Gameguru: In a game called Bappi Da Disco King to be released at the end of this month by Paradox Studios, you would be able to get Bappi Lahiri to dance about on your fingertips.
“Due to stars, these games act as an instant brand recognition. Plus, it also helps attract new people to mobile games,” [...]
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NY Times:If you stand on a street corner in Tokyo today you can point a specialized cellphone at a hotel, a restaurant or a historical monument, and with the press of a button the phone will display information from the Internet describing the object you are looking at.
The GeoVector service, which makes this possible, was [...]
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Yahoo! News:The mobile phone market across Western Europe is forecast to grow by 43.3 percent by 2011, according to a study by telecoms research group Analysys.
Mobile services revenue across the region was forecast to grow at a compound average growth rate of 6.2 percent annually to 198.4 billion euros (249 billion dollars) in 2011 compared [...]
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MobileIndustry.biz:South Korea’s second largest carrier KTF launched Imo: The World of Magic earlier this month, and saw over 42,000 users download the game within ten days – with peak time simultaneous users exceeding 1000 already, and 3000 to 4000 new players downloading the title each day.
Korean newspapers claim that as many as a dozen people [...]
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BBC: Figures show that Mobile phone users in the UK sent a record 3.3 billion text messages in May, leading an MDA spokeswoman to pronounce: “Texting has become second nature to UK mobile phone users, with many bank holiday arrangements being made via text.”
More than 120 million text messages were sent on FA Cup final [...]
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TiVo.com: The new version of the TivoToGo service extends Tivo’s existing ability to transfer recorded programs to another device by allowing transfer to mobile devices, such as a video iPod, a PSP, one of the Treo smartphones, Creative’s Zen, Toshiba’s Gigabeat or the Nokia N80.
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I was happy and I said to myself: “This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men and not to need them and yet to love them. To take part in the Christmas festivities and, after eating and drinking [...]
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Physorg.org: Hoping to capitalize on the rapid growth of the $1.5 billion global biometrics market, United Kingdom-based technical solutions company xVista has developed an iris-scanning system that can be housed within compact low-power computing systems such as camera phones.
“The xVista technology performs a similar task to the traditional signature, photograph or pin number in confirming [...]
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eMarketer : According to a new report China Mobile, China is approaching 500 million mobile phone subscribers.
While the demand is being fueled by the country’s 1.3 billion population, with the two largest mobile operators adding new subscriber at the rate of roughly five million new additions every month, “Revenue growth, however, is threatening to stall, [...]
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In-Stat: By the end of 2010, mobile TV broadcast subscribers worldwide will reach 102 million, a giant leap from 3.4 million in 2006, reports In-Stat.
“The greatest challenge for mobile TV broadcast operators is to acquire the spectrum necessary to offer services,” says Michelle Abraham, In-Stat analyst. “Spectrum availability may determine which of four standards is [...]
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