Good news - you can win a Motorola RAZR V3 (locked to T-Mobile) if you take part in our contest. All you have to do is to invest about 3 minutes of your time and answer our 15-question survey.......
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A week on and darned if we haven't recovered from the hangover of making it into the Carnival of the Mobilists last week. But the groupies are still camped on the front lawn. And while my...
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Filed in archive Design
by Scott on March 31, 2006
Nokia has shown it is serious about attacking growth markets in Asia and other parts of the developing world. Yesterday at a big event in Chonqing, China, the Finns introduced three new handset...
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Filed in archive Mobile Content
by tom on March 31, 2006
British television production company Hattrick has signed a one year deal with UK-based i-rights to bring a range of clips drawn from Hattrick's comedy productions to mobile users. Included will...
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Filed in archive Device Evolution
by tom on March 31, 2006
Nokia, developer of mobile handsets, is predicting the mobile industry to grow by 15% this coming year, with most of the growth driven by increased sales in Asia and Africa, with predictions that...
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Filed in archive Sponsored Posts
by tom on March 31, 2006
Backup Platinum 2.0 from Softlogica is a simple, cross-format backup solution for Windows. The software makes backing up critical data to a variety of different storage formats simple. With support...
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Filed in archive Mobile Content
by tom on March 30, 2006
US mobile carrier Sprint has organised a deal with rock band Pearl Jam through website Fanscape to provide officially licensed Call Tones and Ring Tones (or 'Ringers') of the band's first...
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Filed in archive Mobile Content
by tom on March 30, 2006
Web in Hand have launched a new mobile news aggregation service called Delicious Mona. The service combines a java applet on your phone with your choice of RSS feeds, and your del.icio.us account....
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Filed in archive Operators
by Scott on March 29, 2006
Newly Launched MVNO cool.Prepaid has already appeared to run into trouble. Soft-launched in December and formally kicked off last week with a relationship with retailer Sears and a deal to distribute...
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Filed in archive Mobile Commerce
by tom on March 28, 2006
The BBC has a story about the EU Commission looking at the cost of roaming charges for European mobile users, with word of a proposal to scrap the charge to receive an incoming call while travelling...
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Filed in archive Mobile Content
by tom on March 28, 2006
Vodafone has announced it has launched the first fixed priced, full track music download service for mobile devices. The service has been launched in conjunction with mBlox and mobile music...
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As a public service, Mobile Weblog passes on HotelChatter's list of the best hotel WiFi (in the US) list for 2006, via Boing Boing. The survey gives the biggest shout out to Kimpton Hotels, which...
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Filed in archive Mobile Society
by tom on March 27, 2006
The BBC' Click Online has an interesting story from Japan about the rise in the use of mobile phones to read books and comics whilst on the move.Catering to the drudge of the daily commute, an...
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W00t! Carnival of the Mobilists No. 20 kicks off over at Dorrian Porter's Silicon Valley Himalayan Expedition. Entries include a great piece by Rudy De Waele on the missing link in much of mobile...
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Filed in archive Operators
by Scott on March 25, 2006
MoCoNews hipped us to an interesting service on 3 UK, the 3G operator. The service, launched in October, is called See Me TV, and allows users to post video they shoot with their 3 handsets and post...
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Filed in archive Operators
by Scott on March 25, 2006
MobileTracker has flagged Cingular CEO Stan Sigman's announcement to attendees at TelecomNext this week that his company plans to shut down all non-GSM networks it operates by 2008, the earliest...
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Filed in archive Device Evolution
by tom on March 24, 2006
Simon over at Airtime Manager has let us know about new BlackBerry 8707v Wireless Handheld, which comes complete with a 3G modem.The BlackBerry 8707v Wireless Handheld makes it easy to stay connected...
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Filed in archive Mobile Content
by tom on March 24, 2006
TextMeFree has launched a redesigned website, along with announcing their list of free SMS sites has reached 179, in 60 different countries.Sending free text messages to mobile phone users (wherever...
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Filed in archive Announcements
by on March 24, 2006
O2 has issued a recall for around 28,000 O2 X1 handsets after a number of issues were identified with the flip phone.[...] O2 is recalling this phone and offering customers a new replacement phone...
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Filed in archive Announcements
by on March 23, 2006
WIN Plc has announced it has partnered with Vodafone UK to handle all Vodafone's Vodafone Live! SMS and MMS messaging in the UK.The decision by Vodafone to bring all alerts under one supplier...
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Filed in archive Mobile Commerce
by tom on March 23, 2006
PayPal has launched a mobile version of it's service, allowing customers to send and make payments using the PayPal service from any supported mobile device.You can use your mobile phone to...
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Filed in archive Mobile Content
by tom on March 22, 2006
A report from Datamonitor and Paypal claims that the mobile content download market will triple by 2010.Carl-Olav Scheible, General Manager, UK merchant Services for PayPal Europe, said: "Mobile...
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Filed in archive Mobile Games
by tom on March 22, 2006
Exit Games and IGA Worldwide have partnered to integrate IGA Worldwide's ad-serving platform into Exit Games' mobile multiplayer platform to deliver dynamic, geo-targeted in-game ads to...
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Filed in archive Mobile Games
by tom on March 21, 2006
The Game Developers Conference is currently underway in the US, and a number of keynote speeches and industry panels have already come out on the state and quality of mobile gaming. Mitch Lasky,...
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