We already talked about India’s ban on prepaid mobile phones in Kashmir , which authorities put in force in belief rebels use fake documents to obtain the phone cards to evade detection and detonate bombs. Well, the move is far from popular and has led to angry protests, putting as many as 20,000 jobs at risk and jeopardizing peace efforts in the disputed territory between the Indian government and Muslim separatists.
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Prepaid phone ban stirs anger in Indian Kashmir
AdMob announces the launch of its new Interactive Video Ad Unit for iPhone, enabling consumers to browse Web sites, view additional videos, and more while the video is playing. The first ads will start running this week in select applications across AdMob’s iPhone ad network that reached more than 20 million unique iPhones and iPod touch devices worldwide in 2009
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AdMob Launches New Video Ad Unit with Real-Time Interactivity for iPhone
fring today announces its release on Android platform, bringing mobile social services to Android smartphone users including Skype, MSN, GoogleTalk, ICQ, Twitter, Yahoo! and AIM. Centralized from one integrated contact list, fringsters also make calls to regular phone lines via Skype-Out and hundreds of popular SIP services over 3G, GPRS or Wi-Fi internet connection. The software can be downloaded via fring’s WAP site at m.fring.com or directly via the Android Market. In addition to Android, fring is supported worldwide on thousands of Symbian S60, iPhone, iPod touch, Windows Mobile, J2ME and Linux devices
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fring Launched on Android Mobile Platform
The Maemo-powered Nokia N900 is now on sale in the United States and shipping to those who have placed a pre-order. With the Linux-based Maemo operating platform, 32GB of storage and multiple options of connectivity including access for 3G data networks, the Nokia N900 comes with a 3.5-inch touchscreen, full QWERTY keyboard and enables consumers the ability to personalize up to four different home screens as they wish. One can be work related with a calendar widget and contacts application while another can be favorite bookmarked web pages while yet another can be set to show popularsocial networks.
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The Nokia N900 is now available to US consumers
Verizon Wireless and iSkoot today announced the availability of Social Beat, the free social media application that allows you connected to popular social media sites, including Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Social Beat also displays more than 50 customer-selected feeds from the hottest names in news, sports and entertainment sources, which can be viewed in one central location. When you sign in to Social Beat, they can easily view friends’ activity, news feeds, status updates and new photos. You can even post new status messages and tweets, send comments and messages, and receive updates from their personalized news section through a single stream on their mobile phone in real time.
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Social Media Made Simple With Social Beat On Verizon Wireless Phones
The Short Version: The ContourHD 1080p is a capable, semi-rugged, conveniently-shaped HD camcorder that’s great for all kinds of sporting and active events where a full-size camera isn’t practical. The 1080p video has admirable still image quality, but skew and compression mean it’s more of an enthusiast tool than a professional one. But for $330, it’s a great little tool for documenting your rides, falls, and so on, and putting the results up on the internet
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Review: ContourHD wearable 1080p camcorder
In preparation for the incoming X10, Sony Ericsson ( NYSE: SNE ) has opened up a new tool for developers called WebSDK. As you might imagine, it allows developers to write mobile apps in web languages like HTML, CSS and JavaScript, not unlike Palm’s webOS or BlackBerry’s recently-launched widgets . The system is all based around the open-source PhoneGap project cooked up back in March .
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Sony Ericsson Launches WebSDK for Android and Symbian
Orange has been rated the top provider for overall mobile broadband quality for the second time, according to a survey by independent research company YouGov. Orange achieved the number one position in both quality and value for money, while customers have also rated Orange’s mobile broadband service top in nine out of 15 categories, including ease of use, staying connected and overall network coverage
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Orange is UK Number One for Mobile Broadband, according to YouGov
November 18 was set as the Samsung Behold 2’s launch , and here we are with another addition to the Android family. T-Mobile ( NYSE: DT ) is offering a 3.2″ AMOLED touchscreen, 5 megapixel camera with flash and autofocus, Wi-Fi, GPS, and the usual Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) fare like Maps, Mail, Search, YouTube and the Android Market for $299.99 on two years of the Even More plan (or $57/month if you’d like to try financing the device).
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Samsung Behold 2 Now For Sale on T-Mobile
I wrote a piece yesterday about first impressions the N900 , which really seemed to upset some people – chief amongst the objections were the fact that not everyone believed I have the N900 – well it’s picture-time, check it out: Other objections included black-and-white statements that resistive screens don’t support multi-touch – with a couple of minutes Googling, I think you’ll find that multi-touch on a resistive screen is entirely possible – it just happens not to be on the N900 – shame … Others were of the opinion that I must be an Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) Fanboi – something I strenuously deny. Oh, BTW, the pictures above were taken using an iPhone 3GS Ben Related News from IntoMobile: ABI Research: Capacitive touchscreens not the wave of the future for most mobile phones Brief: Confirmed: Maemo 6 to bring support for multi touch and capacitive screens Apple iPhone – Disappointing LCD Screen? Stantum to demo 4.3-inch Multi-Touch Development Kit at Mobile World Congress Apple files patent application for pressure-sensitive touchscreen technology Share this:
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Brief: Nokia N900 in da house!
