Motorola has partnered with Microvision to add a PicoP miniature projector on a prototype phone. With this, future Motorola handsets will have a big-screen viewing experience. According to the press...
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For aspiring authors who do not have much time to sit down with their computers and compose the next best-selling novel, you can try using your mobile phone instead. This is what Italian author Robert...
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Filed in archive Mobile Content
by leo on July 25, 2007
Mobile phone manufacturer Nokia has acquired social media sharing site, Twango, for $96.8 million. This acquisition will help to seamlessly facilitate sharing of content between mobile devices and...
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After a month of absence, I'm finally back here to deliver more interesting mobile trends affecting the way we communicate with each other. So here we go. First stop - iPhone. After months of...
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Carnival of the Mobilists number 83 has arrived, hosted on Golden Swamp.Emerging from the GoldenSwamp is Carnival of the Mobilists 83 in full swing at Hogwarts. The Epilogue in the final Harry Potter...
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I stumbled across this item on Ewan's blog, but haven't been able to access the relevant page on The Guardian. According to the story, O2 are planning on closing their i-mode service due to a...
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Global use of SMS text messaging is continuing to rise, according to figures released by Informa. According to World Cellular Data Metrics, more than 620 billion messages were sent worldwide in the...
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I've deliberately avoided posting about this subject the past few days, although I've been following it since it first appeared on The Consumerist website last week. I've also been...
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The BBC is reporting this morning that UK operator O2 has secured a deal with Apple to be the exclusive provider of the iPhone in the UK.A spokesman for O2, which is owned by Spain's Telefonica,...
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Filed in archive Mobile Content
by tom on July 04, 2007
OK, not strictly Text Alerts, but the result is the same, according to a report on Tech.co.uk about the Associated Press' new news alerts service. Based on a downloadable application, customers...
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Google is being acquisitive again, this time buying GrandCentral Communications, a company that provides a single number that can be routed to any phone, effectively allowing people to have only one...
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by tom on July 02, 2007
MocoNews has word of some new reports claiming the mobile games industry will be worth a whole lot more than it is now in a few years, although as usual the figures being quoted vary quite wildly....
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Filed in archive Mobile Culture
by tom on July 02, 2007
I'm not going to post much more about the iPhone, as it's being covered far more by every other mobile site at the moment, however I thought I'd stop by and post this, from Textually,...
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