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“Rakuten, Inc.(JASDAQ code:4755), a leading Internet Service Company in Japan, and Fast Search & Transfer™ (OSEAX: FAST.OL) (FAST™), the leading global provider of enterprise search technologies, have announced a definitive agreement to form a joint venture to develop and provide mobile search and advertising service in Japan.

This joint venture will combine FAST’s technological leadership and expertise in the mobile and advertising markets with Rakuten’s strong customer base of 38 million members and valuable services. By partnering to develop innovative search capabilities for the mobile market, Rakuten and FAST are delivering on the rapidly growing demand for these services and capitalizing on the business opportunities of this emerging market.Mobile search services will initially be rolled out to Rakuten mobile sites this year, and subsequently be offered to third parties on an OEM basis…”

“The era of free mobile video gets under way in Switzerland in June when Ad Infuse and Minick, leaders in delivering personalized mobile advertising and video streaming solutions, launch the country’s first ad supported video service to Swisscom Mobile customers. Rather than paying a download or subscription fee to receive video via a wireless device, Swisscom Mobile customers are able to access video on demand content supported by brief, 10-20 second advertisements at the beginning and end of each program…”

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“Chicago-based usability consultancy User Centric says that it has conducted tests on the iPhone’s touch keyboard compared with conventional QWERTY and numeric phone keyboards. Earlier, User Centric had identified texting as potentially problematic for new iPhone customers. The goal of their current study was to determine how easy it was for conventional mobile phone users to text using the iPhone.

User Centric tested the iPhone’s texting features with frequent texters to see how rapidly they could adapt to the iPhone’s touch keyboard. All 20 participants sent at least 15 messages per week. Ten participants owned phones with a full QWERTY keypad and 10 owned phones with a numeric keyboard. None of the participants owned an iPhone. Each participant typed six fixed-length text messages on their own phone and six on an iPhone.

It took QWERTY users almost twice as long to create the same message on the iPhone as it did on their QWERTY phone. While there was improvement over time, the difference persisted even after using the iPhone for 30 minutes….”

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“Xobile has successfully delivered adult content to 3G network users who use standard Internet browsers on their mobile devices.

Xobile, a US distributor of adult movies on mobile phones and wireless devices, provides two-minute clips from their 4,800 adult movies in their database.These videos are consistently streamed at 124 kbps which is close to the current capable limit of most wireless networks.

“At least one U.S. market survey suggests that unwanted mobile spam continues to afflict at least some handset owners, with as many as 10 percent of all U.S.-based mobile-phone subscribers having already received and been annoyed by SMS spam, according to Jupiter Research.

According to joint study conducted by Intrado, Switzerland’s University of St. Gallen and the International Telecommunicaton Union, more than 80 percent of Europe’s mobile-phone users received at least one unwanted spam message cloaked as a short messaging service (SMS) transmission during 2004.Moreover, the results indicate that 83 percent of all mobile users responding to the survey expect mobile spam to become a critical issue for them within the next one to two years…..”

“COMPUTER hackers are crippling mobile phones with new viruses which can leave consumers with bills of hundreds of pounds.

Mobile industry experts warn that the next generation of phones face an increasing threat from hackers as they get to grips with new technology.More than 70 mobile phone viruses have been discovered this year alone. One virus, known as Commwarrior, spreads itself via Bluetooth connections, sending text and picture messages to all the numbers in the phone’s address book during the night. Users only discover the problem after receiving huge phone bills…..”

“Argentine mobile operator Movistar Argentina launched on Monday (Aug 13) a public transport tracking service, the company said in a statement.The service, called Bondicom, will be provided by local company Ojos del Cielo and allow Movistar’s subscribers to know exactly the time a bus will take to arrive at a determined location….”This news was picked from and details continue at; http://www.cellular-news.com/story/25426.php

“Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new energy storage device that easily could be mistaken for a simple sheet of black paper.The nanoengineered battery is lightweight, ultra thin, completely flexible, and geared toward meeting the trickiest design and energy requirements of tomorrow’s gadgets, implantable medical equipment, and transportation vehicles.Along with its ability to function in temperatures up to 300 degrees Fahrenheit and down to 100 below zero, the device is completely integrated and can be printed like paper. The device is also unique in that it can function as both a high-energy battery and a high-power supercapacitor, which are generally separate components in most electrical systems. Another key feature is the capability to use human blood or sweat to help power the battery.

