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I wrote a post the other day about how (apparently) the BBC were none too amused that Apple isn’t willing to budge in terms of licensing FairPlay DRM. The context of the post was that the BBC iPlayer team, on the back of uproarious success in the last 12 months, were seeking to add download [...]
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has recently announced Instant Mobilizer, a new service created to help small and medium businesses reach their customers quickly and affordably through the mobile web. Without any need for technical knowledge or development efforts, Instant Mobilizer automatically converts a small business’s existing...
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According to the latest study by Juniper Research, there will be over 400 million mobile subscribers worldwide that will use their mobile phones for ticketing by 2013. The report found that the leading sector will be transport, followed by entertainment and then sporting events. The Far East and China...
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Like any busy industrialised society, the people of Japan are prone to what is rather charmingly called ‘the heart flu’ - Depression.
In an attempt to break down mental health taboos and to give people a taste of possible therapies, Keio University professors have launched a psychotherapy...
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Chalk up another airline to add to Aircell’s growing list of customers expected to offer in-flight WiFi internet connectivity. Virgin America, voted “Best Domestic Airline” in Condé Nast Traveler’s 2008 Readers’ Choice Awards, has announced that it will be rolling out Aircell’s GoGo in-flight...
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Following hot on the heels of the news that BA are offering Mobile InterWeb users check-in facilities, American Airlines passengers will be able to get boarding passes on their Mobile devices at some airports soon. Apparently passengers leaving on domestic flights from Chicago’s O’Hare International...
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Amobee Media Systems and Qualcomm have announced that they are partnering to enable Ads in mobile widgets, distributed by Qualcomm’s Plaza platform. Given the growth in popularity of widgets, this is potentially quite an impactful event for the Mobile Internet. As we know, widget are (typically...
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Truphone has recently launched a beta of its mobile internet telephony service, Truphone Anywhere, for BlackBerry smartphones. The service works in 33 countries worldwide and it’s designed to save BlackBerry users’ money on international calls. The service works alongside domestic service...
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If you’re relying on to keep you calendar in sync with GCal, you may want to use their service for contact and task synchronization as well. Until now, in order to manage your contacts and tasks, you needed to login to their website and modify task and calendar entries from there. Luckily, GooSync...
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British Airways has rolled out check-in via your Mobile for those people with InterWeb access. The serivce apparently allows users to get up-to-date flight arrival/departure info, as well as select seats, and check yo’self in within 24 hrs of departure. This leads on nicely from the iPhone app...
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Vringo has announced an agreement with Turkish mobile operator Avea to provide Turkey’s first video ringtone service. Touted as the world’s first carrier-led video ringtone subscription service, it allows Avea’s subscribers to grab Vringo’s video ringtone application and from...
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DataViz is out with the latest version of their Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync client, RoadSync 4.0. This version is the first Exchange ActiveSync solution to richly display HTML formatted e-mails on all Symbian S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 and Feature Pack 2 mobile devices. In addition, new features...