iResearch have published a new report into WAP usage in China over the coming years, predicting more than 100 million WAP users this year, rising to 230 million by 2008.This year, China Mobile stared...
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Filed in archive Announcements
by on May 31, 2006
Ewan over at SMS Text News told me about the recently launched Tiggdo mobile RSS service. The new service allows you to configure a number of content streams via a website, which are then made...
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Filed in archive Operators
by Scott on May 30, 2006
Global mobile giant Vodafone posted a £14.9 billion loss for 2005 on tuesday morning London time, the largest annual loss by a European company, according to the press, but raised its dividend and...
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Filed in archive Mobile Games
by tom on May 30, 2006
Nokia has announced the launch of the official website for Creatures of the Deep, a fishing game for Nokia's next generation mobile gaming platform. The Flash-reliant site at www.mobileangler.com...
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Filed in archive Mobile Content
by tom on May 30, 2006
Mobile Streams have signed a deal with Sony pictures Entertainment to create and distribute mobile content based on the recently released film The Da Vinci Code."Imagine the thrilling adventures...
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Filed in archive Design
by Scott on May 29, 2006
Vertu, the luxury handset brand of Nokia, is growing at a triple-digit rate, according to comments from Vertu President Alberto Torres to a Finnish newspaper. In his comments, reported by Reuters,...
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Filed in archive by tom on May 29, 2006
Sling Media, makers of the SlingBox place-shifting video device, have announced the launch of a beta test of their mobile player. The mobile player, which works on Windows Smartphones, lets SlingBox...
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Filed in archive Mobile Content
by tom on May 29, 2006
The ongoing series Carnival of the Mobilists has pitched up at Golden Swamp this week, featuring aticles from the folks at Smart Mobs about darknets, Justin Oberman on ordering and paying for goods...
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American carrier Cingular has announced that a record number of text messages have been sent in relation to the last season of American Idol, a nationally broadcast talent competition."We are...
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Filed in archive Forecasts
by Scott on May 26, 2006
ZDNet Asia, via textually.org, brings news that some analysts believe instant messaging will overtake SMS in a few years' time to be the main non-voice messaging application for mobile devices....
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According Reuters via moco.news, Sprint is in talks with Sling Media, Sony and Orb Networks to bring some kind of placeshifting play to Sprint customers. Such an effort would allow Sprint customers to...
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Filed in archive by tom on May 26, 2006
Nokia has released the source code to their Series 60 web browser as open source software in a bid to encourage development of the browser and bolster support for the Symbian Series 60 platform for...
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Last year a security firm in the UK launched the Mosquito, and auditory device that emits a sound that can apparently only be heard by teenagers.The Mosquito ultrasonic teenage deterrent is the...
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Out damned vowel! Out I say (with apologies to Mr Shakespeare) According to a story from Reuters today, Motorola are set to release a range of new slim phones called the SCPL.Ron Garriques, who heads...
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German location-based application Plazes has begun a closed beta of a mobile client for Symbian S60 devices, which includes Nokia N90, N70, 6680, 6681/6682, 6670, 3230, 6620, 6630, 6260, 7610. The...
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Motorola and T-Mobile have launched three new coloured PEBL handsets in the US. The new handsets, in green, orange and blue, are only be available through T-Mobile."The Motorola PEBL Colors are...
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Filed in archive Mobile Society
by tom on May 24, 2006
Whilst my image creation skills may not be the best, the picture on the left represents the most expensive mobile number ever purchased. The number was auctioned for charity in Qatar yesterday, and...
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LG have released a new ultra slim mobile handset, the KG320. The phone, which is about the same size as a business card and just under a centimeter thick (about a third of an inch) supports GSM...
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Filed in archive New Launches
by Scott on May 23, 2006
Japanese operator KDDI has announced the launch of the W42s 3G Walkman handset, which features 1GB of internal memory, expandable to 4GB via MemoryStick. It can support audio in Mp3, AAC and AAC+, and...
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Filed in archive Announcements
by on May 23, 2006
The new .mobi top level domain name service has launched in a limited way.From today, trademark holders from within the mobile industry have the chance to register their trademarks as .mobi domains....
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Filed in archive Operators
by Scott on May 22, 2006
Wanting to find out the latest transfer rumor in football? Did Tomas Rosicky really just sign with Arsenal? Will Michael Owen come back to Liverpool? Who won the England v Argentina semi-final? You...
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SonyEricsson have announced a new walkman handset, the W850."The W850 is really empowering our users to listen to what they want, wherever they are," said Jan Wäreby, Corporate Executive...
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