Posts Tagged with ‘mobile-phone’

Recently I discovered a mobile web service called Mobango. I found them searching for ring tones for my new cell phone, and decided to stick around and explore their site.  When I saw that they offered games and other fun things as well as ring tones, plus a "friend" feature, I got excited. I'm always looking for new things to do when I'm stuck waiting somewhere, and cell phone content is a great way to  kill time.
Right away Mobango offers [...]

There’s a great deal of talk surrounding recent news coming out of Mountain View as of late. Understandably so. In the last week or so, we’ve seen revealed a number of grand projects by Google: one having to do with the development of an open Web platform, dubbed OpenSocial; another having to do with a software-specific mobile project. (Yesterday, Google publicly divulged the outline of that mobile project, now known as the Open Handset Alliance.)
And there’s also been ample chatter [...]

Earlier this week we brought you word about Skype’s imminent delivery of a mobile phone, which the company partnered with the international wireless network, 3 (Three), to provide consumers in many parts of the world with mobile VoIP calling and IM service. Well, folks, it’s arrived.
Today, the 3 Skypephone, as it has been labeled, is released to the UK market.
The debut of this official wireless-network-sanctioned wireless VoIP device is a first for a major Western carrier, and one that [...]

Nokia, in an attempt to make itself well-established presence in mobile world steadily increasing in on-the-go entertainment options and provisions as far as choice of content is concerned, has announced the addition of CNN and Sony Pictures to its list of media partners.
Both join the big name providers YouTube and Reuters as contracted suppliers of videos to the mobile phone company’s list of media-friendly devices, known as the N Series line.
As the terms mobile and media [...]

The division of Newscorp responsible for the company’s online offerings, Fox Interactive Media, announced Monday a version of MySpace formatted to fit mobile phone users’ screens, accessible free of charge and with no strings other than the require that one has the ability to roam the Web via their mobile device.
No need to be an AT&T or Helio subscriber (mind you, no word on whether this delivery is being made available across international boundaries, though I can’t imagine why [...]

For quite some time now, many (though not too many; let’s not get ahead of ourselves here) wireless phone-wielding peoples around the world have been experiencing mobile music downloads. Most use carrier-supplied Web portals formatted for their supplies of various digital audio-friendly devices to perform these over-the-air transactions. Some, of course, do this job terribly. Others are okay at it. And some actually pull the process off fairly well.
Just not well enough, right?
Yesterday, though, things changed – for the [...]

Mobile social networks. Is there a reason they haven’t particularly “taken off”? In a word, yes.
A simple explanation for the lack of great buzz about the subgenre: screen size. Not disinterest. Not market size. (Annual cellular phone sales easily eclipse those registered by the PC world.) Real estate.
At 1+ billion sales per year, the mobile market is huge. Immense. But the successes catalogued in the cellular sector don’t go hand in hand with those on the PC side of the [...]

If you’re familiar with MyStrands, you know that its connection to PartyStrands and the online community created by the two make for an interesting mix. You definitely can enjoy an iTunes or Windows Media or Winamp existence alone, but with MyStrands you can share recommendations for albums and singles with lots of people. And we think sharing is a-okay.
Even if you’re not clubbing on the weekends at a PartyStrands-compliant venue, you get to hear what fellow “MyStranders” are listening to, and [...]

Mobile content tools are growing more and more popular daily. By daily I mean that news in this field arrive actually daily. Today I am talking about PixSense – video and photo content hosting solution that has secured $5.4 million in equity funding, led by ATA Ventures and Innovacom.
PixSense service was launched in March, 2005 and is intended to upload and store photos, videos and text files directly from cell phones. The recently announced funding is intended for development of [...]