Mobile News Archive
How Soon Will Mobile Search Catch Up With PC?
Monday, June 1st, 2009When search services were first started on mobile phones, they were very basic, almost rudimentary in nature. However things have changed with emerging technology, and now search patterns on the latest mobile handsets are getting closer to those on PC’s. (more…)
Vodafone’s New Mobile Internet Services
Thursday, May 28th, 2009Mobile service provider Vodafone has recently announced a lot of interesting new services that will encourage the growth of new generation mobile Internet applications. This will be made possible by providing service developers with a single access point to Vodafone’s customers worldwide. (more…)
China Telecom Selects mInfo For Mobile Search
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009China Telecom was recently on the look out for a partner to provide search solutions to their subscribers. They have now announced that they have chosen Shanghai-based company, mInfo, as their partner to provide mobile search services to users all over China. (more…)
Mobile And Social Network Advertising Predicted To Grow
Thursday, April 30th, 2009According to the results of recent studies conducted by Forrester Research, mobile advertising and social network advertising are set to grow at a phenomenal rate in the USA. (more…)
Yahoo! Tops Mobile Search Site Benchmark
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009Growth in mobile Internet access and the number of users perform search operations on their mobile phones has prompted dotMobi and Gomez Inc. to create the world’s first Mobile Web Benchmark Series, to rank the leading mobile sites with regards to their efficiency for customer operations. (more…)
Mobile Phones Turn Into Bank Accounts In Africa
Thursday, March 26th, 2009As shocking as it may sound, mobile phones are far more common in Africa than bank accounts or other financial services. In an attempt to make banking services more accessible, MTN, the South African mobile operator is launching a banking service for its customers. (more…)
Google Voice Launches Attack On Comms Market
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009Google has recently announced the availability of a new voice application that will help users unite their voice communications. The service, called Google Voice, is built on GrandCentral technology that Google acquired back in July 2007. (more…)
Innovative Uses Of The iPhone - Cheating
Friday, February 20th, 2009The latest misuse of technology to have been discovered seems to be an iPhone and iPod Touch application that allows blackjack players to count cards. (more…)
Skype On More Mobile Handsets
Thursday, February 19th, 2009Only recently, there had been a great deal of speculation, about whether eBay was interested in selling their VoIP service, Skype. These stories have been put to rest for now with eBay announcing a partnership between Skype and the largest mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia. (more…)
Google Unveiling A Social Agenda For Mobile?
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009Last week saw Google launch two very social applications for mobile handsets. The first, Latitude, allows users to see where their friends are on a mobile map. The latest release, My Tracks, allows users to share where they have been. (more…)
Google Launches AdSense For Mobile Search
Friday, February 13th, 2009Google has started an AdSense for Mobile Search service to lure more mobile network operators and mobile website owners. (more…)
Microsoft Repackages QR Codes, Calls Them Tags
Thursday, February 12th, 2009Microsoft has launched a “new” technology in beta, with the exact same features and function as QR Codes - it allows mobile users to reach Internet websites without having to type out a URL. They are calling them ‘Tags’. (more…)
Google Latitude Ushers New Era In Mobile Social Activity
Friday, February 6th, 2009Google Latitude, the latest service from the UK’s favourite brand, was launched this week. Users can find out where their friends and contacts are and can send and receive status messages via their mobile handsets. (more…)
Live Search On Dell PCs And Verizon Mobile Phones
Monday, January 12th, 2009During his keynote address at the International Consumer Electronics Show 2009 last week, Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, made some exciting new announcements about Microsoft Live Search. To begin with, Ballmer said that Microsoft has entered into a 3-year agreement with Dell. (more…)
Google Blends Mobile Ads In Organic Results
Thursday, January 8th, 2009While Google has always been very particular about differentiating ads from organic search results by placing ads only at the side of the search results page or in clearly marked slots at the top of the page, the Google Operating System blog recently found Google Mobile Search displaying short text ads in the middle of the search results page. (more…)
Mozilla Launches Improved Mobile Browser
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009For quite some time now, Mozilla has been struggling to introduce their own mobile browser. Their first offering Minimo, was wiped out and then reintroduced later as Fennec in the beginning of 2008. Even this version was not very well received as there was great difficulty in downloading it on mobile. (more…)
Google Asks For Product Ideas
Friday, January 2nd, 2009In their effort to gauge and fulfill the needs of their users, Google has launched a new website for ‘Product Ideas’ and a blog to support it. (more…)
Regular AdWords Ads Now On iPhone And G1
Monday, December 15th, 2008Google AdWords has recently started allowing advertisers to display their regular desktop text and image ads on the iPhone, G1, T-mobile and other mobiles with full (HTML) Internet Browsers. (more…)
Virgin Mobile Launches Connect And Mobile Lounge
Friday, December 12th, 2008In a bid to encourage their users to access social networks through their handsets, Virgin Mobile U.S.A. has recently announced two new services.
The two services, named ‘Connect’ and ‘Mobile Lounge’, will be available to users at no extra cost. They will only be required to pay the usual internet access charges. (more…)
Nokia To Launch Visual Search
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008At a recent briefing held at their research center in Palo Alto, Nokia has announced that they would shortly be launching a visual search service called ‘Point & Find’. (more…)
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