The Wholesale Applications Community aka WAC announced the new 2.0 specification, which now includes HTML5 and multimedia support. This in turn will enable better widgets and apps that mimic native apps’ capabilities. And that’s like a start, with WAC 3.0 — set to be available in September — promising to include billing support and user…
NewBay launches LifeCache Digital Vault music and video cloud service for operators and device makers; Teams-up with LG
Digital content services provider NewBay launched LifeCache Digital Vault 2.4 to provide music, photo and video cloud services for operators and device makers. LifeCache Digital Vault allows users to go beyond proprietary music clients like iTunes and access their image, music and video files from anywhere. In order to take advantage of the service, users…
Cricket brings Muve Music service to 13 new markets, adds more music
Cricket Wireless is expanding its Muve Music service to more places across the U.S. The company announced the addition of 13 new markets where users can enjoy unlimited music downloads, including Washington, D.C.; Baltimore, Maryland; Charlotte, North Carolina; Chicago, Illinois; Memphis, Nashville and Knoxville, Tennessee; Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona; San Diego, California; Milwaukee and Madison,…
Orange launching contactless payments in UK, France, Spain and Poland in Q2
Orange is the fastest European operator to adopt contactless payments. The France Telecom-owned company plans to bring NFC-enabled services firstly in the UK, France, Spain and Poland, with plans to expand to other Orange markets across Europe at a later point. The company is starting with the Bada-powered Samsung Wave 578 — which we covered…
Skype Access offers WiFi access in 500,000 hotspots around the world
Skype is teaming-up with hotspot operators around the world to offer its users pay-as-you-go Internet access starting at £.04/€.05/$.06 per minute. Dubbed Skype Access, it relies on your existing Skype Credit to charge users, requiring no daily and/or monthly vouchers to get online. Already the VoIP service provider has a number of partners on board,…
Orange France, Scanbuy team-up on Flashcode mobile barcode service
Mobile barcode solutions provider Scanbuy has partnered with Orange France to power Flashcode, a mobile barcode service that will allow marketers in France to create, edit, manage and generate a rich set of analytics about their mobile barcodes. Scanbuy will provide its carrier grade self-managed platform, along with mobile apps for all major platforms that…
ZTE to launch its app store service iMarket for carriers
Last year at the Mobile World Congress we couldn’t believe Ericsson is announcing its app store offering. This year ZTE is joining the party with its solution called iMarket. The idea of both telecom equipment vendors is to make some additional money out of small and medium-sized carriers all around the world and deliver them…
YouMail’s visual voicemail for iOS updated with caller ID, forwarding and message grouping
YouMail launched a new version of its Visual Voicemail Plus app for iOS-powered devices. The first change you’ll notice is a completely revamped user interface, but there are also other features included as well, such as: Visual caller ID – feature that pulls and displays incoming caller photos from the phone’s address book and the…
Palringo launches white label mobile IM service
Mobile instant messaging company Palringo announced the launch of a white label mobile instant messaging service called Palringo Custom Solutions to provide operators and other interested companies with the ability to develop their own branded IM networks in as little as four weeks. In addition, potential Palringo clients will also be able to offer access…
Juniper Research: Mobile money services to double in the next 2 years
Latest analysis from Juniper Research suggests that the need to access basic financial services by users in developing countries will drive the short term growth from current less than 100 million of active mobile money users globally to exceed 200 million by 2013. At the same time, the report titled “Mobile Money Transfers & Remittances:…