Nokia recognizes first 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series Developers [Wed Aug 13, 04:17PM]

Nokia today extended recognition to the initial group of exceptional mobile application developers in its 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series program, designed to provide select small- and mid-sized developers with key business and market support and facilitate access for cutting-edge applications and services to the largest mobile device market in the world today.

The first eight developers recognized in the 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series cleared multiple selection hurdles over the course of the past year as part of the selection process, which included internal Nokia reviews and the screening of application features and functionality by consumer focus groups around the world.... read on

Dutch iPhone plan to expensive for 'heavy users' [Thu Jul 3, 09:17PM]

Sounds strange but if you take a closer look at the plans T-Mobile is selling with the iPhone in the Netherlands you'd come to the same conclusion.

The most expensive plan costs 64,95 Euros a month. With this plan you'll get 500 minutes, 500 text messages and unlimited data usage. Every minute that you use beyond the 500 minute limit will be charged at 25 cts per minute or Text message.

Wel, for most people the 500 minute plan will be (more than) sufficient but I know a lot of private and business users that spend way more than 500 minutes per month on their cell phone.... read on

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Dutch mobile market revenues decline 0.9% in Q1 [Fri Jun 6, 07:59AM]

PRESS RELEASE - In the first quarter of 2008, the Dutch mobile industry generated EUR 1.53 billion in revenues, down 0.9 percent from the same period last year and down 1.6 percent from the fourth quarter.

The drop in revenues was limited thanks to the continued strong growth in messaging and data services. However, revenues from voice services declined both compared to the fourth quarter (3.7%) and to the same period last year (6.2%). ... read on

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Mobile ads on the iPhone [Wed Apr 23, 08:31PM]

Mobile marketing is booming. This can be asserted from figures by leading research firms such as Forrester. Marvellous Mobile estimates that Google processes between 150.000 and 200.000 mobile search queries a day, in The Netherlands alone.

Many mobile phone providers have integrated Google’s search on their portal. From the data retrieved by these providers, a strong growth of the mobile market can be inferred. Additionally, many new phones have Google’s Mobile search as an integrated feature, which makes a higher usage estimate probable. ... read on

ETSI decision adds a key piece to the Mobile NFC jigsaw puzzle [Fri Feb 29, 12:58PM]

The GSMA is pleased that the European Telecommunications Standards Institute has adopted the technical standards governing Mobile Near Field Communications (NFC) services supported by the Association and its members.

The completion of the core of the technical standards removes a potential obstacle, enabling mobile operators to prepare for the rollout of contactless payment services and other applications that make use of this flexible short-range radio technology.... read on

Paragon Software Group Announces Handy Blacklist 3.0 [Thu Feb 28, 05:01PM]

Paragon Software Group (Epocware division) is proud to announce Handy Blacklist 3.0 for S60 3rd Edition devices on Symbian OS. Handy Blacklist 3.0 protects mobile users’ privacy by blocking unsolicited callers, saving time on unnecessary responses and offering peace of mind.

The program enables effortless privacy protection for smartphone users by blocking unwanted calls while adding senders’ phone numbers to the “black list,” either permanently or for a set period of time.... read on

Nokia and University of Cambridge launch the Morph - a nanotechnology concept device [Mon Feb 25, 10:25AM]

Morph, a joint nanotechnology concept, developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the University of Cambridge (UK) - was launched today alongside the "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibition, on view from February 24 to May 12, 2008, at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Morph features in both the exhibition catalog and on MoMA's official website.
 
Morph is a concept that demonstrates how future mobile devices might be stretchable and flexible, allowing the user to transform their mobile device into radically different shapes.... read on

2.2 million cars in Europe have a telematics device [Sat Feb 23, 02:39PM]

According to a new research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, 2.2 million passenger cars in Europe had an on-board telematics device at the end of 2007.

Stolen vehicle tracking is the main application, followed by automatic emergency call, driver assistance and motor insurance telematics. “After many years of slow adoption, we now see that the market is entering a growth phase”, said Tobias Ryberg, senior analyst, Berg Insight.... read on

China Mobile to trial LTE [Fri Feb 22, 09:32PM]

China Mobile announced yesterday it is to join Vodafone and Verizon Wireless in the trials of LTE technology.

The three-way operator trials will focus on the testing of LTE in both Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) paired spectrum, and Time Division Duplex (TDD) unpaired spectrum.

According to a statement, China Mobile points to its interest in trialling TD-LTE “as an evolution of current TDSCDMA technology to enable the exploitation of unpaired spectrum globally" together with LTE-FDD.

ETSI: Economics driving LTE standards [Wed Feb 20, 02:20PM]

Economic considerations are as important to the LTE standards process as the focus on taking mobile broadband performance to new heights, Adrian Scrase, Vice President, International Partnership Projects, ETSI, told Congress delegates Tuesday.

Scrase outlined how the ability for existing operators to reuse cell sites and infrastructure are critical elements of the design criteria that are guiding the standards process.

Yahoo! aims to improve mobile comms [Tue Feb 19, 02:19PM]

Having to deal with numerous messaging and social networking applications might be made easier if Yahoo!’s new software, oneConnect, lives up to expectations.

Presenting its capabilities at Wednesday’s keynote session, Marco Boerries, Head of Connect Life at Yahoo!, confidently stated that oneConnect could reinvent how we use mobile communications.

Industry preps pilot carrier ENUM service [Mon Feb 18, 09:18PM]

Bharti Airtel, mobilkom austria, Telekom Austria and Telenor are teaming with the GSMA and NeuStar to pilot a service that aims to simplify the transmission of instant messages, MMS, emails, video and other communications based on IP between mobile phones, and more radically, between mobile and fixed-line phones.

Mixed mobile search week for Google [Mon Feb 18, 10:17AM]

Google this week lost two mobile search deals but announced a significant deal with Nokia.

On Tuesday Google’s first major European partner, T-Mobile, dropped the company in favour of Yahoo!.

Media reports suggest Google will lose more than 90 million mobile users of its search engine in one swoop.

Sarin calls for simplification [Sun Feb 17, 12:08PM]

Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin yesterday used the opening Congress keynote session to call upon the mobile industry to simplify its future development and continue to adopt common standards.

A central theme of his discussion focused on whether WiMAX should become part of LTE. "Perhaps WiMAX could become involved with the TDD aspect of LTE. More importantly, we don’t want duel standards; this has proved unproductive in the past, and we want to encourage the inclusion or merging of WiMAX into LTE," he said.

Mobile agenda goes green [Sat Feb 16, 06:07PM]

Wang Jianzhou, Chairman and CEO of China Mobile, used Tuesday’s keynote session to outline plans to become a greener company.

Chief among a number of initiatives was how the company could reduce its electricity usage that was over 7.5 billion kWh for 2007.... read on