Mpowerplayer this week announced the launch of Mplayit.com, a new Web portal catering to online consumers interested in finding out more about mobile games. Mplayit features free mobile game demos, including popular titles such as Spore and Guitar Hero, along with the ability to learn about games and publishers, read reviews, purchase games and to add and share the Mplayit widget anywhere online. ...
Blyk, the UK-based mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) whose revenues are based entirely on advertising has raised EUR 40 million (USD 51 million), a big funding round for any company . Blyk provides free mobile calls to 200,000 British 16-24 year old customers in exchange for them receiving advertising messages, a membership it reached much faster than expected. Its response rates of 25 per ce...
A new voice-recognition search tool for the iPhone has problems understanding British accents, leading to some bizarre answers to spoken queries, a newspaper report and users said Wednesday. The free application, which allows iPhone owners to use the Google search engine with their voice, mistook the word “iPhone” variously for “sex,” “Einstein” and “kitch...
Nokia has just released Mobile Web Server 1.5 beta for Symbian S60 smartphones, an application that allows users to access (and manage) their phones via the WWW, from a desktop browser. Like many of Nokia’s applications and services, Mobile Web Server is offered free of any charge. Among the new things that the 1.5 beta version of
Want to learn something new? Have an iPhone/iPod Touch? You’ll love Howcast’s newly unveiled app. It’s free and it features tons of useful and semi-useful how-to videos from Howcast Media’s library. From on-the-spot dating and fashion tips to recipes and travel advice, Howcast for iPhone puts the power of knowledge in the hands of consumers… Aided by
After becoming the single best weather application for Symbian-based smartphones, Paragon Software decided it’s about time to reach wider audience, hence they launched their Handy Weather app for Java-enabled feature phones. Here are some of the reasons/features why people buy Handy Weather, despite the fact they can get free weather forecast from a number of other
Research in Motion has anounced the Breaking New Ground: Fall ‘08 BlackBerry Technical Seminar. This online event will be held Wednesday, Dec. 3rd from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST and is free to attend. This free online event gives you the opportunity to build your BlackBerry solution administrator and developer knowledge without ever leaving your
We’ve talked plenty about Gmail and BlackBerry, but what about some other free email services? Once upon a time, you had to pay for a premium service to sync up your Yahoo! Mail, but those days are gone. Now you can sync this your @yahoo.com address with your BlackBerry just as seamlessly as your Gmail. Today we’ll walk you through the steps. BIS users ahoy! I’m going to take thi...