Konami has currently marked down the prices of all of their titles on the App Store until November, 30th 2009. ALL Konami titles are listed at $.99, and if you’ve been curious about any of their titles, now is the time to open up your virtual wallets and get to downloading. The titles that Konami currently have up on the App Store are: Metal Gear Solid Touch Silent Hill: The Escape Silent Scope Krazy Kart Racing Frogger Power Pros Touch Dance Dance Revolution S Dance Dance Revolution S+ Field Prowlers Police Rush It should be noted that all of these prices are only effective for only the US App Store, so for those of you not able to access the US App Store, I submit this commercial of Crazy Eddie to hopefully cheer you up on not being able to take advantage of this current price drop. Related News from IntoMobile: Konami releases games for iPhone/iPod Touch Konami going iPhone, too; Frogger is out, Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill and DanceDanceRevolution to follow soon Konami Power Pro Touch now on App Store Konami announces DanceDanceRevolution S on Apple App Store Konami announces Silent Scope to Apple App Store! Share this:
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Craaaazy Konami iPhone Games Selling for $.99; These Prices are Insaaane!
Apparently Hello Kitty is a thing . Not a thing I pretend to understand, let alone endorse, but given the immense reception to the Hello Kitty phone and my slavery to SEO , it’s my blogger’s duty to give the people what they want. Hello Kitty has turned 35, and in celebration, Coveroo has launched a lineup of customizable battery doors for just about every phone under the sun
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35th. Anniversary Hello Kitty Battery Doors Disgustingly Cute
Sure there are many applications in the App Store that allow you to use your iPhone as a mass storage device, but all of them require an internet connection to allow the data transfer to happen over wifi. To this date, there is no application approved by Apple that lets you use your iPhone as a USB flash drive , and that’s a shame because I’d like to be able to access my iPhone’s drive without having to be connected to the internet. Developer Dmytro came up with an interesting solution to this problem by creating the USB Drive application: USB Drive let you create one or more virtual disks for use as USB Mass Storage volume, thus you can allocate some of your iPhone space to carry desktop files with you.
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How to Use Your iPhone as a USB Drive
Is CrunchGear gradually turning into a car blog? We test drove a Chevy Volt concept , saw the Subaru snowtank , and tested the Telsa Roadster Sport . I sense a disturbing trend… But at least this next car we looked at is 100% geek through and through
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NewTek’s new mobile HD video production vehicle. As opposed to those unmobile HD video production vehicles.
Here’s another episode of my little side project, the HourTime Podcast . This time we talk about a $500K sports watch and the history of timekeeping and some of your favorite brands.
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The HourTime Podcast talks about the Golden Hand watch awards
Android is still in its infancy in Japan where most domestic makers still stick with their proprietary operating systems, with basically no one outside the geek community knowing what it is. But things are changing slowly. Last week, SoftBank (the country’s third biggest cell phone carrier) announced an Android-powered phone for next year when the company announced their new models for the next months .
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Sharp prepares Android phone for next year as first Japanese cell phone maker
MasterCard introduced the MasterCard Mobile Payments Gateway, a mobile payments processing platform that enables financial institutions and mobile operators to deliver “end-to-end mobile payments solutions through the MasterCard Worldwide Network.” And the first partners that will use the new service is already on board – Brazil’s Itau Unibanco and Redecard, along with mobile operator Vivo.
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MasterCard launches MasterCard Mobile Payments Gateway
iVIP Black is touted as the “first Millionaires iPhone app” and in that sense the price of a thousand bucks ($999.99) doesn’t come as a surprise. But not everyone can use it – before you start enjoying the service iVIP offers (more about that in a minute), users are required to complete a High Net Worth Individual certification, restricting use of the app to millionaires, only
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iVIP apps offer discounts and special services to iPhone-ownin’ millionaires; Cost a small fortune
Symbian Foundation has a new member company – Mahindra Satyam, which has officially joined the likes of Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ), NTT DoCoMo ( NYSE: DCM ), Sony Ericsson ( NYSE: SNE ) and others. We’re not sure what will Mahindra contribute to the platform, but we do know they’re instantly gaining access to the Symbian Platform code, as well as the ability to participate in the governance of the foundation, and take part in joint marketing and branding campaigns.
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Mahindra Satyam joins Symbian Foundation
First released for Symbian devices , Opera Mobile 10 beta is now available for Windows Mobile platform. The Opera Mobile 10 beta for Windows Mobile looks and feels similar to the Opera 10 desktop browser and Opera Mini 5 beta. It can be downloaded from www.opera.com/mobile/ or m.opera.com/mobile/ (for phone download). Opera maintains its powerful arsenal of features in this beta, including Speed Dial, tabbed browsing, a password manager and its super, server-side compressor, Opera Turbo.
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Opera Mobile 10 now available for Windows Mobile phones
AT&T apparently isn’t going to let the likes of Verizon Wireless and bitter AT&T ( NYSE: T ) subscribers get them down about their 3G network performance. Big Blue has announced that it’s beefing up 3G services in the San Francisco Bay Area – they’ve upgraded more than 800 cellular base stations and is in the process of migrating 3G services from the 1900Mhz spectrum to the more powerful 850Mhz band in an effort to improve 3G performance. So far, AT&T has racked up $65 million in infrastructure upgrades this year in the Bay Area, which has allowed it to double network capacity in the last 45 days
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AT&T beefing up 3G network in San Francisco Bay Area
So I just received an N900 in the post today, and one of the things I do like to do with new hardware, is to give it the ‘five-minute fiddle’. For those of you that are not familiar, the aim of the five-minute fiddle is to spend a very short period getting first impressions of a given handset/service, and then write things up with a summary ‘gut feeling’ about it. Unpacking My N900 is a full retail model, and so I got a good feeling for the real end-user experience when opening up the packaging of this little bad boy
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The Five-minute fiddle: Nokia N900