Now this is REALLY interesting! Remember that Mobile OS called Android? Remember how we’ve seen a number of Mobile devices running it? Funny that! But now a company has taken Android beyond the Mobile device, and in to the living room! MIPS is making a slew of announcements regarding the company’s Android platform
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MIPS takes Android beyond Mobile devices!
InMobi and Jumbuck have entered a partnership where InMobi is serving as Jumbuck’s mobile advertising partner for its strong mobile community in Australia. Jumbuck offers premium on-deck Telstra inventory for InMobi’s advertisers. InMobi has grown to be the largest mobile advertising network outside of the United States. This partnership with Jumbuck puts InMobi on the map in Australia as well
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InMobi partners with Jumbuck in Australia
Avenir Telecom has announced it has been awarded ‘Partner of the Year’ by O2 ( NYSE: TEF ) (in the UK). O2 has named Avenir as the best UK distributor across not one but four KPIs: gross connections, secondary connections, ARPU, and customer churn
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Avenir Telecom wins O2’s prestigious partner of the year award
As a response to T-Mobile’s decision to turn on 7.2 Mbps today it appears that AT&T has done the same thing . Realistically speaking these two events were probably scheduled months in advance and press releases were written several weeks prior, but I’ll ignore the logic and just say it’s AT&T responding to T-Mobile ( NYSE: DT ) and then going one step further and calling them a nasty poo poo head. AT&T is also saying that they’re going to “dramatically increase the number of high-speed backhaul connections to cell sites, primarily with fiber-optic connections, adding capacity from cell sites to the AT&T backbone network”.
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AT&T turns on 7.2 Mbps HSPA, deploying fiber backhaul to towers during 2010 and 2011
The Nexus One is live ! But, there’s a catch. Google’s own-branded Android “superphone” (a term that Google termed to describe their Nexus One) is so far only compatible with GSM networks like AT&T ( NYSE: T ) and T-Mobile ( NYSE: DT ) USA.
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Google bringing Nexus One to Verizon in Spring 2010
One little tidbit coming out of the Nexus One announcement worth highlighting is that T-Mobile ( NYSE: DT )’s 7.2 Mbps network lengthy upgrade is complete as promised , and now they’re moving towards HSPA+ (21 Mbps).
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T-Mobile Announces Completed 7.2 Mbps Upgrade, HSPA+ Next
Against the Grain Media have enlisted the promotional help of DJ Krafty Kuts to launch their sampler tool application for the iPhone! This sound effects tool which comes pre-loaded with over 100 samples including MC shouts, classic dub sirens, bass drops, rises and many more useful noises to spice up your set. “I wanted to produce a sampler style app which could actually be used by DJs in clubs or on the radio” says Krafty Kuts, pointing out that this is the first iPhone App of its kind suitable for professional use. Having the ability to drop samples like ‘Make Some Noise In Here!’ along with big ‘woosh’ and ‘lazer’ noises over my mixes, without the need for a laptop or third turntable is amazing!” The app is priced at £2.99, which I’d say is reasonable – if it replaces the need to have another sampler source in your DJ setup, then it’s a steal! Looking at the UI, it’s in the same style as you’d find on sampler hardware, with nice big trigger pads on screen
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New audio sampler tool for DJs appears – in the shape of an iPhone app!
Navteq has confirmed Telefónica as a returning sponsor of the Global LBS Challenge making this the third consecutive year. Telefónica is a Regional Sponsor of the Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA), North America and South America regions. The annual Navteq Global LBS Challenge is conducted by Navteq Network for Developers™ (NN4D) and aimed at stimulating innovation in location-aware applications. It is a worldwide competition across five different regions – EMEA, North America, South America, Asia-Pacific (APAC) and India – challenging developers to build new applications using dynamic positioning technology and Navteq maps
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Navteq Signs Sponsorship Agreement with Telefónica for Navteq Global LBS Challenge
Mary Schatz, who some of you may know as the YogaMD, has released an iPhone app that is claiming to help with pain caused by sitting long hours at a computer – like many of us do! Mary is the author of the best-selling yoga book Back Care Basics, the Computer Relief, so she should know a thing or two about exercises and movements that can be done to relieve pain. The app teaches users easy and gentle yoga poses and practices that immediately improve posture, breathing, and stress levels at work or at home
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YogaMD’s Computer Relief iPhone App Now Available
South Korea’s SK Telecom ( NYSE: SKM ) is ceasing further investment in its Vietnamese subsidiary due to lower than anticipated profits and subscriber growth. However, the company says that it doesn’t plan to withdraw from its S-Fone partnership with Saigon Post and Telecommunication Corporation (SPT), only that it will wait with the 3G network rollout. Korea Times newspaper interviewed a high-ranking SK Telecom, who said: “Since 2003, it has been investing over $150 million in Vietnam attracted by higher growth potential in Vietnam’s telecom market
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SK Telecom to stop investing in its Vietnamese subsidiary
We did expect to see India moving the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) launch date and that’s happening now. The country’s Department of Telecom agreed to delay the launch to March 31st, after carriers said they were not ready with their networks.
