Mobile News Review
Recent news items you may have missed.
- Yahoo runs mobile phone advertising in 18 nations
- Yahoo Inc. has signed up top corporate advertisers to use its advertising system to run brand ads on mobile phones in 18 countries, marking a major diversification beyond computers.
- Opera 9 goes mobile
- Opera 9 is being developed for mobile phones in all major platforms. Features will include intelligent zoom, grab and scroll, multiple windows, widgets, and a download manager.
- Symbian worldwide smartphone share up to 67%
- Canalys’ latest report shows that 64 million smartphones shipped worldwide in 2006. Symbian’s world market share was up to 67%, of which Nokia accounted for 50% and Sony Ericsson 5%.
- Nokia N77: Live TV when you want it
- Nokia has introduced the Nokia N77 multimedia computer offering an optimized mobile TV experience in a compelling and compact form factor with complete Nokia Nseries functionalities.
- HP joins the Cell phone brigade
- Hewlett Packard (HP) introduced the latest HP iPAQ device, a sleek and small smartphone that is based on the new Windows Mobile 6 platform.
- CNN Chooses Hypertag For Mobile Web Push
- Hypertag implementations are going live at London City Airport and Barcelona 3GSM. A user simply activates the infrared or Bluetooth on their phone, holds it up to the Hypertag and receives content such as vouchers, business cards, ringtones or games.
- GPS steals the show at 3GSM
- Handset manufacturers, application developers and operating system managers are all planning large-scale rollouts of GPS technology this year.
- Verizon Wireless and Samsung launch dual-hinge phone
- Verizon Wireless and Samsung announced the availability of the SCH-u740 cellphone, which is a dual flip-phone that features a full QWERTY keyboard.
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