X-OOM Movies Enables you to turn your iPhone into a mobile cinema

X-OOM Movies on iPod 2 enables you Turn your iPhone or iPod into a mobile cinema!

With X-OO Movies on iPod 2 you can use your iPhone or iPod to watch movies, TV series or video clips and bring yourself up to date with the latest news on a long train journey.

With X-OOM Movies on iPod™ 2 you can easily transfer your DVD-films and nearly any kind of video file to your mobile device.

Furthermore, record Web TV-shows, subscribe to pod casts and additionally search and find brand new clips from Youtube, Clipfish etc.

You’d like to transfer your PC video library onto your iPhone™ or iPod™? Just do it! The high speed video encoder supports any current format (DVD, SVCD, VCO, DivX, AVI, WMV, MPEG etc.) and turns it into the optimal screen resolution of your iPhone™ or iPod™.

The program costs Price £19,99 and is available from http://www.x-oom.com/

Real Time Traffic Reports to Nokia Mobile Phones

Nokia and ARC Transistance, the European network of automobile clubs, announced tthat they are working together to provide Real Time Traffic Information to users of Nokia mobile devices. Nokia will offer the service as a premium offering in Nokia Maps 2.0 and in future versions of Nokia Maps.

By adding RTTI, Nokia can save precious time for drivers by alerting them of traffic, construction or other road hazards that could affect their journey. When Nokia Maps receives the road updates from ARC Transistance, the application can dynamicly re-route during navigation and provide a faster route. This is a significant milestone for Nokia Maps, which makes navigation an even more compelling experience for Nokia device owners.

ARC Transistance Traffic Information services aggregate the real time road and traffic conditions of 16 countries in Europe, and growing. The leading navigation industry players also use the ARC Transistance Traffic Information services to enhance the routing guidance and navigation experience of their customers.

Nokia Maps turns mobile devices into local mapping and routing engines with a navigation option, providing worldwide mapping free of charge. In so doing, the unique hybrid solution combines the advantages of on-board and off-board navigation. Maps and location-aware content only need to be loaded once - they are then always available on the device.

Upgrading to the GPS navigation option enables your mobile to become a powerful connected personal navigation device, that provides clear, turn-by-turn visual and voice guidance. If your Nokia device does not have built-in GPS, you can also use an external GPS module with a compatible device. With vector maps provided by TeleAtlas and Navteq, Nokia Maps now has maps covering over 150 countries, with over 70 of them navigable.

The new version of Nokia Maps 2.0 for selected devices is available on the Nokia Beta Labs website: http://www.nokia.com/betalabs.

The current version of Nokia Maps and the Nokia Map Loader are freely available for download* for selected devices at http://www.nokia.com/maps

Breakthrough in Mobile Phone Unlocking

The launch of an innovative little device called SIMable, which effectively puts an end to the complicated business of mobile phone unlocking.

SIMable is an ultra thin chip, that when attached to a SIM card, immediately fools most mobile phones into thinking that they have been unlocked. It is compatible with the majority of mobile handsets, including all the latest 3G devices, which are becoming more and more difficult to be freed from their original Network.

Introduced to the market by Essex based company 24/7 Mobile Solutions Ltd, SIMable can be installed and working in a Network locked handset in a matter of seconds. By using a customised manufactured cutting press, which comes with each unit, a tiny hole needs to be pressed out in the SIM card. Next SIMable needs to be aligned with the SIM and inserted into the locked handset. Using the cutting press, SIMable can be used more than once by transferring to any other SIM card.

Whilst mobile phone unlocking is not illegal, it will in most cases invalidate the handset's warranty. SIMable requires no handset interference and thus the full manufacturer's guarantee remains intact.

The company are keen to stress that unlike any other similar application on the market, SIMable enables 100% functionality on all phones, including full 3G operation.
The product, available at the company's website www.SIMable.com is launched at a retail price of Euro 16.99, with a standard small delivery charge covering all destinations worldwide. Each package includes the SIMable chip and customised cutting press, which eliminates any need for messy SIM cutting with scissors.

The company is also seeking global Distributors / Resellers to market the product. SIMable can be "white labelled" meaning that it can be rebranded and sold as their own product. Suitable parties would include Travel SIM Operators, Mobile Phone Accessory Distributors and any online or retail mobile phone unlocking outlets.

