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Cell Phone Spyware Can Access Your Calls, Text Messages and Emails
| | This is scary! Your cell phone can be bugged with spyware that allows a spy to listen in your cell phone calls, see your text messages and read your e-mails. See video above from KKTV.com. According to the video there is a website selling the spyware to catch cheating spouses. To prevent your cell phone from being bugged, keep an eye on it, because the spyware has to be uploaded to your cell phone which can take 15 minutes. |
Is the Smartphone Market Getting Crowded?
| | Dan Gallagher of MarketWatch.com had a very interesting video interview with Citigroup's Analyst Jim Suva about whether or not the smartphone market is too crowded. According to Mr. Suva, competition is getting fierce; however, there is still plenty of room for good competitors. See video to the right. |
Motorola Acquires RadioFrame Networks iDEN Business
Motorola, Inc. today announced the acquisition of RadioFrame Networks’ iDEN business. RadioFrame is a provider of lower cost, power efficient iDEN technology. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. RadioFrame Networks’ iDEN business will be integrated into Motorola’s Home & Networks Mobility business.
Motorola's proprietary iDEN solution has proven to be an enduring cellular technology due to its innovative and differentiated end-user fast dispatch service and enterprise optimized talk-groups. RadioFrame’s iDEN products will further enhance Motorola's portfolio for multi-channel base stations optimized to support non-contiguous spectrum allocations in the special mobile radio (SMR) business that are especially common outside North America.
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New Google News for iPhone, Android and Palm Pre Users
Google has announced a brand new Google News offering for iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre users. Google currently offers a mobile-optimized version of Google News for other phones, such as Blackberry, Windows Mobile, and S60, and more improvements will be coming to those in the near future.
This new version provides the same personalization and richness on your phone as Google News provides on desktop. Google's new homepage displays more stories, sources, and images while keeping a familiar look and feel. Also, you can now reach your favorite sections, discover new ones, find articles and play videos in fewer clicks. If you are an existing Google News reader on desktop, you will find that all of your personalizations are honored in this mobile version too.
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Stress-Free Holiday Season Time-Saving Apps
As they’re making their list and checking it twice, customers can download holiday-friendly apps for their Sprint device to help organize, navigate and shop during the busy holiday season. A variety of useful applications are available to Sprint customers through the Android Market, Palm App Catalog, BlackBerry App World and the Sprint Digital Lounge.
“As more consumers are purchasing smartphones, they are looking for mobile apps that can make them more productive,” said Len Barlik, vice president of wireless and wireline services for Sprint. “Mobile applications are one the fastest growing segments in the wireless industry. Sprint customers can choose from thousands of apps and find the ones they want for fun, work or even to help with their holiday preparations.” | |
Motorola Announces the Motorola Crush for US Cellular
Motorola has announced the Motorola Crush, which comes with a high-end design, excellent call quality and multimedia features, all at an affordable price. Boasting a sleek touch screen and large display with one-touch access to your favorite features, the Motorola Crush has everything you need to stay in contact with the people you want to. The Motorola Crush is expected to be available in Q4 2009 with US Cellular.
Up-to-date touch keys give you one-touch access to the phone functions you use most and bring you to the right screen, every time. A high-accuracy touch dialler means you’ll never fumble to make on-the-go calls, and a precise digital QWERTY keyboard lets you get the word out quickly and accurately.
Crush is a sleek touch screen device, yet maintains what matters most— reliable calling. Crush’s tap-to-silence feature lets you silence the ringer with a simple tap to its exterior, eliminating the risk of having your phone ring at the worst moment. So easy, you can do it with your eyes closed.
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TomTom Upgrades TomTom App for iPhone / iPod Touch
TomTom announces that the latest version of the TomTom app for iPhone and iPod touch (version 1.2) can be purchased on the App Store starting today. The new version of the software will be made available for free to existing TomTom app for iPhone customers.
This new version, now also compatible with the iPod touch, includes additional advanced features that TomTom fans around the world have come to appreciate. TomTom car kit for iPod touch which will be available shortly in the United States.
Apple has made continental and regional versions of the TomTom app for iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, original iPhone and iPod touch users, available on http://www.tomtom.com/tomtom-app. The TomTom app for iPhone and iPod touch including maps of the US and Canada is available for $99.99.