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India moves Mobile Number Portability launch date to April
Though we have absolutely no idea about the new Palm Pre Plus, we can guess it will be slightly better than the original Palm Pre. Sometimes the phone will differ on the internal memory or it will feature a better camera. Whatever be it, for those ignorant of the Palm Pre; it has support for Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, 3-megapixel camera with LED flash, 3.5mm headset jack, and a microSD card slot.
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Palm Pre Plus: Pre Launch Talk
After Buzzd , we have another similar service “going Android.” It’s Citysearch, an online local guide, which allows users to browse, search and share local information for over 15 million local business listings, and post reviews to Citysearch directly from their smartphone. Here are the Mobile by Citysearch key features: Submit reviews on the go Share merchant details, reviews and tips via text, e-mail or Twitter Search and sort your city, by location, keywords, category, cost, etc. Access Citysearch content such as user and editorial reviews, editor’s picks and featured merchants Bookmark favorite or view recently viewed destinations Additional tools include Wish Lists and Tip Calculator Finally, it’s worth adding that in addition to Android, Citysearch also works on other platforms such as the iPhone, Palm ( NSDQ: PALM ) WebOS, and Blackberry ( NSDQ: RIMM ) devices
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Citysearch goes Android
Hewlett-Packard ( NYSE: HPQ ) has registered the trademark for two terms, explicitly related to mobile handsets and computing: “Zeen” and “Airlife”. While I can’t defend or explain their choice of monikers, they’re certainly intriguing. HP’s been making a little bit more noise on the mobile front lately, with the iPAQ Glisten coming to AT&T last month, and talk about a new social networking app at last spring’s WES, but they’re still not a big deal in the cell phone circle.
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HP Trademarks “Zeen” and “Airlife”
An alpha application for Nokia ( NYSE: NOK )’s N900 allows the handset to operate as a mouse, keyboard, gamepad, media remote, or PlayStation 3 controller via Bluetooth. As you can see, after a relatively painless pairing process, BlueMaemo enables the N900 to operate as a directional pad
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N900 Rigged As PlayStation 3 Controller
Image credit: New York Times The holy grail of touchscreen technology, a display that allows both capacitive and resistive touch inputs, may soon be a reality. Startup company Touchco has developed their own touchscreen technology that’s not only cheaper than current capacitive touchscreens but also supports pressure-based inputs. Touchco today unveiled their Interpolating Force-Sensitive Resistance (IFSR) technology that melds the strengths of resistive and capacitive touchscreen into a single display
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Pressure-sensitive capacitive touchscreens with multi-touch coming in 2010!
In a world where 1 out of every 5 US homes have shunned landline phones in favor of a wireless-only lifestyle, it’s clear that wireline phone service is dying a slow death. Every year, more and more Americans are opting to use their mobile phones as their only means of communications. AT&T ( NYSE: T ) apparently wants to hasten the death of the wireline telecom infrastructure that, for decades, was its core business
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AT&T petitions FCC to abandon landline phone connections
Zombies will soon be walking all over our virtual lawns as PopCap Games announced Plants vs. Zombies will be making its way to the iPhone / iPod Touch in late January. The news came from an unlikely source, namely a follow-up comment on PopCap’s Facebook page
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Plants vs. Zombies for iPhone Releasing Late January; Zombies Beware!
Sending text messages while behind the wheel of a two-ton rolling death machine isn’t just dangerously distracting , it’s downright irresponsible. President Obama realized this back in October when he issued an executive order that would ban all federal employees from texting while driving
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Obama’s ban on federal workers’ texting and driving starts today
The new Samsung Corby Pop is believed to be the cheaper version of the Corby S3650, which has been officially launched in India, early this month. This affordable Corby Pop will feature a 2.8-inch 320 x 240 pixels touchscreen display, a 1.3-megapixel camera, FM radio, Bluetooth, music playback, multi instant messaging, and 22MB of internal memory. The price tag of the affordable version of the S3650 is said to be about 7000INR or $150.
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Samsung Corby Pop: Affordable Version of Samsung Corby S3650
HTC’s new HD2 has already shipped into Asia and Europe back in November. The latest update is that it will soon arrive to T-Mobile early next year and will be the T-Mobile’s first smartphone to flaunt 1GHz Snapdragon CPU. This new phone has actually appeared in a leaked YouTube video which shows a new ROM version 2.01 and also a completely new feature of the Sense UI, which is the document tabs
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HTC HD2 for T-Mobile Leaked
When Nokia acquired Trolltech in January 2008 they outlined a clear strategy that they would build a Qt layer on top of both Maemo and Symbian so that developers could create applications that would be cross platform compatible: The acquisition of Trolltech will enable Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) to accelerate its cross-platform software strategy for mobile devices and desktop applications, and develop its Internet services business.
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Maemo, Symbian and Qt are facing internal strife; what was supposed to bind them is tearing them apart