Archive for November 14th, 2005

MobHappy: New York’s SociaLight

Monday, November 14th, 2005

SocialLight, YA location-aware, mobile service. Be sure to read Russell's entire post first. SociaLight has been started by two entrepreneurs and graduates for New York University, Michael Sharon and Dan Melinger. NYU also gave us many other LBS experiments in this space (including some of the companies mentioned above and Dodgeball, ...

Lucsious LiPS

Monday, November 14th, 2005

YA Mobile Linux standards group is before us. The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) forum was launched today by Industry pioneers including the likes of PalmSource, France Telecom and Jaluna to accelerate creation of standards for Linux based telephony. OSDL’s focus has been on Carrier Grade Linux and standardization at the kernel ...

Scotsman.com News - Men keep phone texts short, sexy and full of swearing

Monday, November 14th, 2005

Men have transplanted their conversational style to mobile phone texting - short messages peppered with sarcasm, swearing and sexual humour, according to new research. By contrast, women engage in longer and more involved text chat and are three times more likely to show emotion when they send a message. So texting for ...

New Luxury MVNO by way of Cingular

Monday, November 14th, 2005

A new luxury MVNO, Voce, will be launching soon on Cingular's network supported by Visage's MVNO platform. As standard plan features, Voce plans to offer unlimited domestic voice and data, exclusive handsets, automatic data back-up and regular free device upgrades. Voce also intends to offer subscribers travel support, virtual assistant services ...

11/14/05 Top 10 Ringtone Roundup

Monday, November 14th, 2005

2 weeks into November and Billboard and Virgin Canada still list Halloween as a top 10 ringtone? No way. Billboard (Issue date 11/14/05) Gold Digger, Kanye West Featuring Jamie Foxx My Humps, Black Eyed Peas Super Mario Brothers Theme, Koji Kando Halloween, John Carpenter ...