Features include:
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AT&T to Launch the Pantech Impact this Sunday
Beginning Sunday, Pantech Wireless, Inc. will bring “Impact” to AT&T customers. The second Pantech handset to hit shelves this holiday season debuts in two cool colors – bright blue and soft pink – and delivers a brand new form factor to AT&T’s line of quick messaging phones. Impact features a high-gloss faceplate with a haptic response touchpad, two screens and a full hidden keyboard, along with a host of the latest social and multimedia options, to make managing your mobile life startlingly fun.
In a world where most phones look identical and feel the same, Impact puts an end to predictability by providing users an altogether new experience. From the outside, Impact’s shiny blackout exterior is surrounded by textured blue or pink detailing. Each time the touchpad below the screen is pressed it springs to action, reacting to finger taps with a soft, tactile buzz. Impact lets users play and control music, make a call, or send texts without ever having to open the phone. |  |
Verizon Wireless Introduces the CASIO G'zOne Rock
Verizon Wireless and CASIO today introduced the new CASIO G’zOne (pronounced Jeez_wun) Rock to Verizon Wireless’ growing line-up of rugged phones. Perfect for customers with active lifestyles, the Rock’s advanced G’zGear software operates in six modes, including Earth Compass, Walking Counter, Thermometer, Astro Calendar, Sunrise Sunset and Tides, with the help of its Triple Sensor technology. Whether your lifestyle has the demands of an avid fisher, hunter, hiker or climber, the Rock is prepared to handle life’s most challenging obstacles while providing directional information, Push to Talk capabilities and connectivity over the nation’s largest and most reliable wireless voice and 3G network. The CASIO G’zOne is available in Matte black. The CASIO G’zOne Rock is $199.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. Customers receive the rebate in the form of a debit card; upon receipt, customers may use the card as cash anywhere debit cards are accepted. Verizon Wireless customers can add Unlimited Push to Talk for $5 per month per line to any qualifying Nationwide voice plan. Customers can purchase the CASIO G’zOne Rock beginning Nov. 20 online |  |
DevelopmentNow Launches Mobile Shopping Assistant - Dealdar.com
DevelopmentNow, a Portland, Oregon based mobile and social media consulting company, is launching the perfect holiday shopping assistant with its new mobile web site, Dealdar.com.
Dealdar.com takes aim at shopping pet peeves that can test your sanity around this time of year. This mobile web site can be used on any web-capable phone, including iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, and other devices, and targets the hard to find gift or bargain in your area by harnessing the power of numbers. Smart and swift designing combines sales information from most major retailers, with reviews, search tagging, twitter feeds and more, giving the user instant access to shopping musts, like the latest pricing, sales, reviews and sold out items - to name a few. Dealdar.com incorporates deals, tips, and ratings submitted in real time by other shoppers in your area. This type of "crowd sourcing" allows you to virtually shop multiple stores at once. | |
DriveSafe.ly App Stops Texting While Driving & Distracted Drivers
DriveSafe.ly, the free mobile app aiming to stop distracted driving, launched seven weeks ago and has been used by over one million people. The app is reading millions of text messages (SMS) aloud per week to drivers around the world -- keeping their eyes on the road. See the DriveSafe.ly video (Walkthrough, FAQ, Help, Demo) above. | |
Symbian Founders Announce flook - World's First Location Browser
Today, Ambient Industrie, a mobile application software company, debuts flook, in the Apple Store. Offered for free, flook is a location browser that lets users discover and share the world around them. (See demo video below).
Flook’s design is being lead by a team of four co-creators with deep programming, entrepreneurial and creative backgrounds – Roger Nolan and Jane Sales founders of Symbian, led the teams creating that company’s comms and kernel respectively. Tristan Brotherton has deep web and media expertise and Dave Jennings’ background in machine intelligence and location services informed flook’s servers. Together, they have built an imagination-centric company, shrugging off the typical corporate structure, enabling the creativity and wonder that has gone into flook’s world of robots, color and whimsical interface. | |
Non-voice Communications Driven by Smartphone Proliferation
The latest wave of Mobile Market View, a consumer study of adult U.S. mobile phone users conducted by BIA/Kelsey with research partner ConStat, reveals a rapid rise in mobile device usage for non-voice communications—text messages, e-mail and Internet access—driven primarily by the proliferation of smartphones.
Among mobile consumers surveyed in October for Mobile Market View, 18.5 percent searched the Internet for products or services in their local area, up from 15.6 percent in 2008, and 16.7 percent connected with a social network such as MySpace or Facebook, up from 9.6 percent in 2008. | |
In 2013 60% of Web-Connected Devices will Be Sold By Carriers
Carriers are becoming a significant channel for all Internet-connected mobile devices, including netbooks and mobile PCs, because of the revenue potential of the associated services.
