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Yahoo Go to Be Shut Down in Early 2010

Yahoo is reportedly getting ready to close down its four-year-old Yahoo Go service. Starting the beginning of 2010, the service will be discontinued, though it seems that the company plans on maintaining a focus on the development of applications and services for high-end smartphones, including those based on the An...

18 November 2009
04:02 GMT

Wikipedia Goes Mobile on Orange

The Wikimedia Foundation and the wireless carrier Orange have announced a deal through which the online encyclopedia Wikipedia will be offered to mobile phone users as a standalone product, but also integrated into the operator's existing content services. According to the two, Wikipedia will come initially to O...

24 April 2009
02:58 GMT

Photobucket Mobile Uploader Available for T-Mobile Users

T-Mobile users have yet another reason to rejoice, as Photobucket announced that a new mobile photo service was available for them. Through the new service mobile users will be able to send photos directly from their handset to various destinations such as a Photobucket album, a personal computer, or even an email ad...

20 March 2009
10:10 GMT

GrandCentral Relaunched as Google Voice

Many of you might already know that Google acquired, about two years ago, the uber-phone service GrandCentral for about $50 million, and closed it soon after. The search engine company has relaunched the service, only that it has re-branded it Google Voice. Basically, the new service comes as a sort of gmail for mobi...

13 March 2009
06:55 GMT

Skype Releases New Beta Version for Mobiles

Skype is already a well known software that allows users to make telephone calls over the Internet, free of charge, along with offering them the possibility of traditional instant messaging, making file transfers and video conferencing.Until now, mobile phone users could benefit from a version of Skype developed for ...

9 October 2008
04:13 GMT

Daily Weather on the Screen of Your Mobile Device

Today, October 8, WeatherBug and Mobile Posse announced the availability of the former's weather information on the latter's service. Thus, the info available through WeatherBug (which is the world's leading provider of live and local weather information and services) will be displayed directly on the ...

8 October 2008
10:36 GMT

Mobileways Launches Beta Service demoFONE

In case you were ever curious to see how those apps you wanted to install on your Symbian 60-based phone would work, now you have the chance to actually do so. The guys from mobileways.de have thought about this, and came up with a service named demoFONE.demoFONE is a technology preview that allows Symbian smartphone...

3 October 2008
11:14 GMT

Innovative Mobile Phone Voice Marketing Service from Pinger

Pinger, Inc. just introduced Pingercast, a new mobile phone voice marketing service for media companies, political candidates, artists or anyone wanting to create a more personal relationship with supporters. Pingercast is an opt-in mobile device promotional tool used to send rich audio content directly to other mobi...

30 October 2007
11:42 GMT

New Mobile Service from Carphone

Carphone Warehouse, one of Europe's leading mobile phone retailers, recently launched its own mobile phone service called Talkmobile. Running the service as a mobile virtual network operator, Carphone agreed with Vodafone to rent and use a portion of its network. Talkmobile is announced to be different from ot...

25 October 2007
06:31 GMT

Go2 Adds More Mobile Websites to Its Network of College Sites

go2, one of the largest providers of location-based services in the U.S., announced it has added 220 mobile college websites, as well as new content, to its go2 Colleges family of college-dedicated sites. The go2 Colleges family of mobile and online college-specific websites (now numbering over 300 sites) use local s...

10 July 2007
09:17 GMT

Google Might Launch Mobile Service in the UK

Google has shown high interest for the opportunities of mobile technology for some time until now. The launch of mobile services is only the next step for taking their offers even further.We already have the Google search engine as to provide fast and reliable results to any field of interest, shrunk to the size of t...

23 May 2007
03:12 GMT

BooRah and 4INFO to Launch Mobile Restaurant Review Guide

BooRah announced a partnership with 4INFO to launch a new mobile restaurant review guide. The guide is intended to provide an efficient way to find restaurants throughout the San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York metro areas. With this partnership, BooRah plans to extend restaurant reviews and ratings via its Synd...

25 April 2007
09:28 GMT

EuroNews Gone Mobile

During MIPTV, EuroNews has announced that it has now become available on mobile phone and mobile TV systems via the SESAT 1 satellite of Eutelsat Communications. The channel has regularly participated in DVB-H broadcast tests with several mobile operators such as TDF, T-Mobile, Swisscom or RAI. Up until recently, m...

18 April 2007
04:14 GMT

Tanla Extends Operations to Irish Market

Tanla Mobile, a company that specializes in the development of mobile applications, billing and delivery has announced that it has expanded its operations into Ireland. Moreover, the company has also signed a revenue sharing agreement for mobile payment and messaging with all of the mobile operators that offer their ...

14 April 2007
02:06 GMT

Mobio Launches The GetMobio Lifestyle Portal

Mobio Networks, a company that makes compelling applications for mobile phones has finally launched GetMobio, the first mobile lifestyle portal that offers over 50 free applications and widgets for mobiles. The GetMobio lifestyle portal can be downloaded on the company's website and will provide users with insta...

11 April 2007
09:11 GMT

Become a Mobile Service Provider with Sonopia

An US company named Sonopia claims that it aims to provide every organization, group or individual with the opportunity to create branded mobile service and build a unique mobile and web community of supporters and members. Basically, with the help of Sonopia, anyone can set up their own mobile phone service for free...

3 April 2007
05:15 GMT

Sprint Announces the Launch of the 'Pivot' Service

Sprint Nextel, Comcast Corporation, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications and Advance/Newhouse Communications announced the launch of "Pivot," an integrated service that gives consumers the ability to link their mobile phone service with their home digital phone, and certain high-speed Internet services and digital c...

27 March 2007
07:00 GMT

Kajeet Introduces Pay-As-You-Go Cell Phone Service for Kids

Kajeet announced the U.S. launch of a new pay-as-you-go cell phone and wireless service specially designed to be used by kids. Kajeet offers a full array of voice, text, picture, and instant messaging services that allow kids to stay connected to family and friends. Kajeet allows kids to personalize and customize the...

22 March 2007
07:59 GMT

Mobile Services in The US Make Shopping Easy

Several technology companies like NearbyNow or GPShopper have introduced mobile Internet applications that allow shoppers to search the inventory and products at the local mall, by simply using their mobile phone. Such a service is convenient from many points of view. First of all, customers will save a lot of time t...

6 March 2007
10:16 GMT

Free Music from Virgin Mobile

Does a free music download service sound tempting? Of course it does, and if you're a Virgin Mobile customer you might just be able to download some free music. The mobile operator is trying to encourage its customers to use its music download service, offered for both contract and prepay, by allowing them to do...

2 March 2007
10:10 GMT


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