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If you ever plan on selling your mobile phone on eBay, do yourself a big favor and make sure you give it a good old factory reset. Wipe the memory card too while you’re at it. This advice comes from from the mobile and forensics experts Disklabs who purchased 50 handsets from eBay, admittedly a…
On the heels of our recent post on the Nike+ GPS app update, we talk about another iPhone application that does the similar thing… The outdoor social network for sports and fitness enthusiasts Map My Tracks wants its slice of the iPie, too. Their app is called OutFront and it provides “F1-style performance telemetry” for…
Last Friday on Nokia’s official corporate blog, the results of a poll asking “What Ovi services do you use the most?” showed that only 5.56% of Ovi users actually use Ovi Music. This begs the question, when will one of Europe’s largest companies return to their core talents, instead of trying to do everything, for…
Sybase 365 is extending its partnership with Western Union, with the completion of the Western Union Mobile Vendor certification process. The alliance will enable Sybase 365 to support Western Union services in its mobile wallet platforms and enable mobile operators and financial institutions to mobilize Western Union Money Transfers to users all around the world…
Myxer — which operates the seventh largest U.S. mobile website, reaching an estimated 15% of the U.S. mobile web — announced it will have served more than 40 million users by month end. The company has strategic partnerships in place with key entertainment publishers and boasts one of the largest mobile content catalogs with more…
According to the even newer report on mobile betting from Juniper Research, consumer smartphone adoption has been a major driver in a resurgent European mobile gambling sector. The research company forecasts that the user numbers are expected to rise by more than 60% in 2010, with more than 2 million sports book customers in Europe…
Mobile transaction network mBlox released the results of its consumer research, revealing almost 90% of consumers prefer multi-channel options for interacting with businesses. Among the communication methods consumers like is SMS, which is seen as a handy tool for reminders and coupons. In terms of the SMS adoption, 59% of UK and 17% of US…
Vodafone has launched an all-you-can-eat mobile gaming service in Europe, allowing feature phone owners to download and play as many Java ME games as they like for just 5 EUR (3.5 GBP) per month. In terms of handsets supported, the new service works on the Nokia E65, N85, N95 8GB, N95, N78, N81, N97 Mini,…
When I think Yahoo! Messanger, I think old people who can’t be bothered with keeping up with the times, or Asians. Anyway, it doesn’t matter if you’re a senior citizen or that your most prized possession is a rice cooker to enjoy the fact that Yahoo! is going to introduce their Messanger client for both…
After the updated iPhone app, Waze is following up with a new Android client which now too comes with driving groups support. There are already more than 5,000 groups to choose from (created by the iPhone users) as well as the option to create your own driving group. In addition, Waze 2.0 for Android also…