Sony Ericsson (www.sonyericsson.com), which reports that it began delivering online content in 2003, announced that it will consolidate its Fun & Downloads service into its PlayNow "arena," through which it will begin making applications available. Applications will initially be available in 13 countries that support PlayNow and to the 38 Sony Ericsson phones that are compatible with the PlayNow platform. The app store is being powered by Lithuanian developer GetJar (www.getjar.com). Users with accounts can download content to their phone and computer. Those without accounts may purchase content via premium SMS.
-Stuart Whitaker
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Microsoft's Bing411 is Significant Enhancement
Microsoft unveiled a toll-free information service at 800-TellMe after its acquisition in 2007 of Tellme, and this service still operates, though the new 800-Bing411 has a much better feel and function. Matching many of Goog411's features for business searches, Bing411 provides listing information including a "star" rating and automatically sends an SMS message with details of the search result. In addition, it offers driving directions, the ability share the listing via text with another phone, and to automatically connect to the listing. On subsequent calls, Bing411 offers to provide information about the last listing. One problem we found was that on subsequent calls, we couldn't get the "tellme my choices" option to work.
-Stuart Whitaker
-Stuart Whitaker
VIRGIN MEDIA LAUNCHES ROUNDU LOCAL SERVICE
Mobile Commerce (www.mobilecommerce.co.uk) announced that Virgin Media (www.virginmedia.com) has launched a new mobile internet portal, available for all UK mobile users, featuring the RoundU local search service.
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