Conveneer gets $4.5 Million funding to turn your mobile device into an online site

Conveneer today announced that it has secured $4.5 million in financing. Through it’s Mikz service, Conveneer allows content stored on mobile phones to be accessed like it was on an online site. The funding will be used to further develop Mikz, as well as push sales in the US before its commercial launch their later [...]

Memoir: my search for a new mobile device may be over

I’ve been thinking about the Samsung Memoir quite a bit since I saw the specs earlier on today. My article about it wasn’t exactly enthusiastic, but I caught myself talking to quite a few people about it since, and something occurred to me. I think I may be this device’s target audience.
What do I want [...]

Mobile devices can get faster and more efficient with new Intel chips

Intel yesterday unveiled plans to change the way it designs chips for mobile devices. It’s new system-on-chip (SoC) designs could dramatically reduce power consumption and increase processing power.
What’s system-on-chip?
The trend so far has been to build more powerful microprocessors that can do more things at once. But that generates a lot of heat and takes [...]

STOP! Hammertime application for iPhone from InfoMedia and MC Hammer

MC Hammer has announced the release of a “HammerTime” application for the iPhone. Developed by InfoMedia, the application will allow fans of the artist to follow his blog, track his concerts, watch his music videos and follow his Twitter posts.
From the release:
“I’m a big fan of creating premium content for the Internet” says MC Hammer. [...]

Tjoos tackles on-line couponing - mobile barcodes should take heed

Ok, so this isn’t a mobile service but it’s very cool and it could easily move into the mobile space. Lots of online merchants issue coupon codes, which you can enter on their sites to get discounts. Coupon sites aggregate these codes for users to browse. Tjoos claims it has the most comprehensive collection of [...]

WorldSIM Recognised As Leading Traveller Services Provider

WorldSIM has been shortlisted for the Business Travel Show Innovation Awards 2009.
The Business Travel Show Innovation Awards aim to recognise those business travel suppliers who have created highly innovative products, services and processes for buyers, travellers or other suppliers in the last 12 months. WorldSIM is one of only two such companies that have been [...]

Qualcomm gets huge mobile multimedia boost from AMD

Qualcomm today announced that it has purchased a huge chunk of graphics and multimedia assets from Imageon, AMD’s handheld business. The acquisition will drive the multimedia abilities of Qualcomm’s handsets.
As part of the roughly-$65 million agreement, Qualcomm is offering employment to various design and development teams from Imageon. The focus of those teams are 2D [...]

Nuance and IBM combine forces to advance speech recognition technologies

Nuance Communications and IBM today announced a licensing and technical services agreement. In a nutshell, they’re pooling resource to expand and improve speech solutions for all market segments.
The companies will be cooperating to incorporate IBM technology into Nuance’s speech solutions. Nuance expects the first products from this to appear within two years. IBM will continue [...]

IBM unveils 3D shopping tech for mobile devices

IBM has revealed an extremely interesting product at National Retail Federation Convention. Focused on interior design and furniture shopping, the service allows users to move furniture around and test room layouts in a virtual setting, all on their mobile device.
The idea is that shoppers in different locations can share the same virtual room through their [...]

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