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Tor Anumana launches AFAR and ASYNC

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Tor Anumana has announced two wireless applications for remote access. The first makes it possible to run a live presentation (like PowerPoint) via a mobile device and share a live demo with others all over the world, instantaneously on their own mobile devices. The second makes it possible to access any file from [...]

Motorola invests in Invidi

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 Motorola has announced it's investment in INVIDI Technologies Corporation - a leader in advanced addressable advertising for the television industry. According to the press release: INVIDI’s proprietary technology delivers addressable commercial messages tailored to the television viewer. The technology has the ability to accurately identify viewers’ age, gender, location and other characteristics for greater personalization while always [...]

Rivals race to bring Olympic Games to Mobile

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An industry expert has said that the 2012 games will "do for mobile TV what the Coronation did for early television" - so says Phil Lehmann, senior product manager of T-Mobile's mobile TV division. In the meanwhile, MNOs are deciding which Mobile TV techology to put their money and time behind. Part of that technology decision [...]

Apple's iPhone AppStore digital application signatures explained - developer costs lowest in industry

apple | apple iphone | appstore | development costs | digital signature | fairplay | iphone | iphone sdk | mac os

We already know that Apple plans to lockdown the development environment for iPhone applications made with the iPhone SDK and distributed through the AppStore. But, the question is, just how does Apple plan to keep such a tight leash on all those oncoming applications, and how does that play into the plan to charge a [...]

LG LH2300 Touch Web phone to come with 3 inch 800×480 touchscreen; We want one!

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Wow! With devices like this one, LG is set to rule! They got our attention for sure. The upcoming LG LH2300 Touch Web phone promises to be the next big thing. The huge 3 inch 800×480 pixels touchscreen is there and so is the new "Hello" user interface. We're not sure how the mentioned UI works, [...]

Google Search plug-in goes Windows Mobile

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Roughly a month ago, Google released dedicated search application for Symbian S60 devices that allowed users to quickly search the web directly from phone's homescreen. Now they're pushing the same app to Windows Mobile. And, that's it. If you're a Windows Mobile device owner and use Google as a primary search engine you'll certainly want to [...]

Bluetouch Car Kit makes driving safer, looks cool

accessories | bluetooth car kit | bluetooth safe drive | bluetouch car kit | touchscreen car kit

Here's a cool Bluetooth car kit for those that are frequently on the wheels. The Bluetouch has a large touchscreen which is certainly easier and more convenient to use (watch) than standard small car kit screens, especially for such phone functions as accessing your address book and calling lists when two buttons (accept and refuse [...]

AT&T preparing to launch MEdia Mall 2.0

announcements | at&t content store | at&t download store | at&t mobile content | cingular/at&t | content | media mall | mobile content store

AT&T has unveiled plans to redesign its mobile content store MEdia Mall to make it user friendlier and more personalized. Some of the new features AT&T customers should expect are ringtones preview, screenshots of games and graphics (before purchasing), as well as customer purchase recommendations. According to the official release: AT&T's MEdia Mall 2.0 is designed [...]

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 white paper reveals more details

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Those that are hungry for more information about the upcoming Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 super-phone will be pleased to know that the Swedish-Japanese handset maker revealed us more through the recently released white paper. Here's what we know: Pre-loaded XPERIA panels: Sony Ericsson Panel - news, weather, finance, world clock, and app shortcuts Media Experience Panel - multimedia [...]

Sprint Offers Free Access to MySpace Mobile

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MySpace today launched MySpace Mobile on Sprint phones, allowing subscribers a fast track to their profiles on their phones. MySpace has partnered with Sprint to provide customers direct access to MySpace Mobile's tool set, including the ability to edit MySpace profiles, view and add friends, post blogs and bulletins, send and receive MySpace messages. The new version of MySpace Mobile features a rich graphical design, a revamped email interface and other new features. "Mobile is the next genera...

Press Release: SPINVOX SECURES OVER $100 MILLION IN NEW FUNDING ROUND

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SpinVox, the founder and global leader in Voice-to-Screen messaging has announced that it has secured over $100 million in a new funding round Read the full story here. <

Google Offers Search Plug-in for Windows Mobile

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Yesterday Google announced that its Google Search plug-in for Windows Mobile devices is now available for downloading. We tested it out briefly to see if it works as expected. Read on for what is perhaps our shortest review ever. Read the full story here.

Alltel Wireless Launches Samsung SCH-u706 Muse

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Today Samsung and Alltel Wireless announced the immediate availability of the new Samsung Muse, a music oriented device that is otherwise known as the SCH-u706. The Muse supports Bluetooth stereo for music playback and even has a 2 megapixel camera on-board. Read the full story here.

Press Release: MySpace Mobile Officially Launches, Accessible to Sprint Customers

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Sprint offers data subscribers free direct access to the MySpace Mobile website and tool set Read the full story here.

Samsung Offers New Burgundy G600 with Matching Nail Polish

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Samsung and UK firm "nails inc" recently unveiled the SGH-G600 Belle, a variant of the G600 cameraphone that is clad in a new color scheme and ships with matching nail polish. That's right - matching nail polish. Read the full story here.

Review: Nokia E90 Communicator - A Monster Smartphone

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The Nokia E90 is a monster. It is to smartphones what monster trucks are to your dad's pickup - it eats them for breakfast. It's a monster in terms of bulk as well as mobile computing power. But if you can tame this beast, it can do many things for you. Find out more in our in-depth review. Read the full story here.

One in three mobiles to be smartphones by 2013

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As handset manufactures push smartphone features into their lower-range offerings, more and more people are likely to pick up a smartphone in the coming years. New research from ABI Research indicates that 31% of all mobile phones in 2013 will be a smartphone. Currently, one in ten cellphones are smartphones. "Smart operating systems are continually [...]

Alltel launches Samsung Muse

alltel | announcements | devices | evdo | gps | muse | samsung | samsung muse

Some things are just too good to pass up. The Samsung Muse, for example, rocks EV-DO, GPS and a 2 megapixel camera to handle the cool stuff, while the 64MB of onboard memory and microSD slot, stereo Bluetooth, and external music controls handles the fun stuff. But, the best part is that Alltel is launching [...]

Nokia promotes end of N-Gage beta with free game offering

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Mobile gaming is about to get a little more exciting. At least if you own one of Nokia's N-series devices (N81, N82, N95) that will play nice with Nokia's N-Gage gaming platform. Until now, Espoo has limited the fun of N-Gage gaming to beta testers with Nokia N81 handsets. In return for making the N-Gage plunge [...]

Opera Mini adds direct link to AccuWeather.com

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Recently, Opera Software announced that it has added a direct link from Opera Mini start page to AccuWeather.com mobile website. This translated into an ability to quickly access weather information for Opera Mini users. Now your weather report fix is one click less away — previously you needed to invest some "effort" into typing AccuWeather's [...]