Rating: No need for wi-fi to save money on calls with Anywhere
RIM’s Blackberry users are being targeted with a low cost international calling service by VoIP expert, Truphone. It uses GSM not Wi-fi to offer cheap calls.
Rating: Membership numbers slip out courtesty of Nokia Siemens
A snippet put out by my old friends, Nokia Siemens Networks has revealed more details of the ad-funded network, Blyk’s expansion. Specifically the Netherlands and Belgium.
Telecom Italia is rolling out “Alice Casa”, a new totally IP residential landline package that does away with line rental fees, while offering unlimited calls to landlines in Italy, unlimited websurfing time, and access to Alice Home TV – Telecom Italia’s cable TV service – over broadband, for just one all-in monthly subscription fee. “Alice [...]
Envivio Inc., has announced that its Mobile Series™ video encoding platform has been installed by MEO Mobile. MEO Mobile has used the Envivio platform to upgrade and expand its mobile streaming service, enabling it to deliver 37 channels of high quality broadcast TV, as well as a wide variety of Video On Demand (VOD) content.
Orange today announced that the HTC Touch HD handset will be available in the UK from early November, exclusively on the Orange network. The Touch HD is a premium multimedia enhanced mobile handset, designed with a focus on entertainment that is set transform how people experience multimedia on the move.
So Comes with Sangria (sorry) Music has landed in the UK.
What is the deal?
3 UK and Nokia are going to launch Comes with Music on selected N95 8GB mobile devices.
Yikes? How much?
3UK has selected 4th Screen Advertising and Mobix Interactive to run its ad-supported mobile video service.
What does this mean?
4th Screen Advertising will be the sales partners –getting brands to access 3’s on-portal video content
Mobix will deliver the video using its Adrenalin mobile video platform.
Payez Mobile is a French initiative from banks and mobile operators trialling seamless interoperable mobile payments.
The “Payez Mobile” field trial launched in November 2007 in Caen
and Strasbourg in France by six banks and four mobile network operators* along with
Visa Europe and Mastercard, has yielded positive results.
I have known Mike Kent from the day he joined JumpTap and I like him. But I didn’t let that cloud my judgement when I interviewed him recently.
Why did I interview him?
Because I was unsure about a new deployment with 3 Sweden and JumpTapand what it actually was. So I had a couple of questions. [...]
