Simplifying The Move From Voice To Video Conferencing Improves Unified Communications By Opening The Eyes Of The Enterprise

Enterprises can now move easily and affordably from “voice and data only” net conferences to professional, web-based video-conferencing, messaging and collaboration. With the launch of the latest version of ICU™ Live! from leading Unified Communications consultancy ICU Global, organisations can bypass traditional hurdles to making the move.
Whilst many organisations have been held back by the [...]

Sony Ericsson profit down by 48%!

Rating: ouch!!
Marketwatch are reporting that Sony Ericsson have announced that its first quarter net profit fell by a whopping 48% to 133 million euros ($213 million). Sony Ericsson said “sales, which fell by 8% to 2.7 billion euros
were hit by slowing market growth in mid-to-high end phones, which reduced the average selling price to [...]

Nokia groove to the beat with two new XpressMusic devices.

Rating: get down and shake that booty
Nokia have released two more music inspired devices to its XpressMusic range. “Today’s additions to the XpressMusic range up the ante with new ways for consumers to access their media as well as interact and share content with friends and communities anytime, anywhere.” said Jo Harlow, Vice President, LIVE [...]

Call Genie makes available its Mobile Local Search Product Suite

Rating: Jean Genie
Local media search and advertising provider Call Genie Inc have announced the general availability of its Mobile Local Search Product Suite. Call Genie started off as a single product which delivered Voice Activated Category Search.

The updated application now delivers a “full range of local and mobile search and advertising business models, from traditional [...]

Bubble Motion Strengthens Executive Team with Technology Veterans

Brings on Industry Veterans to Expand Product and Technology Vision and Expand Aggressively into Europe

Mountain View CA, 22 April 2008: Bubble Motion, the pioneer and global leader for ‘voice SMS’, today announced significant new additions to the executive management team. Joining Bubble Motion’s management team are TS Ramakrishnan as Chief Technology Officer, Paul Hedman as [...]

US mobile media and entertainment market to see stronger growth from 2010 onward, says Analysys

Revenue from mobile media and entertainment (MME) services in the US will more than double during the next five years, according to the latest research from Analysys, the global advisers on telecoms, IT and digital media (www.analysys.com).

US MME services (excluding messaging, and mobile browsing and data charges) generated US$3.1 billion in revenue in 2007, and [...]

Jinny’s Proven Success in Messaging Nets Two More Deals in Peru and Brazil

Proven SIGTRAN-capable SMSC a first in Latin America

PANAMA, 22nd April 2008 - Jinny Software, a leading global supplier of messaging and media platforms to mobile network operators, today announced that it has won two new deals with operators in Peru and Brazil, both of which are part of a larger Brazilian group operator.  Jinny’s SMSC [...]

Sony Gracenote’s to the tune of USD260 million

What do we say? Bargain!
I am a huge fan of Gracenote and I use the application in my SonyEricsson Walkman phone all the time. But I did predict last year that Yahoo! would buy Gracenote as it powers the company’s lyric search (nevermind).

Sony needs to focus on a strategy though of getting Gracenote from the [...]

Omoby from mobile visual search to mobile clickable visual objects

Remember, I got a tip off about oMoby a new mobile visual search engine a while back?

Well some changes have happened on the website. It seems that this mobile search engine is a bit different. This time you can click on physical objects to get related results. So like one big visual mobile search recommendation [...]

Sprint V-Enable’s mobile local voice search with FreeMobile411

V-ENABLE has announced the availability of a full-featured downloadable version of FreeMobile411 to Sprint customers.

How does it work?
Well users hold down the talk key of the phone and speak what they are looking for. The results are then displayed on the screen.
What is the value add?
Well. Apparently this voice search is not only for residential [...]

Nokia signs Sony BMG to Comes with Music

Rating: I get demo of Say & Play

I trotted down to London’s Covent Garden to hear Nokia announce that it has definitely done the deal with Sony BMG to participate in its ‘Comes with Music’ offering. I also discovered ‘Say and Play’.
Only snag with Comes with Music? There’s neither a definite launch date nor guide [...]

Mobile strategy for British Jewellery retailer Fameo

Rating: smash and grab
I haven’t seen a mobile campaign for Jewellery before, but that’s exactly what Fameo are doing. Slashphone reports that UK based Fameo have announced the launch of its mobile jewellery catalogue which will allow anyone with a GPRS or 3G phone to browse Fameo jewellery offers, monitor their order status, research information [...]

BuzzCity Mobile Advertising Index reports huge growth of the mobile Internet in the Middle East

The BuzzCity myGamma Global Mobile Advertising Index which highlight the growth of the myGamma mobile social network reports
“surprise growth for demand of its service in Egypt and Saudi Arabia which will surprise both the global mobile community and digital advertising industries. It is likely the growth is directly linked with changes in mobile operator business [...]

TV Mobile Advertising Testing Tools from GoldSpot Media

GoldSpot Media has announced Trial in a Box.
Yikes? Trial in a Box?

Yes that is the name of a “first rapid prototyping platform providing a controlled environment for evaluating the profitability of targeted, interactive mobile broadcast TV advertising models”.
What does that mean?
I think that what GoldSpot is doing, is that is enabling vendors or brands to [...]

Mobile Barcode News Round-up.

A quick roundup of Mobile Barcode stories that you might have missed from around the web.
•    Le Craic has a piece on the Kaywa QR Code Reader. Once installed this application can decipher mobile barcodes that can contain, wallpapers and ringtones as well as URL’s, texts, phone numbers etc.

All you do is fire up the [...]

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