Veveo launch mobile Web Video Service for Sony Ericssons

Veveo has launched a new mobile Web video service for Sony Ericsson customers called Vtap to provide access to over 150 million Web videos on the Internet.

With the new offering, users can easily search, view and collect relevant and high quality Web videos from anywhere on the Internet, including popular sites like YouTube, DailyMotion, and MySpace , using their existing data services.
Veveo is the force behind the video-anywhere revolution and the Vtap service, which puts the power of searching, browsing and viewing of Web videos at the fingertips of consumers.

Veveo is actively working with mobile operators, mobile manufacturers, TV providers, consumer electronics manufacturers and content creators to deploy its Vtap solutions and is backed by venture funding from Matrix Partners, Northbridge Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners and OmniCapital Group.

As per this latest announcement, Sony Ericsson video-enabled handsets and Web portal customers are now offered this Web video service from Vtap which been optimized specifically for Sony Ericsson's multimedia handsets and is available immediately for Sony Ericsson Java Platform 8 (JP8) enabled handsets models: Z770i, K850i, W910i, K660i, W890i, Z750i and Sony Ericsson's JP7 models: W880i, K810i, T650i, K530i, W580i, K770i, and W660i. The service will support English, French, Italian, German and Spanish languages.

Vtap is a mobile search service that’s fine-tuned for video but can be used for audio and text as well. The technology provides relevant video results by indexing video metadata, like tags and surrounding text, instead of actual video file innards.

When users start typing search keywords into the query box, the search engine speedily starts returning relevant results based on the letters they have already started typing. This allows users to type in abbreviated search keywords instead of typing a whole word, which makes more sense for mobile users.

Vtap's intuitive browsing automatically groups video results together logically into easy-to-browse folders. This allows users to choose between incremental search and browsing and dynamically created menus to find and enjoy the most relevant video content on their mobile handsets.

Wayfinder Search Available on iPod

Wayfinder announces the launch if its award winning Power Search technology on iPhone and iPod touch. The technology allows for searching a multitude of databases through one unified search field allowing millions of iPhone and iPod touch users to access information covering up to 100 million local search records around the world.

A user can enter a phone number, a persons name or a company name and the Wayfinder Power Search application will return relevant search results. Through agreements with several database providers around the world the end-user will receive relevant answers for the specific country where the search is being made, be it the United States, the U.K., France or elsewhere.

The Wayfinder Power Search application also leverages the built-in iPhone Map application, making it easy for subscribers to find the location of the Power Search results quickly. The search engine is based on Tele Atlas digital map data, to which information from a number of other premium databases is added. For a limited time the premium travel content from Wcities will be searchable as well.

Over 320 Radio Stations on iPhone

FlyTunes have announced a partnership with AccuRadio.com -- the world's leading independent, personalizable, multichannel Internet radio broadcaster --that will bring all 320+ channels of AccuRadio to iPhones and iPod Touchmodels.

Building on its patent-pending "Hurricane" streaming technology,FlyTunes has created a complete AccuRadio mobile radio portal that providesa mobile-friendly user interface, targeted ad delivery, and enhanced QoS(Quality of Service) streaming. AccuRadio, with nearly a half-million listeners per month, is among thetop Internet radio broadcasters in the world. AccuRadio's channels cover asweeping range of musical interests, including rock, pop, jazz, country,classical music, and Broadway.

Today's announcement that AccuRadio is bringing over 320 stations tomillions of iPhone and iPod Touch owners proves that mobile Internet radiois now ready for prime time -- and I expect terrestrial broadcasters tofollow this trend shortly."

The new service is available immediately. iPhone and iPod Touch userscan listen to all of AccuRadio's 320+ channels by visitinghttp://www.accuradio.com/.

Dolby Digital On Your Mobile

At the 2008 Mobile World Congress, Dolby Laboratories, Inc. demonstrated technologies that elevate the mobile entertainment experience by improving the sound and performance of mobile phones and portable media players.

Dolby showed Dolby Mobile, an audio processing technology platform that brings rich, vibrant surround sound to music, movies, and television programs on mobile phones and portable media players.

Dolby also showed aacPlus, a high-quality, highly efficient audio compression format designed for download, streaming, and broadcast applications on mobile phones.

