BREAKING: Virgin Mobile USA to Acquire Helio For $39 Million In Equity

As we reported earlier in the week Virgin Mobile USA will acquire Helio from SK Telecom and EarthLink, for limited partnership units equivalent to 13 million shares of Virgin Mobile USA class A common stock, with a value of $39 million based on the closing price of $2.99 - Virgin Mobile USA’s class A shares [...]

Quattro Wireless expands Mobile Ad Network

Quattro Wireless is announcing 7 new partner sites to it’s Mobile Ad Network. The sites which include Hollywood.com are Cracked.com, Savvy.com, TheInsider.com, Fandango.com, JoBlo.com and MovieWeb.com.
“We are very pleased to add this list of high quality publishers to the Quattro Ad Network,” said Lars Albright, VP of business development at Quattro Wireless
“Using Quattro Wireless’ [...]

Nokia release 4 new handsets in the Supernova range

Nokia today announced the release of 4 new handsets as part of it’s Supernova range. The 7610, 7510, 7310 and the basic 7210.

“As we rely more heavily on mobile phones to stay connected, they increasingly know everything about us and have become a window into our worlds,” said Jo Harlow, vice president, LIVE category, Nokia.  [...]

Poll: Mobile Advertising vs Mobile Porn

Opinion Polls & Market Research

Some thoughts on Mobile advertising buisiness models

Banner ads, pay per call, pay per click, organic links or sponsored links are only the tip of the iceberg. Vendors need to shift their focus away from copying Internet business models to creating new ones for mobile and, in particular, to cash in on the apparently insatiable appetite for and the viral spread of [...]

iPhone SDK Beta 8 Released

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) is reporting that Apple has released iPhone SDK Beta 8 (9m2199) in “preparation for launching the iPhone App Store in the near future.”
They Say:
The update is 1.25GB in size, and includes iPhone firmware revision 5a345. Typically, if the revision ends in a number, it’s a pretty stable release. According to sources [...]

New Google search features for US BlackBerry users

Google continue to improve it’s mobile search solution. Just two weeks ago it announced updates to it’s homepage for a quicker load time.
Now Google has released a number of improvements to it’s mobile search results for US BlackBerry users. The improvements are designed to help make you get the “information you want more easily“.
They say:

Improved comprehensiveness: Our mobile search [...]

Technology and Business Came to Life at CommunicAsia2008 & BroadcastAsia2008

Asia’s Largest Infocomm and Media Trade Event Draws 67,573 Attendees Over Four Days

SINGAPORE, 26 JUNE 2008 – This week, 67,573 people came to Asia’s largest infocomm and media trade exhibitions - CommunicAsia and BroadcastAsia - to showcase and view the latest technologies, participate in industry forums and interact with fellow professionals from across the world. [...]

Research Shows That Mobile Phone Is The Hub Of SMB Communications – But Still Suffers Coverage Issues

London, UK 26th June, 2008 — RadioFrame Networks (RFN), the leader in small footprint, low cost wireless base stations today launched new,
 
The research was conducted by Quocirca, one of Europe’s leading business and technology analyst firms, across 240 SMBs in the UK, France, Germany and Sweden.   To download a copy, please visit:
http://www.quocirca.com/pages/analysis/reports/view/store250/item21345/?link_683=21345
The research reveals [...]

HSL’s 2.75G (GSM/GPRS/EDGE) Femtocell in Final Phase of Development - Pricing, Managed Services and Availability Announced

Edinburgh, Scotland, 26th June 2008Femot
HSL (Hay Systems Ltd), an independent mobile network operator and provider of mobile services and equipment have today disclosed further details regarding their 2.75G Femtocell development project.  HSL have now released details of the physical appearance and have announced plans for a managed femtocell network service with the device being available [...]

TynTec Ltd Receives Investment from HarbourVest Partners

June 26, 2008 – Isle of Man/London, UK, Munich, Germany:  Mobile messaging operator TynTec (www.tyntec.com) today accepted a significant minority investment from HarbourVest Partners, LLC, a global private equity investment firm. The funds will assist TynTec’s rapid expansion into Asia, the Middle East and Africa and will help accelerate market penetration of the company’s recent [...]

FLO announces TIA approval of Open Conditional Access Specification

In a significant step in the development of Mobile multimedia broadcasting the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) have approved the Forward Link Only Open Conditional Access (OpenCA) Specification, as put forward by the FLO Forum, a body of more than 95 supporting global wireless industry leaders and dedicated to the open standardization of FLOTM (Forward Link-Only) [...]

Microsoft acquires MobiComp

MobiComp, the Portuguese mobile software company have been acquired by Microsoft reports Reuters.
No financial details have been released as of yet.
MobiComp produce software that can store content such as contacts and calendars on handsets and have a tool to enhance mobile social networking to Internet sites like Facebook. Their clients include Nokia.
Nuno Duarte, Microsoft’s head [...]

Zamano to launch new mobile advertising unit

Zamano seems to be a new another entrant in mobile advertising space. Coming from a mobile content background. It has been providing messaging and billing services in the UK, Ireland and Australia. Now it has launched and ad buying unit.

AND, it has signed an agency deal with Yahoo! too offer WAP inventory to existing customers.
From [...]

Greystripe launches Mobile Engagement Platform

Greystripe has developed an end-to-end brand experience with their mobile games catalog. It is packaged from within a new Mobile Engagement Platform.

What does this mean?
Basically within a mobile game, brands tend to get the opening and end slot. This has been increased and now brands will have a greater presence during, in and around the [...]

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