If the latest rumors filtering down the various intertubes prove to be on point, Canadian fans of the RIM’s push-emailing smartphones could see Rogers launching the heralded BlackBerry Bold 9000 on August 19th. The BlackBerry Bold 9000 has already gone live in Chile, Germany, and Austria, but North American releases are still rumored to be at [...]

Avoiding that new, performance-enhancing iPhone 2.0.1 OS update for fear of losing your jailbreak applications? Don’t want to risk not being able to unlock your iPhone 3G after updating to the iPhone 2.0.1 OS? Well, good news, you iPhone hacking fiend, you. The always reliable iPhone Dev Team has released their latest PwnageTool update. PwnageTool [...]

Popular Facebook app, FindMe, is now available for Symbian S60 smartphones, allowing you to let your friends know where you are and find out where they are at any point. With a mobile FindMe client, you can completely control what your friends see, “At home”, “Office”, “Playing Soccer”, etc, or add such information like zip or [...]

Verizon Wireless announced that it has completed enhancements to its EV-DO Rev. A based 3G network throughout Florida, allowing customers to use various Internet-related services (V CAST?) at broadband speeds. The enhancements to the EV-DO Rev. A network took nearly two years, and entailed installing the most advanced hardware and software on thousands of cell sites [...]

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) recently launched an enhanced version of its Bluetooth Profile Tuning Suite (PTS), their software tool that “simulates multiple Bluetooth devices and profiles for interoperability testing.” The PTS Version 3 adds test suites for seven profiles that will address new applications like health devices and streaming video, support for Windows [...]

Everyone and their mama want a piece of the Olympic action. Mobile content marketplace voeveo.com is not an exception, hence they’ve announced that national anthem ringtones and flag wallpapers can be downloaded from their website. Their Olympics-ready mobile content can work with virtually any mobile phone, allowing anyone to “carry the Olympic spirit in their [...]

Like any other smart company, fring wants to use a major event like the Olympics to promote its offering. Being a small company prevents them from buying expensive media space, but as an underdog they’ve managed to find their way around and get piece of the glory. Their idea was to create dedicated fringAdd-ons that would [...]

Bell Mobility in Canada is releasing the HTC Touch Dual. The version Bell is offering features a slide-out 20-key QWERTY keyboard, rather than standard numeric keypad. Other specs include built-in GPS, 3G support (EV-DO Rev. A), touchscreen with HTC’s TouchFLO user interface, media player with streaming video support, 2 megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth, and a microSD [...]

No wonder Sony Ericsson is interested in acquiring India’s Spice Mobiles. Their recently launched gaming phone, Spice X-1, looks like something the Swedish-Japanese handset maker may release in the not-that-distant future as part of its “F” series of mobile gaming friendly handsets. Back to Spice X-1. It’s clearly a mobile phone designed to appeal to the [...]

Whilst the lady in the picture seems quite happy with her Mobile TV, it would appear that people in both Germany and Japan will be less so…. Mobile 3.0 (the company that won the DVB-H auction in Germany) hasn’t been able to generate any traction in the market (and is probably headed for insolvency), since the [...]

Some new numbers on Mobile TV’s take-up (or not!) in Korea haev emerged - and by Mobile TV in this instance, I am referring to the broadcast variety using the DMB standard. DMB can include both Terrestrial (T-DMB) and Satellite (S-DMB), but these stats lump those together - and the numbers still aint good! Apparently there [...]

Lebara Mobile (which is apparently a UK MVNO that provides lo-cost calls to the UK’s ethnice residents) has announced it has signed up to a partnership with Morrisons, one of the UK’s largest supermarket chains. This means that airtime from the MVNO will be sold through the supermarkets and petrol forecourts of Morissons locations. I have [...]

Amobee Media Systems has announced that both Motorola and Cisco systems have made  strategic investments in the company. They join existing investors such as Telefonica, Vodafone, and some financial institutions. This investment comes on the back of news of successful alliances with Telefonica, and go-live deployments with Vodafone. The Amobee media system establishes a new revenue [...]

Mobile payments solution provider Obopay has announced partnership with Grameen Solutions, the company globally recognized for promoting economic and social development through information and communications technology, to deliver mobile banking services to a billion of the world’s poorest people by 2018. The Grameen-Obopay Bank A Billion Initiative will provide access to affordable financial services, including savings, [...]

The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing have started on Friday. Many of the world’s largest companies are trying to bind themselves with the world’s largest sports event and Coca-Cola is not an exception. As a matter of fact they are launching the biggest Bluetooth marketing campaign, ever. Pioco, China’s most influential Bluetooth Media company, has wired [...]