Want to IM your friends while playing mobile games? Colibria might have the answer…

“We’re not really interested in being fancy on the front end. We’re just creating a solid Android IM client”. So says Guy Reiffer, VP of Marketing for Colibria. He was taking me through the details of some of the work Colibria has done recently - including the “Canvas” application for facebook (see our article from earlier this week) and an IM client for Android that can be integrated into anything that runs on an Android device.

Cheap, useful mobile phones from Synchronica - function is more important than form

GoMo News has been following Synchronica for a long time now - mainly as a provider of mobile email services for extremely low-tech phones. But the company has kicked it up to the next level today, with the announcement of MessagePhones. Rather than just release cheap messaging services for low-tech phones, Synchronica has released two devices specially designed to take advantage of new, low-cost mobile messaging options.

Uh-oh - looks like JAGTAG aren’t alone in app-less mobile barcoding anymore. Scanbuy launches ‘Scan & Send’

It seems like just yesterday that I was singing the praises of mobile barcode operator JAGTAG. But it was actually the day before yesterday. The JAGTAG solution is brilliant in that it allows anyone with a cameraphone to make use of mobile barcodes - not just smartphones. And today global mobile barcode company Scanbuy has announced its own service in the same vein: “Scan & Send”

For those who want to make mobile calls from Facebook, Colibria presents Canvas

Here’s an interesting convergence - messaging expert Colibria has launched a Facebook application that will allow users of the social network to call and message their mobile contacts right from Facebook.

Is Twitter too big to fail? That whale can’t afford it.

If you are reading this site (a news blog about mobiles) then you almost certainly know what the Fail Whale is. If not, here’s the short version: it’s the image of a whale that heralds a Twitter crash. This doesn’t just cause a sudden panic amongst people who can’t live without Twitter - it also generates genuine revenue loss for the thousands of services that run on the Twitter API, and hurts Twitters over-all image.

Competition reveals fastest tools for sending mobile text: your thumbs

How much would you think it’s worth to be a fast texter? For two Korean teenagers, the answer was $50,000 dollars each. Korean mobile manufacturer LG ran a world championship texting competition in New York city - and the winning two man team one a cool 100k.

Orange UK customers go MMS mad in the snow

“This week, Orange saw one of its biggest spikes for MMS. Yesterday, customers sent an unprecedented 984,000 messages with pictures of them playing in the snow - almost double the normal daily volume. Throughout the day, the Orange network witnessed a considerable increase in customers using MMS to share their experiences in the snow with [...]

Christmas time means Christmas cards - but mobile MMS and SMS is simply better

I had a cup of tea with my parents last night as they wrote out their Christmas cards. This is something that neither I nor anyone else my age does anymore. So it’s funny that this story should land in my inbox today - Sharpcards, one of the world’s largest provider of mobile ecards, has claimed that even though we’re in the early days of the festive season the number of mobile ecards sent is up by 33%.

BBC Radio 1 team-up with The Mobile Data Association to give listeners free picture messaging day

For the first time, BBC Radio 1 listeners will be able to send the radio station free picture messages from their mobile phones, as part of the ‘Access All Areas’ week, which will give unprecedented access to what goes on at the world famous radio station via http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1 .
On Friday 11th December 2009, listeners in [...]

Mobile operator Telenet pumps its voicemail with Acision

Telenet is the big kahuna when it comes to broadband in Belgium. The telecoms company began purely as a home Internet provider in 1997, but has since expanded and consumed TV, fixed phone and mobile phone services. Telenet has now decided the time has come to update its legacy voicemail system, and has chosen mobile messaging provider Acision for the job.

GoMo 1-to-1: Phonesheet mobile app for the extremely busy

This is a great example of an application that is interfacing with the real world in an original way. Phonesheet is a niche service that has been finding a lot of customers - the basic idea of the service is to become a replacement in those places that still use pen and paper to keep track of phone messages. CEO and Founder Jan Zandz gave a demonstration of the service.

Columbia Records and We Love Mobile launch UK’s first rich mobile QR code campaign

Columbia Records and We Love Mobile are using Mobile QR (Quick Response) Codes in order to support sales of Manners the debut album by Passion Pit. The band signed to Columbia Records following 2008’s Chunk of Change EP and a huge online buzz. Their debut album followed in May 2009 to critical acclaim and packed [...]

Mobile operator round-up: AT&T on WiFi, sales, signings and government intervention.

AT&T is reporting massive success on the WiFi front - and attributing it to smartphones. Government intervention seems to have yielded positive results in the South African mobile market. Mobile messaging from Synchronica has found its way onto the phones of another operator’s customers… and more.

Telefónica O2 Czech Republic chooses Critical Path’s Phone Back-Up solution to protect subscriber data

Memova® solution keeps O2 Záloha subscriber contacts safe
Prague, Czech Republic – 22, September, 2009 – Critical Path, Inc., a leading provider of messaging software and services, today announced that Telefónica O2 Czech Republic has launched its Phone Back-Up solution to protect the contact and calendar data for its O2 Záloha subscribers.
Part of the Memova suite [...]

SENDSTER OFFERS OPT-IN SMS MARKETING SERVICE FOR LOCAL BUSINESSES

London, Sept 14th 2009: Sendster, a UK mobile marketing company, has launched Sendster.co.uk , a simple to use, low cost text-message based marketing service designed specifically for 4 million local UK businesses employing 10 people or less.
Sendster allows local businesses to quickly notify customers of last-minute (perishable) offers, in-store events and other marketing opportunities. The [...]

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