Mobile Services
Happy Friday! James here from mjelly.com with another Mobile 2.0 Service of the Week - this time we are going to look at HeySan - which hardly anyone knows about in the mobile industry but is getting pretty big and can teach us a lot about how to build a mobile web service with massive [...]
Continue ReadingSo I’m back to school this week; and during my free lessons, I often find myself aimlessly wandering around. I probably shouldn’t be, as I have mountains of work to do, but it’s certainly more fun.
But it turns out my aimless journeys around my over-crowded school can come in handy… And I came across a [...]
James from mjelly here - what an exciting week it’s been with elections in the US, a massive interest rate cut in the UK and the mobile 2.0 conference going on in San Fransisco. To end the week on a high we’ve got another Mobile 2.0 service for you here at Mobile Industry Review. This [...]
Continue ReadingHi it’s James from mjelly.com, welcome to another “Mobile 2.0 Service of the Week” here at Mobile Industry Review. So far we’ve looked at three different mobile 2.0 sites or applications Taptu, Peperonity.com and Mig33 - this week its the turn of the mobile social network Mocospace.
What is it?
Mocospace is a mobile social network with [...]
I love it when I see mobile phones being put to good use, and I also love it when say for important issues, mobile phones are being utilised to capture a target audience in the best sense and way possible.
I was browsing around my daily choice of news reads, when I came across an article [...]
This is James from mjelly touching down here at Mobile Industry Review for another “Mobile 2.0 Service of the Week”. So far we’ve looked a two mobile web services - the mobile community Peperonity and the mobile search service Tatpu. This week we are moving to APPLICATIONS with a look at Mig 33.
What is it?
Mig33 [...]
Is just the question I’m asking!
You see, the other day I was sitting in the School Library working hard on a piece of History work, when a class came in and began working on the available computers. The class was a mixture of boys and girls who were thirteen/fourteen years young.
A group of these boys, [...]
Mobile 2.0 Service of the Week #2 - Taptu
Hello hello it’s James from mjelly again … last Friday we kicked off a new feature for Mobile Industry Review - highlighting a different Mobile 2.0 site or app each week, to give a taste of some of the great next generation mobile stuff out there.
The first [...]
Nokia’s much talked about digital music site, Nokia Music Store has been officially launched in Spain today allowing all the spanish customers to enjoy portable music whenever they wish to.
The Nokia Music Store currently boats a wide catalogue of over 4 million songs, with tracks from record labels and indie artists alike. The spanish version [...]
I’ve been playing with LloydsTSB’s wickedly good mobile banking service. On a Samsung handset, no less.
The just released it today so if you’re a LloydsTSB customer, you’ll be able to keep track of your bank account and transfer money between accounts using their dedicated mobile application.
I’ll have more details and some screenshots shortly. [...]
Sybase 365, the subsidiary of Sybase, Inc, the global leader in mobile messaging services today announced its global multimedia messaging exchange system at CTIA in California, USA. Christened MMX 365, the system is designed to nullify operator and country borders so that globally, subscribers can enjoy seamless delivery of MMSs.Â
Marty Beard, Sybase 365’s President, says:
Today, [...]
We’ve just been notified that MobiTween, the leading developer and publisher of flash based games have been acquired by Zed, the leading mobile content firm globally, w.r.t revenue and geographical presence.
MobiTween has been working with the world’s leading mobile operators, handset manufacturers, media companies and third party developers - developing and publishing mobile games using [...]
Vodafone have announced their first pre-pay deal in over two years. Luckily for us pre-pay consumers out there, it sounds like a bloody good offer too.
For just ten pounds per month, users will be entitled to unlimited free evening and weekend texts. Obviously this will be in-accordance to a Fair Use Policy of some nature, [...]
It has been reported that Comtel, an Australian telecom firm is to launch SMSpup: Mobile, an MNVO offering subsidised tariffs in return for adverts.
Unlike Blyk the service is not completely free, and that they will receive around a 65% discount on pre-paid tariffs.
Similar to Blyk customers who “opt-in” will receive MMS and SMS messages complete [...]
I was just browsing around the internet looking for something to do with the iPhone. I’ll admit, for the most part I wasn’t impressed until I came across Mobiscope.
I’m not a security conscious person, and nor am I one to want to set up a webcam with it’s own I.P address so I can follow [...]
I was browsing the World Wide Web, when I came across Ubik; a free mobile site creator. Ubik offers free site hosting, and sub-domains!
I thought I would investigate the service, as a keen web-builder myself; I’m always intrigued to see what there is to offer, and today I have been pleasantly surprised.
In all it took [...]
Tomorrow, it’s GCSE results day. This means two things – feeling extremely sick, and using my mobile phone a lot!
I haven’t really thought about the communications side of tomorrow much, seeing as I’m more worried about everything else. However, as Ewan pointed out to me tomorrow morning I will spending more time than I have [...]
When Ewan informed me of a music downloading service for £1.99 a week, that was actually good, I honestly thought he was pulling my leg. It was either that, or the service was seriously flawed.
I was wrong.
MusicStation is quite simply, pretty amazing. What I thought really couldn’t work, or ever be good (especially on a [...]
Lastminute.com’s Labs team have today announced the launch of their first mobile application FoneFood - an impressive European-wide multi-lingual restaurant table reservation service. The best apps explain themselves so…
Awesomely simple the application takes your location and food preference, displays a list and Google map of options that are bookable. Users can then book and receive [...]
Continue ReadingI’m a little frustrated by some of the technology coming out of the Olympics.
I’ve loved watching Phelps’ gold rush, Cooke’s cycling gold was equally amazing to witness and, being a rowing nut, I’ve not moved from the TV whilst these events are on. But, some of the interactive services suck royally.
Aside from screaming at the [...]
I was just browsing the Carphone Warehouse site, and noticed the “Back to School” offers they have. This however wasn’t what I was interested in; it was something called SOS Messaging.
SOS messaging according to the CPH website is:
“Feeling in danger? Simply press the volume key 4 times on your phone to
discreetly alert your parents that [...]
Get out the black arm bands - it looks like rumours of the death of 2G really haven’t been exaggerated. Japanese giant NTT DoCoMo has announced its preparing to kill off its second generation network and will now officially stop taking subscriptions for its 2G mova service from this November.
And, as a sweetener for anyone [...]
This week has seen the launch of two new music services from operators: Vodafone Music from Vodafone and My Play from O2.
Vodafone’s music service will have single track downloads at 99p a go, albums for £7.99, has a try before you buy option and is available on 11 handsets. O2 is pitching its offering as [...]
It’s odd to think about your own mortality but a recent story has got me doing just that. And I’ve come to the conclusion that should there be an earthquake and I was trapped under the building my mobile would leave me to die a slow agonising death. Its battery is simply not strong enough.
Have [...]
I want WiFi, like right now.
I’m sitting here testing out a Nokia E66 (expect the review later this week), and I’m looking at the Maps function, and amusing myself at having Facebook on my phone. And I’m angry, at two things; that poor excuse of “speed”, and the ridiculousness of the cost.
I would have used [...]