TransMedia launched today at the D Conference hosted by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher the all-new Glide OS 3.0 universal computing platform.
Glide is the complete mobile desktop solution featuring more than 20 advanced productivity and collaboration applications with both offline and online access.
Glide runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Palm, Symbian and Windows Mobile - and supports over 75 mobile devices. Glide is available in 18 languages including English, Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai and Turkish.
Glide OS 3.0 has many new features and an all-new design. Key Glide Applications include:
What do Virgin Mobile USA customers and Sir Richard Branson have in common? Branson and the lucky 15,000 customers who buy a Virgin Mobile Festival Special Edition Wild Card phone by Kyocera Wireless will all have special access to the Virgin Mobile Guest Lounge at the upcoming Virgin Mobile Festival on August 9-10 in Baltimore. Customers simply have to show their new handset for admittance to the special guest area at the Festival, where Kyocera Wireless continues its 3-year run as the premier handset sponsor.
Available nationwide from May 25 through July 31 exclusively at Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile stores for $99.99, the Virgin Mobile Festival Special Edition Wild Card also comes with 50 music downloads from eMusic and a one-year subscription to SPIN Magazine.
The Limited Edition handset will be easy to spot with slick white casing, blue keypad buttons, exclusive wallpapers, and graffiti-style Festival graphics around an internal screen that imitates a concert stage. One of the Limited Edition's many wild features is the easy texting that has made the original Wild Card such a success.
Skweezer, Inc. today announced a major upgrade to its Skweezer Ads service, which allows customers to serve ads to a wide variety of mobile, desktop, and other Web-enabled consoles through a single ad feed.
This latest release of Skweezer Ads includes innovations that are firsts for the online advertising community. One such innovation is a patent-pending algorithm that dynamically converts conventional text-based cost-per-click (CPC) ads into mobile-friendly ads complaint with standards set by the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA). Another key innovation is Skweezer Ads' cut-and-paste code that detects a visitor's device type, retrieves appropriate mobile or desktop ads accordingly, and optionally reformats and compresses the Web content for mobile viewing.
Skweezer Ads is now available to publishers through ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, or JavaScript code. This latest version of Skweezer Ads uses "short URL" for easier inclusion into Web sites, RSS feeds, mobile applications, and SMS messages.
Qualcomm today announced Plaza, a platform-agnostic wireless Internet service that provides a common framework for the development and support of widgets that will enable operators to provide their end users with quick and personalized access to the mobile Internet. After the introduction of Plaza, operators and developers can produce and deliver Internet-based contenQualcomm Incorporated today announced Plaza, a platform-agnostic wireless Internet service that provides a common framework for the development and support of widgets that will enable operators to provide their end users with quick and personalized access to the mobile Internet.t across their devices, in order to drive the usage of wireless data services, improve subscriber stickiness and ultimately increase operator ARPU.
Plaza is focused on enabling operators to bring more simplicity and personalization to their subscribers' mobile Internet experiences. When combined with subscriber intelligence and available device real estate, Plaza's end-to-end widget framework and user experience provides operators with a solution to drive use of the mobile Internet. An integrated marketing platform also plays a role in driving additional revenue to Plaza operators by allowing for targeted campaigns within the widget ecosystem.
Verizon Wireless and Mobitween, a developer and publisher of Flash-based games for the mobile and online worlds, today announced the availability of Mobigamz, a Flash Lite based mobile gaming portal that allows customers to download, play, rate, and post high scores.
With Mobigamz, Verizon Wireless customers can choose the hottest Flash games from a current catalogue of sport, arcade, puzzle, and board categories. Mobigamz are specifically designed for mobile phones and are very intuitive to play, with simple joystick-keystroke interactivity, multiple levels and game session storing.
Verizon Wireless Get It Now customers can purchase and download Mobigamz from the Get Fun & Games shopping aisle in the Get It Now virtual store for $2.99 one-time use, $5.49 for three uses and $8.49 for six uses.
Nickelodeon Kids and Family Group’s AddictingGames, the an independent gaming site for teens with more than 3,000 games, and Verizon Wireless today announced that Qwikies are now exclusively available to Verizon Wireless customers.
Marking its first extension off of the PC, AddictingGames’ Qwikies are Flash-based mini-games which allow Verizon Wireless customers to play popular AddictingGames’ titles from the palms of their hands, including “Fling the Ferret,” “50 States,” “Flip the Bird,” “Escape the Locker,” “Fly Squasher,” “Whack a Mole,” “Jungle Gym,” and many other original titles.
Qwikies have launched with fully functional high-score capabilities that enable customers to post scores to a daily community leader board from their phones or text their scores to friends. New games and content will be added every month.
In 2008, AddictingGames.com will add 75 exclusive self-published titles and 600+ titles from game developers from around the world.
