July 23, 2006
Widsets
Widsets -- Free Your Mobile.
Use web services straight from your cell phone. Make your own widgets. Promote your widgets on your website. Create mobile access to your own service. WidSets is all about getting web content on the go through widgets, tiny-apps that bring services and information you normally use on the web, to your mobile phone.
Posted by richard ting at July 23, 2006, 03:12 PM
July 18, 2006
Jaiku
From the site:
Jaiku is a phone book that displays the real-time presence and location of your contacts.
We invented the term ‘rich presence’ to describe the many relevant things a phone knows about you. Rich presence on Jaiku includes an IM-style away line, your phone profile (ring volume, vibrate), location (country, city/region, neigborhood), Bluetooth devices around, upcoming calendar events, and the duration how long your phone has been idle.
You can view your contacts’ rich presence on jaiku.com, and once you have signed up, you can download a free client application for Nokia Series 60 Second Edition phones. We’ve also created some badges that let you display your rich presence on your blog.
Posted by richard ting at July 18, 2006, 11:11 AM
July 13, 2006
Shopping by Phone, on the Move
The magazine, Lucky, will offer readers of its September issue a chance to send text messages from their mobile phones to buy merchandise from 18 marketers and retailers, which include Avon, Liz Claiborne, Estée Lauder, L'Oréal, Target and Unilever. The program, called "Live Buy It," uses a service from the PayPal unit of eBay known as PayPal Mobile Text2Buy.
Read more.
Posted by richard ting at July 13, 2006, 08:13 PM
Nokia Collaborates with CSM to Design the Future of Mobile
Nokia revealed the result of its recent collaboration with Central Saint Martins (CSM) College of Art and Design at the Future of Mobile Design exhibition.
For six months 25 Industrial Design MA students from London's CSM College of Art and Design have been working to a broad brief set by Nokia's design team to create concepts for a premium but mass market mobile communications device capable of providing 4 or 5G multimedia services up to the year 2015.
Read more about it on Dexigner.
Posted by richard ting at July 13, 2006, 08:09 PM
July 12, 2006
Obopay, Amp'd Partner to Bring Comprehensive Mobile Payment Service to All Amp'd Subcribers
Partnership Signals Accelerating Deployment by U.S. Carriers of Mobile Commerce Options
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Obopay, which introduced the first comprehensive mobile payment service in the U.S., today announced that it has entered into an extensive partnership with Amp'd Mobile, the pioneer of fully integrated mobile entertainment. The deal marks a milestone in the adoption and deployment of mobile payment systems in the U.S.
The two companies said they will offer the new mobile payment service, Obopay-Amp'd to Amp'd Mobile subscribers in the coming months. Amp'd Mobile will promote the service to all Amp'd subscribers, and in addition, the two companies agreed to an aggressive joint promotion on university campuses across the country this fall.
"Obopay will give our subscribers a mobile payment service that combines an intuitive user experience with real time ability to access and spend money," said Mike McSherry, SVP of Emerging Technologies at Amp'd Mobile. "Our subscribers nationwide will now have the opportunity to revolutionize the way they handle their finances, managing their entire account on their phone and exchanging money with friends instantly through their mobile device. It's the perfect service for our customer's mobile centric lifestyle."
Posted by richard ting at July 12, 2006, 03:15 PM
July 11, 2006
mobile17
This is a great free service. Works with 94% of popular, every-day mobile phones with U.S. and International support. Try it out. Turn your music and pictures into custom ringtones and graphics.
Posted by richard ting at July 11, 2006, 02:09 PM
July 05, 2006
Adidas Global World Cup Mobile Portal
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You all have seen it plastered across TV sets during non-stop World Cup action over the last few weeks. It's the call to action for users to text "adidas" to "88188" to receive their link into the Adidas global World Cup mobile portal. It's possibly the most comprehensive and international mobile site that I've ever used and it's a small glimpse into where the mobile space will be heading in the next few months. The site comes completes with ringtones, wallpapers, videos, commercials, product information, goal alerts, send to a friend functionality, and rich graphic intensive pages. I'm also sure enough that there's a ton of handset detection and site scaling going on behind the scenes to deliver up a seamless experience for the user. Also, don't forget the partnerships with Microsoft Xbox, MTV, and T-Mobile.
Such content is traditionally "paid for" content, but Adidas is giving it away for free and as a result sending a message to the marketplace that good free valuable mobile content will pave the way for customer brand loyalty.
The mobile portal was created by MINICK and Inside Ltd. and has launched in the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, China and the US.
