Users with T-Mobile and Orange networks – now combined and renamed Everything Everywhere – can now officially use both networks to make and receive calls from today. Orange customers are now able to make calls and send texts on the T-Mobile network and T-Mobile customers are able to do the same using the Orange network. …
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Lufthansa iPhone app wins Smaato mobile ads award
Mobile ad optimiser and mobile advertising company, Smaato has announced the winners of it’s Smaato Mobile Advertising Award 2010. The overall winner of the awards is Clanmo for their Lufthansa iPhone App. Although the Clanmo app won in the branded app category it’s not actually an app at all. The app is actually HTML cunningly…
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IT developers ditch coding for the PC in favour of mobile
An IBM survey of IT professionals predict that mobile and cloud computing will emerge as the most in-demand platforms for software application development and IT delivery over the next five years. The 2010 IBM Tech Trends Survey, conducted online by IBM developerWorks, found that more than half of all IT professionals – 55% — expect…
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Gadget of the week – Acer C20 PICO projector
The projector that you can fit in your pocket. As we said last week with the BlackBerry Presenter you can’t call yourself a true mobile roadwarrior, if every time you want to do a presentation you need to get out your laptop. Equally how truly mobile are you, if can’t fit your entire array of…
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UK mobile ad market up by 25% in Q3
BuzzCity, the global mobile media advertising company, has compiled it’s advertising results over the last three months to reveal Mobile advertising is looking incredibly healthy. Over the three month period from July – September worldwide mobile advertising is up by 17%, and it’s growing fast. A total of 54 markets – of the 200 Buzzcity…
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Concept of the week – Twitter Concierge
@PremierInn where’s the best place to plug in my iPad? Cheap and cheerful hotel chain Premier Inn has announced it will be introducing a Twitter-based ‘virtual’ concierge service for its guests. From today and for every Friday in October, Premier Inn guests will be able to Twitter requests via their mobile to a virtual Twitter…
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Keep taking the Tablets
High Street retailer Dixons have launched two own-brand tablets aimed at the mass market. Dixons has announced it will be selling two own-brand tablets, priced at pocket money prices. The tablets launched under the Dixons Advent brand name, include the cheap as chips Advent Vega, a 7″ Android tablet, and the more expensive – but…
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Nations divided by a common mobile
In the Canterville Ghost, Oscar Wilde wrote: ‘We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language’. We know there are language differences and cultural differences, but are there differences in the way we use mobiles? And how do we differ in our usage from Japan and other parts of Europe? Handily…
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MMA Award winners full list
The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) has announced it’s full list of winners and finalists for 2010. The full 2010 MMA Global Awards finalists, by category are Europe Middle East and Africa Best Use of Mobile Marketing – Branding • Aerodeon for Ruffles Goller Cepte Campaign • Yodel Digital Ltd. for Jobsite 2010 mobile preroll •…
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Windows Phone 7 developers won’t get sales income until Feb 2011
Microsoft has published the developer timeline for Windows Phone 7 and it looks about as complete as Delhi’s attempt at the Commonwealth Games. And even more worrying is that Microsoft don’t expect to be able to make a payment for sales of apps until February 2011. On the official Microsoft Windows 7 Phone developer blog…
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HP to launch WebOS phones in early 2011
Reuters news agency has a report that Hewlett-Packard (HP) will introduce smartphones in early 2011 using webOS HP acquired Palm earlier this year for $1.2 billion (£754 million) and has always maintained that they would continue to support the OS. HP has had Windows based smartphones for some years and although the phones have been…
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Android makes huge gains in US Smartphone market
comScore’s August mobile figures are out and US smartphone ownership is up by a massive 14%, but it’s not great news for RIM or Apple. Following yesterdays Nielsen results today we have comScores August results and it confirms the decline in popularity of the BlackBerry and the rise of Android. The results include the three…
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Intel to release tool to port iPhone apps to other platforms?
According to a report on MacWorld Intel is developing a tool that will make it easier for developers to port iPhone applications to Intel-based smartphones, tablets and other devices The tool will identify changes that need to be made in an iPhone application, making it easier to convert the application to run on Intel-based hardware,…
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Ad network Millenial Media adds new features for Android and iOS
Millennial Media has updated its software developer kits for Android and iOS (Android SDK 3.6.1, iPhone SDK 4.0.4, iPad SDK 4.0.4and respectively), improving experience and performance and adding support for additional advertising and marketing features such as video interstitials, and tailored ads. Here’s a quick feature run down for each mobile OS: Android SDK 3.6.1…
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More than 2 million Europeans bet via mobile
More than 2 million sports book customers in Europe now using the mobile to place their bets. A new report from analysts Juniper Research shows that mobile betting accounted for more than 70% of total global mobile gambling wagers in 2009, with the vast majority coming from the well-established iPAT service in Japan. Additionally consumer…
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iPhone to get refit for CDMA
According to the Wall Street Journal Apple are working on a CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) version of the iPhone for US network Verizon. Earlier in the week we had predictions from many Apple watchers and analysts on Apple’s Q4 results and as part of that we said that one of the watchers was, predicting…
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Android stengthens it’s position in the US smartphone market
Android now has first place in the US smartphone market, with both Apple and RIM fighting hard for second place. According to August data from Nielsen Company, Android is now the most popular operating system among people who bought a smartphone in the past six months, while Blackberry RIM and Apple iOS are in a…
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Adobe Indesign gets a Kindle plugin
Amazon have launched a Kindle plugin for developers using Adobe InDesign. Amazon has launched a free to download Beta Version of Kindle Plugin for Adobe InDesign, The new tool allows content publishers to more easily make titles available for Kindle by converting Adobe InDesign files directly into Kindle books. “Our aim is to make it…
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Amazon raises the Kindle royalty rate in the UK
UK authors and publishers can now get the full 70% royalty rate from ebooks sold via Amazon’s self-service Kindle Digital Text Platform. Amazon has introduced a new ebook royalty rate for the UK of 70%. Up until now publishers in the UK were only elligible to a 35% royalty – YES 35% – for sales…
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Users want mobile site not apps
A study by network Orange has found that “european” mobile users prefer mobile websites to apps. The Orange “Mobile Exposure 2010”, annual independent study, measures how mobile media users are engaging with mobile content and the mobile internet. The research, covers mobile users – including iPhone users – in just the UK, France, Spain and Poland rather than the…