Hands-On Mobile, Inc., a developer of connected games and applications, announced that Guitar Hero III Mobile was the number one selling mobile game on Verizon Wireless phones in the first quarter of 2008. Initially released exclusively by Verizon Wireless, Guitar Hero III Mobile is striking a chord with fans all over the world, shattering mobile game records with nearly 1 million downloads, including monthly subscriptions, across all wireless service providers.
Guitar Hero III Mobile has become one of the fastest selling games in mobile gaming history. More than 250,000 songs are played every day by mobile subscribers across the U.S. The most played songs include “Slow Ride” (re-record), “Mississippi Queen” (re-record) and “Black Magic Woman” (re-record).
Mobile research firm M:Metrics said that consumer demand for mobile games in the U.S. has yet to reach its peak, but as it has seen from the demand for Guitar Hero III Mobile since its launch, this title is clearly a game changer.
SEGA Mobile, a division of SEGA Corporation, today announced that its classic game Sonic the Hedgehog has surpassed more than 8 million downloads since launching on mobile phones in North America and Europe.
The venerable video icon has been a stellar performer since launching in early 2006. In North America, the game has enjoyed its biggest success and consistent Top Seller status on Verizon Wireless' V CAST service.
SEGA's legendary mascot, and one of the most popular video game characters of all time, blazed onto mobile phones with a re-creation of the best-selling first title for the SEGA Genesis console system. Packing in all the ultra-fast action and gameplay of the original, Sonic the Hedgehog was first launched exclusively with Verizon Wireless in the U.S. Additional major carriers in North America and Europe followed, where the game remains a consistent top seller.
GestureTek Mobile, inventor of the world’s first gesture-controlled mobile user interface and gaming engine, announced that it has been selected as a Top Innovator in the 2009 Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition - Americas Tournament.
GestureTek has been named as one of three Top Innovators in the ‘Most Innovative Mobile Application in a Vertical Market’ category. In total, 15 Top Innovators from five categories will compete for the title of ‘GSMA Mobile Innovation Global Finalist’ at the Mobile Innovation Marketplace - Americas event that is taking place in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 3rd and 4th, 2008. The Global Finalist from the Americas leg will then move on to compete against other Finalists from other tournament locations. One overall winner will be selected as the ‘GSMA Mobile Innovation Global Award Champion’ at the GSMA’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February, 2009.
In Atlanta, GestureTek Mobile will showcase its patented EyeMobile Engine to an elite panel of mobile operators, equipment vendors, investors and media.
Qualcomm Incorporated today announced the latest addition to its line of Bluetooth solutions which delivers an enhanced user experience and significant advantages for handset manufacturers. Bluetooth technology provides short-range wireless connectivity between handsets headsets and other Bluetooth-enabled devices.
Qualcomm's new BTS4025 system-on-a-chip (SoC) - which is now sampling - offers full support for the latest Bluetooth 2.1 + Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) specification, as well as improved radio-frequency performance in a significantly smaller, more power-efficient package than previous Bluetooth chips. The technology innovations found in the BTS4025 SoC enable better Bluetooth performance, which can now be more readily available in mid- to low-tier handsets requiring lower costs and smaller form factor solutions.
Qualcomm Incorporated and Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the BREW Mobile Platform with integrated Adobe Flash technology and new platform features. BREW Mobile Platform, which leverages Qualcomm's widely deployed BREW Client software, greatly expands the capabilities for developers and enables them to create rich applications and Web content in Adobe Flash for the BREW environment.
The software will fully integrate and deliver Adobe Flash technology to mass market handset devices. By combining the strengths of both BREW and Flash technologies, BREW Mobile Platform brings the mobile application and Web content development communities together, setting a new standard for mass market handset platforms.
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday denied T-Mobile and AT&T to end a class-action lawsuit challenging the carriers' policies against unlocking mobile phones. The court declined to review the California Supreme Court decision made last October that cleared the way for a lawsuit that attorneys claimed could represent "millions" of California customers.
Verizon and Sprint, both CDMA carriers, in response to similar lawsuits agreed to provide the software code to unlock cellphones after customers completed their original contract.
T-Mobile and AT&T are accused of unfair business practices by locking down their phones to their service plans and have fought the lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court. The GSM network carriers are accused of unfair business practices by locking their phones to their service plans. Last year, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington listed cell phone unlocking as one of six new exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA.
Inca X Mobile, developer of advanced mobile applications, today announced the launch of iNowCU, an application that turns any personal computer with a webcam into an intelligent motion-detection and surveillance system that uses highly bandwidth-efficient peer-to-peer technology to broadcast real-time alerts and video footage to a wide variety of mobile devices. Available for a free five-day trial, users can purchase the full version of iNowCU for as little as US$20.
