ACCESS Announces NetFront Mobile Content Viewer Previewing and ...
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/PRNewswire/ -- ACCESS Co., Ltd. (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 4813), a global provider of mobile content delivery and Internet access technologies announced the release of NetFront(R) Mobile Content Viewer a comprehensive
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A new feature allows users the chance to make the news.
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PC Magazine - ACCESS executives at the 3GSM trade show today demonstrated their new Linux-based successor to the once-popular Palm OS &#150; but they still couldn't give any details as to when, or even if, it would appear on any retail devices.
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Norwegian browser specialists Opera Software announce a version of their browser for Microsoft&#39;s Windows Mobile platform is forthcoming.
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Open-source mobile e-mail provider Funambol is working with advertising company Amobee to give network operators a way to offer free e-mail services to users.The new mobile offering, which Funambol plans to announce on Tuesday and demonstrate in Barcelona next week at the Mobile World Congress, will display banner ads served up by Amobee on every page of the e-mail software. The banners take up about two lines of a mobile phone screen, leaving plenty of space for users to read their e-mails, said Hal Steger, vice president of marketing for Funambol.Funambol must sell the idea to operators, which would then self-brand the e-mail service and offer it to end-users. Steger envisions that operators will let customers access the e-mail service for free, without requiring them to subscribe to a monthly data plan, because the operators will earn revenue from the advertisements.But Funambol would have to convince operators that they&#8217;ll make as much or more in advertising than in their monthly data subscriptions before they&#39;ll want to offer mobile e-mail for free. &#8220;Unless there was considerable potential revenue, which I think is doubtful but who knows... operators won&#8217;t want to cannibalize their subscription model,&#8221; said Greg Sterling, an analyst following mobile search and advertising as part of a joint venture between Sterling Market Research and Opus ResearchIn the future, however, operators may feel forced to begin offering ad-supported data services, he said. For example, if a winner of the 700MHz licenses currently on auction by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission deploys a network and offers free ad-supported services, other operators may begin to follow suit, he said.Funambol already offers its open-source push e-mail software to operators. The service supports the open SyncML standard so it&#8217;s compatible with Java and Windows Mobile phones, which Funambol estimates make up about half of all phones on the market.So far, no operator offers Funambol&#8217;s open-source e-mail, but two are offering Funambol&#8217;s backup service for calendar and address book information. Those operators include one in South Africa, which Steger wasn&#8217;t allowed to name, and Comcel in Columbia. Both plan to begin offering the open-source e-mail service, he said.Operators in less-developed regions like South America might be more likely to offer the ad-supported e-mail service. That&#39;s because in those regions, end-users are quite price-sensitive -- so operators have a harder time selling them data subscriptions, Steger said.
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DUBLIN, Ireland, and WASHINGTON, Feb. 13  /PRNewswire/ -- The Web development community now has access to much-needed resources to foster the growth of high-quality content for consumers who access the Internet from mobile phones.
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For the first time ever, radio listeners experienced a live radio preview exclusively on Red FM. The film: NISHABD.
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The latest update to Microsoft's MSN Direct service which will take effect on numerous personal navigation devices.
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NetNewsWire 3.0 is a major upgrade to NewsGator's RSS reader for the Mac, now featuring desktop integration with support for Spotlight, Address Book and more.
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Questions filled the air Monday as the mobile industry geared up for one of its biggest U.S. trade shows on Monday by focusing on entertainment.AT&amp;T got a head start on the CTIA Wireless IT &amp; Entertainment show in San Francisco by unveiling an upcoming music service with Napster. But even AT&amp;T said the best business model for mobile entertainment is still being worked out.The market for mobile entertainment still pales in comparison to messaging, which more than half of AT&amp;T&#39;s customers use, said Mark Collins, vice president of consumer data at the nation&#39;s biggest carrier, which has about 63 million subscribers. Collins thinks mobile entertainment will catch on to that degree, but the jury is out on the best business model for getting there, he told a large crowd at a pre-show entertainment conference.On Monday, AT&amp;T announced it will let consumers download songs over the air from a Napster catalog of more than 5 million songs. The Napster Mobile service, due to become available in mid-November, will offer single songs for $1.99 each and a monthly subscription for $7.49. The subscription will let customers download five songs each month. Features for discovering new music and keeping up with favorite artists will also be included.The service is meant to complement song downloads to PCs for later &quot;sideloading&quot; to a phone, said Gregg Brown, who handles strategic marketing and business development for music at AT&amp;T. The carrier already offers that type of service but believes some consumers want to be able to buy songs immediately, he said. A copy of each song bought over the air can also be automatically delivered to the customer&#39;s PC.It&#39;s an example of the try-anything approach carriers and content makers are taking to mobile entertainment. Also at the pre-show conference, ESPN Senior Vice President for Digital Media John Zehr said the sports media company closed down its MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) business last year because it had a harder time than expected selling handsets in retail stores. It also was unfair to sports fans to make them switch service providers and phones just to get ESPN&#39;s mobile content, Zehr said.Now ESPN&#39;s content is offered through Verizon&#39;s portal. Soon the company will add social networking to help fans of certain teams keep in touch, Zehr added.ESPN&#39;s goal is to make it as easy as possible for consumers to find its content -- preferably on the &quot;idle&quot; screen of the phone whenever they look at it, Zehr said. Carriers should find a way to determine what each subscriber would want to see on that screen, or ask them, rather than making them take the initiative, he said.But ESPN has another thing coming if they hope to dictate placement, according to IDC analyst Shiv Bakhshi.&quot;The content provider never controls the environment of consumption,&quot; Bakhshi said.Clashes happen partly because the market is so young and demand is still little known, AT&amp;T&#39;s Collins said. It&#39;s hard to work out business models that satisfy carriers, content providers and advertisers, he said. Everyone wants to get into the mobile world because cell phones are ubiquitous, but carriers can&#39;t pay top dollar for content when the customer base isn&#39;t that big yet. Device makers add another layer of complexity.&quot;We can&#39;t just take the cable television or the broadcast model and superimpose it on this business,&quot; Collins said. The right model will be some mix of advertising, subscribers paying for content, and makers of programming selling it to carriers, he said.
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Microsoft launched its redesigned mobile portal on Monday, which adds some new functionality in an effort to get ahead of its competitors in a growing market.
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The previous article introduced the Doodle drawing application. This week, an application framework is added, complete with a document-view architecture. This powerful programming technique separates the document data from the view. By Guyon Roche. 0929
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p2pnet.net News:- &#39;Branded&#39; entertainment, life-style and sports content will be available as part of Nokia&#39;s Preminet Solution, its new end-to-end mobile content distribution and transaction service for mobile network operators.
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Just tried to log into Digg and received this response:  Upgrade in Process. New features are minutes away&#8230; Can&#8217;t wait to see what the new features are :)
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A new editor issued by Microsoft, this application is designed to replace FrontPage, which will be discontinued. Our reviewer takes a look under the hood of this program and finds some unexpected surprises. By Lee Underwood. 0108
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At 3GSM in Barcelona today, Microsoft announced a preview of its MSN Direct service now available for devices with Windows Mobile, that will put weather, sports scores, business, stocks, and entertainment news on their home screens.
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InfoWorld - For business users who want Microsoft Office on their cell phones, Windows Mobile 6, the upcoming version of Redmond's mobile operating system to be unveiled next week, will be a must-have upgrade.