… and that’s why there’s so much happening I don’t have time to write separate posts for it. So here’s a list of recent stuff you can do with your mobile phone:
Users of Pocket PCs, Smartphones and Java-enabled mobile phones running web browsers can now access a lightweight version of the Wikipedia on-line encyclopaedia. New Zealand-based company Instinct has created a mobile version of Wikipedia for mobile devices, currently available as a beta website.
Point your phone to this URL : http://www.3g.co.nz/wiki
Paypal’s new Paypal Mobile service is apparently up and running, and from what PSFK says there’s really not a whole lot to it: you can either text PAYPAL (729725) with the dollar amount and recipients digits (i.e. “send 10 to 2125551212″), or you can do it manually by calling 1-800-4PAYPAL (1-800-472-9725), which is obviously far less exciting.
In-Game Advertising Goes Mobile:
Expect in the near future to see a rising interest for mobile in-game advertising and with new technology such as a new multimedia devices featuring excellent processor performance, display technology or 3G surround sound, in-game advertising can now be displayed to a very high quality.
Yahoo recently rolled out a great new moblogging application called ZoneTag. The application uploads images from your mobile phone to Flickr and automatically tags them with the location, based on the cell tower nearest you.
MSN/Hotmail users can now access their inboxes from their mobile phones. (you probably just have to surf to the hotmail url and log in) (no press release found yet)
“Using the new Phone In service, subscribers get a personal phone number for receiving incoming calls to their PC from regular phone lines and mobile phones. Those signing up can receive unlimited domestic calls for $2.99 a month or $29.90 a year. With the Yahoo! Phone Out service, subscribers can make PC-to-phone calls within the U.S. and to 30 other countries for two cents a minute. To use the new services you’ll need to download the new client (available at http://messenger.yahoo.com/).”