November 17th, 2008
Verizon and Ontela have worked together to produce a mobile uploader for Photobucket, one of the world’s oldest photo uploading tools on the Internet. Signing up is easy, as all you need to do is use your existing Photobucket account and link to your Verizon phone line:
To utilize the application, Verizon Wireless subscribers sign […]
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July 14th, 2008
For the kiddies who love to burn the midnight oil in text speak, Sprint currently has a package (search under “plans”) that allows you to purchase that unlimited plan with text, video and picture messaging. The service costs USD $49.00.
The Sanyo Katana is actually the perfect device for your kids and tweens. Though lacking in […]
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June 25th, 2008
So what’s the deal with AT&T U-verse? According to their release, AT&T U-verse is a consolidation of basically all their wired and wireless services into one brand name … the AT&T U-verse, doh!
AT&T U-verse brings together your TV, broadband, home phone and AT&T wireless services — all on one bill — with unique features that […]
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June 24th, 2008
Announced yesterday, Alltell Wireless is pushing their new Rev-A technology that does 3.1MBPS for downloads and 1.8 MBPS for uploads. This service is spread across 18 areas including Little Rock, Charlotte, New Orleans, Phoenix and Tampa in urban and rural areas.
Here’s a quote from the press release:
Alltel’s existing broadband Wireless Internet service enables remote access […]
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June 18th, 2008
That’s me - with my magnetic personality with butterflies, uploaded at the Singapore Zoo via Share on Ovi.
It’s no secret that Nokia announced its entry into the Web 2.0 Services with Ovi last August 2008. Around February of this year, Share on Ovi was launched, which is basically their competitor to Flickr. Share on Ovi […]
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June 10th, 2008
Heysan is a desktop application workaround to the most popular IM clients. One way to use this would be as a subversive firewall rerouter for instant mesaging. Another way would be to log onto the mobile site for free use of instant messaging - of course, telco data services apply.
Heysan! is a mobile web […]
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May 20th, 2008
Huge news for the Asian telco industry. But just to put a little perspective … there’s been a lot of speculation on the Google Phone business model since 2005. With Google’s core competence being contextual advertising (wasn’t it search a long time ago?) they’ve never really kept secret about their plans to use the 700MHz […]
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May 1st, 2008
Starting May 4th, AT&T will be releasing two new handsets to accommodate their Mobile TV service. The exclusive handsets will include the LG Vu and Samsung Access.
Channels will include: CBS Mobile, ESPN Mobile TV, FOX Mobile, NBC 2Go, NBC News 2Go, MTV Networks’ COMEDY CENTRAL, MTV and Nickelodeon.
There will be two exclusive AT&T channels […]
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April 29th, 2008
The New York Times has quoted Comscore surveys that reveal how consumers are treating phone services like the next glass of lemonade: there really is no brand preference. It’s all about price, price and price.
Is this true? For some countries, certain telco providers are still looked at as brands. And how does it explain AT&T […]
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April 24th, 2008
I’ve been out of the country three times last year to different parts of Asia. Activation of roaming is automatic for post paid lines on my network. Because I love to be redundant I’d take a short trip to the service center at the mall and always reconfirm my roaming activation. And yes, the girl […]
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