Qualcomm gets busy making 4G as painless as possible

Qualcomm has announced an initiative to smoothly help mobile operators around the world get their users ready for 4G/LTE. In co-operation with a truly impressive line-up of manufacturers, the chipset maker plans to sneak 4G chips into mobile devices that are currently being released.

Mobile application roundup: updates, Craigslist, mobile video and navigation

Three great services either updated or arrived on mobile today. The multi-purpose Craigslist has launched an app for Blackberry. Mobile video service Vimeo (which GoMo uses for it’s video interviews) has created a mobile optimised site. And navigation service TomTom has released a big iPhone update
Craigslist comes to Blackberry
Equal parts notorious and just plain famous, [...]

It’s lonely out there in Vodafone 360 world

Rating: Waiting for Vodo to launch more 360 clients
One of the benefits of Vodafone’s new 360 service is that you can keep track of what your chums are up to. There’s only one snag. At present the only mates you can track directly are other owners of the Samsung H1 360 phone.
GoMo News doublechecked this [...]

Samsung courts mobile developers with open platform, dinner.

Samsung played “wait and see” for quite some time on mobile apps, but it is now taking some serious steps towards attracting mobile developers. Today it announced the launch of an open mobile platform, with a Software Development Kit (SDK) that will help developers to create apps for millions of Samsung devices.

Going mobile gets faster with Mobify 2.0 update

Mobify is one of a breed of services called “mobilizers”. It’s a method of creating a mobile web page from an existing on-line one. It’s an automatic service - Mobify subscribers simply use the web-hosted visual interface to transcode their page. Now Mobify has announced a host of new features with Mobify 2.0

Mobile to be the driver of social media and PhindMe Mobile is ready with Everywhereigo

Fact:
Facebook revealed that users of the mobile web and mobile application versions of its service grew from 20 million to over 65 million in a little over 6 months.

First Open Access IMS launched by TSSG

Rating: TSSG  benefits from Enterprise Ireland’s support
The Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG) has announced the launch of what it claims is the world’s first ‘open-access’ IMS network. The network exploits Ireland’s plentiful open spectrum.
Kevin Kennedy,  spectrum development manager for ComReg – the Irish telecoms regulator – argued that multiple factors contribute to the [...]

Local news take heed - AP and Verve are showing how it’s done in mobile

Maybe one of the biggest success stories in publishing news content on mobile is AP Mobile. The mobile channel of the worldwide Associated Press news network, AP Mobile has over 1,000 local news sources on board. The app has been downloaded by over 2.4 million people, and AP claims that over 55 million mobile stories are read each month. Now the company has decided to make some money from the experience it has gained in mobile. In a partnership with Verve Wireless (another giant of local mobile news), the companies will be selling a “white label” mobile application creation service to make mobilizing easier for local news outlets.

Memory problem dogs new Opera Mobile browser

Rating: That’s the trouble with betas
Browser specialist, Opera, released a new version of its mobile browser for Symbian/S60 handsets – the Opera Mobile 10 beta. GoMo news downloaded it and immediately ran into memory problems.
Before that, GoMo News did a bit of head-scratching. Opera says this beta is for Nokia phones and S60 handsets in [...]

Bitstream secures pre-load deal with manufacturer for Bolt mobile browser

Bitstream Inc. is a software company responsible for one of the two major, independent mobile browsers. The main selling point of the Bolt browser is that it’s the mobile browser for any device. Bitstream has announced that the software will now come pre-loaded on every single mobile device from manufacturer Visual Fan.

Top Augmented Reality news

The top 12 things he heard from VCs when pitching Augmented Reality
Wired

Mosquito AR Game

Esquire goes mobile Augmented Reality Geek Sugar

Augmented Reality marketing: http://mumbrella.com.au/qut-uses-augmented-reality-in-new-campaign-10994

Layer: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114359604

US Marines and AR: Telegraph

Beyond flirting, adding business necessity to the mobile location business model

I, like many have been watching Foursquare. I had been interested from a distance and then the buzz and excitement about the company at MoMo London on Mobile Location in October made me sit up and take a deeper look.

Poynt Blackberry Halloween mobile search

Poynt, the free, all-in-one local search application for BlackBerry smartphones is assisting users with their Halloween needs this season. Users simply search “Halloween” from their BlackBerry smartphone

Sprints results show unlimited mobile plans pay off

Sprint is having a topsy-turvy week. It has reported it’s third quarter finances - which show both impressive losses and impressive gains in different areas. The operator, third largest in the US, is continuing its trend of losing subscribers. But is also showing signs of slowing the exodus, and maybe even turning it around.

Boingo launches mobile Wi-Fi service from Blackberry

Boingo Wireless has announced that it’s Wi-Fi hotspot service has been launched for Blackberry. The service will allow Blackberry owners to automatically locate and connect to the best Wi-Fi service in their area.

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