“Alcatel-Lucent announced that it is performing a technical test of its solution for broadcast mobile TV using the DVB-SH standard in the S-Band (2.2GHz). This pilot will take place from June to September 2007 in the South-West part of France. Using SFR’s operational 3G mobile infrastructure and pre-commercial DVB-SH elements for the broadcast part, this field trial represents a world first, only four months after the DVB project approved the technical specifications of the DVB-SH standard.

The DVB-SH standard is at the basis of Alcatel-Lucent’s “Unlimited Mobile TV solution”, a hybrid satellite and terrestrial solution whose objective is to propose a broadcast solution for a mass market mobile TV service.

This pilot will allow to evaluate the capability of this solution to make available to a large audience high-quality mobile TV channels, in various usage conditions such as inside and outside buildings, as well as while moving onboard a vehicle. Several innovative technical characteristics related to DVB-SH will be evaluated during this pilot, either separately or in a combination…..”

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“Mobile users in Singapore will be able to enjoy a true mobile broadband experience as StarHub introduces the fastest two-way HSPA service nationwide, the first operator to do so in Southeast Asia.

Often called 3.5G, StarHub consumer and corporate customers will now be able to experience high-speed access in Singapore of up to 7.2Mbps downlink and up to 1.9Mbps uplink with the use of HSDPA and HSUPA technologies respectively. These specifications far exceed 3G services currently available in the Singapore market. No other operator in Singapore currently offers HSUPA….”

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“Artificial Life announced partnering with Oxygen Media to develop The Bad Girls Club 3G mobile game based on the highest-rated reality TV show on the Oxygen network. The game is scheduled to launch in late August, and marks the first 3G mobile game for the network.

Exploiting the technological capabilities 3G can offer, players can expect high resolution graphics and animations, 3D avatars based on the actual characters in The Bad Girls Club Season One, and photo-realistic locations based on the show’s house.

Players take on the role of a new member of The Bad Girls Club that has just arrived at the Bad Girls’ house with an agenda: to gain fame and notoriety in the tabloid world. The cameraman and his production crew will capture every scandalous activity the player instigates in the house. To win, players must prove to be the most scandalous and notorious bad girl in the house and be glossed on the front cover of the Tabloid!

“Gaming is so huge with women, and Oxygen has been looking at how to break into this arena,” said Oxygen senior vice president Cynthia Ashworth. “This game presents the perfect opportunity to take our most popular television series to a new level by creating a mobile game that is on brand with the show and also connects with our young, tech-savvy female audience. This is only the beginning for Oxygen in the gaming arena.”…”

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“The UK satellite TV provider, Sky says that it plans to offer all of its 92 Barclays Premier League matches (soccer tournament) over a Mobile TV service. Sky Sports 1, 2 and 3 will also be available via Sky Mobile TV as simulcast channels. As well as all 92 Premier League matches, Sky Sports’ live coverage will a range of additional domestic and international sports.The announcement follows the success of previous live sports events on Sky Mobile TV, which have included the UEFA Champions League, Ryder Cup golf, the Football League Play Offs, and England’s Ashes tour of Australia…

“In addition to a myriad of light entertainment videos, Chinese mobile phone owners can now download film clips of the Korean War and emotive war anthems to celebrate the founding of the People’s Liberation Army.

According to the official Xinhua news agency, subscribers to the country’s second largest mobile operator, China Unicorn, are being offered the service for about $1 USD a month.

“I believe it will be popular since we have so many military fans in China,” said company official Yu Peng. “We have more than 300,000 pictures of weapons and military figures in our database along with clips of hundreds of movies, such as ‘Battle for Berlin’, ‘Normandy Invasion’ and ‘Shang Ganling’, a movie about the Korean War,” he added….”

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“South Africa’s wireless industry has introduced new regulations to standardise the unsubscribe functionality for mobile marketing messages. The regulations make it compulsory for companies sending SMS messages within South Africa to offer consumers a way of opting out from receiving unsolicited commercial SMS’s by replying with the word ‘sTOP’ from their cell phone.

These regulations have been promulgated by the Wireless Applications Service Provider Association (WASPA) and adopted by the South African SMS messaging industry. This reply is to cost no more than a standard rate SMS, and where this is not possible, and alternative option must be advertised and provided…

… The wireless industry regulations set out in the WASPA Code of Conduct specifies that consumers can only receive commercial SMS messages when they have requested the message or they have a direct and recent prior commercial relationship with the message originator and would reasonably expect to receive marketing communications from them….”

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