ClairMail, Inc., the leader in 2-way mobile customer interaction, was selected by the oldest bank in California, Bank of Stockton, to provide mobile banking services. Bank of Stockton is seen as the leader in banking technology innovation, thus it makes sense for it to partner with a mobile service provider with a cutting edge, [...]
Clear Channel Communications Inc. announced a new free mobile offering enabling listeners to make song requests, get real-time traffic reports, and access other information by sending a text-message to Clear Channel’s radio stations.
The new free mobile program follows the payed program ($2.99 per month) launched in September jointly with Cingular Wireless. The payed program [...]
Yahoo! has broadened the mobile search service, ONESearch, to users in Europe and Canada, with the goal of providing locally relevant results.
The search was initially introduced to US customers in March 2007, now the service will be available in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK.
The ONESearch service in addition to the search feature [...]
Nokia is in the forefront of a new initiative to turn mobile phones into wallets. The goal of the mobile wallet plan is to create technology, which will allow users to wave their phone as a wallet or access card over a wireless reader with capability to enter an identification PIN into the phone.
“After [...]
Microsoft Corp. late Wednesday announced a mobile Web browser aimed at making surfing the Internet on wireless devices as convenient and feature-rich as browsing on a PC.
Code-named Deepfish, is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Microsoft will close access to Deepfish once downloads reach a “magic†number.
Microsoft unveiled Deepfish at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology [...]
LG Electronics and Google announced a global collaboration to pre-install Google’s services on millions of LG mobile phones. The new partnership will make searching for information, finding locations, updating blogs, and managing email available to the users on the move.
“Building on our efforts to set new standards for wireless handsets, we are excited to partner [...]
Sprint Nextel is following Apple’s foot steps by lowering the price of music downloads on its wireless Sprint Music Store to 99 cents.
Up to this point Sprint’s customers downloaded over 15 million songs paying $2.50 per song. Sprint’s music catalog consists of 1.4 million songs and all songs are sold at the same price. [...]
iSkoot, a start-up based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, secured $7 million in Series B financing for its software for mobile Skype calling.
In recent months, iSkoot has entered into a co-marketing and development partnership with Skype, and landed its first mobile carrier for its Skype-to-mobile service. iSkoot targeted its PC-to-mobile plug-in at Skype’s PC-based VoIP service. [...]
T-Mobile International is planning to extend the push e-mail service to the consumer market. This initiative follows a successful rollout of the service to its enterprise customers. T-Mobile has big plans to take the consumer market by a storm, launching a number of new “community” services.
“We plan a new service that will [...]
Today, Google extended its Google Mobile Maps services by releasing a new version of the software to support devices running Windows Mobile 2003 and higher. The new version of Google’s maps has access to interactive maps and satellite imagery.
Services supported by mobile Google Maps include:
business locator
point-to-point driving directions
live traffic updates
The Windows Mobile 5.0 [...]
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