In-Stat anticipates that the number of devices sold through the carriers will continue to increase as services are bundled for multiple devices and service prices decrease due to increased bandwidth from new communications technologies and increased competition between carriers. By 2013, In-Stat anticipates that over 60% of all the Internet-connected mobile devices sold will be through carrier channels. | |
Sony Ericsson Announces the Mavericks Surf Web App Challenge
Sony Ericsson has announced the 2009/2010 Mavericks Surf Contest for software developers.
Mavericks is a world-renowned big wave break located one-half mile off the coast of Half Moon Bay, California. Enter the quick-start Mavericks part of the challenge and you could win a seat in the lead boat – the best and most exciting way to watch the action.
Sony Ericsson asked Digital Dandelion to build an application around the event. In just a few days it was ready, bringing together real time information, weather, twitter feeds and more. Sony Ericsson is challenging developers to hack on, tear apart, and otherwise improve the sample Mavericks app before the surfing starts.
The competition takes place at 24 hour’s notice and only Mother Nature knows when the wave will come.
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Sony Ericsson Announces the Sony Ericsson WebSDK
Yesterday at the Web 2.0 EXPO in New York, Sony Ericsson announced the Sony Ericsson WebSDK. It is an open source tool created in collaboration with the PhoneGap open source community. The SDK makes it possible for web and mobile developers to create mobile apps using HTML, CSS and JavaScript programming. A bridge component allows JavaScript to access platform features and data such as accelerometer, GPS, Camera and contacts.
The WebSDK enables developers to produce applications which work consistently independent of the underlying platform. It initially supports Android (e.g. XPERIA X10) and Symbian (e.g. Satio) platforms.
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SK Telecom to Launch LiMo Compliant Handset (SCH-M510) from Samsung
LiMo Foundation, a global consortium of mobile industry leaders today announced the Samsung SCH-M510 as the first LiMo Compliant handset which will be deployed in the Korean marketplace. SK Telecom is the latest global operator to specify and deliver a LiMo handset to mobile subscribers, following earlier deployments from LiMo operators NTT DOCOMO and Vodafone. The Samsung SCH-M510 is the first LiMo compliant handset for the Korean market, and the 45th LiMo compliant device overall.
The Samsung SCH-M510 is a rich media device with support for various audio and video media types and features a 3.5” WVGA AMOLED screen and a 5 megapixel autofocus camera. This advanced handset features Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity and also includes support for proximity, accelerometer and ambient light sensors.
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Top 10 Consumer Mobile Applications for 2012 by Gartner
Gartner, Inc. has identified the top 10 consumer mobile applications for 2012. Gartner listed applications based on their impact on consumers and industry players, considering revenue, loyalty, business model, consumer value and estimated market penetration. The top 10 consumer mobile applications in 2012 will include:
No. 1: Money Transfer
This service allows people to send money to others using Short Message Service (SMS). Its lower costs, faster speed and convenience compared with traditional transfer services have strong appeal to users in developing markets, and most services signed up several million users within their first year. However, challenges do exist in both regulatory and operational risks. Because of the fast growth of mobile money transfer, regulators in many markets are piling in to investigate the impact on consumer costs, security, fraud and money laundering. On the operational side, market conditions vary, as do the local resources of service providers, so providers need different market strategies when entering a new territory.
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AT&T New TV Ad Fights Back Against Verizon Wireless
AT&T is fighting back with a new TV ad campaign highlighting the advantages to their service and products when compared to Verizon Wireless. (See commercial above.) The commercial is in response to Verizon Wireless false and misleading ads (according to AT&T). AT&T recently lost an injunction stopping Verizon Wireless from their misleading TV ads. Additionally, AT&T recently posted key facts on their website in response to Verizon misleading advertising. |
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AT&T Stocking Shelves with Two New Netbooks for Holidays
AT&T is stocking its shelves with the latest in ultra-portable, ultra-connected devices – two new netbooks that feature built-in access to the nation’s fastest 3G network and the largest Wi-Fi network in the U.S., and include the new Microsoft Windows 7 operating system.
AT&T today announced its holiday lineup of mobile broadband-enabled netbooks will be available in stores and online at www.att.com/netbooks later this month. The new devices include the Samsung GoTM Netbook and Acer Aspire One, both equipped with Windows 7 Starter from Microsoft, and available for $199 after mail-in rebate via an AT&T Promotion Card and a two-year data service contract.
The netbooks feature 10-inch screens and weigh less than 3 pounds, easily fitting into backpacks, purses and briefcases.
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