Orange has announced that it will integrate eBay on a range of it’s Singature devices – the first jointly-branded app it will have offered. The app will allow Orange customers to manage bids, and also view new listings, via the Signature range homescreen. I imagine this is some kind of expanding widget, but details are…
BA T5 chaos: Silicon.com readers’ comments!
I am sure you are all familiar now with the debacle that was the launch of BA Terminal 5 at Heathrow – essentially over 20,000 bags were/are “lost” (temporarily or otherwise) during the ensuing chaos, after the terminal opened – and a LOT of passengers clearly were/are not very happy about it! Silicon.com has aggregated…
End-users frustrated at Mobile Media Quality and Loading Time
A survey of US consumers conducted by Bamboo MediaCasting, Inc. has shown the Mobile industry needs to resolve problems with quality of media – common issues being image quality, bandwidth limitations and the overall user experience. You might wonder why Bamboo were interested in doing this research – well their bread and butter is “scheduled,…
Orange tries Ad-Supported Content
Orange has announced an ad-supported content trial on Orange World (it’s portal). The trial will apparently “give 800,000 of Orange’s 15.6 million mobile customers the option to download music to their mobile phone for free or at a discounted rate” – so it’s definitely a trial, but big trees grow from small seeds, right? The…
Orange UK Reveals Research on Mobile Media Consumption & Advertising
Orange UK has commissioned a research project to find out how mobile is changing the media landscape – the results of which have been given to MobiAD News. You can visit the site here for the full story, but the highlights are: people who access media regularly tend to do so for just over 3…
SpinVox: thoughts after 2 weeks of use…
You might remember I mentioned a short while back, that I was going to be writing a post on SpinVox – now, this isn’t the first post IntoMobile has dedicated to them (see here and here for example), but, it is the first usage review from a UK perspective! I signed up for the service…
Dial2Do – gets things done with just your voice!
Dial2Do is a free phone service that lets you get things done just by phoning a number and saying what you want done. You can call Dial2Do and say “email” to send an email, “text” to send a text message, “note” to…well you get the idea! It is being introduced to the US market at…
Motorola develops dual WiFi/cell phones
Motorola is soon to demo handsets that can hand off between WiFi and cellular networks. The solution, TEAM (Total Enteprise Access and Mobility) will also support PTT capability. TEAM devices will not be limited to just cell phoes, however it’s expected that the first batch of hardware will be mobile devices, to be ready end…
HD ‘Anywhere, Anytime’ (including Mobile), by Hava
The Hindu is reporting that Indian engineers in Bangalore have contributed “core technology” behind Monsoon Multimedia’s latest place/time-shifting product, called ‘Hava’. ‘Hava Titanium HD’, to give the product it’s full name, apparently erases the difference between a PC and TV set, and allows the user(s) to view HD content on TV, laptop, and even Mobile…
Update: neat video on how SpinVox works
We’ve posted about SpinVox a number of times before, and in fact I am a recent convert (why, oh why, didn’t I sign up before!) – but a video explaining a bit about how the system works, now that would be a neat thing……. ….. well it just so happens there is one – and…