CA-based mobile services company, has announced its easy-to-use, inexpensive new mobile application for making international calls from Symbian supported phones. All mobiles phone users supported by Symbian OS can call any phone worldwide at rates as low as 2.2 cents per minute using MINO. With MINO, users do not have to…
Nokia acquires gate5 to add mapping and navigation
Nokia and gate5 AG today announced that an agreement has been signed for Nokia to acquire gate5. gate5 is a leading supplier of mapping, routing and navigation software and services. By acquiring gate5, Nokia will offer consumers maps, routing, navigation and other location based applications on its mobile devices. gate5’s applications are extendable with more…
Nokia to offer Intrusion Prevention
Nokia today announced plans to offer Sourcefire’s Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) on its portfolio of high-performance IP Security Platforms. Nokia Intrusion Prevention with Sourcefire will provide enterprises with defense-in-depth by analyzing network traffic to discover risks, determine their business impact and take actions to defend the network. This complete network visibility allows companies not only…