"Entertainment can sound better on mobile phones and portable media players," said Francois Modarresse, Vice President of Marketing, Dolby Laboratories. "We developed Dolby Mobile to help create products that stir the senses and excite people's imaginations so the industry can deliver on the promise of mobile entertainment."

Dolby recently announced an agreement with NTT DoCoMo and Sharp to offer two mobile phones with Dolby Mobile technology, the FOMA SH905i and FOMA SH905iTV, which are now available to customers in Japan.

To make its technologies more broadly available, the company announced an agreement with RMI Corporation to implement Dolby Mobile on the RMI Alchemy platform for portable media player applications.

At Mobile World Congress, Dolby also demonstrated a prototype device with Dolby Mobile built on Texas Instruments' popular OMAP platform.

It also came to light that Dolby have made an agreement with Nokia to pre-build Dolby Mobile into a new version of the N95 8GB.

eBay Now Available On Orange

Orange announced it will provide the eBay online auction service on a range of Orange Signature devices. The eBay application will allow Orange customers to manage bids and view new listings via the Signature Homescreen.

Orange Signature devices are designed to give simple and instant Homescreen access to multimedia applications and represent 70% of all new handsets from Orange. In the case of eBay, Orange customers will have fast access to their ‘watching’ and ‘bidding’ lists to ensure they don’t miss out when on the move. In the future, Signature devices will further simplify the auction process, sending outbid alerts and other updates directly to customers.

“eBay is one of the first jointly branded services we are introducing to Orange’s Signature application suite, joining leading services such as Orange TV, Orange MusicStore and Orange Photo ”, said Olaf Swantee, EVP of Orange’s global mobile operations. “We are making applications immediate and accessible to help customers get more from their mobile phones. For instance, Orange eBay users now have the split-second control required to beat their bidding competitors on the move.”

Orange’s co-branded applications will increasingly be supported by the recently launched Signature Accelerator programme, which is designed to speed the development and testing of applications across all key mobile platforms in the Signature range. This results in the introduction of tightly integrated, intuitive and innovative applications, brought to the customer faster.

Microsoft Announce New Version Of Mobile Internet Explorer and Windows Mobile 6,1

Windows Mobile is improving smartphones to better meet people's rapidly expanding work and personal needs. At CTIA Wireless 2008, Microsoft unveiled the newest version of Internet Explorer Mobile, which adds desktop-grade Web browsing to Windows Mobile phones. In addition, Microsoft announced Windows Mobile 6.1, an update for its Windows Mobile software that includes new time-saving features, easier phone navigation and management, and increased security safeguards.

The new version of Internet Explorer Mobile adds the ability to easily view full-screen Web pages and multimedia on the Web with a smartphone.

By taking advantage of Internet Explorer 6 technologies and supporting established and upcoming industry standards such as H.264, Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight, the updated Internet Explorer Mobile gives people a rich mobile Internet experience. The update will be available to mobile phone partners in the third quarter of 2008, with the first Windows Mobile phones using the new version expected to be available by the end of 2008.

Windows Mobile 6.1 features several key updates based on customer feedback, including the capability to make the most critical information readily available at a glance, quicker phone setup, and enhanced features adapted for the small screen. In addition, if coupled with System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 or Exchange Server 2007 SP1, Windows Mobile 6.1 provides the best experience for IT professionals to manage mobile phones for businesses.

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Opera Mini 4.1 Beta Launches

Opera Mini 4.1 Beta Mini , which is the Mobile version, has been released.

Opera Mini 4.1 beta lets you have the full Web everywhere.
This newest release includes several new features, including :

• automatic completion of web addresses, making it easier to get to the sites you need
• tools for attaching files to web-based email; uploading photos to your blog or other site
• downloading attachments from email for storage on your phone
• saving and viewing pages offline.

To download Opera Mini 4.1 beta, visit mini.opera.com/beta using your phone’s existing web browser and click on one of the links to download Opera Mini.

Opera Mini 4.1 beta will install next to any existing version of Opera Mini on your device and will not overwrite any of your data.

A guided tour can be viewed below

Opera Mini 4.1 guided tour
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o2 combine with Napster

O2 announced that it will partner with Napster, one of the world’s most recognised digital music brands, to offer the UK’s largest full track mobile music download service.

Available exclusively on mobile through O2 Active, the Napster Mobile service provides access to over 5 million songs and dual delivery of tracks to both the customer’s mobile phone and PC.
In order to make the best mobile music experience available to its customers, O2 has chosen to partner with one of the biggest brands in digital music.

