Now we mentioned Frengo on IntoMobile when it launched some time back, but now "Social mobile services" company Frengo has announced a "suite of applications that interoperate across popular sites Facebook, MySpace, hi5, Orkut and Bebo, enabling users to interact with existing contacts as well as discover like-minded individuals regardless of their particular social networking [...]

Motorola Home and Networks Mobility has just announced some significant milestones during Q108, including the shipment of 4m digital entertainment devices! In case you are wondering what digital entertainment devices inlcudes; digital cable set-top boxes, HDTV set-top boxes, DVR devices and IPTV devices. Why is this important for Mobile? Well, apart from the fact it's [...]

Audiopoint will launch an exclusive new Voice Terminal Service ( VTS) that will give instant access to Internet content in real time via any telephone. Designed for both the visually impaired, as well as users with limited internet access, VTS uses a first of a kind text-to-speech technology so subscribers can listen to and respond [...]

This week, I was lucky enough to spend some time in the company of Max Taylor (International Marketing Director, Mobile), and Mark Price (Public Relations Manager, EMEA), from Dolby Mobile. Many of you may remember that we covered Dolby's move in to Mobile as part of Will's CTIA coverage - out of that has spun [...]

From previous posts, you might know that I am always quite optimistic about Mobile TV - well a report from In-stat is a real humdinger in terms of good and bad news - the good being that the M-TV market could be worth $12bn in 2012, the bad being that the fragmented standards are here [...]

(BTW, the chap in the cup is a SpinVox "Mobster"….) My favourite VTT (Voice-to-text) company, SpinVox, have raised an interesting thread for conversation in their blog (read it here). More accurately, James Whatley, their "chief of interweb wizardry and bloggery", has written an inciteful and thought provoking piece on where "voice" (as in one of the [...]

Director Spike Lee has hooked up with Nokia to direct a movie made with Mobile phone video footage from "everyday people", in what he is apparently calling the "democratization of film". The film will be by Nokia Productions and will be over 3 acts - an "assignment" will be announced online for each act, adn [...]

StarHub recently announced that it has now officially launched Singapore's first nation-wide LBS (location-based service) for mobile advertising. For advertisers, the fit is obvious - send marketing/promo messages (SMS) to subscribers when they are in contextually relevant location. For customers, they get appropriate messages to what they are doing, both on a where and when [...]

  SpinVox, the rather excellent voice-to-text company have mailshotted me to let me know about some of their latest stats - I thought I would share these for your edutainment: Our Carriers are reporting a 33% uplift in Voicemail deposits, as the calling party knows their message will be seen in minutes. 87% of people return a [...]

Motorola have gone live with an awesome competition for those of that are a bit creative with old digital video - how do you fancy winning (a) one Motorola Z10, and (b) £10,000? Yes? Then read on! The competition The competition is extremely easy to enter. Entrants should pick a ‘logline’ from the list below (‘logline’ being [...]