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Akihabara News writes: “I must admit that I have been interested in purchasing some 5.1 Wireless headphones for years now (since I am in Japan actually), and now that I am a father, I have to watch my Blu-Ray movies or play with my PS3, and soon, Xbox 360 Elite, with the volume down… REALLY REALLY DOWN !!”
TexTango is a revolutionary, patent pending mobile billing and music delivery platform that allows anyone, anywhere in the United States to purchase music simply by sending a premium text message with their cell phone. The purchase is billed to the customers’ cell phone bill and the music is downloaded off of the Textango website.
While credit card may not pose as a problem for American adults, it is a concern for many teenagers. Given that roughly 80% of 12-18 year olds have cell phones but not necessarily credit cards and that demographic is about 50% of the music industry’s target consumers, it’s logical to use mobile phones to pay for these songs.
BEIJING, China (AVING) — <Visual News> Samsung Electronics presented its ‘dual stand-by phone(model:W629)’ during PT EXPOCOMM CHINA 2007. Since it can have two SIM cards (GSM and CDMA) at the same time, users can take the advantages of two different service providers simultaneously with just one device. It is designed for businessmen with sleek card phone design and leather case, 2.6-inch QVGA TFT LCD, 3M camera, Bluetooth headset, and some conversational languages (English, Chinese and Korean). It is scheduled to hit China market at the end of this year.
Here comes yet another sweet Korean cellphone, this time made by Sky: the IM-S240K .
As usual, the design is very nice, and as usual, it is only for Korea… the specifications of this slide phone include a 2MPx camera, HSDPA 7.2MBps, multimedia player, DMB, E-dictionary… this little wonder will soon be put on sale at a price of 400000Won (~307Euros)… just to let you know.
NEW YORK, Oct. 11 /PRNewswire/ — MangoMOBILE, an Omnicom company and a leader in advanced mobile marketing solutions, announces the launch of an innovative, first-of-its-kind mobile marketing campaign to support the launch of the Nissan Rogue crossover vehicle.
Today we’re integrating Yahoo! Answers content into our mobile search service, oneSearch, and launching it globally in 18+ countries.
We’re rolling this out today to Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Vietnam.
Yahoo! oneSearch and Yahoo! Answers both offer platforms for searching — oneSearch with instant results to your queries from your mobile phone and Answers with the content of 350 million answers from over 95 million users worldwide. We wanted to integrate these two methods of searching because we know that sometimes you need to tap people who are “in the know” when you’re trying to find a quick answer on the go.
PRO TECHnology, the regional distributor of Golla, expects the combined functionality and fresh designs to earn Golla the high esteem of the discerning shoppers across the region.
The Christmas range presents a wide array of bags for portable electronics such as laptops, notebooks, mobile phones, MP3 players and digital cameras with lively colours and the familiar feel of the Christmas season incorporated in it.
Few payment innovations have produced the stark schizophrenia that we are experiencing with mobile commerce. Normally somber business types are rubbing their hands together at the prospects of reaching consumers on a one-to-one basis, online, all the time, anywhere they happen to be. Meanwhile, typically apprehensive risk managers and security experts are wringing their hands at the potential for serious data incursions. Maybe risk managers know that, as often happens with payment innovations, the temptation is to get the new product into the marketplace as quickly as possible, then step up the security as needed to ward off attacks. One case in point could now be emerging among so-called smart phones, where the underlying programming is proving to be more vulnerable to hackers than some business types thought.
Mobile commerce, however, raises the stakes for this risky self-indulgence because many observers are projecting that cell phones and PDAs will soon replace wallets and pocketbooks. Consumers, who almost never leave home without their mobile devices, are being prepared for the day when all the payment and loyalty information they need will be loaded on and/or accessed by the device. So a data incursion, should it happen, could be just as damaging as losing a wallet or pocketbook. Maybe more so, if the mobile device’s ability to authenticate the consumer is hacked.