Just as we expected, NetBlender has officially outed their BD Touch application for iPhone and iPod Touch today. As you'll probably recall, BD Touch essentially turns your iPhone (and iTouch) into a remote control for your Bluray Disc player (even the PS3). Through the magic of your Bluray Player's BD-Live technology, the iPhone in your pocket [...]

If the plethora of Twitter web-applications for the iPhone just isn't up to snuff for your Twittering (Tweeting?) ways, there's an alternative to the native iPhone Twitter client that I mentioned previously. MobileTwitter gives you the convenience of staying addicted to Twitter on your iPhone, but does away with the clunky and sometimes frustrating UI [...]

Times are such that we dont get to trust anyone. Sometimes, we dont even trust ourselves. Such is the state of affairs that clandestine operations, meetings and activities are a primary requisite now-a-days.

There's a nice piece by BBC News columnist Bill Thompson which talks about how the web is changing the way that journalism works - you can find it here - and which I thought I would pick up on. The central thread of the piece is that the web has had a massive effect on the [...]

MobiAD News has conducted an interview with Pascal Thomas, mobile visionary and VP of Orange NExT (the mobile media division of France Telecom Orange), on advertising through social networks. You can read the full interview here, but here are some of the highlights: Segmentation - the traditional view is that all subs fit in to [...]

Hong Kong: Ericsson has been selected as sole supplier for mutimedia service network upgrades by SmarTone-Vodafone. Ericsson will supply a HSPA-enabled radio access network, including MBMS, and a fully IP-based core network (including IMS). The deal will also include all related Professional Services (PS) work. Ericsson is already the sole supplier of SmarTone-Vodafone’s core and radio [...]

Singapore: Motorola recently demonstrated the first handoffs between public WiMAX access points (at the WiMAX Forum Congress Asia 2008). The demo was enabled through a mobile WiMAX network set up at Motorola's facility in Ang Mo Kio, Singapore. Attendees were able to experience various mobile applications including video conferencing, web browsing and mobile streaming while moving [...]

Virgin Trains is working with Vodafone to add retransmitters for 2G/3G to 52 of the trains on their fleet - boosting signal strengths for customers. The project, which is due to finish in November, has apparently seen a 60% increase in successfully completed calls. At the same time the carrier is also urging business users [...]

UK: Tesco, the (primarily) food-retailing superstore, which also happens to run an MVNP, has been trialling a WAP advertising portal since May 2007 - Tesco says access to the portal has been growing, resulting in 300,000 unique visitors in December 07. The Ads were delivered as "traditional" banner Ads with a click-through, and included brands such [...]

Goldstriker keeps pushing various luxury versions of Apple's handset. Lately we've spotted the gorgeous red grain leather version, made by their chief designer Stuart Hughes. Only 250 of these will be made, so it's wise to take your place on time. The red grain iPhones will start selling from the end of this months for [...]

Hong Kong based HKC (no it's not a typo) launched the world's first Windows Mobile smartphone with two SIM card slots, allowing savvy users to make and receive phone calls on two networks while doing their usual "Exchange thing." Two models were announced — W1000 which is equipped with one GSM and one CDMA SIM [...]

The GPS PDA Phone Airis T482 is ready to hit the mobile market of France within the next few days. The device will sell for 424 EUR with France-only maps or for 478 EUR with Europe wide coverage. Details about the specs are still kinda sketchy, and so far we can confirm only such things [...]

Oops!… They've did it again… A certain Chinese handset "maker" have managed to clone the HTC Touch Dual to perfection. As you can see from the image above, it's hard to tell whether the device is actually fake. Details like the icons at the bottom of the screen and "HY" sign on the back are [...]

Not that known manufacturer of the Bluetooth mobile phone accessories Tritton recently launched two new products - AX Micro headset and AX Visor car kit. The first one is a comfortable, mono headset with "sleek micro design" that incorporates a design with flexible finger grips that rest on the inner rim of the ear, ensuring [...]

Few days ago we posted a screenshot of Nokia N810 Internet Tablet running Google's Android OS. No big deal, even before Android, the N810 used Linux as an operating system. And now, the folks of XDA-Dev community managed to make Google's OS singing along HTC TyTN II. Best of all, Android runs as an .EXE [...]