Mobile News in Brief: Go2, Nuance, SDK, Cloudmark
go2 Launches Mobile Entertainment Guides For 473 U.S. Colleges
Boston – March 9, 2009 – go2 Media™ (www.go2.com ), a mobile media company focused on delivering personalized, local entertainment content, today announced the launch of go2 Colleges, a mobile local entertainment guide for 473 colleges across the U.S., including Division I and Division II schools. The guides are available on AT&T MediaNET’s NCAA Basketball site as “News and Events from Your School,” where students can access local events, movie showtimes, college sports scores and recommendations from the go2 Content Network. The guides will soon be available to Virgin Mobile/Helio and Sprint/Nextel subscribers.
Nuance Mobile’s VSuite 3 and XT9 Available on Samsung Memoir™
BURLINGTON, MA – March 9, 2009 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), today announced that Nuance’s VSuite® 3 and XT9® Smart Input products are both embedded on the commercially available Samsung Memoir™ (SGH-t929), enhancing the user experience of the eight megapixel camera phone, available exclusively through T-Mobile USA. VSuite enables Memoir users to leverage their own voice as a complementary interface for accessing and enjoying many device features, while XT9 offers predictive text support for a variety of applications, making it faster and easier to send text messages and emails, as well as quickly type URLs via the full touch virtual QWERTY keypad.
SDK allows developers to embed interactive maps in just three lines of code
(Denver, Colo. - March 9, 2009) - Useful Networks, a leading developer of
location-based products and services for mobile and Web, announces today the availability of mapNinja(tm), a fully touch-enabled map viewer, which enables rapid development of location-relevant applications for iPhone and iTouch.
The mapNinja software development kit (SDK) enables developers to embed an interactive map viewer within their native iPhone applications in just three lines of code. Prior to mapNinja, iPhone developers had limited and unappealing options when deciding how to incorporate mapping into their iPhone apps.
Cloudmark enhances security for MySpace users
Cloudmark Authority® Solution Protects Millions of Users Online
March 9, 2008—Cloudmark, Inc., the global leader in carrier-grade messaging security, today announced that MySpace, the world’s leading social portal, has been working with Cloudmark to proactively protect users against malicious messaging attacks.
Cloudmark’s industry-leading, carrier-grade technology is uniquely architected to block spam, phishing and virus threats on virtually any communications platform, from e-mail and mobile to social networks. Cloudmark Authority is the only commercially deployed solution to effectively combat all categories of social networking abuse. MySpace is the first social network to deploy comprehensive messaging security to protect its more than 130 million active users from the new breed of messaging abuse.
“At MySpace, we’ve declared a technology war against spammers and phishers by deploying top-of-the- line security solutions in an ever-evolving threat environment,” said Aber Whitcomb, chief technology officer of MySpace. “Cloudmark’s technology is another part of our holistic approach to providing users with a safer and more secure online experience. With Cloudmark’s real-time user feedback tool for new attacks, our community joins our fight against misuse of the site – it’s truly a Web 2.0 security solution.”








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