US based Infospace will be supplying the
technology behind a comprehensive search facility which subscribers to the
Virgin Mobile network will utilise to find content and services...More
MMS-witness to help police fight crime
If, as Waleli's Lawrence Masle claims, more than half the European population
now carry a cameraphone, then a new crime busting application, MMS-witness,
should catch on fast...More
Nokia upbeat while Motorola falters
While has been trumpeting the fact that it has cracked the entry-level mobile
phone market, arch rival Motorola has been forced to announce yet more job cuts
in a dash for profitability...More
Qualcomm to pay Broadcom damages
Qualcomm, which seems fond of suing its rivals, found itself on the wrong end
of a patent suit from rival supplier, Broadcom. A jury has just awarded damages
of $19.6 million against Qualcomm. ...More
Bubble Motion offers voice SMS
While youths talk about 'texting' each other. Well, the next craze will have them
'bubbling' each other instead. Bubble Motion's new technology – voice SMS – is
catching on like crazy...More
3 takes UK watchdog to court over fees
It seems that Ofcom just can't win. UK network operator, 3, is taking the
UK's telecoms watchdog to court for being too harsh by dropping the so-called
'termination rates' too low...More
Snippets
Correction: Following our review of the Alcatel
E80,
this handset cannot read an MP3 file from its storage card (Micro SD) and
then use it as a ring tone. The software supplied on the site isn't a ringtone
cutter, it simply converts MP3 files from one level of compression to another.
www.tctmobile.com
Orange UK has launched a spot the Bull competition. Find Derek the Bull and win
a pair of tickets to the Glastonbury music festival.
http://spotthebull.orange.co.uk/play/game
In Site of the Week (by Tony Dennis)
This week
Honda F1 Mobile
For a site described as "One of the most exciting and informative mobile WAP sites in the automotive sector to date", you'd expect something special.
Sadly Honda's F1 WAP site is hugely disappointing.
So what does it offer? Video clips from the last race at Monaco? Results and summary of performance from the Monaco GP?
Predictions for the next race? None of the above. What it does have are three pathetic F1 style ringtones and three wallpapers showing Jenson Button plus Rubens Barrichello.
The best part is probably the chance to win a tour of the Honda F1 factory in
GB.
For a company which offers state of the art technology, you might expect Honda to have tied location based techniques to displaying where the nearest Honda garage is located.
But, no. Surfers find the nearest Honda dealer by typing in their postcode.
Unfortunately the site's provider – the Mobile Interactive Group (MIG)– seems to think the site is industry leading.
This site definitely does nothing for the Honda brand. But at least it wasn't foolish enough to utilise a dotmobi (.mobi) address for the site.
