Posts Tagged with ‘mobile’

It’s safe to say that a good portion of the world resides in a 3G era. It's here in North America. It's over there in Europe, and Asia. And in numerous pockets elsewhere. Wireless broadband, though short of being a quantitatively “mainstream” convenience (in the way, say, domestic DSL and cable Internet services are today), [...]

We all knew the memo would come. It’s the last day of November, and Google’s decided it fitting to top its monthly quota of announcements off with an official notice of intent to “apply to bid for wireless spectrum” in the new year. The collective reaction from the public? Finally. Yes, the message has been [...]

If you’ve been following our coverage of developments surrounding the 700MHz auction to take place in January 2008, you’ll know that Google has made its interests in keeping a sizable portion of the wireless spectrum open very well known. (Open in the sense that essential freedoms for both the owner(s) and users (either in the [...]

MoFuse, short for mobile fusion is a new kid on the block when it comes to RSS feeds on your mobile phone. MoFuse founded in July 2007 released its first private beta in the late part of September 2007. The idea behind MoFuse is to allow, as it so boldly states, “content publishers to create [...]

As the months pass, it seems Google leaves Yahoo! further and further behind. And not because it’s technologically inferior to the megaforce of Mountain View. It can hold its own. Kinda. No, such a perception exists primarily because of the continuous barrage of media coverage lavished on Big G. It just doesn’t stop. Day after [...]

Mobile phones are very useful in today's society, being able to make calls, capture photos, record video and even browse the web. But, many of the tasks that we use cell phones for, such as text messaging and managing contacts, can become very tedious and time-consuming, especially on phones with smaller screens and those that [...]

AOL is the latest company that has jumped on the mobile bandwagon, with new services targeted at users of the mobile web being launched at the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment event taking place this week in San Francisco. In today's press release, AOL announced several new mobile services which are “designed to create rich [...]

While it’s not at all fair that Apple’s iPhone (and the developments its release has spawned) are getting the overall bulk of the attention doled out to the smartie market these days, it’s certainly worth pointing out highlights that are piggybacking the multi-touch marvel’s success as they make their way into public view, if only [...]

I am not a cell phone guru, but if you don't have an iPhone (or even if you do) – Rocekshotz is a cool service that can help you approximate one for free. Rocketshotz sets up a user's favorite mobile sites and transfers them to their phone in an “iPhone-like start page”. The Atlanta company [...]