The deal brings together one of the largest digital catalogues in the music industry with the UK’s largest mobile portal, delivering a high quality mobile music experience to O2 customers.

Napster on O2 will provide market-leading value for customers with single tracks initially priced at 99p* or 5 tracks for £4. Once a song is purchased on the mobile phone, a copy will be automatically sent to the email address of the customer’s choosing. The Napster service will be accessible through O2 Active on over 30 different handsets.

The Napster service will bring O2 customers all the latest releases and the biggest tracks with full artist descriptions and imagery to both their phone and PC.

* Single tracks will be priced at 99p for a promotional period

New Version of bbc.co.uk for Mobile Devices

The BBC has launched a new version of bbc.co.uk for mobile devices.
Building on the success of its existing market leading mobile browser proposition, the new version emulates the new appearance of the online version of bbc.co.uk.

The new design offers a consistent and intuitive user experience with easier navigation. New content on the site includes a new section for BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat with all the latest entertainment headlines and pictures.

The launch of the refreshed mobile service will be supported by a four-week marketing campaign which will target football fans across the country with a number of TV, outdoor and ambient initiatives.

In-ground media and ad-vans at a number of matches will urge fans to text FOOTBALL to 81010 for a link to the BBC football site.

At selected football grounds, Bluetooth technology is being used to send fans a link to the site.
The television trail will run on BBC channels from 17 March.

The BBC's mobile browser service attracts 2.7 million unique users per month, making it the No. 1 mobile site in the UK, according to Nielsen Mobile, an increase of 1 million year-on-year (59%).

Samsung and Adidas announce the MiCoach Fitness Phone

Adidas and Samsung have announced their strategic partnership and unveiled the first product initiative as a result of the collaboration, called miCoach.

miCoach is a real-time training system designed to motivate, inspire and enable athletes at all levels to reach their training goals, whatever they may be. It is the most advanced interactive training system by collecting and turning personal data into individual training plans based on one’s fitness level and specific goals. This unique partnership combines the expertise of Samsung in mobile technology and communications with adidas’ leadership in innovation for sport.

Research and development for miCoach began over two years ago between the adidas Innovation Team and Samsung, with the objective of creating the most advanced and customizable training product in the marketplace. With input from the Athletes’ Performance Institute (API), an elite training and sport research centre based at Arizona State University, miCoach is like having your own personal coach with you on every run; a coach who knows exactly what you want to accomplish and exactly how to help you get there.

The miCoach system contains five key components which combined provide personalised audible feedback; the miCoach Samsung phone, a heart rate monitor, a stride sensor chip to fit all adidas running footwear, compatible adidas apparel and the miCoach website to create tailored training programmes.

miCoach is available throughout Europe in adidas and Samsung stores as well as select retail partners starting in mid-March 2008.

Yahoo! onePlace to Revolutionize Mobile Content ?

Yahoo! continues to enable the global mobile ecosystem with the unveiling of Yahoo! onePlace.
Yahoo! onePlace is designed to be an essential tool to enable consumers to better manage the wide selection of content available across the Internet.

Yahoo! onePlace™ will bring together a consumer’s interests, passions and important information into a single location – creating a rich and highly personalized experience. Everything is instantly organized, dynamically kept current, and served to them the way they want. So now, the content they consume and the way they consume it will be hyper-customized to their specific preferences and tastes.

Yahoo! onePlace will be simple-to-use because it will be based on a familiar process of using bookmarks to instantly link to practically any piece of content (news feeds, web sites, videos, images, emails, search queries, etc.) from anywhere across the Internet. Once in Yahoo! onePlace, everything will be kept automatically updated (with the latest game score, stock price, etc.) as well as assigned categories and tags – or placed into customized “collections” that consumers create – making it extremely intuitive for consumers to find and combine their content in the ways most useful to them.

Yahoo! onePlace will allow consumers to stay better informed on the topics they care about, with less work – for their daily interests (e.g., favorite sports teams or stocks), as well as those they only care about on a selective basis. For example, if a user is planning a holiday to Paris in June, he could create a “Paris” collection, and begin linking it to any information he thinks will be useful to him on his trip: weather conditions, city guides, restaurant reviews, hotel reservations, walking maps, songs of Edith Piaf, English-French dictionaries, winery recommendations, etc.

