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EA Mobile + Handago for Mobile Games

EA Mobile + Handago for Mobile GamesEA Mobile + Handago for Mobile Games. Handago announced a deal to distribute EA Mobile game titles including Madden NFL 08, The Sims 2, The Sims Bowling, MONOPOLY Here & Now, TETRIS, Bejeweled, and many more. They are now available on leading smartphone platforms including Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and Symbian UIQ through Handango’s web properties and Handango’s on-device client, InHand. Continue reading ‘EA Mobile + Handago for Mobile Games’

Joikusoft + FON for Mobile Wi-Fi HotSpot Software

Joikusoft + FON for Mobile Wi-Fi HotSpot SoftwareJoikusoft + FON for Mobile Wi-Fi HotSpot Software. Joikusoft, the mobile software development house, maker of the mobile Wi-Fi HotSpot software JoikuSpot, announces a collaboration with FON, the world’s largest WiFi community. FON and Joikusoft are releasing an exclusive version of Joikusoft’s mobile hotspot solution, named FonSpot. FonSpot turns a mobile phone into a Wi-Fi HotSpot, enabling any laptop, iPod Touch, internet tablet or other Wi-Fi device to connect to the Internet using any compatible mobile phone as a secure high speed Internet gateway. Continue reading ‘Joikusoft + FON for Mobile Wi-Fi HotSpot Software’

BankABillion by Obopay + Grameen Solutions Partnership

BankABillion by Obopay and Grameen Solutions PartnershipBankABillion by Obopay + Grameen Solutions Partnership. Obopay and Grameen Solutions, the company globally recognized for promoting economic and social development through information and communications technology, today announced a unique, first-of-its-kind alliance to use mobile technology to deliver banking services to a billion of the world’s poorest people by 2018. Continue reading ‘BankABillion by Obopay + Grameen Solutions Partnership’

LiMo Foundation adds 11 new members

LiMo Foundation adds 11 new membersLiMo Foundation adds 11 new members. We already heard that LiMo Foundation + Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum for Open Source, Recently, LiMo Foundation announced 11 new member companies. The addition of Cellon, Esmertec, Freescale Semiconductor, Longcheer Holdings, MIZI Research, Movial Corporation, PacketVideo Corporation (PV), SK Innoace, Telecom Italia, VirtualLogix Inc. and ZTE Corporation advances LiMo’s membership to more than 50 leaders from across the value system and provides further evidence that LiMo’s contributor-led governance model can uniquely rationalize the increasing complexity and sophistication of the mobile ecosystem. so LiMo Foundation Membership Now Exceeds 50 Companies. Continue reading ‘LiMo Foundation adds 11 new members’

iPhone 3G exclusively for AT&T until 2010?

iPhone 3G exclusively for ATT until 2010iPhone 3G exclusively for AT&T until 2010? The U.S. mobile phone market is rapidly becoming saturated — meaning everybody who wants a cellphone already has one, that means carriers have to do everything they can to steal subscribers from each other and also maintain a competitive edge against their rivals. Under the original iPhone contract, Apple had the right to offer Apple iPhone 3G to other carriers beginning in 2009, so AT&T wants to extend their exclusivity agreement into 2010. AT&T chief Randall Stephenson declined to discuss the contract, saying only that he is “very happy” with the arrangement.

(via usatoday)

Verizon Wireless services being offered by Qwest

Verizon Wireless services being offered by QwestVerizon Wireless services being offered by Qwest. Qwest announced that it is now offering Verizon Wireless services to all new residential and business customers in its residential service area. Through the five-year agent agreement announced earlier this year, new Qwest customers can now purchase Verizon Wireless products and services, including handsets, smartphones and BlackBerry devices, as well as high-speed wireless broadband services for e-mail, Internet access and multimedia services, such as mobile music and video. Continue reading ‘Verizon Wireless services being offered by Qwest’

SMobile Systems + Sybase iAnywhere for Mobile Enterprise Security

SMobile Systems + Sybase iAnywhere for Mobile Enterprise SecuritySMobile Systems + Sybase iAnywhere for Mobile Enterprise Security. SMobile Systems announced that it has partnered with Sybase iAnywhere, to deliver advanced mobile security solutions for Information Anywhere Suite’s Afaria mobile device management and security platform. Together, Sybase iAnywhere and SMobile will work to secure a broad range of smartphones from the latest intrusions and threats, leveraging SMobile’s antivirus, firewall and mobile spam protection. Continue reading ‘SMobile Systems + Sybase iAnywhere for Mobile Enterprise Security’

GyPsii + Samsung sign multi-year agreement

GyPsii + Samsung sign multi-year agreementGyPsii + Samsung sign multi-year agreement. You may have known the previous Garmin + GyPsii multi year global agreement, Now, the location-based mobile social network, GyPsii, announced that it has entered into a multi-year worldwide agreement with Samsung. Under the terms of agreement, GyPSii will provide technology, products, worldwide data center infrastructure, and GyPSii branding rights to Samsung, on a worldwide non-exclusive basis. GyPSii’s application will be initially be bundled on Samsung i900 Omnia and Samsung i780 Windows Mobile Professional smartphones as an embedded application. GyPsii can be accessed on the web at www.gypsii.com or a compatible phone’s mobile browser at www.gypsii.com/m.

Android + Symbian Merger just Speculation

Android Symbian Merger just SpeculationAndroid-Symbian Merger just Speculation. Following the previous rumor about Symbian + Android Collaboration? Officials from Symbian, Nokia, and Google all dismissed the prediction — contained most recently in a report released yesterday by mobile analysis firm J. Gold Associates — as pure speculation.

Dismissing it as a “rumor,” a Nokia spokesperson declined to comment on the report. Symbian officials were unavailable but have dismissed such talk in private.

“We don’t comment on market rumors or speculations,” said a Google spokesperson.

“There is no substantive basis to this,” said mobile analyst Carmi Levy, senior VP for strategic consulting at AR Communications. “Nokia was quite adamant last November when it first shrugged off suggestions of a possible merger with Android.”

(via informationweek)

SendMe Mobile + Warner Music Group for Integrated Mobile Media Initiative

SendMe Mobile + Warner Music Group for Integrated Mobile Media InitiativeSendMe Mobile + Warner Music Group for Integrated Mobile Media Initiative. SendMe Mobile, the premier mobile media company, announced an agreement with Warner Music Group to offer content from WMG’s world renowned roster of artists through SendMe’s mobile media brands, including SendMeMobile.com and its mobile sweepstakes site SoLow.com. Together, SendMe and WMG are creating a series of custom premium SMS subscription products that will enable fans to connect with their favorite artists directly over multiple platforms. Continue reading ‘SendMe Mobile + Warner Music Group for Integrated Mobile Media Initiative’