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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First Origami, now this - Microsoft is getting good at Apple's rumor game. Dean Takahashi has everyone in a whirl after reporting more hard details today in the SJ Mercury News about Microsoft...
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Filed in archive Mobile Games
by tom on March 20, 2006
Gamedaily (by way of Modojo) have posted an extensive interview with Michel Guillemot, CEO of Gameloft, the mobile games arm of global games publisher Ubisoft.Modojo: Why were U.S. consumers slower...
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This is not a particularly timely review, but I thought it would be one worth sharing, especially with the recent showing of UMPC/Origami devices at CeBIT. A few months back, before the Origami stuff...
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Filed in archive Mobile Community
by tom on March 18, 2006
Carnival of the Mobilists 19 is being hosted by C. Enrique Ortiz this week. Featuring in this installment are articles from Darla Mack on naked booth babes, Russel Buckley having a go at Google, Troy...
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Filed in archive Announcements
by on March 17, 2006
Softbank, Japan's largest broadband provider has reached agreement to purchase Vodafone's Japanese group for $11.87 billion in cash."It's good news. The focus will now be on what...
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Filed in archive Design
by Scott on March 16, 2006
I wrote a couple weeks ago about how some new mobile interfaces were becoming more simplified in their design, particularly a new model from Motorola, which features an external interface of a few...
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Filed in archive Mobile Content
by tom on March 16, 2006
UK 3G operator 3 has teamed up with MSN UK to bring 3's SeeMeTV to MSN users.The exclusive three-month deal will see 3's SeeMeTV, a mobile TV channel which shows and pays for customer-created...
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This stat has changed several hands today as it made its way up the meme chain, but according to Tomi Ahonen, via Open Gardens, SMS brought in $75 billion worldwide in 2005. Tomi says: To put it in...
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T-Mobile Germany has taken a step forward toward blending GSM/UMTS and WiFi through the announcement of T-One, a new service that allows users on selected handsets (to be piloted on Nokia N80 and E60...
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Filed in archive Mobile Community
by tom on March 15, 2006
Smartmobs has pointed us in the direction of a geotagging research project at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne called System for TAgging Messages, Post-Inferential Semantics or...
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Czech software developer Circletech has dropped us a note about their SMS encryption technology called SMS 007. Using a Java app, SMS007 uses AES and user-derived keys to support the sending and...
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With all of the buzz around ETech, CeBIT etc., and the unveiling of the UMPC/Origami portable devices, it passed rather quietly last week that Intel announced some of its wireless "roadmap"...
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Filed in archive Announcements
by on March 13, 2006
Kayak Interactive has announced a full merger with wholly-owned European subsidiary Synergenix Interactive. The merged company has been renamed Blaze."BLAZE represents the culmination of three...
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Filed in archive Mobile Commerce
by tom on March 13, 2006
A number of sites including CNN Money are reporting that both Cingular and T-Mobile USA have stopped sales of Motorola's RAZR handset, due to concerns about dropped calls and inadvertant...
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Yahoo! Research has released ZoneTag, an application currently for Nokia Series 60 mobiles, which I wrote about last week at Smartspace, my blog about annotated environments. ZoneTag allows users with...
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Filed in archive Design
by Scott on March 10, 2006
BenQ-Siemens have taken the wraps off another big introduction of new handset models at CeBIT, following a gush of new models at 3GSM. This is the biggest burst of activity from BenQ since their...
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Filed in archive Mobile Content
by tom on March 09, 2006
T-Mobile have secured the European mobile broadcast rights to matches during the upcoming FIFA 2006 World Cup. The deal, which gives T-Mobile non-exclusive rights to near-live and delayed clips of...
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Filed in archive Mobile Content
by tom on March 08, 2006
T-Mobile and MTV have teamed up to provide a streaming TV service to T-Mobile's 3G customers across Europe. The deal, which will see MTV shorts, music and Niceklodean animations, is available to...
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Cingular has announced it will provide the first commercial 3G handset in North America with the addition of the Samsung GH-ZX10 to its lineup, running on the WCDMA standard. Like many other 3G...
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Filed in archive Announcements
by on March 06, 2006
I could have had so much fun with that headline... 3, the original 3G network provider in the UK has now been operating in the UK for 3 years. 3 launched the UK's first 3G network on 3rd March......
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