– N-Gage Beta Launch Delayed: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has delayed the launch of the public beta test of its revamped N-Gage service until after the New Year, despite earlier comments that it would open the testing this week. The official N-Gage blog says the company this week discovered in its closed testing “an issue we feel we need to address”.
– O2 Revamps Portal: O2 in the UK has refreshed its O2 Active portal, which for the first time will display the same content to users with 2G and 3G phones. It will also have new personalization features, such as placing the content a user visits the most at the top of menus.
– More Americans Want GPS In Their Next Phone Than Internet Access: A new survey (with a small sample size of 450, it should be noted) says that 24 percent of Americans want their next mobile handset to have GPS functionality, while just 19 percent want it to have internet access, says InformationWeek.
– New Age-Restriction Rules For Mobile Content In Australia: The Australian Communications and Media Authority has announced new rules forcing internet and mobile content service providers to ensure that people looking at MA15+-rated content are 15 or older, and that R18+ content can be viewed only by those 18 and older.
– Oxford Dictionaries Come To Mobile: The Oxford University Press is working with Mobifusion to create mobile versions of several of its dictionaries, including the Oxford American Desk Dictionary and Thesaurus and Concise Oxford English Dictionary. The applications will be sold through operators worldwide.
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