Funambol Unveils Ad-Supported Mobile E-Mail
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Funambol and Amobee are introducing technology that would let mobile operators offer ad-supported e-mail to users.
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A new mobile service called Blyk will offer subscribers some free calls and text messages in return for their agreeing to accept advertising on their phones.
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Vodafone and EDS have deployed a global managed service for ABN AMRO Bank of the Netherlands, based on RIM&#39;s BlackBerry mobile email clients.
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Alltel is unveiling a new feature that uses voice-recognition software to allow wireless phone customers to read their voicemail messages as text messages.
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The free service also comes with a network-based message box that can deliver voicemail via e-mail attachments and that can be checked via the Web.
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(InfoWorld) - Despite theÂ buzz around mobile advertising, end users and eager advertisers may have to wait a while for widespread deployments as the mobile industry sorts out the requirements for it. "The problem is, today we are highly fragmented," said Rob Conway, CEO of the GSM Association, the global trade group for GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) operators. He spoke Tuesday morning at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona. Arun Sarin, CEO of Vodafone Group, agreed. Despite the interest from advertisers in using mobile phones to deliver ads, the mobile industry needs to create a consistent framework. "If we went to Proctor and Gamble and said, this is how Vodafone does it but Orange is different, they will find it hard to move their ads onto mobiles," Sarin said. "If we don't move together we will have a fragmented medium and user base instead of a single valuable medium that reaches two billion people." A common framework would include specifications for the appropriate size of banner ads and length of video ads as well as a reporting mechanism to help advertisers measure the success of their campaigns. The GSM Association has recently established the Mobile Advertising Forum to begin to define such a framework. The group hopes to include a wide variety of interested parties, including advertisers, aggregators and content providers to set the parameters. Some end users are interested in the concept of mobile advertising because it can enable free or low-cost services in exchange for viewing advertisements. In addition, the mobile industry promises that it can offer advertisements that users may be interested in based on their location, for example. "It's about engagement with consumers," Conway said. "We will tailor-make ads for the taste of consumers." Mobile phones represent an enticing platform for advertisers who already eagerly address the 1.4 billion TV sets and 1 billion PCs in the world, said Sarin. With 2 billion mobile users on the planet, "we're clearly an important area," he said. Not all those users phone users, however, would be able to receive mobile ads. They must subscribe to a data service that enables the delivery of such content and a capable phone too, he said. Â
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Update fixes crashes caused by incompatibility with hidden advertising app.
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Yahoo! may be one step closer to challenging Google in searchable web-based e-mail. It has purchased the start-up behind the powerful e-mail application Bloomba.
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The increasingly competitive Web mail market has a new player: Instant messaging provider ICQ now offers a fee-based service that includes 2GB of storage, a calendar feature, task manager, notepad, wireless access, and support for both POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3) and IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol).
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China's Mobile Search Leader Makes Its Services Available for Free to IM                     Users on Handheld Devices and PCs    SHANGHAI, China, Sept. 18 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- mInfo(R) Inc.
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NEW YORK -- BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. today unveiled a new version of its top-end e-mail phone for business users, replacing the signature side navigation wheel with a front trackball that first appeared last year on the consumer-oriented BlackBerry Pearl.
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Technology displays two-line banner ads on cell phone screens along with free e-mail service.
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A device the company billed as "a new category of mobile device" is in reality a small underpowered laptop best suited for reading e-mail, analysts say.Photos: Palm adds Foleo to its portfolio
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Ziff Davis - The Ogo gadget is ready to go for e-mail and IM-happy consumers and teens.
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InfoWorld - DoubleClick is expanding its advertising services for mobile phones, it announced Monday, as it continues waiting to find out if Google&#39;s attempt to buy it will pass muster with regulators.
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A European startup says it is ready to bring e-mail to low-cost cell phones.
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Finnish mobile device giant Nokia said this week that it will support most widely used methods of pushing email and other information to its smartphones.