Once installed through a simple and user-friendly point-and-click interface, iNowCU monitors one or more locations with up to four webcams and broadcasts immediate alerts when movement is detected within the field of view. The alerts are delivered to a mobile device either as still images or video clips, and can also be emailed to a distribution list of choice. Users can also access the real-time camera feeds at any time from their mobile phones or another PC.
The Japanese government has started warning parents and schools to limit Internet-linking cell phones for children. The government is worried about students spending long hours exchanging mobile e-mails, getting into cyberspace crimes and visiting negative websites.
The recommendations were submitted by an education reform panel to Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's administration, and was approved this week.
The panel is recommending that Japanese cell phone manufacturers develop cell phones with only the talking function, and global positioning system to help with child safety. The panel also claimed improved filtering programming is needed for Internet access to protect children.
Approximately one third of Japanese sixth graders have cell phones and 60 percent of ninth graders have them. Japanese parents pay about 4,000 yen ($39) a month for cell phone fees per child.
AT&T Inc. and Pantech Wireless Inc. today announced the Pantech Breeze from AT&T. Available in all company-owned stores and online beginning May 27, the Pantech Breeze is an ideal device for a wide range of users, from novice or first-time mobile phone owners to customers looking to simplify the overall user experience.
The Pantech Breeze is an uncomplicated mobile phone, specifically designed for people needing an easy way to stay in touch with friends, caregivers and loved ones. From its clean and uncluttered design to its simplified menus, oversized display with large keypad and quick-call keys, the Pantech Breeze includes a host of convenient features in a comfortable, modern design.
The Pantech Breeze is the direct result of AT&T and Pantech's collaboration to build a device on the principles of Universal Design — the practice of designing products and applications that are usable by the most customers possible. AT&T recently published the company's approach to Universal Design to encourage application developers and handset manufacturers to consider the needs of seniors or customers who have disabilities when creating products and services.
Verizon Wireless has launched the Motorola MOTO W755. The Motorola MOTO W755 comes in purple and black for $69.99 with 2-year contract and online discount.
The touch–sensitive controls on the front of the phone let you access music, activate Bluetooth and adjust ring volume or mute calls without ever opening the phone.
The MOTO W755 also comes with an integrated:
1.3 MP camera
optional removable memory of up to 4 GB
color external display
microSD memory card slot
GPS navigation
With V CAST Music, you can also sync tracks, albums and playlists on your MOTO W755. If that wasn't enough, it's also VZ Navigatorsm capable meaning you'll never have to worry about getting lost again! Simple and loaded with features, the MOTO W755 is a phone that gives a lot without asking for much in return.
Hop-On, Inc. has announced that its GSM cell phone, the Hop1800, is now available in the United States for $10 USD, and worldwide. One of the new breed of ultra convenient cell phones, the pre-paid HOP1800 is ideal as a backup cell phone, when traveling abroad, or for anyone looking for a super affordable cell phone that does one thing extremely well: make phone calls.
Both HOP1800 phones, one a Dual-band 850/1900MHz or the 900/1800MHz for Europe and Asia, weigh a scant 77 grams, offers 4 hours of talk time, 150 hours of standby time and polyphonic ring tones. Though low in cost, the HOP1800 uses reliable Infineon chip sets for excellent audio quality, reception and call stability.
At a $10 price point in the US retail and convenient stores, the HOP1800 could be considered disposable, but the company offers a $5 rebate for returning the phone to encourage recycling the phone to “Keep it Green”.
Nokia today announced that its highly anticipated update for Nokia Maps has left beta stage and is now ready for consumers to download.
Downloaded over 240,000 times since announced in February, Nokia Maps 2.0 has improved its optional Car Navigation, enhanced its pedestrian navigation, added multimedia city guides, now offers satellite images, and is sporting a redesigned user interface.
Nokia's mapping and navigation solutions give people navigation features, local content and world maps directly on their mobile device, in a way that only connected devices can.
A partial list of the updated features in Nokia Maps 2.0 includes:
Orange and Nokia today announced a strategic international partnership, extending the first agreement signed by the two companies in February 2008. The two industry leaders have committed to a three year partnership, which will include the addition of ten new Nokia handsets to the Orange Signature range and the addition of music to a combined offer of games, advertising, maps and location based services.
Orange and Nokia have agreed to launch a suite of integrated multimedia services on the new Nokia handsets, launching in H208 across nine major markets, in an initiative designed to boost the adoption of mobile digital entertainment. As part of the strategic partnership, customers will have direct access to the Orange Music Store, both Orange and NGage games, as well as Nokia Maps. Under the Orange Signature programme, all services will be integrated into the familiar Orange user interface, providing one click access to information and entertainment.
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