February 2008 Archives
New Report: Wireless Users Are Over-Taxed in U.S.
According to economist Scott Mackey, wireless consumers pay excessive state and local taxes for wireless services. The report concludes that taxes and fees on wireless service increased four times faster than taxes on other goods and services in the U.S. between 2003 and 2007.The rep…
SIM Reader Unlocks Cell Phone Secrets
Brickhouse Security is marketing a SIM reader that can read data on cell phone SIMs including deleted messages and phone numbers.The website helps parents spy with cell phone spy data recovery and extractor. A USB SIM card reader that will instantly view, save, edit, recover and delete phone books a…
Users Will Help with LBS, POI, Real-Time Content, Says ABI
As users become familiar with the concepts of location-based services and navigation, the industry continually explores how best to offer additional location-relevant content. While professionally produced content such as map updates, Points of Interest (POIs), and safety camera locations continue t…
LinkedIn Goes Mobile
LinkedIn announced over 19 million members can now access a LinkedIn web application via mobile devices with Internet browsers like iPhone and iPod touch, Blackberry, and other web-enabled wireless phones. LinkedIn members can utilize the LinkedIn network on their mobile devices by logging into the…
Nokia & Morph Stretches Shape of Mobile Phones with Nanotech
Morph, a joint nanotechnology concept, developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the University of Cambridge (UK) - was launched today alongside the “Design and the Elastic Mind” exhibition, on view from February 24 to May 12, 2008, at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Morp…
New York Times Shifts to More Mobile Compatibility with ShifD
The New York Times Company announced today the beta launch of ShifD, an application that provides users the capability to seamlessly shift content between their computers and mobile devices. ShifD eliminates the need to separately save certain information to both a computer and a mobile device. User…
AKOO is OOH with Mobile Phones for Marketing
Akoo International Inc., a digital marketing technology and services company, announced a non-exclusive alliance with global marketing and communications agency Leo Burnett USA and its marketing services partner, Arc Worldwide. Akoo and Leo Burnett/Arc will develop digital marketing solutions for l…
Wireless 60GHz CMOS with 5 Gigabits a Second Transfer Rate from NICTA
The world’s first transceiver integrated on a single chip that operates at 60GHz on the CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) process, the most common semiconductor technology, was announced today by NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Cen…
Mobile Content Usability Negativity Impacts User Adoption of Mobile Data
Olista, has released a report on key issues encountered by mobile users in accessing mobile content in the last quarter of 2007. The findings are based on statistical information gleaned from monitoring over eleven million mobile users across five different mobile operators using Olista’s SAM…
Mobile Users Are Shoppers Rather than Buyers Says Gartner Group
A study of mobile users by Garnter Gourp finds that the more-likely shopping activities that consumers will want to do on their mobile phones, such as finding stores and checking prices, will be provided by portals and price comparison engines. Retailers are adivsed to ensure that they were aware of…
Roaming National Location Based Services Now Available from Alltel
Alltel Wireless customers now have access to GPS applications outside of their home network area with the availability of LBS (location based services) Nationwide Roaming. Alltel Wireless customers with GPS-capable handsets will benefit from this feature, they now have the ability to use any of A…
U.S. Cellular Goes Flat-Rate TOO
U.S. Cellular announced the addition of a $99 unlimited national calling plan for new and existing customers to offer convenience and service to both consumer and business customers. The new national plan allows customers to make unlimited voice calls. “We recognize that cel…
Sprint Nextel Push-to-X Gives Extra Push to Voice Mail, Text, Pix Contacts & Email
Sprint Nextel Direct Connect customers will have “push-to-x” capabilities. Push-to-x features bring the convenience of “the button” to multiple Nextel Direct Connect applications, including push-to-send voice messages to any email address, with NextMail(, and push-to-send p…
T-Mobile Talk Forever Wi-Fi VOIP Available in Seattle and Dallas
.T-Mobile is offeringTalk HotSpot@Home Talk Forever Mobile Home Phone in Seattle and Dallas that allows users to make and receive unlimited nationwide calls on their “home phone” for $10.00 a month with a T-Mobile Plan. “You just plug in the router into your broadband connection …
AT&T Tilt Firmware Upgrade Available
There has been a firmware upgrade for the bugs in the AT&T Tilt. The software update provides: Enhanced Bluetooth performance. Enables DTMF tones for the slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Improves overall device performance and stability. Includes Microsoft Adaptation Kit Update (AKU) 0.4.4. WARNIN…
$40 Billion Mobile Phone Accessories Revenue in 2008, Says ABI
Sales of mobile phone accessories are expected to generate over $40 billion in revenue in 2008. Handset vendors and mobile operators know that to increase sales of their feature-rich handsets, they also need to provide accessories that will allow users to fully enjoy and benefit from the application…
Fuel Cell Cell Phone Prototype Still Running
Fuel cell maker Angstrom Power and mobile phone maker Motorola have teamed up to create a prototype mobile phone that runs on a hydrogen fuel cell. The hydrogen fuel cell that extracts hydrogen from water and then extracts electrons from the hydrogen. The company claims that the fuel cells will o…
BlackBerry Users Won’t Go Back to Handsets, Says ISG
In amarket research survey released by Magmic Games and Information Solutions Group (ISG), users of mobile entertainment products on smartphone devices responded overwhelmingly that smartphone devices provided a superior entertainment experience than traditional feature-p…
Rave Guardian Keeps Students Safe with GPS
Rave Wireless, announced the introduction of its upgraded Rave Guardian product. Rave Guardian is a personal safety tool that lets students use their mobile phone to instantly share location and critical safety information with campus security, whenever and wherever they’re in distress. With t…
LiveWire Brings Alive 400,000 Virgin Mobile Ringback Tones in 3 Months
Virgin Mobile USA and partner LiveWire Mobile (re ringing up lots of buzz from customers eager to personalize their cell phones with Ringback Tones. Over five million Virgin Mobile customers currently have access to more than 10,000 songs within LiveWire Mobile’s Ringback Service. Ringback To…
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