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MobilOpen has for mission to exchange information, to reference independent mobile players, to review mobile internet sites and to influence mobile internet players when necessary. TexoMobile is a founding member of MobilOpen and several of our people are contributors. We are convinced that the era of off deck is here and the mobile networks are starting to take notice. The advent of search on the walled gardens of the MNOs letting users escape and explore the mobile internet is of fine augur for us : all off deck publishers....

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Kleiner Perkinsâ€™ iFund Invests In Five Startups; All To Go Public In Seven To Eight Years
2008/08/25

The $100 million iFund investment pool, created by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has invested in five iPhone start-ups, NYT reports in a profile piece on Matt Murphy who heads up the endeavor. Pelago, the parent of mobile location-based service Whrrl, received an investment from...

Nokia and Samsung aim to fight back against the iPhone in India
2008/08/25

Nokia, Samsung planning out new strategies to counter effect the trend of Apple iPhone. This entails launching a portfolio of next-gen touch-screen phones at a much lower price than iPhone in India and building their online music services to compete against Apple's popular â€˜iTunes'. This...

Google Launches a New & Free Geolocation Tool
2008/08/24

Google announced yesterday a new geolocation tool for both users and an API for mobile website owners and wapmasters. What is cool this works for mobiles without GPS capabilities. This opens all sorts of possibilities for wapmasters who have services that till now could or didn't want to put in...

iPhone & iPod Touch Mobile Sites
2008/08/24

A few weeks ago I posted an article on how to develop .mobi compatible sites. This had a lots of feedback and was one of our most read articles. So I thought I would take a few minutes to give some more resources for iPhone ready sites. I know that I posted an article recently by Simon Judge...

Finally an Android based phone before end of year...
2008/08/18

T-Mobile USA has promised to debut the first mobile handset based on Google's Android operating system, The New York Times reports. Citing unnamed sources, the New York Times reports that T-Mobile will launch the so-called HTC Dream in the fourth quarter, perhaps as early as October--the...

Google Translate now for iPhone
2008/08/13

Posted by Allen Hutchison, software engineer A few months ago I was planning a vacation to Austria and Italy. I knew a few words and phrases in German and Italian, but that was about it. So I looked around for some portable language dictionaries. I thought Google Translate was great, but the...

How the official Skype Java mobile version works
2008/08/13

As there are so many VoIP service providers like Jajah/nonoh today, Skype is not as attractive for calling rate. However, Now, you can get an Unlimited World calling subscription from Skype from $9.95/month, which makes their calling rate competitive again. Except their new pay monthly plans,...

iPhone Application Gold Rush
2008/08/13

I came across this thought provoking blog by Simon Judge : "Apple sold an average of $1 million a day in applications for a total of about $30 million in sales over the month, Mr. Jobs said." "Mr. Jobs said developers' share of iPhone application sales in the first month was about...

Bango and Millenial Team Up To Provide Advertising Metrics
2008/08/08

Bango and Millenial Media have announced a partnership that will allow mobile advertisers to better understand the traffic that is being exposed to their ads, and so optimize for better performance. Millennial Media has announced that it has integrated Bango's mobile analytics...

iPhone In-Application Advertising from JumpTap and Pinch Media
2008/08/07

The advertising world continues to pay attention to the iPhone, which is beginning to represent a significant share of mobile web page views. JumpTap and Pinch Media will combine efforts to allow advertisers to place ads in iPhone applications. The new offering will utilize...