July 2008 Archives
Sprint to Pay $18.2 Million for ETF Case and Give $54.7 Million in Credits
Sprint Nextel Corp. violated California law in how it charged early terminations fees, under a ruling in Alameda County Superior Court from Judge Bonnie Sabraw on Moday. The Associated Press reports "Sprint will have to pay $18.2 million in cash to customers who sued over the fees and credit $54.…
More About Chino Hills Earthquake
Earthquake is estimated to be 8 miles under the surface. As I told my aunt in Florida, "Anything under a 6.0, we're used to."Just for fun, we're seeing how long our earthquake story gets to Google news. So far it is not searchable but stories we filed an hour ago are Google indexed.Updated at …
Los Angeles Earthquake Shakes Wireless and Mobile News
This article about the Los Angles earthquake today was updated at 1:22 pm.In the midst of typing a news story, the monitor, floor, and keyboard shook here in Pasadena due to an earthquake. It felt like a 5.0 here, was 5.8 (corrected to 5.4) earthquake centered in Chino Hills. Some phone…
AT&T Bans Use of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing on 3G Network
According to MultiChannel News, AT&T's 3G bandwagon does not include peer-to-peer downloading and AT&T bans the use of 3G networks for P2P file sharing and told an FCC official that anyone caught with their hands the P-2-P cookie jar will be terminated."AT&T's terms of service for mobile…
Gameloft to Develop Games for Zeemote
Zeemote maker wireless controllers for mobile devices, announced that Gameloft is developing titles for the forthcoming Zeemote JS1 Controller which connects via Bluetooth to handsets. In order to ensure a consistent quality consumer experience with the Zeemote JS1 Controller, the company h…
SendMe and Moderati Share Indie & Movie Music Catalogs
SendMe, and Moderati have partnered to provide SendMeMobile.com members access to Moderati's premium catalog of indie music. Members who sign up for SendMe's mobile content offering will be able to select and download ringtones from Moderati's vast catalog, including songs from well-known labels s…
Melennial Media Gets More Bang, Intergrating Bango Analytics into Decktrade
Millennial Media, has integrated Bango's mobile analytics into its Decktrade marketplace platform, providing its Decktrade users with Bango's mobile analytics' service. Bango Analytics will enable Decktrade users to accurately track unique visitors responding to mobile ad campaigns, and p…
Consumer Cellular Recycles Phones & Supports Children’s Hospital
Consumer Cellular has innovative cell phone recycling program that has already kept 10,000 cell phones out of landfills and raised more than $8,000 for Portland, Ore.-based Doernbecher Children’s Hospital Foundation. As reported by CTIA, an estimated 150 million cell phones are retired in …
Mobile Agent 2.0 Released
CellSigns, Inc., has released version 2.0 of their mobile search tool, Mobile Agent that enables a home buyer to see any home for sale and get property information on that home, including photos and detailed descriptions, in just seconds. Any Broker or Agent can easily deploy an SMS (text me…
ARTISTdirect Goes Mobile with Boopsie
ARTISTdirect, an Internet resource for music and entertainment news and artist information, today announced it has signed an agreement with Boopsie, Inc., a leading supplier of mobile search clients and server infrastructure, to create ARTISTdirect-branded mobile channels on the Boopsie Mobile Pla…
Slydial – The Ultimate Communicate without Human Contact Tool
MobileSphere recently introduced slydial, a free voice messaging service that connects you directly to someone's mobile phone voicemail to avoid, crying jags, listening, and actually talking to someone: Their release stated, " -- it's the best way to save time, avoid an awkward conversation or re…
Teen Girls More Mobile Phones & Maturity than Boys, Says Multimedia Intelligence
In 2007, 91% of US 17-year-old girls had mobile phones whereas only 78% of US 17-year-old boys had cell phones according to a recent study by MultiMedia Intelligence. The difference is quite striking as there is little difference in handset ownership between the genders at age 13, with 57 percent of…
mywaves Grows with more iPhone Access
mywaves, mobile video destination, asidd that second quarter traffic to the mywaves mobile site grew by 25% over the first quarter. Now, up to 300,000 daily unique users visit m.mywaves.com, to access free, short-form video entertainme. In addition to overall traffic growth, mywaves saw iPhone…
GyPSii to Social Networks and Embeds with Samsung Phones
GyPSii geo-mobility social networking platform, today announced it has entered into a multi-year worldwide agreement with Samsung Electronics. Under the terms of the agreement, GyPSii will provide technology, products, worldwide data center infrastructure, and GyPSii branding rights to Samsung,…
Verizon Profits Data Shows Greater Data Profits
Verizon announced Q2 earnings which increased 12% with substantial data growth up 45.3% over last year. Revenues reached $1.88 Billion. Retail data customers in June totaled 49.6 million-boosting revenue by $2.6 billion. Other interesting facts about Verizon in Q2: 70 billion text messag…
New Adaptive Sprint Web Loads Today
Sprint launches new version of Sprint Web today, with an adaptive home page that delivers content based on the customer’s previous usage, along with direct access to search from Google .This enhancement is automatic for Sprint customers who currently access the mobile Web on these phones and r…
Over 230 Million Touchscreen Mobile Phones by 2012
Touchscreen-equipped mobile handsets sales have been building steadily for over a year now, and a new report from IMS Research forecasts that growth will become even stronger. Although there were fewer than 30 million touchscreen phones sold in 2007, IMS Research expect that number to increase to ov…
Highly Satisfied Flat-Rate Unlimited Plan Cusomters
Overall satisfaction among prepaid wireless customers who subscribe to flat-rate plans with unlimited minutes is considerably higher than that of customers who subscribe to per-minute price plans, primarily due to cost advantages associated with flat-rate plans, according to the J.D. Power and Assoc…
Unpublished Stephen King Short Story “N” Mobisodes & Webisodes
Beginning Monday, July 28, mobile phone users and web surfers can enjoy Stephen King's latest work in a groundbreaking series of 25 original video episodes. The series of video episodes was created through a unique partnership between Scribner and Simon & Schuster Digital, Marvel Entertainment…
Muze Database has Metadata, Editorial, Images, and Samples
Muze Inc., will now provide track-level data as a part of its forthcoming release of MuzeMusic 2.0 media information solutions portfolio for music product sales, audience development, and social networking applications.Having track and song-level metadata and descriptors is essential for enabling …
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