October 2008 Archives
T-Mobile G1 With Google Phone Can Be Unlocked for $23.99 BUT- Googling Gone
A website sells a code to unlock T-Mobile G1 phones to use another SIM like AT&T. Unlock-TMobileG1.com charges $23.99 USD for unlocking the T-Mobile G1 via an unlock code. Once the G1 is unlocked, the user can't use his/her Google account, rendering Google functions useless.Now let's thin…
How to Text Barack Obama – OMG U CAN TXT MSG UR BFF OBAMA
For those of you who didn't get chance to write down the number to text message Barack Obama after viewing the Barack Obama / Joe Biden infomercial video, (30 minute / half hour ad) TV special this Wednesday evening in primetime, we have the number for you.To text the Barack Obama Campaign:Tex…
Wireless Buyers Influenced by Online Research, Says Google
Wireless and Mobile News was able to obtain a copy Goggle's Sales Presentation "Wireless Shoppers: How Consumers Shop for Phones and Wireless Service," with research from Compete. Most wireless buyers go online to research purchases and they don't spend a lot of time researching before buying.…
Free Hot Wi-Fi for AT&T’s iPhoners @ Starbucks and Hotspots
iPhone users in need of a Wi-Fi and or coffee fix can rejoice. AT&T is granting iPhone AT&T subscribers free AT&T Wi-Fi access at thousands of hotspots in the US, including Starbucks.Their website states, "We know Wi-Fi is hot, and FREE Wi-Fi is even hotter..."Instructions are simple: iP…
Haiku News 2Day T-Mobile to Change Data Prices/Plans $34.99
T-Mobile's data/Messages without limitsLike G1 soon. …
LogMein Igniton Remotely Ignites Control of Macs & PCs from iPhones
LogMeIn is offering a limited beta version of LogMeIn Ignition software that gives Apple iPhone and iPod touch users access to their remote computers and and work as if they were sitting in front of it. Features of LogMeIn Ignition for iPhone and iPod touch include: One-touch acce…
Moto Changing OS and Staff
According to the Wall Street Journal, Motorola is getting ready to make some changes in its mobile division including:Cutting jobsFocusing on Android as the operating system for its showcase phones.Motorola is still the top supplier of cell phones in the United States with its RAZR topping sales cha…
HipCricket Mobilizes White Gold with WAP Ringtones & Text
o promote White Gold the California Milk Processor Board partnered with HipCricket for the mobile elements for White Gold and the Calcium Twins show music lovers, especially teens, how cool and beneficial drinking milk can be. HipCricket designed the campaign's mobile …
BlackBerry Partners Funds Funds buzzd, Digby, and WorldMate
The BlackBerry Partners Fund LP, announced that the Fund has invested in buzzd, Digby and WorldMate. buzzd, a location-sensitive city guide and social network for mobile devices, has raised $3.2 million in a Series A Preferred Stock financing with BlackBerry Partners Fund, Greycroft Par…
EA Mobile Offering Games for Nokia N-Gage
EA Mobile has some new games for the Nokia N-Gage for the Winter holiday season.They include:EA SPORTSFIFA 09,Spore(TM) Origins and MONOPOLY Here & Now: The World Edition, Need For Speed(TM) Undercover, Tiger Woods PGA TOURThe Sims3 arriving in 2009. …
MMA Updates Mobile Ad Guidelines
The Mobile Marketing Association announced the release of an updated version of its global Mobile Advertising Guidelines, that includes:Updated mobile web guidelines with added recommendation on automatic resizing of mobile web banner adsUpdated Multimedia Messaging (MMS)Updated the Audio Formats be…
Instant Gratification with DRM Free Music from Thumbplay
Thumbplay is offering a full-service digital music store, where users can wirelessly download-- DRM-free songs directly to select MP3-enabled phones or to PCs. So far, Thumbplay has the rights to more than 1.5 million songs from major labels including Universal Music Group and EMI Music,…
The Hollywood Reporter Mobile Box Office Texts Weekend Film Grosses
The Hollywood Reporter will offer THR Mobile Box Office, that delivers first-to-market weekend boxoffice estimates to cell phones and other mobile devices via a SMS text message alert, will launch Sunday. Subscribers to THR Mobile Box Office will be the first to get the official studio box off…
PockFinder LBS Service Ready for T-Mobile G1
Android smartphone users can now download the PocketFinder service for their handsets. Location Based Technologies (LBT), has fully tested this service for just-launched T-Mobile G1. The Android-based PocketFinder service is now available for a 15-day fr…
Poynt, Strands Social Player and Nobex Win BlackBerry Challenge
The BlackBerry Partners announced that Poynt, Strands Social Player and Nobex Radio Companion are the Best in Show Grand Prize Winners of the BlackBerry Partners Fund(TM) Developer Challenge. Poynt is a free local search tool that connects users to businesses, movie theatre…
Mobile Consumers Want Personal Choices, Says Mformation
Mformation Technologies' new research shows global revenues from mobile applications and services are being hampered by an inability to personalize mobile devices.80 percent of respondents to the survey indicated that they would use mobile services more if greater personalization were possible…
Glu to Develop Family Guy Mobile Game
Glu Mobile will develop and publish a mobile game based on Family Guy, to be aunched in 2009 through Glu's agreement with Fox Mobile Entertainment. Family Guy is the hit animated series from Executive Producer/Creator Seth MacFarlane. The show airs weekly during primetime on FOX, and is syndicated …
Verizon Election Coverage and Entertainment on V CAST
If you want election coverage on your mobile phone, Verizon has a lot to offer with theirchannels in the Election 2008 category on their V CAST Video-enabled phones. There's news form CBS, ABC, NBC, MTV News and Webcast '08. For Entertianment:COMEDY CENTRAL - Indecision 2008 clips from "The Daily Sh…
71% US Mobile-Webbers 4 Obama
US Mobile phone web surfers are much more likely to support Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama over Republican candidate John McCain, according to an unscientific survey of likely voters conducted jointly by Zogby International and Jump Tap.Of 3,462 likely voters who took the survey, 71% s…
Mobile Users Waiting to Buy & Changing Habits Due to Economy, Says GetJar
Mobile users around the world are putting off buying new phone handsets while also changing their current spending habits, due to the global economic crisis according to the 'Mobile Attitudes' poll carried out by GetJar, mobile applications portal. The poll revealed that 78 percent of respondents f…
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