06/25/08 - Upload your files to mobile phones.

06/25/08 - Upload your files to mobile phones.

Nokia's Maemo platform that powers their Nokia Internet Tablets has been tweaked again to bring new features and bug fixes to your Nokia N800 or Nokia N810. The OS2008 Feature Upgrade, based on Maemo 4.1 (codename: Diablo) brings with it a new open-source email application, better panning in the web browser, and Seamless Software Update. The [...]

Can't wait any longer to get your hands on a US-spec Nokia N78? Good, because Nokia's US 3G frequency-friendly Nokia N78 has just landed on Yankee shores with support for those all-important 850/1900Mhz 3G bands. With a 3.2 megapixel camera (Carl Zeiss optics, naturally), aGPS, HSDPA (again, US-friendly), and that trick illuminated keypad packed in [...]

There's nothing worse than being stuck at home asking that dreaded question of your significant other - "What should we do today/tonight?" To help ease the brain-racking search for new and fun things to do in your area, the Travel Channel is bringing their travel-expertise to the mobile space. Travel Channel GO is a web-app that [...]

If you're one of the unlucky few to still be rocking unshielded speakers around your work or living space, then you're probably painfully aware of just how annoying that cell-signal "buzz" can be. The problem is, speakers that aren't shielded from electromagnetic (RF) interference will pick up on the radio frequency perturbations associated with incoming or [...]

Although all of us imagine about purchasing investment properties, but several people are unaware about how much wide-ranging knowledge and work it takes to do it.

… or at least that's what they were saying to me when they sent me an email on Tuesday. Reading on, the story was about the Skype Nomad, a girl called Rebecca from Oz, who has been travelling around (the world), and finding out how easy it is to use Skype. So really the mobility part [...]

EA VP of European publishing, Javier Ferreira, believes that subscription models can work for mobile games and help drives sales…. For the UK I am not so sure - as The Inquirer neatly points out, the whole pullava regarding Mr C. Frog and his irritating ringtone really did alientate end-users as regards paying subscriptions for [...]

Glu and SEGA Europe are partnering to publish Beijing 2008™– The Official Mobile Phone Game of the Olympic Games and Sonic at the Olympic Games™ throughout EMEA, Australia and New Zealand. The game will be developed by SEGA, and feature four events. Coooool, this could be a button-mash frenzy! Anyone remember the really old Olympic games-style [...]

Unilever has created a .mobi site for its cheekily-advertised Pot Noodle snacks! AKQA Mobile (the Mobile Marketing Agency, who I've been a lot about recently) have created the site, which provides some branded entertainment for visitors - such as ringtones and competitions. The site is partnered with the The Sun newspaper, and Bluepod Bluetooth outposts in Cineworld [...]

Picking up on my previous post about Bluetooth marketing for Pot Noodle, I wanted to just quickly cover off the company that are involved in that promotion. If you've been to a Vue Cinema in the UK, and have Bluetooth turned on, chances are you have been sent something by these guys! Bluepod Media have a [...]

Sprint and Samsung working together to meet high demand for Instinct Read the full story here.

I am sure you might be wondering (maybe in fact you know) who this woman is? Well, this is European Commissioner Viviane Reding, who recently commented (during an interview with the FT) that she would not oppose MNOs that wanted to charge users to terminate calls - potentially paving the way for UK OpCos at [...]

Following on from the story I recently wrote about Mobile Broadband being free by 2009, another report (from Berg Insight) has stated that European Mobile broadband usage will reach 49 million people by 2013. Inclusion in Laptops (and I presume sub-notebooks and suchlike) will fuel growth, meaning the gradual inclusion of 3.5G (HSPA) and 4G (LTE) [...]

Alcatel Lucent and SpeedCast Ltd announced a tie-up to develop and commercialize a shared, hosted DVB-H platform for mobile TV operators in Asia.The companies are going to work together to leverage their tech, content delivery, and infrastructure solution to build a new Moby TV platform, that should deliver 20 TV channels for broadcast. Offering this kind [...]

T-Mobile plans to launch the Motorola ROKR E8, a music phone with new ModeShift technology, beginning July 7. Offering a modern style, the handset features a high-gloss front, aluminum soft touch back, spun metal side keys and engraved banding. Its smooth surface has no visible keys when powered off. Powered on and the device presents a virtual numbered keypad on the front surface. It only presents users with only the controls they need. Using ModeShift technology, it transforms from music playe...

Yesterday we managed to snag some live pictures of the Motorola V950, a ruggedized clamshell walkie-talkie phone coming to Sprint's high-speed EV-DO Rev. A network. This rugged, RAZR-like cell phone packs a 2 megapixel camera and support for Sprint's new QChat-based Push-to-Talk service. Read the full story here.

Last night in New York we managed to get some hands on time with RIM's latest flagship product, the ever so pretty BlackBerry Bold 9000. Coming across as a melding of the 8800 and Curve devices, the Bold aims to move RIM's product line into the next level. Read the full story here.

Award-Winning Motorola Handset Takes Customers from Talk to Music in One Touch Read the full story here.