AT&T wireless, WHERE, and uLocate announced today GPS-enabled services to find the cheapest gas, find restaurants or breweries by downloading a widget to their phone. A version is also available for devices not equipped with GPS.
The GPS applications available to AT&T customers include:
Yelp — Get reviews for everything local, including restaurants, shopping, night life, events, [...]
Don’t expect your 3G phone to work at the 2008 Olympics Games, running August 8-24, 2008 in Beijing. (nbcolympics.com and Olympic Theme, MP-3).
The cell phone standard of choice in China is TD-SCDMA, developed by the Chinese for the Chinese market. Their flavor of 3G will cover at least 10 Chinese cities in time for the [...]
ABI Research predicts the location-based services industry will turn into a $3.3 billion market worldwide by 2013, reports Silcon Alley Insider.
Location-based mobile advertising “holds a lot of promise,” notes ABI analyst Dominique Bonte. But “the current reality” suggests licensing and subscription revenue-sharing — like Loopt’s recent deal with Verizon Wireless — the most likely near-term [...]
The LiMo Foundation is not going away.
At LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco today, the foundation announced the release of several new Linux-based mobile handsets from Mototorola, NEC and Panasonic.
With the addition of Motorola’s Motozine ZN5, NEC’s Foma N906i, N906i?, N906iL and N706i, and Panasonic’s Foma P906i and N906i? — the total number of [...]
Sprint has announced nationwide availability of its Airave femtocell. It boosts cellular service inside your home and works with up to three handsets using Sprint’s CDMA network (Nextel phones aren’t supported).
The Airave box is $99.99. To use it with a Sprint plan, the customer must add the “enhanced coverage charge,” which adds $4.99/month to [...]
Icomera, a Swedish supplier of Internet connectivity to trains, is buying Moovera Networks, based in the UK. The move should create the largest provider of in-vehicle Internet access technology – encompassing trains, buses, coaches, trucks and ferries.
In 2008, Moovera Networks’ Moovbox M Series Mobile Broadband Gateway was selected by Swebus Express, Arriva Scandinavia, Trent Barton, [...]
Qik has opened its beta program, letting anyone with a compatible cell phone broadcast their own videos on the Web. Qik (pronounced “quick”) opened its doors to all comers Monday, moving from the invitation-only alpha it began late last year to an open beta program.
The company also announced new features, distribution partners and supports [...]
Verizon Wireless has announced mobile banking for BlackBerry users.
The carrier introduced a mobile banking application that works on BlackBerry Curve 8330, BlackBerry Pearl 8130 and BlackBerry 8830 World Edition smartphones. The mobile banking application also is available on several Get It Now-capable phones, said the company.
The application allows customers to view account balances and transaction [...]
AT&T has mistakenly announced free Wi-Fi for iPhone users…again, says CNet’s Marguerite Reardon and Om Malik
For the second time in less than six months, AT&T mistakenly published a notice on its Web site indicating that Apple iPhone users would get free access to the wireless operator’s more than 17,000 Wi-Fi hot spots around the country.
News [...]
It’s all about the mobile phone. That’s the message to advertisers clamoring to reach teens, because that’s where they’re spending their time, reports C/Net. What’s more, teens wield an estimated $200 billion annually in discretionary spending.
Fuse, a marketing agency based in Vermont, talked in recent weeks to senior technology executives from companies such as Sony, [...]
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