Yahoo! onePlace will give consumers a single location to consume all of their information contextually, keeping it updated (so they know, for example, if their flight times have changed) and instantly accessible whenever and however they want it. The product will be configured to allow consumers to do the same for literally hundreds of different topics.

For more information on Yahoo! onePlace, go to http://mobile.yahoo.com/oneplace.

The Sun And News Of The World To Launch New Monetised Mobile Search Solution

The Sun has become the latest big name media brand to employ Mobile Commerce’s unique Monetised Mobile Search, the very latest in optimised mobile search engine technology. Plans to also launch this on Sunday sister paper The News of the World are currently in development.

The solution developed by leading mobile content facilitator Mobile Commerce, forms a key part of the famous red tops’ new mobile portal launches.

A recent development in this rapidly expanding new area, Monetised Mobile Search is a simple, quick and highly efficient revenue generator. It works by allowing a mobile user to enter a keyword(s) into the search box on the WAP site they are using, the WAP site owner then decides if they want to respond by serving up content from their own site or by serving up an ordered list of paying advertisers.

The keywords(s) are passed to Mobile Commerce via their unique Search Aggregation Engine who then return a list of relevant advertiser’s results optimised for display on a mobile handset.

The partnership will see Mobile Commerce supply the Sun mobile customers with up to the date optimised mobile search whilst providing the media brand with complete control of which key words they wish to monetise off portal.

Vodafone Sat Nav now available

Vodafone has announced its Sat Nav service will now be made available to consumers , but only on a limited set of handsets.

Vodafone Sat Nav provides users with a complete mobile navigation experience, including both in-car and pedestrian navigation. Featuring 3D maps that enhance the navigation experience, up-to-date maps and directions it also gives the customer instant access to live traffic alerts and millions of points-of-interest such as hotels, restaurants, shopping and attractions.

Vodafone Sat Nav is available on a variety of consumer mobile devices; launching initially on three of Vodafone UK’s GPS embedded handsets – Nokia N95, Nokia N95 8GB and Nokia 6110 as well as the new BlackBerry® Pearl™ 8110 smartphone. The subscription to the service costs £5 per month with the first month free. When using the service data charges apply. Customers can purchase the service from any Vodafone retail stores, through telesales or directly from Vodafone live! Customers who purchase the BlackBerry Pearl 8110 will get 12 months Sat Nav included.

The solution has already been successfully launched into the enterprise market, where it is available on a number of devices including the BlackBerry® Curve™ 8310, Vodafone UK’s fastest selling BlackBerry smartphone ever, and the BlackBerry Pearl 8110.

BlackBerry Owners Lounge Launched

Rim have launched the BlackBerry Owners Lounge, which is a portal for Blackberry owners.

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JuiceCaster Mobile Social Network Lauched

Juice Wireless announced that JuiceCaster, the complete mobile social-networking solution, is now available on mobile devices across Europe. The video-based service allows anyone with a camera-enabled mobile phone to create and consume rich-media content from their wireless devices and the Web, and automatically share it with their friends and family.

JuiceCaster is a popular mobile solution that allows any individual with a camera-enabled mobile device to capture and distribute content in real-time to friends and family across multiple platforms, including cell phones, blogs and many popular online social-networking sites, including Facebook, MySpace, Orkut and Hi5.

JuiceCaster puts the power of broadcasting in the hands of consumers and professionals on-the-go, enabling them to become news anchors and distributors of original, creative and relevant content, as well as keep in touch with their loved ones. Whether skiing in the Alps or sailing down the coast of France, individuals can capture their fun, memorable moments and share them with friends worldwide. JuiceCaster, currently offered in English, will soon be available in Dutch, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

For more information on JuiceCaster or to sign up for a free membership, visit http://www.juicecaster.com/.

Phling launch MusicStash

Phling , a mobile phone software company, has announced the MusicStash music streaming service.

The program is unique to other music streaming services, in that it allows users to store their music in an online "locker". Users upload their music to the online "locker" via their pc , and then they can access and listen to their music on their mobile phone.

The beauty of such a system is that you don't need to synch your phone with your pc , and can update the songs you can listen to without needing to touch your phone at all.

Musicstash also enables up to six of your friends to access your "locker". and can also be used to store and share photos.

Full details of the service and the ability to signup can be found here

Test-drive Mobile Handsets

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