Developer Fantzer Acquires App Maker Mustache
New media developer Fanzter, which runs the celebrity, style and entertainment platform Coolspotters, has acquired iPhone app creator Mustac… Read more »
Report: Intel To Supply Nokia With Mobile Phone Chips
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Chipmaker Intel (NSDQ: INTC) has scored a Read more »
@ MEM: ‘Too Many App Stores’, So Why No Hulu For Apps?
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You haven’t been able to walk down the street recently without tripping over yet another new app store. Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) lit the blue touc… Read more »
Nokia Siemens Sold Iran Telecom Monitoring Technology
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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Siemens, the joint venture between German electronics giant Siemens, and Finnish handset maker Nokia, has sold technology… Read more »
@ MEM: Mobile Biz Expects Content Sales To Keep Growing
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More than 60 percent of mobile users still use their handset for only voice and text, according to a KPMG survey. KPMG director Mark Harding… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Apple Apologizes; Safeway Coupons; Transformers On Mobile; More TV
– iTunes for iPhone delays: In same cases, new iPhone subscribers found themselves waiting up to 48 hours to have their new phone activated… Read more »
Payment Platform OneTXT Raises $2 Million; Lucy Hood Joins Board
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Social media payment platform oneTXT, which aims to offer social nets and other entertainment companies an alternative payments processing m… Read more »
KongZhong Acquires Mobile Games Developer Simlife International
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Microsoft Signs Mobile Ad Deal With Hyatt
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has signed a deal with Hyatt to put the hotel chain Read more »
Interview: How Tweetdeck Plans To Make Money
Twitter management app Tweetdeck has ridden the wave of Twitter’s popularity to become one of the top Twitter clients, with one million down… Read more »
Interview: Chris Wade, CEO, Shozu: VCs Won’t Pay For Free Apps Forever
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Charging for apps may just be the wave of the future, according to Chris Wade, the brand new CEO of Shozu, whose application allows users to… Read more »
iPhone 3G S Could Rack Up 500,000 In Sales In Debut Weekend
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Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster believes that Apply may sell half a million iPhone 3G S models when they go on sale this weekend, half th… Read more »
Report: Qualcomm Charged With Unfair Licensing Practices In South Korea
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Trouble for Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) in South Korea. The country Read more »
Report: Samsung’s Instinct Views More Ads Than iPhones; Mobile Web Increases Over Holiday
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The phones that surfed the web the most in May were: the Samsung Instinct, Apple’s iPhone and the BlackBerry Curve, according to Millennial… Read more »
T-Mobile USA Confirms More Android Phone Details Coming Next Week; Unveils 3G Dash
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If you are considering buying the iPhone 3G S tomorrow, you may just want to wait. T-Mobile USA confirmed it will be releasing more details… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: SpinVox Expands; Ovi Store; RealNetworks-Vodafone Germany; Russia Mobile Ads
– SpinVox-Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) Latin American deal: British speech-to-text firm, SpinVox, has signed a deal with European telecoms group… Read more »
UK Voice-To-Text Firm SpinVox Expands To Latin America
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British speech-to-text firm, SpinVox, has signed a deal with European telecoms group Telefonica (NYSE: TEF), which will allow its Latin Amer… Read more »
Kleiner Perkins Caulfied & Buyers May Raise iFund’s $100 Million Cap
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Can an app be grown into a venture-scale business? Though some VCs, including Android-founder turned Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Ventures head Rich… Read more »
Reports: Nokia Wants DRM-Free Music Store, Comes With Music
Many music services have been dropping DRM to make their wares more popular, now speculation says Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is about to do the same.… Read more »
IRS Asks Congress To Drop Cellphone Tax
The IRS has asked Congress to abandon a 1989 law that taxes personal cellphone calls that are paid for by a worker Read more »
UK Govt Wants Underground Mobile Coverage By 2012 Olympics
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Mobile networks and city government should move quicker to wire London’s underground with mobile access in time for the 2012 Olympics, Westm… Read more »
Ovi Store’s Top Download Is A Paid App
Now that the Ovi Store has been running for a few weeks now, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has some stats available on the apps that are being downloade… Read more »
Don’t Call Nokia’s N97 A Comeback
What to make of the new ad for Nokia Read more »
iPhone Apps Not Necessarily The Right Path For Advertisers
Ever since beer maker Carling found itself with a surprise hit on its hands in the form of its iPhone app, iPint, last summer when the App S… Read more »
IBM In Discussions With Carriers To Build Mobile Web Services
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Up to now, IBM has had a very minimal presence in mobile Read more »
iPhone Developers Roll Out New Apps To Leverage Cut/Paste, Alerts And More
When Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) flips the switch today and makes the new 3.0 software update available to iPhone and iPod Touch owners, developers w… Read more »
Sat-Nav Maker TomTom Raises
Amsterdam-based sat-nav device developer TomTom is seeking Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: BBC N95 iPlayer, Travel Site; Orange Tube
– N95 iPlayer: The BBC has “launched” its VOD service on Nokia’s popular handset. “Launched”? That’s funny, because the N96 version that… Read more »
Qualcomm’s FLO TV Is Back On Track; Lighting Up More Markets After Digital TV Transition
Qualcomm’s FLO TV, which broadcasts TV to mobile devices in the U.S. through its major partners AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon Wireless (NYSE: V… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Qik On N97, PlayNowPlus In Austria; Blyk Planning India Launch
– Qik: The innovative mobile video streaming app is now getting pre-bundled on Nokia’s latest flagship media phone. The Qik app is ready-in… Read more »
Report: Ad-Funded Blyk To Launch In India
The UK’s ad-funded, youth targeted mobile service provider Blyk is bringing its model of free talk-time and texts in return for viewing adv… Read more »
iPhone 3GS: O2 Has No Upgrade Sweetener, Whingeing Twits Revolt
Recession be damned – it’s that time of year when people fortunate enough to already own the sexiest phone on the market complain that they… Read more »
Secure Line VoIP Firm Cellcrypt Gets Second Round Funding
London-based VoIP firm Cellcrypt has raised an undisclosed sum in second round of VC funding led by Notion Capital, the investment vehicle s… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: We7 Goes Mobile; Five’s Gaming Site; Babelgum Docs
– We7 on mobile: The free, ad-funded music player is entering the mobile space with an iPhone app nearing completion and Android and Blackb… Read more »
French Mobile Start-Up Goojet Raises
French startup Goojet has raised Read more »
KPMG Mobile Study: Music, Gaming, mCommerce, Mobile TV In India
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Consultant KPMG just released the results of a worldwide survey of mobile users and here are some of the highlights:
86% respondents in Ind… Read more »
DTH Players May Help Mobile Payments Gain Currency
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Direct-to-home service providers, who together have a customer base of over 10 million households, as per industry estimates, are all now of… Read more »
Italian VOD Recommendation Firm BeeTV Wins $8 Million VC Funding
A good start to the summer for IPTV and online VOD recommendation company BeeTV: the Milan-based start-up has received $8 million (£4.91 m… Read more »
Livestation’s iPhone App Finally Goes Live – With Only BBC World News
Microsoft-backed desktop TV streamer Livestation first showed off its iPhone demo in December. It didn’t yet have App Store clearance and al… Read more »
Nokia Hopes To Sell At Least 10 Million N97s
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has begun shipping its flagship N97 mobile phone in more than 75 countries, the company said today. The phone, which spor… Read more »
